Telegraph’s Fake Whale Story
By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness
The piss-poor Telegraph strikes again!
Centuries of hunting, habitat loss and persecution have left the UK and Ireland among the world’s most nature-depleted nations. But although we’ve lost our bears and wolves, great auks and Irish elks, the British Isles remain remarkably rich in whales and dolphins. Indeed, around a quarter of all known marine cetacean species occur in our waters. So when news broke from Cornwall recently of a humpback whale trapped in fishing gear, it highlighted that these massive beasts are closer to home than we might think.
The idea of ocean giants around our shores may be surprising, but the Cornish humpback was by no means an isolated sighting. “They’re spotted in Britain in increasing numbers,” says Hannah Wilson of Marine Discovery, a boat trip operator that assisted in freeing the Easter individual. “We’re getting a lot more dolphins too as climate change impacts food distribution, bringing the animals closer inshore. Humpbacks have rebounded since the end of commercial whaling, so it’s likely that we’ll see more of them as they repopulate their range.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/climate-change-more-whales-british-waters/
Why the DT thinks humpbacks are coming here because of global warming is a mystery.
According to Wikipedia, the blighters range all the way from the Arctic to the Mediterranean and beyond. So the idea that they are coming to British waters now because it is slightly warmer is thoroughly absurd – which I suppose is par for the course for the Telegraph.
If whales are now becoming more common, it is because we stopped hunting them years ago.
And the fact that whale watching is now a tourist industry must mean that more sightings get recorded.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
If you ran a whale bothering operation, it would be silly to suggest that customers would be unlikely to see a whale. You might, in fact, talk up the probability that you are very likely indeed to see several, or at least a dolphin or two. Maybe one that looks like a kitten?
Whales must be in fear of JSO and XR actually achieving their goals. Lubrication of windmills has to come from somewhere.
And as their numbers increase, so too will their range.
And what exactly is “perecution” in the article supposed to mean?
And if whales are in trouble, might it have anything to do with offshore wind farms?
https://cliscep.com/2023/08/16/sod-the-whales/
It’s a shame we can’t post photos here. I would post my picture of a company in Tarifa, southern Spain, that advertised itself as “Responsible Whale Watching”. I was dying to find a competitor who did irresponsible whale watching.
Aboard the good ship ‘Pequod’ perhaps.
Michael Shellenberger pointed out in ‘Apocalypse never’ that whales were saved by the Oil Industry. I suspect that there may be an overpopulation of whales now causing beachings etc. Whales have few if any predators (Orcas perhaps) now.
Whales are subject to TINY predators, like disease and barnacles.
Indeed they were, in the 19th century when – courtesy of James “Paraffin” Young – Scotland was the World’s largest oil exporting nation.
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/James-Paraffin-Young/
Whales?
In 2018, more than 1000 whales, dolphins and porpoises were washed up on UK beaches – coinciding with the expansion of the offshore wind industry.
Details of the Cover-up here —
https://jasonendfield.medium.com/uk-govt-rejects-request-to-share-whale-stranding-data-fuelling-suspicions-over-offshore-wind-farms-65b6ffb80e5d
We are now at the Klymutt event horizon. Klymutt derangement AND encouragement to create it are in full flow. The covers are off and the taps fully opened. This is them going for broke because this NON EVENT needs to be supported and not only have they exhausted language inflation but the last gasp is to be sure to make sure every news article pays homage to their Klymutt god. EVERY issue now has “climate change” inserted into it. In the BBC I would not be surprised if there is not at least one fully funded political commissar who’s job it is to make sure that every news story which can be used as a political vehicle, IS used as such. Indeed there are clearly doing that for all of their other programming when it comes to the other aspects of cultural marxism they are force feeding us from cradle to grave.
The DT is rapidly going downhill, imho. I know it’s rather trivial, but the fact that they have now put all their online crosswords etc behind a paywall (and all the puzzle apps seem to have been coded by the boss’s young nephew) is merely the start of having to pay for each and any section of the paper. Well, they’ve lost my long-standing subs now, along with many others, I read.
bless! …if it was not so ridiculous..
Yes, Paul, we are probably seeing more simply because of rising population of them.
But forgive me: I’m not sure they are (yet) blighters?
The Blue Whale skeleton hanging in Hintze Hall at NHM was stranded at Wexford in 1891. Not a recent phenomenon.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/wexford-blue-whale.html