Windaction News Issue: October 23, 2013

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News and information from
The WindAction Group

facts, analysis, exposure of industrial wind energy’s real impacts

Recent Articles

Great Lakes ice shouldn’t stop wind turbines but will increase costs, engineering professor says

(23 Oct) USA | Michigan – Already offshore wind production is three times the cost of onshore wind farms such as the Consumers Energy Lake Winds Energy Park now producing electricity in Mason County south of Ludington, according to MAREC Director Arn Boezaart. Factoring in the cost of engineering wind tower protection against the ice is… MORE

‘Wind Turbine Syndrome’ blamed for mysterious symptoms in Cape Cod town

(22 Oct) USA | Massachusetts – They filed an earlier nuisance complaint against the town in July 2012, but the judge granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss on Dec. 3, 2012.

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Windaction News Issue: September 11, 2013

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Editor’s note – Renewable advocates worldwide point to Europe as proof of wind power’s success. This week’s issue includes several articles from Germany that expose a more painful reality that could change an election.

News

‘Significant’ fears over Atlantic Array wind farm – September 10
in BBC News – UK
Serious concerns have been raised in a report about a huge wind farm off the north Devon coast. A county council report says the project would have negative impacts on the landscape and might not have any economic benefits for north Devon. It would be among the UK’s biggest wind farms, with up to 240 turbines.
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Carbon Dioxide: The Green Greenhouse Gas of Life (and ‘miracle molecule’)

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“CO2 is also a pollution fighter that reduces the harmful effects of ozone, nitrous oxides and other pollutants in the air, or too much nitrogen fertilizer in the soil.”

It’s amazing that minuscule bacteria can cause life-threatening diseases and infections – and miraculous that tiny doses of vaccines and antibiotics can safeguard us against these deadly scourges.

Equally astounding, trace amounts of selenium in our bodies protect us against the harmful effects of methylmercury. Just as incredible, this same element added to a manmade formula helps ensure that musk oxen calves survive their first year of life in an Alaskan wildlife conservation area where soils and thus forage are so deficient in selenium that their mothers’ milk cannot nourish them adequately.

It may thus not be too surprising that, at the planetary level, carbon dioxide is a miracle molecule for plants – and the “gas of life” for most living creatures on Earth.

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Global Warming is Responsible for ….

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- July 16, 2013 5 Comments

“When the history of the global warming scare comes to be written, a chapter should be devoted to the way the message had to be altered to keep the show on the road. Global warming became climate change so as to be able to take the blame for cold spells and wet seasons as well as hot days. Then, to keep its options open, the movement began to talk about ‘extreme weather’.”

– Matt Ridley,Nobody Even Calls the Weather Average,” July 9, 2013.

There is no link between global warming and Sharknado, tweats U.S. EPA. But this summer, global warming has been blamed for firefighter deaths, more thunderstorms, and poor lobster catches. The litany of abnormalities that is so big and broad that contradictions, not only prima facie absurdities, abound.

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U.S. Coal: Vast, Market Ready (Part I)

By Mary Hutzler -- July 9, 2013 4 Comments Continue Reading

The Mighty Bakken (Resourceship in action: II)

By Fred Lawrence -- June 14, 2013 3 Comments Continue Reading

Depletionism Reconsidered: A 2004 Article Revisited

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- March 6, 2013 No Comments Continue Reading

Windpower Propaganda: At A School Near You?

By Sherri Lange -- February 11, 2013 24 Comments Continue Reading

Superstorm Sandy (Part III: Political Actions)

By Paul Driessen and Patrick Moffitt -- February 2, 2013 14 Comments Continue Reading

Global Climate Planning: Down But Not Out (Doha's 'bitter defeat' does not mean it's over)

By Craig Rucker -- December 31, 2012 3 Comments Continue Reading