Josh from cartoonsbyjosh.com has been extra busy this week. He writes of the latest IPCC debacle:
Christopher Booker suggested a lovely idea for his latest article They did not use it there… it is here instead 😉
Oh but wait…there’s more…Josh also writes:
Also from the article, the sad fact that Wind Turbines, much loved by the renewable energy lobby, requires back up generators if they are going to supply continuous energy.
So what is the difference bewteen now and a greener future? More dead birds and a hideous view? Great.
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From the ecofascists of the budding 4th Reich we have a supposed fanatical concern about wildlife, halting factory construction to protect toads or spiders and even halting a port expansion to protect some slime. However the silence from the eco green shirts is deafening about the vast numbers of birds and bats being killed by the growing number of windmills/bird manglers.
Suddenly from a total commitment to protecting all lifeforms like slime and bacteria even at the expense of jobs and economic prosperity to a total silence about decimated bird and bat populations, some of which are rare. Greenpeace should be called redconflict. Its a political organisation with political aims and as such views all things as tools to further its political ambitions. Poverty and misery and hate and jealousy is the perfect manure in which Marxism grows and prospers, they need it and thrive in it and without it they are nothing.
Prosperity and contentment, full employment and a vibrant economic environment, these are poison to Marxist agitators like greenpeace/redconflict. If it meant killing all wildlife on earth to bring about their warped political vision then that would be a small price for them. Everything is political and everything is expendable and everything is a political tool to be exploited.
The real question is, what are we going to do with all those dead birds? Some suggestions:
Fertilizer, we want green, right?
But wait, first mulch and make methane out of em, then use the remainder for fertilizer, we will need the methane to make some actual power anyway.
Animal feed, but we all know people eating meat is bad and evil (PETA, People Eating Tasty Animals).
Or we could gather them all up and mail them to certain government officials…
Please don’t. More illiterate garbled nonsense is not wanted.
The bird choppers needs to be a t-shirt.
Josh forgot to draw in the power lines connecting the turbines to the grid and the roads connecting all the trurbines together.
Just like in the case of Peace in our time, you’re negotiating about us without us! 😉
On the web, by the way, the cool “Greenpeace in our time” headline was also used by Christopher here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/8584210/The-IPCC-declares-Greenpeace-in-our-time.html
NikFromNYC, can you get your bird stuff past the socialists censors here?
Some select examples of comments to [guardian.co.uk] UK urges Ireland to build wind farms on west coast …
Yep, I think ‘Greenpeace in our Time’ is a trenchant slogan. I’ve got precedence for it at CA, but I’m glad others think it’s effective.
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Heh, on rereading, I like it even better now.
Oh God, please lift the
Guilt of achieving success.
Greenpeace in our time.
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The bird and the bat killing, tragic though it is, and useful for demonstrating green hypocrisy, is only strike four against the windmills. Strike one is energy density, strike two is intermittency, and strike three is the noise pollution, subsonic even worse than audible.
We will always cherish a few of them as signal markers of how high the tide of human foolishness can rise.
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If you’d told Fritz Lang of this, he’d have laughed his ass off and then gotten busy.
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Borrowed Josh’s cartoon for our fight against this wind farm, http://www.palmerston-north.info – hope that it’s OK to do so. Happy to remove it if it’s not. We are gaining traction in this 5 year battle and the website has been a great tool. I strongly recommend others in this situation build a website, and without courting a defamation lawsuit, be blunt and speak your mind. The promoters will not fight fair and will try every trick in the book. All it will cost is a domain name. We should have a final decision soon.
In a similar vein. Our green and pleasant land http://fenbeagleblog.wordpress.com/2011/06/18/leaning-against-the-wind/
I’m surprised that this hasn’t made WUWT yet—did I miss it?
/Mr Lynn
Resources opposing windpower.
What They Don’t Tell You About Industrial Wind Power
A Problem With Wind Power
Latest news on windfarms :>(
National Wind Watch
Mr Lynn says:
June 19, 2011 at 4:52 am
I think the sea level rise story was already been covered on WUWT.
5th May, 2011
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/05/05/new-sea-level-page-from-university-of-colorado-now-up/
Not only do they devastate vast swaths landscape and kill birds in wholesale lots, they drive out wildlife for miles around. No deer, bear, squirrels, or even raccoons. We know this from experience in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Maine.
In Wisconsin, farmers are finding that the stress of constant subsonic noise is reducing the productivity of dairy herds and increasing livestock miscarriages. In the Yorkshire seal breeding grounds on the North Sea, vastly more seal pups have been found born dead or abandoned by their mothers, due to noise stress from the offshore wind farm — subsonic noise travels huge distances underwater.
These utterly useless monstrosities are doing more damage to more of the planet than all human pollution since the beginning of the industrial age. It is long past time to get serious about saving the environment from the environmentalists.
Visit wind-watch.org for more information.
Bob Tisdale, For those of us old enough to remember those machines that is CLASSIC!! LMAO
I doubt it would be possible to find a picture of an ugly scar from a coal strip-mining operation. (And I’m sure the acid rain has no effect on bird populations either directly for through the resulting destruction of environment. We also need not mention “black lung” other to say it is a recommended homeopathic treatment for all respiratory ailments).
No double standards observed here. None at all.
/sarc
Mr Lynn says:
June 19, 2011 at 4:52 am
Steven Kopits says:
June 18, 2011 at 6:23 pm
Univ Colorado drawing fire for re-working sea level change rates.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/17/research-center-under-fire-for-adjusted-sea-level-data/
I’m surprised that this hasn’t made WUWT yet—did I miss it?
/Mr Lynn
Something odd is going on re sea level – here is Steve Goddard’s take:
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/hiding-the-decline-in-sea-level/
REPLY: I covered it two months ago, old news. Just because Fox and Goddard and a bunch of people are caterwauling now doesn’t mean WUWT “missed” it.
– Anthony
Bob Tisdale says:
June 18, 2011 at 5:28 pm
Windmills = Birdamatic. Slices, dices, makes Julienne fries.
grayman says:
June 19, 2011 at 9:33 am
Bob Tisdale, For those of us old enough to remember those machines that is CLASSIC!! LMAO
Was this machine what Jim Carrey was advertising in the film “The Truman show”? In the kitchen scene with his “wife” near the end?
I do like the last line of the Brooker piece:-
“A spokesman for the IPCC was unavailable for comment.”
That’s probably just as well, given their propensity to completely balls things up every time they say something.
@ur momisugly James Keenan, June 19, 2011 at 10:50 am —
Precisely. Notice that the real environmental problems of coal are from mining, not burning (the “acid rain” nonsense being another phony scare); the burning pollution is a solved problem (fluidized bed, scrubbers, etc.); the remaining challenge is to make these technologies cheaper so that China and India will include them in their designs.
The US is now spending the equivalent of $300 for every man, woman, and child in the population annually on subsidies to “wind power”. Can you imagine the progress that could have been made had even a small fraction of that sum been spent on research towards safer and cleaner coal mining?
Jimmy Haigh says:
June 18, 2011 at 6:30 pm
> Oliver Martin says:
> June 18, 2011 at 5:01 pm
>> A “Silent Spring” energy policy?
> Nice one – wind power will probably kill a lot more birds than DDT ever did.
And getting rid of it wouldn’t cause more people to go blind. It would in fact remove an eyesore.