Tuesday, 12 April 2022

THE DARK SIDE OF WIND ENERGY

 Blood on the blades: are thousands of dead bald eagles too high a price to pay for “clean” energy (humanevents.com)

I wonder why there is no outcry about this?

8 comments:

  1. https://climatecrocks.com/2022/04/12/the-real-threat-to-eagles-its-not-wind-turbines/



    OK, math is not my strong suit, but let me take a crack.
    150 eagle deaths, across 154 wind facilities, over a decade, is less than 1 eagle, per wind farm, per decade.
    Not wind TURBINE, wind FARM. (which might be 20 or 200 turbines)


    This is a 150 eagles spread out over 10 tears over a really wide territory.

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    1. You must have missed this bit:

      "The legalized slaughter of eagles and other large birds of prey was legitimized under the Obama administration and continues today. At the time, it was estimated that nearly 600,000 birds of all types were killed by the much smaller wind footprint at that time, including 83,000 hunting birds such as hawks, falcons and eagles."

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    2. Cars, tall buildings, electric utilities, house cats, together kill in the hundreds of millions. wind comes in near dead last on a list of the top 10 bird killers.

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  2. An interesting article about Atlantic hurricane season. This effects the east coast of the United States, and more than likely the Gulf of Mexico. All the doubt you are trying to generate doesn't seem to effect the science.




    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/13/hurricanes-atlantic-climate-change-tropical-cyclones


    Extremely active Atlantic hurricane seasons are now twice as likely as they were in the 1980s due to global heating, according to new research that warns the climate crisis is supersizing storms that threaten life and property in coastal areas.

    Climate breakdown has contributed to a “decisive increase” in intense hurricane activity since 1982, the study states. Researchers in Germany and Switzerland who undertook the analysis wrote that the growing hyperactivity of storms could be “robustly ascribed” to the rising temperature of the oceans.

    The warming of the sea surface has “contributed significantly to more extreme tropical cyclone seasons and thereby to the fatalities, destruction and trillion-dollar losses that these cyclones have caused over the last four decades”, the research added.

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  3. What "climate breakdown" are you talking about? The climate here in the UK is almost the same as it was 100 years ago. As far as hurricanes getting worse or more of them see this piece:
    https://climatescience.blogspot.com/2021/02/good-news-on-climate-no-needto-worry.html

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    1. If the oceans are warming and they are, the climate is changing. That is very strong evidence in the science. water vapor is very much an energy carrier into our storms including hurricanes.

      https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/global-ocean-heat-content/

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  4. Changing climate does not mean a breakdown of climate. Using the term climate breakdown is alarmist.

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    1. Unprecedented change



      Climate breakdown is the most recent term for what was previously known as global warming (that the average temperature of the earth is continuing to rise) or climate change (that the global climate has changed in an unprecedented manner). The phrase climate breakdown was made a journalistic standard by The Guardian after the recent IPCC report.
      poeticearthmonth.com/what-is-climate-breakdown/
      What Is Climate Breakdown? - Poetic Earth Month

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