Greens: Replace dams with wind, gas « Green Hell Blog

This is, of course, another half-baked, hare-brained idea designed more to cause energy chaos and shortages than to provide “clean energy” and help the “endangered salmon.”

The erratic nature of wind power cannot be remedied by more windmills in more places because… well… wind power is erratic. Just because the wind isn’t blowing here doesn’t mean it’s blowing there. Then there are the problems of all those expensive transmission lines that would need to be installed for the extra windmills, the eyesore nature of windmills, their large footprint, the migratory bird-Cuisinart controversy, additional taxpayer subsidies and more.

And what’s this, the Sierra Club wants to replace low greenhouse gas emitting hydropower with fossil fuels? Are they serious? What about the planetary emergency? Is saving salmon more important than saving the world from the dreaded global warming?

The Blackboard » UAH vs RSS Trends since 2001 or 2000

...The trends for both UAH and RSS are negative since 2001 with RSS having the larger negative trend.

Regarding this article, my first of many questions: Have ocean temperatures warmed at all since 2000?

Overall the report shows the UK's seabird population has reduced by nine per cent since 2000, but in Scotland, where the majority of the UK's seabirds occur, numbers have crashed by nearly one fifth.

Douglas Gilbert, an ecologist with RSPB Scotland, blamed warming ocean temperatures for killing off populations of sand eels that many of the seabirds rely on.

"We now know that plankton populations underpinning the whole ecosystem of the North Sea are changing fast because of warming waters," he said. "That's fine if you just want to take a dip to cool off in the summertime, but if you are a seabird whose life depends on finding fat sand eels at the right time and in the right places, this is a big problem."