Rare bird last seen in Britain 22 years ago reappears – only to be killed by wind turbine in front of a horrified crowd of birdwatchers
The white-throated needletail is usually only seen in Asia and Australasia
Forty birdwatchers dashed to the Hebrides to catch a glimpse of this one
But as they watched it was knocked ‘stone dead’ after impact with turbinehttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2350267/Rare-bird-white-throated-needletail-killed-wind-turbine-crowd-twitchers.html
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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I can hear the warmists say, “Move along. Nothing to see here…”
Funny how they develop an instantaneous blind spot or amnesia when factual events don’t square with their ideology…
Don’t fret, Steve.
The poor little bugger would no doubt have died of climate change anyway.
“What does ti matter.”
That reminds me, time to oil the birds again.
LOL…………..
OT – Has anyone else read the Hans von Storch interview with Spiegel? As much credit as I give Hans for speaking in relatively sane terms, his reaction to their theory being wrong is disturbing, for a scientist.
“Storch: If things continue as they have been, in five years, at the latest, we will need to acknowledge that something is fundamentally wrong with our climate models. A 20-year pause in global warming does not occur in a single modeled scenario. But even today, we are finding it very difficult to reconcile actual temperature trends with our expectations.
SPIEGEL: What could be wrong with the models?
Storch: There are two conceivable explanations — and neither is very pleasant for us. The first possibility is that less global warming is occurring than expected because greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have less of an effect than we have assumed. This wouldn’t mean that there is no man-made greenhouse effect, but simply that our effect on climate events is not as great as we have believed. The other possibility is that, in our simulations, we have underestimated how much the climate fluctuates owing to natural causes.”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-hans-von-storch-on-problems-with-climate-change-models-a-906721.html
I would think that it would be good news to find that we can continue to produce cheap energy, and focus money and attention on real problems.
I read a little of the interview, just now from your link. Here is another telling quote from that interview: “So far, no one has been able to provide a compelling answer to why climate change seems to be taking a break.”
This is a political answer, by someone who is plugged into academia, and unwilling to deviate from their consensus. I am surprised when I see comments like yours above that seem troubled by someone like von Storch, but tiptoe around the troubling idea. Von Storch is a principal at “die Klimazwiebel” (the Climate Onion), which is, in my experience in visiting there over the last 2 1/2 years, a hotbed of postnormal sociology (i.e., postnormal science, as defined, embraced, and continually exercised by the sociological minded–if not outright sociologists–at Klimazwiebel).
The “compelling answer” von Storch is unable to provide, from a consensus view, is simply that there is no global-warming “greenhouse effect”. My Venus/Earth temperatures comparison proves this, and separates the competent from the incompetent scientists in the climate debates. Hans von Storch is one of the incompetents (I have informed him of the Venus/Earth results many times in comments at die Klimazwiebel, since late 2010–he ignores it as everyone who believes even a little bit in the greenhouse effect does.)
What does von Storch means by “neither is very pleasant for us”? He then goes on to say that CO2 has less of an effect that ‘they’ had assumed etc. So there is nothing to support predictions of imminent catastophe – but for him this is ‘not very pleasant’. For him (and many others it would seem) the prospect of climate catastrophe is ‘pleasant’?
Any day now I expect a photoshopped picture of a wind turbine with blood dripping from the blades on a poster of an environmental protestor demonizing bird shredders. Should I hold my breath? 🙂
Forgot to add my favorite quote from the von Storch interview…
“The potential acidification of the oceans due to CO2 entering them from the atmosphere. This is a phenomenon that seems sinister to me, perhaps in part because I understand too little about it.”
Yep, ignorance breed fear.
That’s more like it.
Isn’t another term for H20 Hydric Acid? If so Al Gore is about 4,000,000,000 years to late to save the Oceans.
That Swift isn’t a rare bird at all. It’s rare in the UK but it’s not a potential extinction candidate. And Nothing the press writes today is true. Total BS all over the place which means you have to check and double check everything they write. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-throated_Needletail
In the mean time we have NY throwing the hybrid bus…. under the bus which is remarkable because Mayor Bloomberg is one of the biggest crazy greens walking around in the USA: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/06/30/Green-Fail-New-York-Metra-Gives-Up-on-Hybrid-Busses
He’s probably aiming for full-electric only (because more expensive).
So don’t jubilate too early.
Wasn’t that called a street car and doesn’t a street car need cheep electricity to function?
Everywhere I go here in the Emerald Forest (The Northwest) I see these stupid hybrid buses. Until the wee morning hours, I see them crisscrossing city streets….empty. Only carrying the driver, on Overtime, setting up his 100K/yr Pension the public will be stuck with.
The Greenie libs couldn’t wait to throw away the perfectly good diesel buses they had, which probably cost half as much, and….were also empty.
In the morning and late afternoon, which should be peak times for these rolling cash burners, there appears modest ridership in SOME of them. Most are empty. All day, every day. Driving around, saving the planet.
We could likely buy every needy person a car for what is paid to run the bus system.
That’s nothing…
http://seattletransitblog.com/2009/02/04/coyote-on-portlands-max/
This guy apparently found the quietest spot in town, and moved in.
I’ve read that The Max is bleeding cash from every orifice also. Costs up, Ridership down, Service Reduced.
AGW has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with climate.
AGW confirms George Owell’s 1946 prediction:
A tyrannical government was in our future then.
It arrived on schedule in 1984. It has now completely engulfed the globe.
It falsely claims control over events that are controlled by the pulsar at the core of the Sun:
The pulsar that made our elements, birthed the solar system, and maintains control over every atom, life and world in it.
Those who took Big Brother’s money to fabricate fairy tale explanations for data deserve full credit for the current demise of science and society.
Oliver K. Manuel
Former NASA PI
For Apollo Samples
Reblogged this on The Firewall.
I’m sure the wind turbine had a notice posted, beware of spinning blades…..stupid bird for not reading that sign…and that goes for the bats…but then, they have an excuse that the sign was not lite by solar powered lights…
The Mamikon Spinner design for wind turbines would be more bird friendly. Unfortunately, the last time I checked, it was caught up in patent litigation. And no, I’m not a fan of wind power. Just sayin’.