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Suffer the Wee Birds and Bees – HotAir

The climate cultists have been lying from the beginning.

And they have always been lying liars who lie.





has hidden hundreds of millions of bird fatalities and millions of raptor deaths caused by these countryside monsters.

It’s only now that more and more proof of the perfidy they’ve been indulging in to influence world leaders and gullible fools to change the course of national economies to feed the Green beast on the back of a frightening myth made of whole cloth and Scientific™ grift.

It’s unconscionable. It needs to be exposed at every turn.

The cost is well nigh unbearable. The treachery of those who once stood athwart towering and righteous conservation efforts to preserve the living things of this planet, but then sold their souls to the Green industrial devil, should never be forgotten nor forgiven.

Like those who would choose wind and the inestimable damage caused over the raptors, cetaceans, tortoises, and songbirds they once championed as essential to Earth’s survival.

There isn’t much I can tell you about what they’re calling a ‘shock’ new paper that’s been published in Nature recently, because it’s paywalled.

But I wanted you to know about what’s in it concerning the scope of the damage from the onshore wind industry. Chris Morrison at the Daily Skeptic summarized the findings.

Fresh insights into the ecological devastation caused by onshore wind turbines around the world are contained in a shocking new paper published last month by a group of ecologists in Nature. The paper is paywalled and has attracted little mainstream media interest, but it highlights research that illustrates that the effect of utility-scale wind energy production “can be far reaching and sometimes have large and unexpected consequences for biodiversity”. An annual figure of around one million bats are killed in the countries with the highest number of turbines, but harmful effects are seen in many other parts of the ecosystem. The number of top predators such as jaguars, jungle cats and golden jackals can be changed by turbines in tropical forest gaps, leading to the “possibility for cascading effects” along similar latitudinal levels. 

In short, the science team notes that turbines can kill birds, bats and insects, change animal behaviour, physiology and demography and alter ecosystems. The installation of wind turbines invariably results in habitat degradation, but it is regions rich in biodiversity with minimal existing infrastructure that suffer the most. The authors state that wind facilities “are recognised as an important driver for losses and degradation of irreplaceable habitats that are important for conservation.” Such areas, of course, can be found in the windy highlands of Scotland. For City-dwelling eco zealots, it is a case of out of sight, out of mind. Net Zero is all about money and power – bats and eagles have neither.

The Nature paper is a wake-up call about the increasing damage that is being inflicted on natural habitats by wind turbines that are steadily increasing in size and destructive potential. It is a summary of the latest findings about the effect of turbines and it is not sanguine about the future. “Perhaps the greatest unknown in predicting future effects of wind power on biodiversity lies in the scope of the potential expansion of the technology and the cumulative consequences of this expansion for species and ecosystems”. A 2021 USA report on the potential pathways to Net Zero emissions is noted and this suggests using up to 13% of the land area for wind farms. The new Trump Administration is likely to put a stop to this madness which the scientists observe could have “dramatic consequences for biodiversity”.





The paper isn’t anti-wind – it is actually looking for ways to mitigate the damage going forward, as if wind were still a viable and desired energy alternative.

What it says is that the wind turbines don’t only kill the bats, birds, and bugs who come into contact with the whirling blades, but in fact disrupt entire ecosystems by driving away the other inhabitants.

What the scientists who wrote the paper found to bolster their case to change how turbines are sited makes you physically ill.

…Many bird species are also at risk, with large raptors a conspicuous example. It is admitted that limited information is available on population-level consequences, but available evidence suggests the turbines could threaten certain species with local extinction, particularly those at risk with low reproduction rates. Possible population collapse has been predicted for cinereous and griffon vultures in Europe and the Eurasian skylark in Portugal. Other predictions suggest population declines for hoary bats in North America, lesser kestrel in France and black harriers in South Africa. Population declines have been reported in central Europe for animals with high-collision risk such as the noctule bat, while nearly 50% of bird species evaluated in one study in California were said to be subject to turbine-induced population decline. Meanwhile, the mortality of golden eagles at Altamont Pass Wind Resource in California is said to be so frequent that local populations are sustained by immigrants. Finally, the authors report that the globally endangered Egyptian vulture in Spain has a lower survival rate, population growth rate and size in the presence of wind facilities.





And the pictures of horribly mutilated raptors and bats are gutwrenching – and it happens millions of times a year.

MILLIONS

So ugly, so deadly, and such a lie to begin with.

None of this has changed.

It’s got to stop. The supposed benefits of wind are not worth the price it extracts from anyone or any thing.

The turbines are not worth this.

But maybe getting the truth out about the abomination these things truly are will change everything.





At least we have hope now that the madness might finally be on its way to being over.


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