Sentences with phrase «of birds and bats»

The central, endlessly repeated lie upon which the wind industry seeks to «justify» the colossal and endless subsidies upon which it critically depends; the destruction of wind farm neighbours» health, wealth and happiness; and the slaughter of millions of birds and bats, is that wind power causes substantial reductions of CO2 emissions in the electricity sector.

**** The wind industry and its parasites have — from the outset — pitched these things as a «planet saving, clean, green and environmentally friendly technology»; which doesn't quite gel with the wholesale slaughter of birds and bats.

**** The rampant slaughter of millions of birds and bats — including rare, endangered and majestic species, like America's iconic bald and golden eagles — is one of the many «inconvenient» facts that moves the wind industry to lie like fury and — when the corpses can no longer be hidden and the lying fails -LSB-...]

In the battle for hearts and minds, the one issue that seems to annoy the wind industry like a burr under a frisky pony's saddle blanket is the wholesale slaughter of millions of birds and bats.

«This newest station on the Block Island Wind Farm, coupled with the two stations on Block Island, represents the first attempt anywhere in the world to assess fine - scale movements of birds and bats near an active offshore wind farm,» said Dr. Peter Paton of the University of Rhode Island.

And wind farms have become a bloody slaughter - grounds mainstay for multiple species of birds and bats.

«This is an exciting opportunity to pilot digital VHF technology for tracking movements of birds and bats at the first offshore wind energy facility in the United States,» Loring said.

The tracking station contains four antennas, plus a receiver that collects data on the migrating patterns of birds and bats that scientists have previously tagged with tiny, very high - frequency (VHF) transmitters, weighing less than 1.5 grams each.

As someone who has a lot of respect for the animal kingdom, there is nothing about wind farms that makes my blood boil more than the hypocrisy and double standard associated with the killing of birds and bats that these wind farms are allowed to get away with.

-LSB-...] to researcher Jim Wiegand, who has dedicated his life to studying the problem, the number of birds and bats killed by -LSB-...]

Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI) has established a new wildlife and renewable energy program to study and understand the movements of birds and bats and to assess the potential interactions between energy facilities and wildlife.

Pattern Energy's use of radar, on their Kenedy ranch wind project in Texas, is a failure: thousands of birds and bats have been reported killed in the short history of this wind farm and thousands more remain unreported due to flawed mortality studies.

The damage the project would do to the area's natural beauty and wildlife, including the inevitable killing of birds and bats by the rotating turbines, would hardly be offset by the facility's job creation.

And don't forget the environmental disaster caused by millions of acres of solar farms destroying bird and wildlife habits, to say nothing of the millions of birds and bats slaughtered by windmills.

The slaughter of millions of birds and bats annually by US wind turbines is a case in point, and when the impacts are considered in the context of the minimal energy produced via these «renewable» technologies, the damage is especially egregious.

They promote spending $ 22 billion just in federal money during FY - 2014 on climate change studies; costly solar projects of every description; wind turbines that blight scenic vistas and slaughter millions of birds and bats annually, while wind energy developers are exempted from endangered species and other environmental laws that apply to all other industries; and ethanol programs that require millions of acres of farmland and vast quantities of water, fertilizer, pesticides and fossil fuel energy to produce a gasoline additive that reduces mileage, harms engines, drives up food prices... and increases CO2 emissions.

o Chopping up or frying millions of birds and bats who encounter wind or solar farms.

Harm down to nature by the destruction of tropical rain forests to grow biofuel crops and to the thousands if not millions of birds and bats killed by Wind Turbines.

Wind turbine installations butcher millions of birds and bats annually, but are exempt from Endangered Species Act fines and penalties.

Bird lovers have long criticized the number of birds and bats killed by wind turbines and the proposition of humongous facilities makes conservation groups nervous.

«Each year the slaughter to millions and millions of birds and bats is being concealed by the wind industry and America's Interior Department.»

~ PETA convinced Mobil, Texaco, Pennzoil, Shell, and other oil companies to cover their exhaust stacks after showing how millions of birds and bats became trapped in the shafts and were burned alive.

Take advantage of the Halloween hysteria to teach students the different characteristics of birds and bats with an Interactive Read Aloud of Stellaluna by Janell Cannon.

Now a doctoral student in biodiversity management at the U.K.'s University of Kent, he is cataloging Iwokrama's iconic and bizarre species, including jaguars, giant anteaters, anacondas, and scads of birds and bats.

«I unexpectedly found the creatures — all manner of birds and bats — washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania.

A suite of studies are addressing the distribution of birds and bats on the Outer Continental Shelf.

Ecologists can reveal the frequency of bird and bat deaths in wind turbines, the traffic of birds around airports and the potential for distribution of disease and disease vectors.

We've seen the reports of turbines catching fire and the reports of bird and bat kills.

A recent National Wind Coordinating Committee (NWCC) review of peer - reviewed research found evidence of bird and bat deaths from collisions with wind turbines and due to changes in air pressure caused by the spinning turbines, as well as from habitat disruption.

Wildlife expert Jim Wiegand has documented how areas searched under wind turbines are still confined to 200 - foot radiuses, even though modern monster turbines catapult 80 % of bird and bat carcasses much further.

Providence, R.I. — September 18, 2017 — Deepwater Wind is partnering with researchers from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the University of Rhode Island (URI) and the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst to assist in their studies of bird and bat activity off the Atlantic Coast.

I happen to have evidence that shows over 90 % of bird and bats smashed by turbine blades fall past the outer reach of turbine blade tips.

Not exact matches

The Bible «tells» us that bats are birds, hares chew the cud, dead dove's blood cures leprosy, and all sorts of other wacky stuff.

«that he thought that bats were birds» ---------- I know, right!?!? And he had the audacity to speak to a group of people and called them «men» when He knew full well that there were women and children in theAnd he had the audacity to speak to a group of people and called them «men» when He knew full well that there were women and children in theand called them «men» when He knew full well that there were women and children in theand children in there!

Speaking of the Word, and birds, Theo: did you know that your god, you know — created everything, all the universe, the people, the animals, etc, — was sooooooooo stupid, that he thought that bats were birds!

Topher, I can certainly prove that Bats aren't birds, rabbits don't chew cud, insects don't have 4 legs, the mustard seed is not the smallest of all seeds, there is no firmament, and that the earth was not formed before the sun.

The giants swing their triple arms or poise, frozen like hazmat signs, on every hill: alien prayer wheels of unending noise or monuments to birds and bats they kill; Shivas, whose dance preserves us and destroys a landscape that no longer can stand still.

Flying insects, birds, and bats have all evolved the capacity of flight independently; they have thus «converged» on this useful trait.

No, they do so based on a book of fairy tales where a man lives in a fish's gut for three days, where angles of death come and play in egypt and where bats are birds.

And so, Stellaluna lived with the chickens that were to follow, and she was therefore named Stellaluna after the children's book about a fruit bat who is taken in by a family of birds, and comes to believe herself one (before eventually finding her way back to her family and all the other batAnd so, Stellaluna lived with the chickens that were to follow, and she was therefore named Stellaluna after the children's book about a fruit bat who is taken in by a family of birds, and comes to believe herself one (before eventually finding her way back to her family and all the other batand she was therefore named Stellaluna after the children's book about a fruit bat who is taken in by a family of birds, and comes to believe herself one (before eventually finding her way back to her family and all the other batand comes to believe herself one (before eventually finding her way back to her family and all the other batand all the other bats).

Go apple picking Jump in a pile of leaves Make some autumn art Collect colourful fall leaves Collect seeds from plants in the garden Plant bulbs for next spring Make a bird feeder Make leaf prints Make pumpkin playdough Create an Autumn poem Go looking for spider webs Make a nature table with your Autumn finds Bake an apple pie Carve your own pumpkin Make Autumn sun catchers Go on a bat watch at dusk Make toffee apples Set up a scavenger hunt Collect sycamore seeds Grab an umbrella and go singing in the rain Throw a Halloween party Make an autumn wreath for your door Make a bug hotel Listen to the sound of leaves crunching under your feet Collect conkers Collect pinecones Collect twigs Make hot chocolate Draw or paint some autumn still life Attend harvest festival Make apple crisps / chips Remember what you're thankful for Take pictures of all the different colours you can find in a woodland Make leaf rubbings Go stargazing Have an autumn picnic Look for a full moon Go trick or treating Try apple bobbing Make apple sauce Fly a kite Make a windsock Dry orange slices Roast pumpkin seeds Make Halloween biscuits Make a rain catcher Build an indoor fort Collect acorns Donate old woollens and coats to a charity Help clear leaves from the lawn

An example of convergent evolution is the similar nature of the flight / wings of insects, birds, pterosaurs, and bats.

Previous studies have determined that higher affluence is frequently associated with more biological diversity across species of plants, birds, bats, and lizards — a phenomenon coined the «luxury effect.»

Even getting rid of disease - carrying mosquitoes might have consequences: Bats, birds and other critters that eat insects could lose a valuable food supply.

Worldwide, such facilities have been responsible for the deaths of 140,000 to 328,000 birds and 500,000 to 1.6 million bats, raising questions about their effects on population sustainability.

A state of suppressed physiological activity is known as torpor, and a handful of mice, bats, and birds employ it on a daily basis.

Now scientists have found the first evidence of stunts that would make comic book illustrators proud: A species of bat pursues and sinks its teeth into unsuspecting birds in midair.

And if one species of bat can hunt on the wing, it could be happening wherever large bats and migratory birds overlAnd if one species of bat can hunt on the wing, it could be happening wherever large bats and migratory birds overland migratory birds overlap.

Since the bats hunt by night and the birds only roost by day, the capture must happen mid-flight, they argue in the 7 August issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Kunz is involved in the emerging field of aeroecology, which focuses on how airborne organisms — birds, bats, arthropods and microbes — depend on the support of the lower atmosphere that is closest to the earth's surface or aerosphere.