There’s plenty of disinformation trying to blame the nascent offshore wind industry for whale deaths without evidence. Not only is that misleading, it also takes the focus away from solutions that might actually address the leading causes of death — vessel strikes and entanglement with fishing gear.
Because windmill fields are no trespassing no boat strikes happen there. Giving Whales a safe place to hide from ships.
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Well, there are no whales in #Iowa, so you tell me.
it's secret high powered sonar testing by the Navy yeah I know that sounds insane but they admitted it www.science.org/content/arti...
I thought it was the acoustics from submarines?
I don’t think environmental degradation always amounts to an either or proposition: more commonly it is and, and, and , and…
Notably, many of those raising alarms about this issue have shown little genuine concern for whale conservation. Their sudden environmental advocacy is an insincere effort to protect marine life & is a calculated tactic—leveraging activist pressure to obstruct renewable energy development.
Someone needs to try to inform RFK wormbrain jr. of these basic facts also maybe he should stop cutting the heads off whales and tying it to the roof of his car so he can boil the flesh off the skull🤡☠️☠️
This is suicide because the whales have realised orange adolf is ignoring climate change
Global warning along with using the oceans for garbage cans
Nothing dies because the wind blows.
Unless it’s blowing out of trumps mouth
They have already proven that to be a false narrative like everything else from the republikkkan party.
It is easier to make things up, instead of doing proper research. If all the people against offshore wind farms would just turn their computers, tV's, lights and other energy consumption off, the wind farms would not be needed, maybe. Demands require consequences.
It doesn't matter what scientists might research and publish, if Donnie says it his sheep will agree.
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I’m sorry, how much marine life death have off shore oil rigging caused?
I always picture it in a kind of science fiction context: we have nuclear power, yet we’re putting our trust back into wind and hydropower, like in the Middle Ages. It doesn’t really make sense. Star Wars running on solar engines, the Death Star powered by hydropower.
The middle ages didn’t use wind power or Hydro power go back to fucking school. I am so tired of people who are so stupid.
Funny how nobody blames offshore drilling rigs?
Seriously, the stupid killing whale thing comes from our scientifically illiterate orange king! Also wind generators killing birds comes from him. His skyscrapers kill millions of birds each year!
I’m not a fan of off shore wind. However a big fan of wind, solar, tidal and hydro. Other nations are developing multiple solutions for oil. We should be leading the charge. Oil is finite, there are certain applications that function best with oil or an alternative fuel. In areas we can reduce oil.
And there’s always sonar testing from the war machine 🤬
and since when did conservatives care about whales this is all because scotland put up turbines "ruining the view" from trump golf course
Undersea mining, explosions and sonar.
As usual, #REPUBLICANS LIE.
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If there is no evidence, then it's not "misleading," is it? It's untrue. It's a lie. So just say that instead of pandering to a fascist administration and idiots..
So sad to see the destruction we humans are causing by only taking into account our wants and not the needs of the creatures who share our world
RFK joonya has eaten more whale carcasses than any windmill ever will. $hit, at this point, the brianworm has had more whale.
Of course...most of us live in that reality...
It is wild to me that an administration that does not give a single shit about the environment and is actively working to make it worse wants us to believe they care about whales.
They're just liars. Nothing more, nothing about belief, nothing about thought.
They think we're stupider than they are.
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Not according to RFuckuKjr. It’s all wind related just like his and PedoPOTUS’s ass
Lying & misinforming as a means to their own end. Imagine that. Hard to believe. (sarcasm)
narrator: it turned out they didn't actually care about whales
How in the world could whales be injured by wind? What is the theory?
Like the fascists give a damn about whales dying in the first place. Please, spare me your bullshit.
The coal industry is great isn't it. Koch brothers for Jesus.
What about VLF "ship to shore" communications?
Let’s be clear. Trump hates wind energy because he doesn’t like the look of it in water and on land. It’s really that simple. He knows nothing about clean energy. It’s all about esthetics to him
Sonar
Call RFK Jr. immediately. He’ll know what to do with those whale heads.
Is RFK Jr. Beheading them again?
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On the other hand, there’s plenty of evidence that coal ash causes acid rain, drinking water contamination, lead poisoning, black lung and numerous other adverse effects. Give me a windmill anytime…
ECOSYSTEM, the whole system being affected by the rising ocean temperatures. I'm no marine biologist but if coral is bleaching because of the temperature I'm assuming the plankton and other food sources are also affected
It’s because of PEOPLE! End of story. You can’t tell me otherwise
Trump is so dumb, he probably thought that the whales were breaching up into the windmill blades!
Laughing hysterically....
I read somewhere that over 40% of ships at sea are carrying fossil fuel. Again, the shills are misdirecting their marks.
And sonar
Stop with the misleading nonsense Not only is it misleading, but should stress they're lying to you
Sonar negatively affects whales, causing physical injury: hearing damage and hemorrhaging, and behavioral changes such as rapid, deep dives, disruption of feeding, mass beachings. At low levels, it can cause stress and disrupt coms and orientation, impacting individual fitness and population health.
kills dolphins all the time
Misleading is the wrong word. Lies. There's the correct one.
Don’t forget active sonar pings from our military ships/subs- sincerely a navy veteran.
they wear the scars of what you mentioned not windmills
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Misleading? Why do journalists not use the word lies? You are fascist enabling shit rag.
Maybe just ship strikes and ghost fishing gear
They’re actively rolling back just about every environmental protection out there. They’re just vile
WE kill everything.
And don't forget the warming oceans which are changing fish feeding/migration patterns (when they're not killing off the food entirely that is). Whales have plenty of problems but wind turbines certainly aren't one of them.
Don't forget all the shit we throw into our oceans.
I read that the whales are filling up on plastic waste when they feed and it interferes with digestive systems
It feels wrong to heart this but you're completely correct based on studies I've read too
I agree. When we kill a species of animal cause humans are dirty polluters The majestic animal is gone
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Only the turd believes this utter bullshit theory and then only because he’s beholden to the fossil fuel oligarchs
It’s like Trump blaming windmills for bird deaths (and cancer). Far more birds are killed by tall buildings than windmills. Does Trump know anyone who has built tall buildings?
That we have to even say that is a testament to how fucking stupid MAGA hasade this country
Anecdotally, heard that these projects disrupt benthic organisms, scallop beds/other bivalves. What about vibrations in seabed & disrupted currents? Fear is, like desal mania, subs for energy conservation. I don’t think ocean can be endlessly developed @jpgattuso.bsky.social @snikpoh.bsky.social
Greenpeace has been saving the endangered whale population long before windmill farms were even imagined. This is ridiculous.
Just to be clear, trump is going backward because the coal pacs paid the trump campaign almost 75 million. So he'll fucking ruin the planet for money. The biggest con man to ever hold the office
Trump is afraid to survey the carnage; he might be rolled back into the water.
47 hated wind farms because he doesn’t like how they look offshore from his Scottish golf course. Nothing to do with science. Natch.
For the last several years I have been suffering from occasional bouts of vertigo. I never had vertigo before there were off shore wind farms ergo wind farms cause vertigo. Clearly a majority of Americans are lacking critical thinking skills. Who knew, literally, who knew?
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Trump is incompetent regarding wind farms More birds are killed on electrical wires
But it's convenient for Trump to blame them since he hates them.
I also wonder about noise. You ever slide underwater in a bathtub and suddenly hear a medley of clanks, whirring, hums and other mechanical noises? With all our ocean activities, oceans probably are as stressful as noisy urban areas.
If you want to get an inkling of a glimpse of the challenges entanglement pose to marine life you should check out these fine people. And seals. Lots and lots of seals. 😍 www.youtube.com/@OceanConser...
Hmmm. Fishing nets, boats. Or, maybe, sonar & the like from military BS. We destroy everything beautiful.
Terrorist whales won’t get through then.
Our trash toxins pollution plastics radiation
Along with climate change and prey species drop off.
Military sonar is pretty tough on them too.
I agree sonar can be However... Sonar gives away a vessel's location, so wise Navy Captains use it sparingly Fathometers possibly, but fathometers are only needed in shallow water anyway (re: wise Navy) If merchant vessels are using fathometers unnecessarily perhaps they should turn them off
But strangely not discussed. 🙄
I’ve been hearing about it my entire life, I’m 47. I’ve seen many news article and documentaries about it and people bring it up anytime that sonar or submarines are discussed online, like it’s some kind of Pavlovian meme.
It's the religious Republicans and conservatives who fall for this shit. Maybe ban churches. Let's start there.
On the other hand, the flesh-eating bacteria outbreak caused by rising ocean temperatures can be scientifically proven to be causing all sorts of death and illness in the sea.
I guess RFK jr doesn't understand that the blades of a windmill are in the air, hundreds of feet above the water. Not in the water like a blender....dumb ass
Saw this morning that a deceased shark had washed up on the S. Carolina coast, entangled in fishing line. It wasn't wind mills.
This is old news but still very relevant. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Whales die more from ships, oil Spill and plastic pollution than anything else
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"Who am I to go against the wind?"is from Paul Simon's song "I Know What I Know" and means "Who am I to stand up to powerful, widespread opposition or a generally accepted direction". Light and Variable Winds are non polluting free energy. Hurricane winds, not so much. TRUMP HOT AIR? WORSE!
No I agree with you it is not because of the wind and has nothing to do with the windmills there's global warming everywhere and I think there's probably some sort of magnetic shift that's causing them to Beach they do everything pretty much by internal radar they can feel the shift humans do not
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But RFK thanked the fat orange for taking care of the whales...is he killing them also!
Sad when stupidity stands in the way of conservation of mother nature…..everyone and everything has the right to existence
It could also be the warmer ocean temperatures
These are the same idiots that will believe strip mining the ocean floor for Rare Earth minerals will not hurt anything
If you ask AI, it says wind turbines are not a significant problem. Who do you believe?
And wildly rising ocean temperatures
I want to know why the FAA isn't grounding these whales clogging up windmill airspace
Anyone that believes windmill causes whale deaths have zero brain cells.
We need another pandemic. Too many humans. We're destroying this planet.
I do feel obliged to mention that some are causing environmental problems. Nantucket Island had propeller break off right away last year,within months of operation Fiberglass & debris still washing up on beaches. Seems like more research needed instead of slamming projects thru as fast as possible 🤷🏻♀️
The whale death rate referred to by RFK Jr blamed wind turbines (160 deaths over 2 years) would be negligible, even if it were true ...
tRump is the biggest liar the world has ever known and his lies about wind power could set it back for decades if not forever.
A WORM ate RFK’ Jr brain…
Whales are dying because of corporate/government corruption.
That seems to be the MO of this regime unfortunately.
Sorry The Verge, but here’s the problem: accurate information is paywalled and disinformation is free. I understand you’re running a business here but that inherently assures the people who need to read this won’t.
Can’t these online publications set up like a donation link? Let people donate something nothing or a lot. Or subscribe because they want to.
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Humans just need to leave this planet and let it flourish. We are monsters
This info came out during Trump's first term. I don't know why the press lets him continue to say this without any push back.
but see thats WHY its being blamed on random windturbines. they dont want solution to whale deaths they want whale deaths to mean we cant do the windturbine. they dont care if it makes sense.
What's ironic is that if you tell the right-wing-nuts that the propellers on big ships hurt whales they would just be pissed with you, but if you take those big propellers out of the water and just have them turn in the air they have no problem believing that they'll kill whales.
Run on fossil fuel
No, it's NOT due to windfarms. Nor do birds fly into a blade!!! Such stupidity. Lots and lots of documents prove it. From 2006 till recent publications.
Aren't we on to the claims that windfarms kill thousands of people now?
Fossil fuel misinformation.
and our government is so anti-science they would never want to find out why the whales are dying. They just wanna blame some ridiculous thing that pops into their head. No brain just empty space
They are starving
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
RFK jr.,,, talking with no proof. Maybe ask a scientist that knows about whales. why would you listen to mr. brain worm.
My friends and I were out on the jetboat doing some spirited yachting and I must say, we definitely might have killed several whales after striking them.. But what are we to do? Give up spirited yachting?! Balderdash!
Could it be some nefarious group tried mining the deep ocean beds and forced megladons from deep water where they have being quietly hiding to the surface. Egads it’s like a movie
What about the heating ocean?!
36% of all ship cargo on the oceans is fossil fuels. If you want to save whales, let's start with that.
I think RFK Jr.'s stupidity is causing whales to beach themselves.
There is zero reason to eat fish, or any animal products unless you have a very specific pathology. The planet itself has a pathology, it’s called the human omnivorous diet.
Tragic
Commercial fishing kills 300,000 whales and dolphins each year.
Our society is plagued with misinformation
Maybe it’s because of all the shit we keep dumping into the ocean?
Speed limits aren't enough here, Frequency utilized to navigate around them could be more detrimental, This is an extension upon euthenics, Our lives are better because their lives are better? A boney fish.
Yeah I noticed some lethal shit watching these YouTube videos of things we consume. We are the most dangerous animals and our current business model has more of an entropic effect upon the entirety of the biosphere than ever before in human history?
I'm not going to subscribe before I can read one article. This is why we need a paypal type system to pay a quarter or whatever and have access to an article. And if your work is worth it, I might subscribe then.
All of a sudden the same regime that doesn't believe in climate change and wants to gut the Endangered Species Act, cares about whales. Make it make sense.
Not to mention all the NAVY testing of sonar and whatever else they do.
Sadly Brexit put a stop to European investments in tidal energy. I know Minesto had long-standing plans for a first park in Hollyhead. Now it's happening in the Faroe Islands instead. They will get over 50% of their energy from the tides. Clean, renewable baseload energy, every day, all year round.
I know everything is stupid, but it's so bizarre that we have to publish things like this.
US Navy blows them up during pointless live ammo drills and whacks em with boats too there is an "allowable number" noone really talks about www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... www.navytimes.com/news/your-na... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Disinformation aside, let's remember all energy sources have an environmental footprint. The real question is what kind of impacts are we willing to accept to turn on that light switch? Right now, our fossil fuel habit is pushing us toward mass extinction event.
More likely submarine technology, like sonar guidance systems, than anything else.
I’d love it if every headline refuted disinformation and reiterated facts.
How stupid do they think we are? Oil rigs have been a thing for what, a hundred years? Sigh. 🙄
Nobody clutching their pearls over wind energy and whales gives a flying fig about whales. Follow the money back to dirty energy producers.
Acidic oceans -- my guess
We need to just admit that this administration is always lying, because they are. Not one single bit of truth ever crossed their lips. #EpsteinCoverUp.
He’s not a marine biologist, or an oceanographer or a scientist of any kind. They just make stuff up. His family warned us he was not qualified & dangerous.
WRONG nypost.com/2023/08/26/n...
Shellenberger is part of the clan of bad faith "energy experts" gaslighting the public. They are exploiting the fact that most people's knowledge of renewable energy is based on stale ideas from 25 years ago. Plus it's NYPost...
Remind me, are whales the ones that flap around in the sky? That's whales, right?
Remember Donnie Two Dolls is a whale
The article completely ignores the striking correlation between increasing windpower survey activity and the rising mortality. www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/07...
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No one in his right mind believes a word from this moronic and destructive criminal enterprise.
Yeah right, for 30 years they slaughtered whales. Drive loud engines through breeding grounds got all agro when green peace called for an end to whaling. Now these fucks pretend to care about the whales when their oil shares start dropping
They blame wind mills when oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico killed marine mammals and other sea life. www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/mar...
He has no fucking use for anything useful! He just destroys
So, these billion dollar corporate ships have the technology to quite accurately detect and avoid reefs, rocks, and shoals, but are helpless to develop and apply similar methods to prevent whale collisions? I've seen fish the size of bass clearly imaged on a two meter fishing boat sonar.
It’s plastic trash and the temperature of our oceans. There, I figured it out for you all in less that 15 seconds. You’re welcome.
The amount of plastic bags/trash inside the stomachs of these great creatures is disgusting....no wonder they are dying. Breaching whales can't pick out the plastic bags while swallowing plankton. It's sad what we've done to these innocent beautiful creatures. We will be punished for our greed.
It’s all the Trumpublicans sucking up to Big Oil to keep their campaign funding coming in that are spreading the disinformation.
It's those dam oil and freight tankers.
They don't mind killing whales usually. Somehow they find a way to mislead people about what is causing it. It's dishonest on so many levels.
... you forgot sonar.
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No; those "waste of tax dollars", pieces of shit, are nothing more than giant paperweights.
Pretty sure it's all the trash. The dumping of toxic chemicals, the run off from rivers near fracking sites, the dumping of waste from cruise and military ships, the nuclear waste, the petrol, the over fishing starving them. Basically it's everything EXCEPT WIND FARMS. IMPO.
You vegan?
And all their heads are missing. Scooby Doo, where are you?
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That's what happens when an idiot in the White House hires more idiots to run the country.
Vessel strikes by large cargo ships are the number one cause..when the whales are going across major busy shipping lanes...
Humans are trash
Add in Climate change's ocean water temperatures rise and you have reasons for the decline in the whale population. And we all know that it affects us too. Capitalism's greed will be our undoing. Let's be smart and reject the lies,the coverup and the stalling of sensible solutions! Vote for change!
Debunk this, propagandists. www.public.news/p/exclusive-...
A baseless assertion by politicians in the pockets of fossil fuel.
Corporate GREED! Human destruction!
The sole reason Trump has a jihad against wnd farms is because he lost a lawsuit trying to stop one from being built near a golf course. Trump is nothing without his ability to carry a grudge to extremes.
There needs to be an AI that handles these misinformation spreading morons.
Let me guess, "big oil" or something like that.
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Whales can’t fly, so how the fuck are windmills killing whales? That theory is preposterous.
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