Wind Turbines and Whooping Cranes: Going Soft on Soft Energy (politically correct environmental damage) — MasterResource

The plan by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) would allow for killing endangered whooping cranes. The government’s environmental review will consider a permit, sought by 19 energy developers, which would allow constructing turbines (over 300 feet tall) and associated transmission lines on non-federal lands in nine states from Montana to the Texas coast, encroaching on the migratory route of the cranes.

The permit from the FWS would allow the projects to “take” an unspecified number of endangered species. Under the Endangered Species Act, “take” is just the euphemism for killing or injuring an endangered species. The gove

Quadrant Online - Malcolm Turnbull's climate politics

Cheap energy is the basis for all economic development, which in turn is the basis for generating the wealth required to protect the environment.

One might as well stand under the shower and tear up billion dollar notes for all the effect that cutting Australian carbon dioxide emissions will have on future climate.

A lot of people believe this means hot, dry summers and milder, wetter, stormier winters. | ScottishSceptic

Bill Giles has got himself into the Daily Mail trying to explain why its been a terrible summer (I thought England had done OK and it was just Scotland). So, what does he say: basically its all the fault of the deluded British public for expecting warmer weather due to the doomsday global warming:-
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As the old joke goes: “how many climate ‘scientists’ does it take to have an argument: just one and long enough for the climate to have changed”. I’ve no doubt that if one were able to search the BBC archives we’d find a very similar comment from him about expecting warmer summers and milder winters. And now he has the gall to suggest the fault is the UK public are seeing too much warmer weather on holiday and that if only they stayed at home in our terrible summers of late, that we’d learn to appreciate that global warming is the worst possible outcome for us in Britain. You can’t make up logic like that!