Wind, Solar Energy Now Killing 48% Of Priority Bird Species With ‘Population-Level Effects’

New Study: Wind, Solar Energy Now Killing 48% Of Priority Bird Species With ‘Population-Level Effects’
13 hours ago From the NoTricksZone
By Kenneth Richard

Of California’s 23 vulnerable bird species studied (barn owls, golden eagles, road runners, yellow-billed cuckoos…), scientists have found 11 are now experiencing at least a 20% decline in their population growth rates because wind turbines and solar panels are killing them and/or destroying their limited-range habitat.

California’s mild-winter Mediterranean climate is home to some of Earth’s rarest bird ecosystems.

But California is also where some of the most ardent supporters of “green” energy policies reside.

Disproportionately due to California’s activist-level insistence on converting their energy infrastructure from fossil-fuel-based to renewables-based, the US as a whole has facilitated a 300% to 9,400% increase in wind and solar energy generation, respectively, from 2009 to 2019. Nation-wide, the solar power industry alone is poised to detonate from a 0.4 GW energy capacity in 2009 to 75 GW by 2025.

Too few proponents of explosive wind and solar energy expansion are focused on the effect this unprecedented change has had on local ecosystems – especially vulnerable wildlife populations.

To have a “population-level effect” on a vulnerable bird species, the authors of a new study have clarified that fatalities generated by wind and solar energy in California must induce a “greater than or equal to 20% decline in the population growth rates” for the 23 prioritized bird species they analyzed.



A deeply concerning 48% (11) of these species are already experiencing population-level effects on their growth rates due to wind turbine and solar panel killings.

This should make liberals happy, they'll have a bunch of new endangered species to whine about.

They didn't consider the impact on marine wildlife either when they built the offshore wind farms .. Whales and dolphines depend on sonar to navigate and coincidentally both have been washing up on east coast beaches .. Who knows how it's effecting other marine life

... I read where people were getting physycally ill from living anywhere near the turbines ... Even one turbine within a half mile or so causes headaches from the 24/7 pulsating from it

... I've seen a few up close. They're fucking ENORMOUS! .. There's also the issue of their disposal .. They're not exactly biodegradable .. I saw an over head picture from a plane with an arrow pointing to a tiny speck that was a bulldozer on one of the propellers .. There must have been tens of thousands of the propellers .. I guess theyre just burrying them

Heres the first image i came across .. This is just "fragments" of the blades
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turbine-blades-can-t-be-recycled-so-they-re-piling-up-in-landfills

I just remembered .. Trump merely mentioned the wind turbines killing the birds and democrats ridiculed him like it was the stupidest thing they'd ever heard .. Just sayin

What psychopaths climate activists are...

A Colorado man has died 24 hours after lighting himself on fire in front of the United States Supreme Court on Earth Day as part of what appears to be a religious protest against the use of fossil fuels and in order to bring attention to climate change.

On Friday evening, Washington, D.C., first responders airlifted Wynn Bruce, a 50-year-old climate activist, to a local hospital after he engulfed himself in flames. He later died Saturday evening despite medical efforts to save his life.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/climate-activist-dies-after-lighting-himself-ablaze-on-supreme-court-steps

"“My early death by fossil fuel reflects what we are doing to ourselves..."


Yet another thing fossil fuels can do that solar can't.

oliver clotheshoffe wrote:

"“My early death by fossil fuel reflects what we are doing to ourselves..."


Yet another thing fossil fuels can do that solar can't.  

Flamethrowers are fun

Temple wrote:

aahh we now give a shit over fuel..
Living off of total solar and electric car..
We need some weee fule, of course, but nothing detrimental.
As long as the sun exists we are more than OK-

The world ain't all about you, Temple

Temple wrote:

aahh we now give a shit over fuel..
Living off of total solar and electric car..
We need some weee fule, of course, but nothing detrimental.
As long as the sun exists we are more than OK-

Does the solar provide enough to charge the car and run the house too?