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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1497557)	11/1/2024 2:46:46 PM
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We're you in the crowd shroomin'?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1497557)	11/1/2024 2:48:22 PM
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Rogan and JD Vance Trade Climate Crocks – This is Not Cool (thinc.blog) No big deal, just two idiots sitting at a bar, trading rumors and conspiracy theories. Then you remember that one of them has a media platform with millions of followers, and the other could soon be Vice President of the United States. Probably as dense a collection of utter bullshit on clean energy, particularly wind, as would be possible in a mere 6 minutes, all enunciated with the utter certainty that only true ignorance can grant. Joe Rogan starts out by citing Donald Trump as his source on environmental aspects of wind energy, and it goes downhill from there. JD Vance demonstrates once again what an utter moral an intellectual vacuum he is. Counter points below: NOAA: At this point, there is no scientific evidence that noise resulting from offshore wind site characterization surveys could potentially cause whale deaths. There are no known links between large whale deaths and ongoing offshore wind activities. Offshore wind developers conduct high resolution geophysical surveys to image the ocean bottom. The noises these surveys produce may disturb marine mammals. This is why offshore wind operators have requested Incidental Harassment Authorizations to allow for Level B harassment. This includes actions that could disturb, but not injure or kill, a marine mammal by disrupting behavioral patterns, including migration, breathing, nursing, breeding, feeding, or sheltering. The sound from these high resolution geophysical surveys are very different from seismic airguns used in oil and gas surveys or tactical military sonar. They produce much smaller impact zones because, in general, they have lower noise, higher frequency, and narrower beam-width. The area within which these sounds might disturb a marine mammal’s behavior is orders of magnitude smaller than the impact areas for seismic airguns or military sonar. Any marine mammal exposure to sound from these surveys would be at significantly lower levels and shorter duration, which is associated with less severe impacts to marine mammals. In 2017, NOAA Fisheries declared an Unusual Mortality Event for humpback whale strandings along the Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida. The event is ongoing, and includes animals stranded since 2016. Vessel strikes and entanglement in fishing gear are the greatest human threats to large whales. The rest of the whales in this Unusual Mortality Event either had an undetermined cause of death (due to a limited examination or decomposition of the carcass), or had other causes of death, including parasite-caused organ damage and starvation. What caused a high number of large whales in the waters off New Jersey in 2023?As the humpback whale population has grown, they are seen more often in the Mid-Atlantic. Along the New Jersey shore, these whales may be following their prey (small fish) which were reportedly close to shore during the winter. These prey also attract fish that are targeted by recreational and commercial fishermen, which increases the number of boats in these areas. More whales in the water in areas traveled by boats of all sizes increases the risk of vessel strikes. As such, we advise boaters to go slowly—10 knots or less in waters where they are likely present—and keep a lookout for whales. Mariners should be aware of voluntary slow zones and active Seasonal Management Areas (where all vessels 65 feet or longer must travel at 10 knots or less) for endangered North Atlantic right whales. Is climate change a factor in the number of whales seen close to shore?Yes. Our climate is changing, and one of those key changes is the warming of our oceans. In response, many marine species are adapting by moving into new areas where conditions are now more favorable. Changing distributions of prey impact larger marine species that depend on them, and result in changing distribution of whales and other marine life. This can lead to increased interactions with humans as some whales move closer to near shore habitats. We are investigating the increase in humpback whale deaths beginning in 2016. The impacts of changing species distributions reach far beyond the individual species, affecting entire ecosystems and coastal economies. For more, USAToday has a decent fact-check page here, and you can check out my websites wind101.info sun101.org