Kudos to Spokesman-Review
Kudos to the Spokane newspaper for directly reporting new observations on bats killed by wind "power". It's rare and noteworthy when a devout Gaian institution like a newspaper dares to report a heretical fact, to tell an Inconvenient Truth about our Wall Street Mafia masters.

At a wind farm in Alberta, researchers noticed a disturbing trend – the turbines harvesting the wind sweeping across the Canadian prairie were also killing hundreds of migratory bats.

In Canada and the United States, wind turbines are believed to kill an estimated 450,000 bats each year. While bird kills at wind farms get more publicity, bat deaths appear to outpace them.

Half a million. Bats aren't likable, but that's a whole lot of insect-eating critters killed, which means a whole lot of bugs aren't getting eaten.

Just one more illustration of the wonders brought to us by our dear EPA. Returning to the Stone Age at warp speed.



Polistra watches in horror. Happystar can't bear to watch.

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Okay, granted that bats are icky and scary.

Why should we worry about missing bats?

Let's look.

Here's a graph on Pine Beetle infestation in Wash, taken from eScienceNews.


Note that this graph starts way back in 1954. The rise in the '70s may result from the removal of DDT by the wonderful splendid dear beloved sacred EPA. Focus mainly on the exponential rise after 1996.

Here's an Excel graph of Washington installed wind power in megawatts, derived from the data on this webpage. (Before 2000 there were a few NASA experimental turbines, but they weren't hooked up, thus they weren't stealing power from the grid yet.)



Undoubtedly not the only cause, but the exponential shape looks familiar, doesn't it?

Well, is it plausible? That is, do bats eat beetles? Yup.

Makes a fairly interesting food chain when you put it together. Wind turbines eat electricity stolen from coal or natural gas power plants, and also eat subsidies stolen from ordinary people. To compensate for this dual robbery, turbines kill lots of bats. The missing bats no longer eat beetles, so the beetles multiply and eat forests. The missing forests no longer eat CO2.

Thus, if you're a mass-murdering genocidal Gaian zealot, if you think we need to remove plant food from the world, you serve The Cause by installing wind turbines. But in fact you're hurting your own lethal Cause in two separate ways: requiring more natural gas or coal power, and helping bugs to destroy forests.

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