In the links above, there was one to the Cefn Croes wind farm which ought to have alerted people to the gross abuses of the environment that wind farming can frequently perpetrate.
Alas, this article shows that the money makers are carrying on regardless:
Areas of Natural Beauty and Special Scientific Interest Areas are all grist to their mill. Not just one but a substantial proportion are being targeted for wind farms.
Money talks.
Ironic is that among those who are now vocal in opposition are the RSPB and Friends of the Earth who bear a great responsibility for these abuses, the one through negligent regard for its avowed interest in protecting birds and the other as a forum for radical "eco" activism.
As ever, the road to hell may be paved with good intentions but I am not convinced of the good intentions of organisations such as FOE. They are the masters of propaganda, quick to provoke a gullible public through the use and abuse of misinformation and the emotive phrase, eager to feed the sympathetic politicians with dubious data and interpretations, some among them now appear to recognise some of the folly that results, not just with regard to windfarms but also bio-fuels, for example.
The WWF ought also to be crying out against these shameful developments but when their Chariman has moved to the MET office as a dedicated AGW supporter, I think we can see how these organisations are vulnerable to busy activists who can, however few they are, exert a tremendous influence over the lives of the rest of us.
The damage these people have done, the huge amounts of money wasted and, above all, the probable harm inflicted on some of the poorest people in the world where there policies are forcing up food prices and diverting food producing land and resources into bio-fuels and where some suggest there are millions of lives at risk or already forfeit, is a crime against humanity as much as any totalitarian leader.
One of the most illuminating presentations by Borjn Blomberg is that in which he asks people to rank problems according to importance, where he correlates the amount of money required to the benefits delivered and where climate change is way down the list (but where our resources are being spent) while others, such as aid prevention, malaria etc. receive little support and thus necessarily condemn many people who could have been saved to death or a short life.
Malaria is a case in point.
I remember reading Silent Spring at the time it was published. I soaked it all in (I was more trusting and gullible then) but the the advocacy of banning DDT, for example, has indeed resulted in millions of lives lost that otherwise could have been saved.
But in all these cases it is doubtful any of those responsible for falsifying data, or alarmism will ever lose a single nights sleep over it - perhaps because they are too busy counting the money they have scammed.
Goodness knows, it is easy enough to make mistakes that cost lives, honest well meaning mistakes, but to knowingly and cynically advocate policies that are founded on very dubious or even outright false science is something that needs addressing.
I count FOE and their ilk in amongst these because I doubt their honesty and integrity and I doubt their motives.
I feel sorry for those well meaning people who continue to support these organisations long after they have been subverted, but they must recognise the truth and also take responsibility.
We know it was convenient for the advocates of global warming to propagandise the "summer heat deaths" warming would cause and of course, this too is an example of manipulating the truth to tell a lie. What they neglected, deliberately, was to also account for those who would die in colder winters - many more, as history shows us and which will become amplified by policies that cause fuel prices to "skyrocket" as Obama expects and welcomes as a means to help encourage economies. Of course it is as usual the old and the poor who suffer the most, the ones most at risk and the least able to afford green "taxation" and wind farm subsidies.
It isn't just about despoiling the landscape, it is about the real misery these policies will result in. Real people who will die in countless and probably uncounted numbers.
JMW
