President Biden’s climate alarmist narratives are attempting to bury a harsh truth — that whales are dying in record numbers because of his green agenda.
The administration’s newest proposed permit is set to allow foreign offshore wind companies to kill 42 whales, more than 2,500 dolphins and nearly 1,500 seals by conducting yet another survey for wind turbines off the Jersey Shore. The project, ironically named Atlantic Shores, is exactly where dead whales have already begun to wash up in correlation with a massive uptick in geological survey vessels mapping the ocean floor.
Scientists are well aware of the recent spike in whale deaths in such a small area, but it’s not a problem they are willing to investigate. Instead, they dismiss any impact on whales from the survey vessels that use high frequency-modulated sound pulses and sonar chirps to measure the soil for offshore wind projects. Progressive climate activists tout the climate benefits of building out offshore wind turbines while ignoring the costs to the very ocean life they’ve long fought to protect.
The tragic loss of ocean life is a predicament long foreseen by America’s fisheries, who warn about its impact. Since 2016, just one year after the United States began offshore wind surveys, the commercial fishing industry noticed a dramatic uptick in deaths of humpback whales on the east coast — likely no coincidence. Since December 2022, 30 whales have washed ashore on the east coast.
These wind surveys greatly interfere with the whales’ ability to communicate with each other by introducing “high levels of low-frequency sound” that affects their foraging and breeding behavior, masks their acoustic communication and even causes hearing loss. Endangered North Atlantic Right Whales in particular demonstrate altered behavior when exposed to background noise. The noise from wind farming activity likely causes an increase in stress hormones in female whales, resulting in slowed reproductive systems and fewer whales born.
Even more worrisome than the Biden administration’s new wind farming goals’ effects on whales is its impact on fish, and therefore the livelihoods of fishermen. Fishermen are concerned that fish near ocean construction sites may be killed or chased away during and after construction of offshore wind turbines. If that occurs, the American food supply will surely suffer. This reality has prompted the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s litigation arm, the Center for the American Future, to sue the Biden Administration to protect fisheries and multigeneration fishermen whose livelihoods depend on a healthy ocean environment.
Whales are just trying to escape the (to them) the ear-splitting sounds we (including the U.S Navy) we inudate their environment with……
They can hear another whale from 8,000 miles away. How sensitive do you think they are to the sonar signals and explosions we produce??
The only way to escape is to escape their environment and THAT means being on the beach.
I’ll bet if you had to endure 160 decibel sounds, you’d want to escape that environment.
People act like they just don’t know why these creatures are beaching themselves. They KNOW. But the money is too good. Birds, fish, whales, people. They’ll kill anything for more money. And CLAIM “we didn’t know….” They KNOW.
In the Caribbean, HUNDREDS of whales have beached themselves. EXACTLY in the same area the U. S. Navy tests submarine sonar and weapons.
But where the money is, there is NO OTHER CONCERN.
The food chain is a finely tuned mechanism developed over millions of years. We are f’ing it up — every day, in every way — with no concern for anything other than how much money can we make??
Sacrificing Americans to be GREEN !!!!!
STOP IT NOW !!!! IMPEACH DEMOCRATS !!!!! Save AMERICA !!!!