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I read the NPR article he was complaining about. I read one of the impact assessments he cited.Associated Press Gets It Wrong: Wind Farm Contractors Acknowledge Turbines Harm Dolphins, Whales
Wind farm contractors admit that their offshore operations harm whales and dolphins, contradicting claims made in a recent AP article.www.dailysignal.com
Maybe the off shore wind turbines ain't a good idea after all?
It would seem that way. IIRC, it was the NPR article that said that 40% of the whale carcasses found showed signs of entanglement with fishing equipment or ship strikes. I await the Heritage Foundation's guidance on how we should modify maritime commerce so as to be more eco-friendly.
I have. I think petroleum is a much better and cleaner alternative, especially as we have massively cleaned up over the last several decades the pollution it creates. Now, the only thing people complain about is its production of CO2, which is actually a GOOD element. We need more of it.
Dead Serious. On a related item, I don't think we should applaud lots of folks buying EV's until we build a few dozen more nuclear reactors.
In addition to the risk from fishing and ship traffic, Mr Heritage also neglects to account for the future dangers of changing ocean chemistry brought by warmer temperatures and higher co2 levels.
It is happening now, forcing oyster farming industries to set up in Hawaii rather than in the Puget Sound, and the sea water is rising in acidity there as well. And it is tied to the amount of CO2 in the air.
If that were true, we should have found some evidence of this occurring in past millennia. This would be particularly true when examining the layers of sediment that have accumulated over millennia, that some layers would have increased acidity at this level -- but no such evidence appears to exist.
In which case we don't have records of it or the skills to deal with it yet. But life in the ocean should have some strategy for it, but we are not seeing that.
They've never had to move before because they've not been around that long.
Problem is that when the cycle is getting accelerated and is powerful enough, we as a species or other species might not make it through said cycle.
My "flippant attitude" is based on my strong and educated belief that there is no crisis. At all. We're fine.
Take the period out of HTTP.S and it should work. I can get to it through any other means except linking it from this site for some reason. It does exist.
