The climate hoax is taking a horrendous toll on not just the cost of electricity and reliability of the grid, but also the survival of many species of animals, from birds to whales to the magnificent big cats of Brazil. The Wall Street Journal reports:
JUAZEIRO, Brazil — Weighing more than 100 pounds, big cats have long reigned over this hot and semi-arid region of Brazil, developing tougher paws for the scorched earth and reaching speeds of 50 miles an hour to bring down wild boar and deer.
But nothing could have prepared them for the 150-foot blades now slicing up the deep blue sky above them.
Jaguars and pumas are facing extinction in the Caatinga, Brazil’s northeastern shrublands, as Europe and China pour investment into wind farms, puncturing the land with vast turbines that are scaring the animals away from the region’s scant water sources.
Particularly sensitive to changes to their habitat, the jaguars and pumas abandon their lairs as soon as construction work on the wind farms begins, said Claudia Bueno de Campos, a biologist who helped found the group Friends of the Jaguars and has tracked the region’s vanishing feline population. They then roam vast distances across the dusty plains in search of new streams and rivers.
The weakest perish along the way. Others venture closer to villages, where locals have started laying traps to protect their small herds of goats and sheep, often their only form of survival in this impoverished region.
The poor all over the world already are victims of the rising price of energy, and of fertilizers made from oil and gas, increasingly scarce and costly as drilling and production are shut down by governments persuaded to buy in to the climate panic. Now their ability to keep herds of animals — an ancient source of livelihood appearing prominently in Bible — is under threat as well.
Windmills may be the most destructive of the “alternative” (meaning uneconomical) sources of energy. Because they wear out quickly and have a short useful life, they rarely pay back the energy and carbon emissions used in their construction. They leave an awful pile of useless, ugly junk that costs a lot to demolish. Recycling carbon fiber blades is a particular challenge. Junkyards are filling up with them.
The carbon cult is inflicting awful damage on the Mother Gaia it pretends to protect. Even on its own terms, it is fraud.
Don’t forget the bats, which get whacked (literally) even more than birds. Insect pests thank us.
What about the insects? We have no idea what species are splattered on the windmill blades.
Bats are major predators of insects.
Do the insects that are no longer being eaten by the bats that have been massacred offset the number of insects killed by the blades directly?
Yes.
No insect species were threatened with extinction in the making of this wind turbine boondoggle.
How. SAD. And utterly unnecessary, thus, TRAGIC.
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And about those birds…
And SOLAR is just as evil (“evil” because it is absolutely NOT needed).
“Look at that beautiful lake,” thinks a bird… 😢
This image better captures the “lake” birds see:
Janice you may be a nice person but you say some really stupid things.
Electricity is needed and not evil. For example, electricity is needed for clean drinking water. A huge benefit for society.
You posting pictures on the internet, not so much.
A good reason to not like solar thermal is nobody has been able to make it work as promised. As a steam plant engineer, I find them interesting.
Not as interesting as making electricity with fission.
What was stupid about the photo she shows? Has she in the past said electricity is evil? In her message she didn’t say anything positive about solar thermal.
Kit P, what was wrong with Janice posting photos that are in the same general theme as the report? I have witnessed many dead birds along windmill lines, and watched birds incinerated flying too close to solar heated liquid sodium canisters. Janice posted photos, which are reality. Que pasa?
So Ron if you make wrong and stupid statements do you want to know or do you want get lots of positive feedback from ignorant hicks?
You are guilty of confirmation bias. There are methodologies for evaluating environmental impact. I have read an EIS for a solar thermal plant.
Yesterday, I witnessed a dog kill a wild rabbit. I like bunnies they are cute.
Years ago a dog kill one of my chickens. That dog was from the same litter as my dog. My dog was raised and trained from a puppy to be around children and farm animals. The other dog was raised in an apartment by a single man that I advised not to get a dog.
Dogs are predators. When the other dog was no longer a cute puppy the single man ask me if I would take it. I said no. So he came up my house and let the dog out. It immediately killed a chicken.
The bottom line is emotional arguments are stupid.
You have yet to demonstrate that Janice said anything wrong, much less stupid.
You accused her of saying that electricity is evil. She never said that, she never said anything even close to that.
Are you going to apologize to Janice, or are you just going to keep digging deeper?
Janice criticized wind and solar, not electricity in general.
Is Kit P a Media Matters troll? A real person can’t possibly be this stupid.
REPLY: Please see the fine comments of Mr. Zorzin, Mr. Long, and Mr. Rawls.
P.S. And the fine comment of MarkW. 🙂
I don’t see anything in her post against electricity. I just see her complaining about stupid ways to generate electricity. Especially since safe ones already exist.
With respect, Kit, Janice didn’t say electricity is evil, Janice said solar is evil.
There are better and more reliable ways of creating much-needed electricity than wind or solar.
Thanks, Redge 🙂
Truth is Janice, no source of energy comes without its cost. Sadly we have to weigh up the choices and decide how much we will pay.
https://reference.jrank.org/environmental-health/Exxon_Valdez.html
Hi, Simon. Well, the truth is: we do not need solar energy. Thus, its terrible cost is a tragedy.
Show us a picture of one bird killed by coal mine.
https://connectedvoice.org.uk/news-and-information/news/canaries-coal-mine
For the most part, the birds weren’t killed, and mines haven’t used birds in close to 100 years.
So captive birds deliberately taken into mines is the best you can manage?
Seriously !!
You really are utterly stupid, aren’t you !!
1) It was a one time accident, whereas the damage done by windmills and these type of solar farms goes on year after year after year. It will also continue to get worse as we go from a few percent of our being generated by wind/solar to wind/solar producing 100% of a much bigger demand.
2) The problem revealed by the Exxon-Valdez was all but eliminated by the mandating of double hulls on tankers. There is nothing that can be done to make wind/solar safer for wildlife.
There are probably reason they are not in wide use but there are wind turbine designs that are very unlikely to kill very many birds, bats, or even insects. Probably more important, although denial (without evidence) is extremely high, there are designs that do not produce the very damaging high energy pulses of infrasound made by every conventional type of wind turbine.
“ It was a one time accident, ”
Oh come on man. Are you even on this planet. Here’s a list of the nine most catastrophic oil disasters. Not pretty…..
https://www.britannica.com/explore/savingearth/9-biggest-oil-spills-in-history
Yet wind avian death is continuous and swept under the carpet.
Think of all the MASSIVE BENEFIT from oil and oil-based products.
Your whole worthless life depends on the availability of those fossil fuels that you so despise.
Wind and solar TAKE from society, destroy the environment…
… all for nothing (except money into the pockets of green scammers.)
And irksome cretins like you support this…. why ???
It is sick and it is disgusting.
What are you complaining about, I found your dead birds. Never happy.
Not from modern coal mining..
You are still as empty-headed and as empty of any evidence or science as you have always been.
Just Stop……Simon??
Do you want 10? Is 9 not enough?
9 accidents in what, 150 years?
Compared to continuous and growing devastation by wind and solar.
I also note that oil is getting safer, every year.
Oh dear. You really walk into these don’t you. They were the nine worst. There have been … well you can count them coz I gave up…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil_spills
There is probably a need for a wind mill in some remote area but not the monstrosities they are currently erecting. Wind and solar should never be connected to the grid.
Sure. Here’s one. In the outback of Western Australia. Probably a need for it.
My Wisconsin dairy farm had one about this size for a stock tank on pasture up by the old rotted 1916 homestead we torn down in 1983. Pain to maintain.
We finally got the power company to run a simple two phase 120v line (only three ‘small’ wood poles) straight up the steep hill for free. They figured they would get a return off the new electric pump down the old sucker rod wind powered well for the stock tank, as except in winter we run about 350 head on those pastures. Kept the cows out on the pastures all day rather than returning to the barns for water. They then manure the pastures as well as the barnyards. Reduced our barnyard manure spreading labor by maybe half, and spread only the row crop fields (about half the pasture acreage, so also reduced our synthetic fertilizer costs), cause supplemental feeding was always only in the barnyards near the barn water richies (insulated with electric heater cords so flowing water even in dead of winter). New Cows learned from older herd where and when was extra breakfast and dinner. Definitely heard animals.
Never missed the old windmill pump after we finally electrified. Cut it up, loaded the pieces into the big F250 4WD, and sold it as scrap for a nice price. Fun thing, all active farmland I know of (well, Wisconsin) has a scrapyard within maybe 20 miles. Stuff wears out, and there is a lot of iron and steel in farm machinery. And a lot of farm machinery in dairy country.
Amazing the benefits of electricity that has helped humankind
Sacrifices have to be made to the climate gods, according to Kerry and the UN.
Fine, then we can sacrifice them. They can hardly complain.
What are the 3 most important things when siting power plants?
Location, location, location!
I am next to lake created by a dam with a great wind resource because it is a great place to sail. I came here to work at the nuke plant 30 years ago.
Wind farms here are located in dry land wheat fields. Hydro balances the wind. The nuke plant is base load. The other source of power is from imported natural gas.
The merits of wind here do not means wind is a good source someplace else.
We also have cougar in the area. I hope I never see one. They are very good hunters. If I see one it is because it has lost the ability to hunt and I am about to become part of the food chain. Tragic for me!
Some enjoy the drama of being against something. They come to public meeting and say stupid things.
Pumas in Brazil? Really!
Are you saying there are no pumas in Brazil or that nobody should complain or worry about them?
So…., if there are no pumas in Brazil (ad arguendo), then, the jaguars harmed by Big Wind are irrelevant. 🙄
You may be a nice person, Kit P (I have no idea), but, you might want to write a rough draft of your comments before you post them. 🤨
As an engineer you know that all the alternatives Janice showed are unnecessary in trying to solve a non problem. Atmospheric CO2 isn’t harmful and all the expenditures are wasteful.
Not just “isn’t harmful”, more CO2 in the atmosphere is beneficial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puma_(car_manufacturer)
Actually, there are lots of pumas in Brazil:
They’re not mutually exclusive with jaguars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_American_cougar
Every continent with big cats originally had more than one genus, ie Europe, Africa, the Americas and Asia. Europe has lost its tigers, lions, leopards and jaguars, in part due to Roman games. It’s now down to two lynx species.
You can find cougars anywhere.
They are particularly prevalent in well-to-do inner-city and suburban areas. 😉
So I’ve been told. !
I’m glad you went that route. I uncharacteristically restrained myself.
You do know cougars are also referred to as pumas in Brazil, don’t you?
How are the dogs and chickens getting on?
Mr. P: You should have taken the hint above and apologized to Janice Moore while you had the chance. Below, she takes you utterly down, “you may be a nice person” was just perfect, Ms. Moore. As an engineer, Mr. P, can you tell us how the new opening she gave you works?
We have to destroy nature in order to save it.
That is, to some extent, true. Good forest management, for instance, sacrifices many smaller trees, as well as various shrubs, grasses, and other plants, for the benefit of a lesser number of large trees. I suspect best practices depend on local climate, rainfall, terrain and other factors I don’t know about, but the principal applies widely.
Big Wind/Solar is tryin’ to save the planet from Evil CO2….some sacrifices must be made…..the Military-Industrial-Climate Complex is watching you and tryin’ to help you…97% of all scientists have settled what your future will be…just listen to the whine of those blades.
Yeah. Save the planet from the deadly CO2, which supports all life on this whirling globe. Without which we all die. Those “97%” of all scientists are being paid via grants to say what the grant sources want them to say. But, hey, most folks on this site knew that.
Not all life, but organisms that don’t rely on CO2 directly or indirectly are all microbes, unless I’ve overlooked some multicellular heterotroph which subsists on nonphotosynthetic food sources.
When Thomas Lifson at American Thinker takes notice, it spreads the true word to new audiences that may have been unfamiliar with climate skepticism and the problems of the renewables ‘solution’. That is a generally good thing. Slowly winning.
And Sunak in UK just backed down on some of the more impossible UK Net Zero goals. More reality starting to sink in.
Long way to go yet in California and Germany. Both saved from their renewable folly by the ability to import hydro from elsewhere—Bonneville and Norway.
Sunak said various things; perhaps enough to convince some people to let their guard down.
What, if anything, actually comes of it is yet to be seen. Remember, if their lips are moving, you know they are lying, you just often don’t know what they really intend.
Some articles are just filler ,but the point is clear the same people that were so terribly concerned about a newt or whatever just a few years ago have shoved all that down their memory hole. And I agree Janice said nothing wrong maybe some one had a senior moment got confused or something.
The biggest point is that the world has gone insane. Does anybody body see something positive in the future, some hope, some end in insight. My moral is really in the tank lately.
Dear Mr. Oliver,
Things are, indeed, looking mighty grim in many places, these days. And so it has been since Solomon wrote that “there is nothing new under the Sun.” The key (I know you know all this, just hoping by reminding you to boost your morale a bit) is to remember that:
there is a light at the end of every tunnel. We just can’t see it around the big bend in the tracks.
this has been a very long tunnel. But, so was WWI. And WWII.
The key to keeping up morale during those hard years was to focus on little victories and to emphasize the positive, even to the point of wishful thinking. Little by little, people kept on and then, VICTORY!
So. I can’t give you the VE-Day date for conquering AGWism and Open Boarderism and Socialism, etc., etc.. All I can tell you is, that for you and for me, there is an end. One day, you and I will leave this planet. WE have an end. And John 3:16 says that it will (for believers) be WONDERFUL!
And long after the earth after all the planets, and the Sun and the stars and the entire Universe have collapsed and disappeared, we will still be. Selah.
In the meantime!
SOME MORALE-BOOSTING VIDEO/AUDIO! 😀
1) Strike Up the Band (Gershwin – Boston Pops)
2) Sing, Sing, Sing (Benny Goodman)
3) Hallelujah, I Just Love Her So (Ray Charles)
Remember, those 3 songs were still being listened to and marched to and danced to and sung during some very dark times.
Life was looking very bleak during the Depression. WWII looked like it was going to be the end of the world. People of conscience wondered if Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream would EVER happen. People kept marching, kept dancing, and kept singing.
That’s the key. Keep on!
“The best is yet to come.”
Love and best wishes from your WUWT ally for truth,
Janice
P.S. (this is mainly for Simon — heh, heh, heh)
Good news ahead (I believe)!!!
Come 2024…
********* TRUMP WINS! ********
Solomon could not have written Ecclesiastes. It contains Persian loan words and Aramaic usages, so dates to much later, ie during or more likely after the Neo-Babylonian Captivity.
To which I should add the fact that the actual author gives his name and adds verses in his own voice. Clearly, an editor added the de rigeur “son of David” reference, but then neglected to bowdlerize the real author’s contribution.
This happened a lot in assembling the Old Testament, such as in the inclusion of two slightly different versions of the chronicles which became Kings and Chronicles, and the dueling versions of the Noah’s Flood myth. Editors just put different versions of the same material next to each other.
Solomon was David’s son. I’ll go with the scholarship of CENTURIES which says that it is highly likely that Solomon did write Ecclesiastes.
It is intriguing that you found this issue so important that you had to write at length about it. What’s the big deal? So what if Solomon DID write Ecclesiastes?
That is: WHY NOT FOCUS ON MY POINT (“there is nothing new under the Sun”)?
Zero scholarship over any time period has found that Solomon wrote Ecclesiastes.
There is not even any evidence that Solomon ever existed. What can be known for sure is that his palace and temple definitely did not exist, as described in the Bible.
Actually, there are new things under the sun.
As to the last sentence in the article, they know the damage they are doing to everything on the planet. True to a cult, they don’t care as long as it accomplishes the end goal of total power over all the living, breathing beings on the planet. Really simple to understand what is going on with them. Plus, they’re nuts.
“Plus , they’re nuts.” Exactly ,And that is why I am not optimistic at all that we get through this period in history. In the past going all the back to the Roman Empire when the people ( through their representatives ) turn their government over to nut jobs , well it always ends very very badly.
Thomas Sowell and Victor Davis Hansen spend a lot more time on the subject than I do and are worried about the current situation…people like Soros and the demrat party have no morals…no principles….the end justifies any means…Zuck of Fakebook spent $60 million to produce votes for demrats and censored Fakebook to help…this “woke” stuff is not just some spontaneous happening…it is an organized ….we are in a war for the future.
Some of the acolytes might be nuts, but the Chinese and Russian puppet masters are far from it.
Well, in India the urban leopards are doing just fine so I don’t know why their S. American cousins can’t cope.
Some animals are just better at coping with humans and urban areas than others. Leopards have lived around humans (and hominids) for eons, but not so with the jaguar.
You make a good point, sea dog. The main difference between the two places seems to be the religious belief of Hindus about animals being sacred and the Brazilians’ religion which prioritizes people (and their goats) over animals such as the jaguar.
The Hindus seem to be a little inconsistent, however — they don’t mind the leopards killing the local dogs and cats…😟 .
Dogs and house cats are not only not sacred, but unclean. Which is unwise, since cats catch the mice which eat the grain needed to sustain people.
I think you confused Hindu beliefs with Muslim beliefs. Dogs are not considered unclean in Hinduism. In fact, the dog is the vahana or mount of the Hindu god Bhairava, and caring for or adopting dogs is believed to pave the way to heaven.
Some Indians are Muslims, but Janice specified Hindus.
You’re right about dogs. My bad.
Cats hiowever are sacred only insofar as life is holy. As noted, they’re also appreciated for mousing.
We don’t want your steenking exorbitant replaceables-
UK government’s ‘massive U-turn’ on net zero policies due to ‘popular revolt’ (msn.com)
Your lying cheating days are numbered climate changers-
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