"Green energy" is deadly
For birds in particular. And Biden's handlers' plan, announced today by Biden reading it off the teleprompter, is insane.
Here’s one of those times when you can use a left wing source to refute or even destroy left wing ideas. If you doubt that the American Bird Conservancy is left wing, just take a look at the ‘About’ section on their website. They are full on Looney Tunes. And the article I came across starts right off with typical idiotic global warming fear porn:
Countless studies have shown that climate change will cause far-reaching and devastating impacts to wildlife and humans alike. Renewable energy development is a critically important component of the transition away from fossil fuels, making our air cleaner and reversing the effects of climate change.
Expecting any staff member of such an organization to be aware of even 25% of the failed global warming scare predictions over the past 35+ years is asking too much. And certainly expecting them to know that about 100% of all global warming scare predictions have been horribly wrong is beyond wishful thinking.
But somehow the author of the article, Joel Merriman, is able to take a reasonable look at windmill bird kill estimates, and come up with some big numbers in his conclusion. And even then he makes the almost certain to be correct statement that those numbers are probably too low:
As noted above, our projections leave little doubt that the annual toll in birds lost to U.S. wind turbines is at least more than half a million, and a similarly conservative estimate would put that number at nearly 700,000 birds. There is a case to be made that the number could exceed 1 million. And for multiple reasons stated above, these are all likely to be under-estimates.
Watts Up With That had some much more helpful info on how dealy windmills are a few years ago:
If you’re killing off 75% of the big predator birds, that’s a HUGE problem.
And it was just over 5 years ago now that Obama, on his way out the door, changed the rules to QUADRUPLE the number of eagles that wind turbine operators could kill with no penalties. Obama’s lackey actually tried to spin the rule change at the time as “eagle conservation”.
More recently, big, fat, stupid Michael Moore had some epiphanies as he made his ‘Planet of the Humans’ film:
Director-narrator Jeff Gibbs never talks to coal, oil, or natural gas advocates – or to “renewable” energy and “man-made climate crisis” skeptics.
Instead, he interviews fellow environmentalists who are justifiably aghast at what wind, solar and biofuel projects are doing to scenic areas, wildlife habitats, rare and endangered species, and millions of acres of forests, deserts, and grasslands.
He peeks backstage to expose bogus claims that solar panels actually provided the electricity for a solar promotion concert.
After speaking with “renewable” advocates in Lansing, Michigan, and learning that the Chevy Volt they’re so excited about is actually recharged by a coal-fired generating plant, Gibbs visits a nearby football-field-sized solar farm.
It can power 50 (!) homes at peak solar intensity. Powering all of Lansing (not including the Michigan State University campus) would require 15 square miles of panels – plus wind turbines and a huge array of batteries (or a coal or gas power plant) for nights and cloudy days.
The crew films one of those turbines being erected outside of town. Each one is comprised of nearly 5,000,000 pounds of concrete, steel, aluminum, copper, plastic, cobalt, rare earth, fiberglass, and other materials.
Every step in the mining, processing, manufacturing, transportation, installation, maintenance, and (20 years later) removal process requires fossil fuels.
Then they’re off to Vermont, where a wooded mountaintop is being removed to install still more wind turbines. Removing mountaintops to access coal, bad; to erect huge bird-killing wind turbines, good?
An aerial shot features 350,000 garage-door-sized mirrors sprawling across six square miles of former Mojave Desert habitat – with the giant Ivanpah “solar” power plant in the center.
The system gets warmed up each morning by natural gas-powered heaters so that it can generate a little electricity by sundown.
This “environmentally benign” solar facility now sits where 500-year-old yuccas and Joshua trees once grew. “Outdated” footage shows them being totally shredded to destroy any evidence they ever existed.
Gibbs and Moore next discuss ethanol – and the corn, water, fertilizer, and fossil fuels required to create this “clean, green, renewable” gasoline substitute, which emits lots of carbon dioxide when burned.
Even worse is the total devastation of entire forests – clear cut, chopped into chips, maybe pelletized, and shipped hundreds or even thousands of miles … to be burned in place of coal or natural gas to generate the electricity that makes modern homes, factories, hospitals, living standards, and life spans possible.
The crew gets “five seconds” to leave a denuded forest and “biomass” power plant area in Vermont – or be arrested.
The line in bold just above about ethanol is very relevant now, as Biden’s handlers sent him out today to read a script that included promoting the use of ethanol. And this is at a time when food shortages are expected due to Russia restricting fertilizer sales to many countries including of course the United States. What complete lunacy!!!
Wait until Joel and his buddies at the Bird Conservancy and all the other left wing wacko environmentalist groups finally realize that catastrophic man made global warming is a complete scam. And all the bird deaths and other destruction exposed by Michael Moore were completely unnecessary. Of course even the idiotic fantasy Biden read off the teleprompter today of the U.S. having “net zero” carbon emissions by 2050 wouldn’t mean Jack Squat anyway, since China and India are not playing in any of the greentard games.
China in particular is building coal fired power plants at a rapid pace, as its coal production surpassed that of the U.S. many years ago and they have plenty more of it left. So even if man made CO2 was causing runaway warming, the U.S. killing its economy, its protected species of birds, and thousands of square miles of habitat for all kinds of animals, is not going to do one damn thing to stop it.