While Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is known as a popular vacation destination in the north-east US, it has built a reputation for an entirely different reason this year: animal strandings.
Dolphins, whales, sea lions and turtles are turning up in large numbers on the beaches of the famous peninsula in a phenomenon that has experts scrambling to execute more rescue operations than ever before. The cause? Changing tides.
Of course, it couldn’t just be that there are more such animals in the ocean now, could it?
There could be some other mechanism at work too:
https://eu.capecodtimes.com/story/news/environment/2023/01/27/offshore-wind-farms-projects-energy-cape-cod-bay-marthas-vineyard-atlantic-ocean/69697532007/
It’s the same argument regarding immigration.
“More Africans and Middle-Easterners are washing up on our shores, and it’s all our fault for changing the climate”.
Perhaps Obama’s propane tank at his shack in Martha’s Vineyard- the largest privately owned one in the world – has blown up and he’s got the FBI to keep it quiet because he doesn’t want to embarrass the “98% of scientists”…
Nigel Farage knows Elon Musk.
Farage claims to be a friend only the working class, yet look at his links to Nomad Capitalist. And look at Tice having offshore accounts. Then come back to me and say Reform are not globalist elitists.
Changing tides???
WTF, has the moon gone walkabout?
I’m with Jonathan, the bird choppers seem pretty likely as a culprit. If they weren’t a sacred totem of the Greens all their negative baggage would put an end to them straightaway.
Look, it’s only fair that dolphins, whales, birds, bats make sacrifices. Don’t they care about the planet?
Wiki tells me baleen whales and seals don’t get stranded (there might be exception). It’s like the Racey song: some types will and some types won’t, and we don’t know why.
Back when Moby was Dicking around, cetatean strandings were so common to be both a nuisance and a eagerly claimed prize before the blew themselves up. In English law they belong to the Crown.
I’ve read many eco whinings that the vibrations and noise from ships’ engines and propellers upset marine mammals. Wind turbines are also a source of noise and vibrations, and set in a grid pattern these vibrations will be subject to phase cancellation and multiplication, and intermodulation distortion. Possibly some of the resulting sounds resemble other things.
I bet that gives the marine mammals a headache.
The data we have “number of attempted rescues” seems about as good in quality as using say “amount of oil obtained from beachings”
This can make sense depending on where we are on the 19 year tidal cycle and if the tides are close to the highest astronomical tides. That said, it appears the last HAT on Cape Cod was 2016 and the next one due in 2034, so that doesn’t appear to be the cause (if chatGPT is to be believed).
Additionally there is a difference between tides and currents and it could be that currents have changed and the dolphins are swimming closer to land and being caught out by normal tides.
Or it could be the wind farms or even a combination or all of them or maybe none of them and something else.
It really would help if the likes of scientists and journalists stopped reaching for the Global Warming catch all every time something changed in nature.
It wasn’t me.
“Experts say….” at which point you know the Journo is going Full Frontal Narrative Bollox…