Solar farms, coming soon to a field near you, are an ecological disaster turning productive land into a nature dead zone. Birds frequently fly into the panels mistaking them for water, while electrocution and incineration are common. Blanketing large areas once open to sunlight causes massive habitat disruption and reduced insect numbers. Like the heavily-shaded ground beneath the miles of often Chinese-made panels, all of this is hidden by a mainstream media and governing class that are desperate to keep the Net Zero kite flying high.
“Bird mortality has become an unintended consequence of renewable energy development,” notes Hannah Vander Zanden, an Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Florida. Little work has been done specifically on bird mortality at solar farms, although it is known that millions of bats and large birds of every kind are killed every year by giant wind turbines and their associated high power electricity lines. In recent work in California, Vander Zanden found that the birds killed at solar farms were often non-local, with peak kills during migratory periods in April and September. Britain, of course, is a haven for many migratory birds, large and small.
In 2023, the US Association of Avian Veterinarians published a “Conservation Note” titled ‘Solar Energy Production’s Toll on Wild Birds‘. It reported the estimate from the US Fish and Wildlife Services that yearly avian mortalities due to electrocution averaged 5.6 million and that some eight to 50 million bird mortalities may occur following collision with electrical lines. The construction of solar farms can lead to habitat destruction, the authors observe, and changes to plant composition and insect abundance, causing shifts in the diets of insectivorous birds.
The earliest scientific study of avian mortality at large scale utility solar plants was undertaken in 2016 by a group of scientists working for the US Government-funded Argonne National Laboratory. It was estimated that casualties at solar farms were similar to those found at wind turbine sites. Extrapolating from three large operations in southern California, the scientists suggested that between 37,800 and 138,600 birds died annually at solar parks across the US. These figures are of course nearly a decade old and appear on the low side. Whatever the true totals, there is evidence that between 2013 and 2022, US solar power generation rose 12-fold.
It might be pardonable to accept some wildlife destruction if solar farms were any good. They are not. In 2020, the World Bank published a detailed study examining the solar energy potential of locations around the world. Out of 230 countries, the UK was ranked second to last, just ahead of nearby Ireland. The Sun rarely has its hat on in a British winter and on the days it does appear it is long gone by 5pm peak electricity time. Despite life-threatening intermittency disadvantages, the British Government has announced plans to cover vast swathes of the countryside with solar panels in a desperate attempt to triple solar power that will not be available when it is most needed. Reporting on the move, the BBC published a truly dumb quote from a member of the public – “when it’s in a field, hidden behind a bush, you don’t even really see it”.
Out of sight, out of mind, might be the conclusion to be drawn from the attitude of the Net Zero campaigner, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). Consider the two quotes below and try to spot the difference between the first from a solar farm trade association and the second published by the RSPB.
“Solar farms can become havens for biodiversity, playing an important role in nature restoration across the country.”
“Solar farms provide an opportunity for the long-term existence of land in which wildlife can thrive, which could go a long way to help slow down the rate of decline of farmland birds.”
For its part, the RSPB is all in on the invented political climate crisis and wants to remove hydrocarbon use from modern industrial society within 20 years. As is becoming increasingly clear, this will lead to societal breakdown with food shortages that could be partially relieved in the short-term by slaughtering all the available wildlife! In the RSPB’s fantasy land it calls for an increase in solar, onshore and offshore wind. It appears to simply ignore the plight of millions of bats and large raptors such as eagles and hawks. They cannot escape the pull of giant skyscraper-high blades, which are also clearing the area of tonnes of insects. It was recently estimated that 1,200 tonnes of insects are wiped out every year during the plant growing season in Germany alone. The RSPB is also seemingly unaware of the disturbing rise in whale, dolphin and porpoise strandings on UK shores that appear to track the growth of offshore wind capacity. Deaths of these cetaceans have doubled since the turn of the century and are now running at over 1,000 a year.
In promoting collectivist political change, the wrong sort of ecological disasters are simply ignored, or clumsily explained away, by narrative-driven commentators of every kind.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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Rep. Jim Jordan, who inquired to the former Trump administration official: “When the government told us that the vaccinated couldn’t transmit it, was that a lie or is it a guess?”
“I think it was hope that the vaccine would work in that way,” Birx replied.
https://naturalnews.com/2022-07-04-vaccine-mandates-predicated-on-hope-rather-science.html
Cut the excuse making wankers:
“Yes but ‘long-covid’”
“My granny deferred seeing her GP because she didn’t want to overwhelm the NHS”
”Tory underfunding”
What’s one more death jab sneaking onto the market? We’ll be expecting an official investigation into the excess deaths/injuries from the deployment of these gene therapies any day now, obviously…
”Bimervax, the COVID-19 vaccine developed by HIPRA Human Health, has today been authorised by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
It becomes the 9th COVID-19 vaccine to be authorised by the UK’s independent medicines regulator.
Bimervax combines a part of the SARS-CoV-2 virus spike protein with an ‘adjuvant’ – an additional ingredient designed to trigger a stronger immune response. It can be given as a booster injection in the upper arm, to those aged 16 years and over.
The clinical evidence for this authorisation is based on data from a study of 765 adults who had received primary vaccination with 2 doses of the Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine and who were given a booster dose of either Bimervax or Comirnaty. The vaccine demonstrated a strong immune response, and the most common side effects were mild, and self-resolved within a few days of vaccination.”
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/bimervax-covid-19-vaccine-authorised-by-mhra
Just a reminder of the now infamous June Raine’s ”..from watchdog to enabler” clip, so as we can all feel rest assured, you know?
https://twitter.com/BandyGit/status/1686685964557545472
So we are still on emergency approval, although there is no emergency? That is doublkethink of the worst kind. 1984 here we come, and it is almost complete! This is a me too response to a manufacturer from an alleged regulator that is so far as to be fit for purpose as to be criminally liable. So much for Quangos, ban the lot!
Nick, thank you for putting pandemic in inverted commas. So important.
If SAGE estimated that 75% of COVID admissions where because of COVID and not because of a positive test upon entering hospital for an unrelated reason, it’s a safe assumption that the real number was close enough to 25% (probably from below) that they had to admit something to muddy the waters. And then, there’s of course the estimated.
If records had been kept proberly, nobody would need to have estimated the number as it would have been known. This is a tacit admission that – at no point during this ‘pandemic’ – the pandemistas really knew the number of COVID hospital admission because they really didn’t even want to know them. Which – in turn – implies that the pandemic of headlines and restrictions never coincided with a mass-outbreak of a highly infective and very dangerous disease. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been possible to turn a blind eye to reality.
The shocking bit here is how cheaply done all of these fabrications where. Eg, people listening to Ferguson despite his record of gross mispredictions on anything. If you really want know what’s going to happen in future, ask Professor Pantsdown and bank on the polar opposite happening.
Remember too that a PCR test did not show active infection, just that there might have been some contact. Remember 40 cycles is useless for diagnosis of active, 20 is more reasonable as an active infection indicator. Everything was lies from top to bottom. The figure was more likely to be 1%.
It will be interesting, if that’s the right word, to see what happens in future.
Shouldn’t we have seen a reductiion due to seasonality, dry tinder already gone and herd immunity?
It sems as though “covid” is still very prevelant and circulating widely, entirely as GVB predicted, due to the criminal folly of jabbing erstwhile fit populations with a none sterilising jab.
GVB also says it’s a myth that virus always mutate to a more benign/more transmissible state. Their apparent seasonality effect is mainly (obviously lack of warmth/sun/vitaminD3 are factors) due to herd immunity being achieved in the general population during winter exposure – which we can’t achieve due to the jab.
If he’s correct on the latter point, the jabbed world is in big trouble.
‘I confess that as time passes, I forget just how bonkers it all was. For example, in addition to our own Sages, we had Albert Bourla, Chairman and CEO of Pfizer, along with Gates, Biden, Fauci, et al., telling us throughout 2021 that vaccines stopped transmission. I’m sure, like me, you’ll still hear people say, “But they never said that vaccines would stop transmission.”’
Would you believe that a trusted expert speaking on the trusted BBC, as long ago as three days ago, is still claiming that the Covid vaccine prevents transmission?
If you find that hard to believe, listen for yourself, if you can bear it:
Dr Sarah Pitt – a “leading virologist” and “a microbiologist at the University of Brighton and fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Science” – clearly suggested on BBC Radio 5 Live on Sunday night that the vaccine prevents transmission. Talking to Stephen Nolan, 2:47:00 to 2.47:37 into the programme, here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001p6ys
Dr Pitt said that if anyone is offered a booster vaccine:
“then they should definitely take it, because it’s much better not to get Covid, because it’s a really really nasty infection, and can have some very serious consequences for you, and you also don’t want to be passing it on to the people around you for the same reason, so definitely have the vaccine, if it’s offered to you.”
A couple of minutes earlier – at 2:45:40 – she stated that the vaccine is “very safe and very effective” and that if you “unfortunately experience quite severe side effects”, if you get to the hospital in time, you not only might be okay but you also have protection against Covid!
So that’s all good!
Anybody still proclaiming this codswallop after this long and after all the evidence that has been compiled which refutes these claims just sounds like they’re in the tight grasp of religious fervour, because it really has become more of a belief system for these cult figures now, in my opinion. They make baseless claims with nothing in the way of scientific evidence to back up their statements. They’re just saying words, basically. Pitiful really and should amount to career suicide if it weren’t for the fact we’re living in
Anybody with vaccine damage should sue her, come on lawyers, this is a good class action opportunity!
Absolutely brilliant thankyou, I needed a laugh. Good to know there is an alternative universe. I might apply to Brighton University to see if I can also pick up a clown Phd, will they accept my village idiot Bsc and my fuckwitt Msc as entrance?
Undoubtedly. You simply need to write a meaningless thesis praising every one of these “Covid experts”. You can copy their data, I’m sure they have so much supporting this!
Bourla, Fauci etc said it stopped transmission. The Pfizer study itself was never designed to test for transmission.
They cannot remeber saying this, now known as the Biden excuse!