{"id":279876,"date":"2023-09-22T12:55:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T10:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=279876"},"modified":"2023-09-22T12:55:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T10:55:16","slug":"not-just-birds-and-whales-windmills-threatening-extinction-for-jaguars-and-pumas-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=279876","title":{"rendered":"Not just birds and whales: Windmills threatening extinction for jaguars and pumas in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From American Thinker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0<\/strong>Thomas Lifson<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The climate hoax is taking a horrendous toll on not just the cost of electricity and reliability of the grid, but also the survival of many speci<\/strong>es of animals, from birds\u00a0to whales\u00a0to the magnificent big cats of Brazil.\u00a0 The\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/a>\u00a0reports:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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JUAZEIRO, Brazil \u2014 Weighing more than 100 pounds, big cats have long reigned over this hot and semi-arid region of Brazil, developing tougher paws for the scorched earth and reaching speeds of 50 miles an hour to bring down wild boar and deer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But nothing could have prepared them for the 150-foot blades now slicing up the deep blue sky above them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jaguars and pumas are facing extinction in the Caatinga, Brazil’s northeastern shrublands, as Europe and China pour investment into wind farms, puncturing the land with vast turbines that are scaring the animals away from the region’s scant water sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Particularly sensitive to changes to their habitat, the jaguars and pumas abandon their lairs as soon as construction work on the wind farms begins, said Claudia Bueno de Campos, a biologist who helped found the group Friends of the Jaguars and has tracked the region’s vanishing feline population. They then roam vast distances across the dusty plains in search of new streams and rivers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0weakest perish along the way. Others venture closer to villages, where locals have started laying traps to protect\u00a0their\u00a0small herds of goats and sheep,\u00a0often their only form of survival in\u00a0this impoverished region<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The poor all over the world already are victims of the rising price of energy, and of fertilizers made from oil and gas, increasingly scarce and costly as drilling and production are shut down by governments persuaded to buy in to the climate panic.  Now their ability to keep herds of animals \u2014 an ancient source of livelihood appearing prominently in Bible \u2014 is under threat as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Windmills may be the<\/em> most destructive of the “alternative” (meaning uneconomical) sources of energy.  Because they wear out quickly and have a short useful life, they rarely pay back the energy and carbon emissions used in their construction.  They leave an awful pile of useless, ugly junk that costs a lot to demolish.  Recycling carbon fiber blades is a particular challenge.  Junkyards are filling up with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The carbon cult is inflicting awful damage on the Mother Gaia it pretends to protect. \u00a0Even on its own terms, it is fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The climate hoax is taking a horrendous toll on not just the cost of electricity and reliability of the grid, but also the survival of many species of animals, from birds\u00a0to whales\u00a0to the magnificent big cats of Brazil.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":279879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691822861,691820146,691819047,691822859,691822860],"class_list":{"0":"post-279876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-150-foot-blades","9":"tag-brazil","10":"tag-extinction","11":"tag-jaguars","12":"tag-pumas","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0what-is-the-difference-between-leopards-panthers-pumas-jaguars-cheetahs.jpg?fit=1200%2C754&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1aO8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":279974,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=279974","url_meta":{"origin":279876,"position":0},"title":"Brazil\u2019s big cats latest victims of wind turbines","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"22\/09\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"To the well-documented slaughter of birds and bats by wind turbines and the growing threat to marine life posed by the proliferation of offshore wind power, we can add the jaguars and pumas of northeastern Brazil being wantonly sacrificed in the name of \u201cclean,\u201d \u201cclimate friendly\u201d renewable energy.","rel":"","context":"In \"Brazil\"","block_context":{"text":"Brazil","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=brazil"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0826df2_2fd1c6f9fc9342b3b53ebcdacfbbd289mv2.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0826df2_2fd1c6f9fc9342b3b53ebcdacfbbd289mv2.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0826df2_2fd1c6f9fc9342b3b53ebcdacfbbd289mv2.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0826df2_2fd1c6f9fc9342b3b53ebcdacfbbd289mv2.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0826df2_2fd1c6f9fc9342b3b53ebcdacfbbd289mv2.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":303717,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=303717","url_meta":{"origin":279876,"position":1},"title":"Fears Over Massive Expansion in Electric Cables Due to Renewables as Great Indian Bustard Heads for Electrocution Extinction","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"21\/02\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"There are growing fears that one of India\u2019s iconic large birds, the great Indian bustard, is about to go extinct due to the growth of electric transmission lines in its home area of the Thar desert. 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