The Biggest Eco-Scandal In The World The Media And ‘Green’ Groups Are Ignoring
A dead whale washed ashore on Takanassee Beach in New Jersey in the early evening yesterday. Police blocked off the area so tractors could be brought in to remove it
“We were sitting on the beach yesterday, and I noticed it when people started running up to it,” said Soraya Nimaroff, who lives nearby. “I’m very sad. It is very sad.”
Yesterday marked the 60th known whale death on the East Coast since Dec 1, 2022. Whale strandings have increased markedly since 2016.
The North Atlantic right whales are headed for extinction. Their population has dropped to 340.
There have been 200 humpback strandings and 98 strandings of right whales since 2017.
“It caused us concern enough to ask, ‘What is happening?’” said Cindy Zipf, executive director of the Long Branch-based nonprofit Clean Ocean Action (COA). “We looked into what was different about this December and early January.”
The only thing she and other researchers found was offshore wind exploration.
“We looked at shipping, and shipping didn’t seem to be any different,” said Zipf. “The same fishermen were fishing. And the only thing we noticed was the number of IHAs that had been issued.”
IHAs are “incidental harassment authorizations,” or permits to harass whales.
In the period since June 2022, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has bizarrely and cruelly given the wind industry 12 separate one-year IHAs that collectively permit the harassment of 190 critically endangered right whales.
Another ten applications for additional IHAs are currently pending.
According to NOAA, blunt and sharp force trauma killed the humpback whale found floating in Raritan Bay on May 31. Scientists found lacerations and broken bones across her body.
U.S. government officials insist that the increase in whale deaths has nothing to do with the wind industry’s high-decibel pile driving and boat traffic in previously pristine waters.
But they’re lying.
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Hello Michael Shellenberger,
I am glad someone is pointing this out. Please, research this more and report back?
The primary reason whales are being killed off of New Jersey, Massachusetts, and New York is underwater surveying for offshore windmill foundations. The survey ships, such as ‘Fugro Enterprise’, use high-powered, focused sonar, called ‘Sub-Bottom Profilers’, to punch through sand and mud on the seafloor to find the depth to reach rock beneath. The rock is important to build stable foundations for windmills. Understanding the depth is critical to building a stable and cost effective foundation.
The high-powered sonars work in the same exact hearing range of whales, dolphins, and other sea animals. Whales and dolphins rely almost exclusively on their sense of hearing to navigate, find food, migrate, and mate. They are virtually blind with eyesight, especially at depths below 200′, where there is no sunlight. Whales, instead, rely upon hearing for 95% of their activity and well-being.
If a whale’s hearing is damaged, then they cannot safely navigate nor find food. A stunned or injured whale will sit on the surface, where it is typically run over by a large ship, frequently at night.
Thus, the excuse of our sick Government officials is, “The whale got hit by a ship.”
The correct cause of death, in reality, is the whales had shattered eardrums, lost all navigational ability, floated on the surface to attempt to recover, and then where hit by a ship or tugboat.
I have sailed nearly 50,000 miles offshore in the Atlantic Ocean, and have seen several dozen whales offshore. I can personally verify that the hearing of whales and dolphins is so good, they will swim up to a sailboat (no engine on), and swim under the boat, play with boat and maneuver around a boat which is making a barely audible swishing (water flow) sound on the surface of the ocean. They don’t ‘bump’ into the boat by accident. They know better.
It is virtually impossible for a whale to get hit by a ship, unless they are already injured or dead!
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