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September 14, 2023
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Well my last post didn’t register. Are we knackered?
Now appears it did. All probably my fault …well that’s what the wife says.
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However, the page about the warning over European car manufacturing from the Boss of BMW has apparently and completely disappeared.
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Matt Ridley: Why won’t Greenpeace admit that wind turbines may be killing whales?
Paul Homewood
Sep 14
By Paul Homewood
Who cares about whales? Whales might be dying because of sonar surveying, but Greenpeace simply ignores the science that doesn’t suit it.
So far last year, 71 whales have washed up dead on the shores of New England and neighbouring states. The rate seems to have risen in recent years along with a growth in the number of offshore wind turbines. A small group of concerned citizens have started to campaign against the turbines on behalf of the whales, and the journalist Michael Shellenberger has made a short film about their efforts called Thrown to the Wind.
The evidence gathered by the scientists in the film is far from conclusive: it’s a correlation that could be a coincidence. But it’s not a mad idea that wind farms threaten whales. For a start, the industry has meant increased traffic in the areas where the whales feed, which could well have led to more collisions between whale and ship.
More worryingly, the sonar surveying that precedes wind-farm deployment – to map the seabed and its geology – creates a loud, continuous banging noise that could be disorienting or stressful for the whales. Shellenberger’s documentary shows scientists apparently recording far higher noise levels from the survey ships, and at greater distances, than are permitted by the authorities.
Moreover, when it comes to investigating what killed each whale, the US government relies on a non-profit organisation called the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society. This, the film reveals, has several board members connected to the wind industry – and to the wind developer Equinor in particular.
You or I might take the view that we should wait and see if better evidence emerges that wind turbines are killing whales. But the big environmental pressure groups like Greenpeace – which in its early years, remember, ran a Save the Whales campaign – don’t believe in waiting for evidence. They revere the ‘precautionary principle’, the whole point of which is that industries should be assumed to be guilty until proved innocent. Lack of definitive evidence must never be used to excuse a potentially devastating environmental vandal.
So has Greenpeace enthusiastically joined the campaign against offshore wind farms, demanding a precautionary pause till we can be sure they’re not killing the whales? Er, no. Quite the reverse. When somebody tweeted about the issue this week, Greenpeace was quick to dismiss it, sounding like the most shameless corporate toady and directing readers to a statement on its website: ‘In response to a tragic spate of whale deaths along the East Coast, anti-science media such as Fox News, long beholden to fossil fuel corporations, has amplified the baseless claims made – with no supporting evidence – by a small group of local mayors that offshore wind farming is somehow to blame.’
‘No supporting evidence’ – a phrase you never heard Greenpeace use about genetically modified crops in its long campaign against them. The organisation, you see, long ago stopped caring much about conservation and became obsessed (when not managing its nine-figure annual budgets) with carbon dioxide. This brought it great riches in grants and made it a crony of the big companies it used to rail against, in this case Big Wind. Thus does the world turn.
In recent years whale numbers have boomed, thanks to protection from whaling. Humpbacks now gather in pods hundreds strong and in many areas are back to population levels last seen before whaling began. So a few deaths may not matter that much, or may just be an inevitable by-product of a larger population. Perhaps that’s Greenpeace’s view.
But the same is not true of North Atlantic right whales, once probably the most common species in that ocean. The number of these great, dark, slow sea-buffalos has fallen to dangerously low levels. There are fewer than 340 left, and falling. It’s therefore neglectful of the US government – let alone Greenpeace – to be so blasé about the possibility, however remote, of the wind industry killing or even disturbing them.
In any case, it is not just whales that wind turbines kill. The slaughtering by their spinning blades of bats and eagles and other birds of prey on land, and of gannets and divers at sea, is well documented. Satellite-tagged eagles in southern Scotland now avoid places with wind farms, denying themselves large areas of hills. Yet there is barely a peep from Big Green about this.
The irritation that Greenpeace exudes in its comments on the whale issue suggests that it is not enjoying being hoist by its own precautionary petard.
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Test . also working on Chromebook using Duck Duck Go. Both TEST and Test .
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Omitting most of the single long comment, I have 49 comments of which … I was going to say 17 said received but two also said recieved :
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Ray Sanders
September 14, 2023 5:37 pm
Well yep I recieved it, for what it’s worth.if
Malcolm
September 14, 2023 5:41 pm
Got it, if that is what you are testing.
devonblueboy
September 14, 2023 6:14 pm
Me too!
Ray Sanders
September 14, 2023 5:41 pm
Well my last post didn’t register. Are we knackered?
Ray Sanders
September 14, 2023 5:46 pm
Now appears it did. All probably my fault …well that’s what the wife says.
Caro
September 14, 2023 5:48 pm
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In The Real World
September 14, 2023 5:51 pm
Yes , it came up for me . And the page seems to be back to normal with the side column .
You don,t think it has been hacked by the troll who did a lot of posting recently .
Edwin Morris
September 14, 2023 5:55 pm
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Frank
September 14, 2023 5:55 pm
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Harry Passfield
September 14, 2023 5:58 pm
Fine. But your post about old cars had gone 404
Broadlands
September 14, 2023 6:01 pm
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186no
September 14, 2023 6:10 pm
Got it, not loaded as speedily as usual….but it might be my 9yo MacAir…
Susan
September 14, 2023 6:11 pm
It worked…. whatever you are testing for?
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Charles W. Pennington
September 14, 2023 6:12 pm
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Harry Passfield
September 14, 2023 6:22 pm
Where is the post on ban on petrol cars?.
Andy
September 14, 2023 6:23 pm
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Peter Chesterfield
September 14, 2023 6:32 pm
Received. Keep up the good work!
Peter
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Graeme
September 14, 2023 6:33 pm
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September 14, 2023 6:44 pm
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September 14, 2023 6:47 pm
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Peter F Gill
September 14, 2023 6:48 pm
Did I pass?
Philip Wood
September 14, 2023 7:19 pm
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September 14, 2023 8:01 pm
Receiving you clearly: over and out.
However, the page about the warning over European car manufacturing from the Boss of BMW has apparently and completely disappeared.
Paul Kolk
September 14, 2023 8:07 pm
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Janice Moore
September 14, 2023 9:20 pm
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Janice Moore
September 14, 2023 8:34 pm
Received. THIS post is now only “404 NOT FOUND” 🤨:
Matt Ridley: Why won’t Greenpeace admit that wind turbines may be killing whales?
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Mike
September 14, 2023 8:34 pm
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September 14, 2023 9:08 pm
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September 14, 2023 9:15 pm
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Ian PRSY
September 14, 2023 9:24 pm
And me.
jackington
September 14, 2023 10:06 pm
Received your one and only post dated today containing one and only word “Test”
M E
September 14, 2023 10:53 pm
I am looking at the Test page. New Zealand. On Friday ,across International date line , on Android Tablet. Using search engine .comes up O K.
M E
September 14, 2023 10:55 pm
Using Duck Duck Go on Samsung Tablet
M E
September 14, 2023 10:59 pm
Duck Duck Go works. Tablet Samsung
Berkeley Thirsk
September 14, 2023 11:34 pm
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Thank you.
M E
September 15, 2023 12:04 am
Test . also working on Chromebook using Duck Duck Go. Both TEST and Test .
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September 15, 2023 3:36 am
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September 15, 2023 7:19 am
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September 15, 2023 7:28 am
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September 15, 2023 7:47 am
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September 15, 2023 7:59 am
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terence carlin
September 15, 2023 9:26 am
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Tones
September 15, 2023 10:28 am
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lapford
September 15, 2023 10:41 am
Received thanks Paul
Mad Mike
September 15, 2023 11:40 am
Why the need for the test Paul?
Tones
September 15, 2023 11:55 am
See what I mean
Max Beran
September 15, 2023 12:20 pm
No problemo – temporary glitch or fat finger.
Joan Gibson
September 15, 2023 12:50 pm
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September 15, 2023 1:51 pm
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