Posted on 12/03/2008 9:57:55 AM PST by Sparko
Now they’ll figure out a way to tax us over it.
That’s it, ban ships and shipping.
And rightly so.
Ban offshore wind farms. Those noisy windmills might keep the fish awake at night.
This guy in his coracle could be in deep trouble with those UN experts if he ever took to the briny seas. Look at all the waves he’s causing.
http://lifesci.rutgers.edu/~mcguire/hobbies/coracle2.JPG
Any mention of the noise from terrorists firing at civilians, bombs going off on trains, etc.?
So...is anyone doing anything about how much noise the UN makes that makes us sick? Which is mostly all the noise they make...
I thought only Barack’s grandmother lived in a hut?
Kidding aside, you are correct. They travel and live in splendor, telling others how to behave and live - but not as they behave and live.
And it turns out that Climate change (AlGor’s global warming) is also culprit:
see
http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=383&sid=1535680
AP Story, see 5th paragraph down.
Like the volume of carbon in the atmosphere....Has anyone looked at how large the ocean is and to what extent humans have infiltrated it?
If there were 500 million sonar inducing ships and siesmic exploration vehicles exploring the ocean at the same time all over the world, it would hardly be a concentration to radically affect ocean wildlife.
I agree it may be a delicate habitat and ares of our vast oceans have been over-fished by commercial endeavors. But what truly is the impact world wide? These creatures migrate.
“Guess it’s back to sailboats.”
Maybe not, but we will probably have to post shipping lanes as noise hazardous areas. Then we will have to train a few dolphins to ensure that any whales and dolphins entering these areas have the appropriate hearing protection.
It is has been the excuse used to shut down exploration for oil.
No to drilling {Alaska, Offshore}
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140752/posts
In particular, there is insufficient analysis of the impact of drilling-associated noise on bowhead whales’ migration routes — Shell’s exploration plan envisages the use of two drilling vessels and two associated icebreakers for the Beaufort Sea drilling, Nelson said. “The multi-sale EIS discusses, in a general sense, the impact of noise on bowhead whales, citing a number of studies that have been conducted on the topic,” Nelson said. “However, that document contains no studies that analyze the effects of noise from a project with two drillships and two icebreakers. … Moreover, studies cited in the multisale EIS use varying methodologies and come to inconclusive results.”
The environmental assessment for Shell’s exploration plan “gives only a brief description of the level of noise the individual drillships in Shell’s proposal could make, but does not examine the combined effect of all vessels operating simultaneously,” Nelson said. And there is no evidence that a National Marine Fisheries Services biological opinion cited by MMS “relies on studies involving two drillships and two icebreakers,” she said.
The court majority opinion also says that MMS has recognized that even a single operating drillship can deflect migrating bowhead whales.
Correct, the second paragraph strongly hints to that:
“They also called for tightened laws on using seismic surveys to explore for gas and oil, as well as less intrusive sonar technologies by militaries.”
It is the agenda for some that humans take a back seat to animal life.
The funny part is in Alaska, the court ruling stopped the exploration so that it wasn’t so hard for the native to kill the whales.
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