Ian Bradford: Wind Turbines Are Never Going To Meet Our Energy Needs

Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47^th President of the United States.  This is his second term and he has wasted no time in signing off a number of executive orders.  An executive order is a directive from the president that manages operations of the Federal Government. It has the force of law and does not require any action by congress. 

Ian Bradford: Instant action from a President who seems to know the truth about climate change

Donald Trump has just been inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States.  This is his second term and he has wasted no time in signing off a number of executive orders.  An executive order is a directive from the president that manages operations of the Federal Government. It has the force of law and does not require any action by congress. 

We will just look at a few that involve climate.

Ian Bradford: The Wind Farm Situation. It’s Not getting Any Better - Part Two.

In part 1, I mentioned the millions of birds and bats sliced up by wind turbine blades.  I should have mentioned the insects too, which all perish under the whirling blades.  For the sea built turbines, crabs are immobilised and crayfish (lobsters), are born deformed. In NZ we have the tourist attraction called the Kaikoura whale watch. Visitors go out to sea in boats run by the tourist company, and view whales frolicking about.  Along the East coast of the United States there is also a booming tourist industry of whale watching.  The difference is that all the whales being watched are dead, washed up on the shore after dying from the effects of the construction of offshore wind turbines. In fact, 72  whales have died on the east coast in a year. These are all large whales. Many are North Atlantic right whales of which there are only 340 left.  

Matt Ridley: Why won’t Greenpeace admit that offshore wind turbines may be killing whales?

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.