Is offshore wind killing whales? The short answer is “no,” qualified by “not really…”
Category: Offshore wind
The many dimensions of Infrasound
The term “Infrasound” is a bit of an anthropocentric misnomer; it refers to sound frequencies below human ability to auditorily distinguish. This doesn’t mean that humans can’t perceive infrasound, it’s just that distinct sounds below a certain frequency may be sensed as beats or flutters.
Negative impacts of negative pressure
Organisms are built to handle compression – positive pressure. But decompression. or “negative barotrauma,” is another matter.
Birds “hear” the weather.
How do migrating birds fly so far, so fast?
It is through their meteorological skills that blackpoll warblers can use 200mph (320kph) tailwinds to hurl their tiny little bodies 3.500 km (2,175 miles) over open ocean!
Adaptive Management during the hottest week on record.
The expansion of a fossil-fueled global economy over the last century has driven an historically unprecedented growth in global prosperity, technological advancement, and improvement in life-quality for a plurality of our planet’s human inhabitants. Unfortunately this phenomenon has falsely correlated…
Were New Jersey strandings associated with offshore wind surveys?
Cluster of whale strandings concurrent with offshore wind surveys raises some difficult issues.
What are we asking for?
When talking about de-carbonizing our future, “Responsible Use of Energy” should be in the first paragraph – before we whittle away at what constitutes ‘responsible’ ways of generating that energy.
A thick week in DC – September 2022
It was nice seeing the Capitol Building free of banners, beards, and bombs – although January 6 did leave a lot of scars…
Off to ‘polish the marble’ in DC
While the trumpets and banner-waving around the IRA (“Build Back Better Lite”) highlights all sorts of climate actions and infrastructure support for clean energy systems, buried in the bowels of the bill are a few short clauses that entirely destroy the climate effectiveness of the effort…