Want mass extinctions? Enact Greta Thunberg's vision

American Thinker ^ | 09/29/2019 | By Gregory Wrightstone

[SeekAndFind]

In an ironic twist, the U.N. report identified loss of habitat as the greatest endangerment to the future health of species, yet what solution does it offer for halting man-made climate change?  Greatly increased habitat loss to construct vast solar arrays and industrial-scale wind turbine farms.

According to a new study by Paul Driessen, if America were to replace all of its electricity generation capabilities with wind, it would need some 14 million turbines, each one 400 feet tall, each one capable of generating 1.8 megawatts at full capacity when the wind is blowing at the proper speed.  At 50 acres per turbine, that works out to 700 million acres (ten times the size of Arizona).  He notes that eagles, hawks, falcons, vultures, geese, and other high-flying birds and bats would virtually disappear from our skies.  Insects and vermin would proliferate.

Oh, my.  I wonder if Miss Thunberg realizes the unintended consequences of her proposals.  Maybe it is time for her to return to school and stop lecturing us on things she knows so little about.

[a fool in paradise]

Leftists say she doesn’t want oceans to boil. Is that even possible?

Do they even ‘Science’?

[a fool in paradise]

“and all you can talk about is money and fairytales”

Little Myth Cant B. Wrong

[JudgemAll]

Greta wants money and celebrity and to kill children and steal their childhood.

She projected!

She wants the kalifate islamo-green carbon tax shutting up future dissent while she will get to consume all that energy in political campaigns, speaking herself into a satanic goddess of sorts.

[Mark17]

if America were to replace all of its electricity generation capabilities with wind,

That’s an easy one. She would just say, you don’t need electricity.

[caww]

Global Warming so she says?......The Farmer's Almanac predicted that the US will experience a 'Polar Coaster' of temperature fluctuations this winter....

Montana today!....

[KDF48]

How would an evolutionist explain one’s concern for the environment? Moral high ground for monkeys cousins?

[Fungi]

bttt

[HighSierra5]

Maybe we could make her and her kind extinct. The world would be a wonderful place.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Leftists say she doesn’t want oceans to boil. Is that even possible?

Well....actually yes it is. When the sun begins turning into a red giant it will happen. Sadly that is somewhat farther out than 12 years and even more tragic, it won't be the fault of humans. Unless of course there are still liberals around a billion year from now.

[butlerweave]

Boiling oceans would cause clouds/rain/snow and cooling

[MRadtke]

Implementing the “New Green Deal” will result in the death of millions primarily by starvation. Also from lack of heat, transportation to medical facilities, poor sanitation, etc.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: That’s an easy one. She would just say, you don’t need electricity.

Well, she spoke through a mic and obviously has her message through the internet.

Where does she think these instruments get their power?

[dangus]

50 acres per turbine seems bizarrely huge. Where does he get that?

[Theophilus]

Thankfully it’s not too late for her to do her part in belping Sweden’s birth rate improve from a dismal 1.85 to a replacement rate of at least 2.1. Sweden cannot rock the cradle to grave socialism that allows chicken little paranoias if the cradles are all empty.

[a fool in paradise]

What about volcanoes at the bottom of the ocean?

[Artcore]

This is what happens when we facilitate mental illness of snot nose brats!

[Don W]

Seems to be an average:

Snowflake, Ariz. 99 MW/7,000 acres 71
Altamont Wind Resource Area, Calif. 580 MW/50,000 acres 86
Fountain Wind, Shasta Co., Calif. 347 MW/37,436 acres 108
Montezuma Hills, Calif. 180 MW/6,800 acres 38
Pine Tree Wind Farm, Tehachapi Hills, Calif. 135 MW/8,000 acres 59
Tule Wind Project, East County, Calif. 131.5 MW/12,000 acres 91
Cheyenne Ridge Wind Project, Colo. 500 MW/100,000 acres 200
Colorado Green, Lamar 162 MW/11,840 acres 73
Prairie Wind, Colo. 69 MW/7,000 acres 101
Twin Buttes, Colo. 75 MW/9,000 acres 120
Winergy offshore, Del. 1,101 MW/67 mi2 40
Cassia County, Idaho 200 MW/4,500 acres 23
Boone County, Ill. 27 MW/800 acres 30
Baileyville Wind Farm, Ogle County, Ill. 80 MW/5,000 acres 62
Big Sky, Ill. 75 MW/10,000 acres 133
Bishop Hill, Ill. 400 MW/25-30,000 acres 62-75
Crescent Ridge, Ill. 54.5 MW/2,200 acres 40
LaSalle Country, Ill. 384.5 MW/25,000 acres 65
Mendota Hills, Ill. 50.4 MW/3,500 acres 69
Rail Splitter, Ill. 100.5 MW/11,000 acres 109
Twin Groves Wind Farm, McLean County, Ill. 396 MW/21,000 acres 53
Walnut Ridge, Bureau County, Ill. 225 MW/14,000 acres 62
Jordan Creek Wind Farm, Warren County, Ind. 300 MW/27,000 acres 90
Cerro Gordo, Iowa 42 MW/2,110 acres 50
Franklin County, Iowa 200-300 MW/40,000 acres 133-200
Pomeroy Wind Farm, Pocahontas County, Iowa 198 MW/8,200 acres 41
Elk River, Kan. 150 MW/8,000 acres 53
Ford County, Kan. 100.5 MW/5,000 acres 50
Smoky Hills, Kan. 100.8 MW/20,000 acres 198
Spearville, Kan. 100 MW/10 mi2 64

From here: http://www.aweo.org/windarea.html

[chief lee runamok]

"That’s an easy one. She would just say, you don’t need electricity."

greta is going to need plenty of electricity to recharge the tesla arnold loaned her to get around the USA and canada.

[Mark17]

Where does she think these instruments get their power?

Who knows, wind turbines maybe. Maybe she thinks each electric car, can just drive up to the nearest wind turbine, and plug in. What a dunce.