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Wind farms vs wildlife
By Clive Please read the whole article |
Wind turbines only last for half as long as previously thought,
according to a new study. But even in their short lifespans, those
turbines can do a lot of damage. Wind farms are devastating populations
of rare birds and bats across the world, driving some to the point of
extinction. Most environmentalists just dont want to know. Because
theyre so desperate to believe in renewable energy, theyre in a state
of denial. But the evidence suggests that, this century at least, renewables pose a far greater threat to wildlife than climate change.Im a lecturer in biological and human
sciences at Oxford university. I trained as a zoologist, Ive worked as an
environmental consultant…. Though I started
out neutral on renewable energy, Ive since seen the havoc wreaked on
wildlife by wind power, hydro power, biofuels and tidal barrages. The
environmentalists who support such projects do so for ideological
reasons. What few of them have in their heads, though, is the
consolation of science.My specialty is species extinction.
When I was a child, my father used
to tell me about all the animals hed seen growing up in Kent the
grass snakes, the lime hawk moths and what shocked me when we went
looking for them was how few there were left. Species extinction is a
serious issue: around the world were losing up to 40 [species] a day. Yet
environmentalists are urging us to adopt technologies that are hastening
this process. Among the most destructive of these is wind power.Every year in Spain alone according to research by the conservation
group SEO/Birdlife between 6 and 18 million birds and bats are killed
by wind farms…. In north America, wind farms are killing tens of thousands
of raptors including golden eagles and Americas national bird, the bald
eagle….…proposed wind farms on the Great Lakes
would kill large numbers of migratory songbirds.Why is the public not more aware of this carnage? First, because the
wind industry (with the shameful complicity of some ornithological
organisations) has gone to great trouble to cover it up to the extent
of burying the corpses of victims. Second, because the ongoing obsession
with climate change…. Climate change wont drive those species to
extinction; well-meaning environmentalists might.
Source:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/8807761/wind-farms-vs-wildlife/#.UOhKWytD024.emailSee also
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