{"id":349456,"date":"2024-10-29T16:24:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T15:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=349456"},"modified":"2024-10-29T16:24:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T15:24:12","slug":"shocking-rise-in-whale-dolphin-and-porpoise-strandings-as-wind-farms-proliferate-around-british-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=349456","title":{"rendered":"Shocking Rise in Whale, Dolphin and Porpoise Strandings as Wind Farms Proliferate Around British Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Chris Morrison<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the last decade as offshore wind farms proliferated around the U.K., there has been a disturbing rise in coastline strandings of whales, dolphins and porpoises. Since the turn of the century, strandings have more than doubled and are now running at over 1,000 animals a year. The slaughter has been largely ignored by the mainstream media that runs with the agreed narrative that offshore wind is environmentally friendly and is the key to achieving Net Zero by 2050. In fact, wind turbines, whether on or off the shore, are a clear danger to many endangered species and concerns are mounting about their widespread and harmful effects on the natural world. Years ago, the great cause in environmentalism was to save the whales, but these concerns seem to have abated of late, while the slaughter of millions of onshore bats, along with the destruction of many types of large raptors, is simply ignored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Montford of Net Zero Watch has updated his graph on the stranding of U.K. cetaceans and compared it to the rise of offshore wind capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Both totals have soared in recent years. Is there a causal link? Perhaps not one that would inconvenience Net Zero fanatics, but Montford says the suggestion of a causal relationship \u201cremains very strong<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Daily Sceptic<\/em> has reported in the past about the mounting casualties of whales stranded off the north eastern coast of the United States in the wake of massive offshore windfarm construction. There have been around 300 fatalities in the last five years, and many suggest the extensive sonar soundings, pile driving and heavy concentrated vessel traffic is causing havoc with aquatic feeding, breeding and migration up and down the coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest U.K. stranding figures have been reported to Ascobans, a UN environmental conservation body for cetaceans in the NE Atlantic. Commenting on the \u201cshocking\u201d figures, the environmental writer and campaigner Jason Endfield called them<\/a> \u201ca wake-up call to those planning to further industrialise our seas in the name of renewable energy, and especially offshore wind farms\u201d. In his view, it made no sense to increase ocean noise to levels that are \u201cliterally unbearable for marine mammals\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great cover-up of this environmental disaster continues with massive industrial parks being erected around the coasts of many countries. In the U.K., the incoming Labour government is committed to a massive expansion with the Mad Miliband spraying around billions of pounds in additional subsidies to boost an industry that would not exist in a free market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To the fore in blowing smoke over the issue is Greenpeace USA\u2019s senior oceans campaigner Arlo Hemphill who claims there is \u201cno evidence whatsoever<\/a>\u201d connecting wind turbines to whale deaths. \u201cIt\u2019s just a cynical disinformation campaign,\u201d says another Greenpeace spokesman. The mainstream media often goes along with this narrative as shown by recent tweets<\/a> from Agence France-Presse<\/em> reporter Manon Jacob. He dismissed the focus on wind farms as a red herring \u201cwhen offshore wind remains thus far marginal in the U.S. and scientific evidence of large marine mammal deaths is lacking\u201d. This is the same Jacob who wrote a recent \u2018fact check<\/a>\u2019 of the Daily Sceptic<\/em> that was so bad and misleading it should feature in future journalism schools as an example of how not to criticise well-sourced material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The investigative science journalist Jo Nova has a different take<\/a> on the matter: \u201cResearchers have known since at least 2013 that pile drivers were permanently deafening porpoises, leaving them presumably to die miserable deaths wandering blindly through dark or murky seas. Where were all the professors of marine science, paid by the public to know these things, and where was the BBC?\u201d Spread the word, she continued. Fifty years ago, environmentalists would have raised hell about a thousand dead whales and dolphins. Now they are part of the cover-up. \u201cThey don\u2019t want to draw attention to the blubber on the beach in case people start asking hard questions,\u201d she observed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are however some signs that the \u2018nothing to see here, guv\u2019 line is starting to crack. A recent essay<\/a> in Watts Up With That?<\/em> suggested that an impact statement from the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) had finally acknowledged the harm caused by offshore wind farms. Examining leases off the New Jersey and New York coast covering over 488,000 acres, the BOEM hints that these developments are not entirely benign \u201cdespite being repeatedly framed as environmentally friendly solutions to the climate crisis\u201d. Marine mammals, sea turtles, birds and fish could suffer due to noise, habitat displacement and changes in migration patterns, it is said. Even bats, says WUWT?<\/em>, which are not typically associated with offshore environments, could be affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The essay noted that this latest BOEM work may signal a more cautious approach, \u201cperhaps influenced by increasing legal challenges, public backlash, and even emerging scientific research indicating that wind turbines are not as harmless as once believed\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic\u2019s Environment Editor.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Over the last decade as offshore wind farms proliferated around the U.K., there has been a disturbing rise in coastline strandings of whales, dolphins and porpoises. Since the turn of the century, strandings have more than doubled and are now running at over 1,000 animals a year. 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