The school-bus-size humpback whale that washed ashore on a narrow beach in Brigantine, N.J., this month weighed in at 12 tons and took a heavy emotional toll on coastal towns helplessly witnessing a spate of such deaths. The humpback was one of nine large whales to get stranded over six weeks on or near beaches in the Northeast, not far from where developers of hundreds of offshore wind turbines are engaged in a flurry of preconstruction activity. The deaths have prompted pushback against the projects even though government scientists say they are unrelated.
Links tagged “wind”
- Geologist: ‘The records written in the rocks’ reveal global cooling is due
Geologist Viv Forbes: "When the ice returns, derelict wind turbines & snow-bound solar panels will remain as stark tomb-stones in the graveyard of the failed Green religion."
- Why Environmentalists May Make This Whale Species Extinct – Green groups throw their once-sacred ‘precautionary principle’ to the wind(mills)
'Whale Of A Betrayal'
- Feds push ignorance defense for whale killing by offshore wind development
- An Inconvenient Truth for Environmentalists: Offshore Wind Endangers Whales
- Climate Extremists’ Hideous Wind Farms Are Coming To Your Backyard
- Wash Post headline: ‘Dead whales and tough economics bedevil Biden’s massive wind energy push’
WaPo: "The school-bus-size humpback whale that washed ashore on a narrow beach in Brigantine, N.J., this month weighed in at 12 tons and took a heavy emotional toll on coastal towns helplessly witnessing a spate of such deaths. The humpback was one of nine large whales to get stranded over six weeks on or near beaches in the Northeast, not far from where developers of hundreds of offshore wind turbines are engaged in a flurry of preconstruction activity." ... "A raft of lawsuits and pending federal restrictions to protect sensitive wildlife could further add to costs. The uncertainty has clouded bright expectations for massive growth in U.S. offshore wind, which the Biden administration and several state governments have bet big on in their climate plans." - Evidence says offshore wind development is killing lots of whales
"The claim that this huge jump in mortality predates offshore wind preparation activities is wildly false. In fact it coincides with the large scale onset of these activities. This strong correlation is strong evidence of causation, especially since no other possible cause has appeared. ... The huge 2016 jump in annual humpback mortality coincides with the huge jump in NOAA Incidental Harassment Authorizations. It is that simple and surely NOAA Fisheries knows this."
"Nor is this just about humpbacks. Some of the dead whales off New Jersey are endangered sperm whales. And of course there are the severely endangered North Atlantic Right Whales, on the verge of extinction."
- Huge wind turbines — taller than the Statue of Liberty — are toppling over in a ‘rash’ of incidents
- Listen: Morano on Joe Piscopo show on Gore, Davos, Great Reset & Offshore windmill threat to whales – ‘Where are the Volvo driving save the whale liberals’ when you need them?!
- IEA: Renewables dig the Earth! Net Zero goals will ‘require 6 times more mineral’ demand – ‘Electric car requires 6 times’ more minerals than gas car & ‘Wind plant requires 9 times more minerals than a gas-fired plant’
IEA - International Energy Agency (2021), The Role of Critical Minerals in Clean Energy Transitions, IEA, Paris: "Solar photovoltaic (PV) plants, wind farms and electric vehicles (EVs) generally require more minerals to build than their fossil fuel-based counterparts. A typical electric car requires six times the mineral inputs of a conventional car and an onshore wind plant requires nine times more mineral resources than a gas-fired plant. Since 2010 the average amount of minerals needed for a new unit of power generation capacity has increased by 50% as the share of renewables in new investment has risen." ... "Lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese and graphite are crucial to battery performance, longevity and energy density. Rare earth elements are essential for permanent magnets that are vital for wind turbines and EV motors. Electricity networks need a huge amount of copper and aluminium, with copper being a cornerstone for all electricity-related technologies." ...
"In a scenario that meets the Paris Agreement goals (as in the IEA Sustainable Development Scenario [SDS]), their share of total demand rises significantly over the next two decades to over 40% for copper and rare earth elements, 60-70% for nickel and cobalt, and almost 90% for lithium. EVs and battery storage have already displaced consumer electronics to become the largest consumer of lithium and are set to take over from stainless steel as the largest end user of nickel by 2040." ... "A concerted effort to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement (climate stabilisation at “well below 2°C global temperature rise”, as in the SDS) would mean a quadrupling of mineral requirements for clean energy technologies by 2040. An even faster transition, to hit net-zero globally by 2050, would require six times more mineral inputs in 2040 than today."
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Geologist: ‘The records written in the rocks’ reveal global cooling is due
Geologist Viv Forbes: "When the ice returns, derelict wind turbines & snow-bound solar panels will remain as stark tomb-stones in the graveyard of the failed Green religion."
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Why Environmentalists May Make This Whale Species Extinct – Green groups throw their once-sacred ‘precautionary principle’ to the wind(mills)
'Whale Of A Betrayal'
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Feds push ignorance defense for whale killing by offshore wind development
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An Inconvenient Truth for Environmentalists: Offshore Wind Endangers Whales
