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Sorry, I must confess that I joined the Sierra Club years ago because they were giving away a cool back pack worth more than the one year membership.

I still get mailings from them from time to time begging me to renew. Sometimes, they have cool wildlife stickers which I give to my grandson. Most of the time, they give a shrill pitch for money.

This is one of the most shrill pitches. Who knew that whales were incapable of swimming away from seismic testing? Next to dolphins, aren't they supposed to be one of the most intelligent creatures in the sea?

My hearing must be slipping too. Last time I heard seismic testing, it sounded a lot more like a greatly muffled sonic boom or a gunshot with a silencer than a jet engine.

Or maybe Mr. Brune just has to get out of San Fransicko a little more often?

1 posted on 04/17/2015 8:34:42 AM PDT by Vigilanteman
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Arctic steak ,yum


2 posted on 04/17/2015 8:37:24 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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Is there an interest group for the endangered white race, already a global minority? Now that, I’ll join.


3 posted on 04/17/2015 8:38:30 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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Maybe we can get the whales some hearing aids. Maybe the whales should go swim some where else than next to the pump. It’s a big ocean out there.


4 posted on 04/17/2015 8:44:28 AM PDT by Idaho_Cowboy (Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
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Petroleum ruined the whale oil industry.


5 posted on 04/17/2015 8:44:46 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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Brune grew up in Chadwick Beach, New Jersey, and went to school in nearby Toms River. He graduated in 1993 from West Chester University, Pennsylvania, with dual B.S. degrees...

ahaha B.S. Degrees never fit anyone any better!!!

he actually lives in nearby Alameda CA....not in Scam Francrisco oddly enough


6 posted on 04/17/2015 8:46:10 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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For the 400 remaining Northern Atlantic right whales-this could mean complete extinction.

All the more reason we need to drill for oil, what with the loss of blubber and all.

7 posted on 04/17/2015 8:46:34 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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The Sierra Club knows how so many donors love animals so painting images of mean, greedy oil companies building oil wells in the Arctic that kills innocent whales or in the Arctic lands to displace caribou and polar bears from their natural homes tugs at the heart strings. It’s a means of getting money and staying relevant in environmental policy decisions.


8 posted on 04/17/2015 8:47:03 AM PDT by dowcaet
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Let me get this straight.... Liberals are so concerned that the whales hear loud sounds from Big Oil. So they want to drive Big Oil out of business, so that petroleum-based oil is not produced.

OK, so we'll have to use oil that is "natural" and "organic" and "sustainable".... Like the Whale Oil we previously used. So the poor Whales will not have to listen to loud sounds.... because they will be hunted and killed nearly to extinction.

Is that what those nature-loving liberals want?
10 posted on 04/17/2015 8:50:35 AM PDT by mason-dixon (As Mason said to Dixon, you have to draw the line somewhere.)
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Fine, stop driving or traveling using fossil fuels. Put your money where your mouth is.


12 posted on 04/17/2015 8:55:30 AM PDT by bray (Cruz to the WH)
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Yeah, but does whale meat taste good?


13 posted on 04/17/2015 8:55:34 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (When did the 2nd amendment suddenly require a license or permit to exercise as a right?)
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So they mount devices on whales? I suspect that sound dissipates with the square of the distance so the farther away from a transmitter the less the sound.


15 posted on 04/17/2015 9:16:59 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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cool! Let’s quit using oil and go back to the preceeding technology for providing light at night. You know, burning whale blubber!

Idiots like this author forget that oil is what saved the whales!


17 posted on 04/17/2015 9:23:37 AM PDT by CSM
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Nothing like all the racket of WWII.


18 posted on 04/17/2015 9:33:08 AM PDT by onedoug
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greenie earth firsters are killing birds

]]Windmills Killing Endangered Birds]]

[[It took a while, but 440,000 eagle, hawk, falcon, crane, egret, goose, and other bird corpses finally made a pile so large that even the... administration could no longer ignore the stink.]]

http://www.newsmax.com/Reagan/Windmills-wind-solar-obama/2013/11/26/id/538744/


19 posted on 04/17/2015 9:49:01 AM PDT by Bob434
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it’s funny how it’s against the law for citizens to kill eagles and endangered birds, but our government and state officials are apparently above the law and readily kill endangered birds and eagles with impunity


21 posted on 04/17/2015 10:01:54 AM PDT by Bob434
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Who knew that whales were incapable of swimming away from seismic testing?

Funny you should say that...I used to work at a major aquarium which hosted a Right Whale research department. The sad fact of the matter is that these poor creatures are dumb as stumps. The main causes of their near extinction are 1) entanglement in fishing lines and 2) ship collisions. They simply don't know enough to swim away from the danger. There is no instinct to move away from a threat. It's tragic but at the same time you have to throw up your hands and say "What can you do? Darwin is proving his point here."

22 posted on 04/17/2015 10:51:42 AM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (All freedom must be transported in bottles of 3 oz or less. - Freeper relictele)
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