The mystery of a thousand dead whales and dolphins

By Jo Nova

For some reason more than a thousand whales, dolphins and porpoises died around the UK’s coastline every year for the last eight years. This is roughly twice as many as in the 25 years before that. What could it be?

Whatever it is, it isn’t windfarms. Greenpeace says so:

“There is no evidence whatsoever linking offshore wind to whale deaths. The manufactured hysteria is the result of fake news promoted by politicians, big oil, and their cronies to save the oil and gas industry”

Greenpeace Australia says  wind-plants save whales.:

…”building offshore wind is way, way better for ocean wildlife than fossil fuels”.

And yet there are a thousand dead cetaceans.

Andrew Montford of NetZeroWatch graphed beached dolphins, whales and porpoises against the rise of a new industrial marine machine:

Cetacean Strandings in the UK graphed against offshore wind capacity.

Cetacean Strandings in the UK graphed against offshore wind capacity. @Dissentient

There’s no evidence, say Greenpeace, sounding just like Philip Morris.

We don’t know for sure what is causing so many whales and dolphins to die, but Greenpeace doesn’t even want to find out. The only thing we do know is that Greenpeace is craven, counterfeit, eco-imposter front for the Globalist Blob. As Matt Ridley said what happened to the Precautionary Principle?

Jason Endfield is tracking the carnage:

Latest UK data reveals 5000 DEAD Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises in just 5 years

The UK’s 2023 annual report to Ascobansreveals an appalling level of cetacean deaths in British seas, and comes in the wake of record-breaking increases in whale, dolphin and porpoise mortality in recent years. This shocking statistic should be a wake-up call to those planning to further industrialise our seas …

Researchers 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?

They were all silent for ten years until someone invented and tested “bubble curtains” to protect porpoises, and then they could say “well isn’t that clever”?

Spread the word: fifty years ago environmentalists would have raised hell about a thousand dead whales and dolphins. Today they are a part of the cover up. They’re not even blaming climate change and 0.001 degree of warming. They don’t want to draw attention to the blubber on the beach in case people start asking hard questions.

Greenpeace, WWF, UNEP, they’re all fake environmentalists.

h/t Willie Soon.

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19 comments to The mystery of a thousand dead whales and dolphins

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    It is odd how constructing off shore windfarms often results in dead whales.

    But after they are constructed, what is going on? It is some sound effect from the spinning turbines that hurts marine mammals? Typically what hurts whales and dolphins are abandoned fishing gear/nets and boat strikes.

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      David Maddison

      It’s known that windmill blades produce infrasound.

      It’s known that cetaceans can both produce and hear infrasound.

      Any adverse effect needs to be investigated by honest scientists who aren’t funded by or ideologues of Big Green, Big Government or Big Left.

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    Ever since whaling had been banned, whale populations have massively increased. Maybe the offshore Windmill Farms are killing them now. Who would have thought.

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      Peter C

      According to the graphs, whale and dolphin deaths have been increasing since 1990!
      Massively increased numbers could be part of it (at least for the whales). Maybe they are bumping into the wind tower pylons.

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    Lawrie

    Hypocrites. Lenin says that lying in a good cause is acceptable or words to that effect. Lying and withholding unhelpful data is the way government science works these days. The CSIRO and the BoM both distort information in order to support government policy. Once upon a time government agencies were trustworthy but no longer so we are left to trust independent scientists who are in danger of being silenced by the proposed MisDis Information bill. Who are these politicians working for because it isn’t us?

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    We now have strong evidence for the western Atlantic:
    https://www.cfact.org/2024/07/22/offshore-wind-serial-whale-deaths-indicated-by-statistical-analysis/
    But just for sonar surveys at this point.

    NOAA had a big meeting with this researcher over a month ago, going over his findings. Their website still says no evidence so they are now deliberately ignoring clear evidence. Nor are they looking for more from the newly operational wind driven noise makers.

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    Neville

    Michael Shellenberger and other groups are also claiming that offshore wind disasters are killing whales, dolphins etc in the US.
    But toxic offshore wind swindles have very short operating time spans and the floating variety even less.
    They cause a mess in the oceans and parts of the blades have also washed up on the beaches after storms.
    Destroying our Aussie land and sea environments are also encouraged by Labor , Greens, Teals and so called scientists plus the greedy banks as long as it feeds their bottom line.
    But will the voters wake up before it’s too late? We can only hope.

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    Greg in NZ

    Just Stop Ruinables

    Save The Whales

    Burn More Coal

    (Groanpus™️ promo we’ll never see)

    Is 500 kilo tonnes of coal a large amount? NZ Electricity announced it is stockpiling that ‘metric’ for next year’s winter, to use in Huntly Power Station, as a back-up due to the unreliability of our already 85% renewable, read: primitive, power generation (water, wind, sun, unicorn flatulence, hand-wringing, etc).

    Due to unseasonable cold weather this past winter (1984-speak?) and the inability of our clean green solutions to maintain electricity across a so-called developed country, future-proofers®️ are returning to their roots by utilising Earth’s free gift to mankind (and to those/they/them who are unsure).

    Coal For Freedom: mined in Indonesia.

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    David Maddison

    There is no sacrifice for the Left to their green god Gaia which is too great, human or animal.

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    Tel

    As Matt Ridley said what happened to the Precautionary Principle?

    Like most principles of the Left … applied in an extremely selective manner.

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    Neville

    Rita Panahi and Prof Ian Plimer check out the Chogum meeting today in Samoa.
    Of course the loony fools are already telling Aussies to stop exporting and using our fossil fuels, because of rising seas and dangerous CC. Total BS and the 40 year Kench and other SL studies supports Ian Plimer.
    Rita and Ian also discuss the clueless Matt Kean and his attack on the Coalition parties and Ian reports on a new study that clearly favours cheaper and reliable base-load energy like Coal, Gas and Nuclear for our safer and more prosperous future.

    https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/hypocrisy-ian-plimer-questions-climate-change-meeting-in-samoa/ar-AA1sLVYf

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    Ross

    “The manufactured hysteria is the result of fake news promoted by politicians, big oil, and their cronies to save the oil and gas industry”.

    Amazing to think throwing paint over art pieces and blockading traffic by Just Stop Oil will have any effect on global hydrocarbon fuel consumption. Especially when the world’s population and energy consumption keeps going in an unending curve upwards. Now Greenpeace think that people trying to protect actual “protected species” are somehow some shadey figures trying to save the gas and oil industry.

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    Philip

    I’ve spent a lot of time around green minded folk, done a lot of business with them. They are completely hypocritical, as soon as something they want doesn’t scratch up to environmental thinking, they drop the environmentalism. One of their main characteristics. It’s across the leftist board, any socialist I know loves money and they are not at all generous with it, without exception.

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      Ross

      They don’t mind getting a “gong” anytime as well. Good little socialist and World order fanatic, Jacinda Ardern, just loved receiving her Damehood the other day.

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      GlenM

      Some years ago I encountered a Greenpeace stall in a shopping mall. In a short engagement I told the three young people behind their desk that I was a Greenpeace member up until 1990 but left. Why? asked one with a Che Guevara cap. I told them that their original charter was protection and preservation of the natural environment but the organisation had become transformed into a political body that I disagreed with. Amicable enough exercise I thought, but left thinking what does go through their heads. Youthful naive types looking for a cause?

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    el+gordo

    It should be an election issue.

    ‘Australia has 80 offshore wind farm projects of which none currently operating, none where construction has progressed enough to connect the turbines and generate electricity, none are in the build phase, and none are either consented or have applied for consent.’ (TGS)

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    Neville

    Why do we ignore the best data that proves we haven’t observed any dangerous climate change since 1914?
    Hydrographic surveyor Daniel Fitzhenry tells Andrew Bolt that there has been no change in BOM Fort Denison SL data over that long period of time.
    It sometimes goes up and down by about 15 cm or 6 inches, but overall it hasn’t changed.
    So why will we waste trillions of $ on this CC fantasy forever for a guaranteed zero return?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mjOmsqIibk&t=1s

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      Ross

      The most compelling evidence regarding the Fort Denison SL rise situation (lack of) is not the actual tide data. It’s the historical photos that go back over a 100 years, showing absolutely no difference in the sea level heights.

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