re: Why do you think the whales are dying near the new windmills in the NE?

The vaccine

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Over the weekend, there was a rather large protest in New Jersey over the whale deaths. The protesters were calling for a stop to offshore wind development in the area. Is there a connection between whale deaths and offshore wind?

Experts say there isn't.

"At this point, there's no evidence to support speculation that noise generated from wind development surveys could potentially cause mortality of whales," Kim Damon-Randall, director of the NOAA Fisheries Office of Protected Resources, told WNYC.

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Update on Strandings of Large Whales along the East Coast
Humpback Whales
To date, sixteen humpback whales have stranded along the Atlantic coast this winter. These
strandings are part of the Humpback Whale Unusual Mortality Event (UME) declared by the
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) that began in 2016. Forty percent of the whales that
could be examined at necropsy (some were inaccessible floating at sea) showed evidence of ship
strike or entanglement. Although these strandings have generated media interest and public scrutiny,
humpback whale strandings are not new (Wiley et al. 1995) nor are they unique to the U.S. Atlantic
coast (Giardino et al. 2022). In fact, ten or more humpback whales have stranded each year during
the UME, with a high of 34 in 2017. As the Gulf of Maine stock of humpback whales continues to
grow, more young animals are choosing to overwinter along the Atlantic coast where they are
vulnerable to being struck by ships and becoming entangled in fishing gear. NMFS recently hosted a
media briefing on the recent East Coast whale strandings and the recording and transcript of that
briefing are available here together with a Q&A webpage.
Despite several reports in the media, there is no evidence to link these strandings to offshore wind
energy development. For more information on offshore energy development and whales, please see
this fact sheet produced by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

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Marine Mammal Commission

Good find internet sleuth. That article has a tinge of environmentalism, but it’s worth noting that these particular whales had bellies full of plastic garbage and fishing nets. Apparently, this is becoming common. No denying the that the oceans are full of garbage.

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it has now been revealed that the most likely cause of death was acute cardiovascular failure, the contents of their stomachs was alarming, to say the least. Among the squid beaks and fish parts was a whole lot of plastic

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These ones, however, had accidentally eaten a surprising amount of exceedingly strange stuff: a plastic car part, bucket parts, and perhaps the strangest of all, a fishing net that was almost 50 feet long

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Probably some frequency omitted from the vibration of the windmills that’s driving them crazy

Addressing the issue starts with gathering and presenting facts, not using false information, but seeing as how we live in a world where people refuse to believe facts because their political feelings are stronger, that may be hard to do. Even if an overarching thing is true, justifying it with false information will bring into question the absolute truth.

This is probably going to end the same way all the law suits did from wind farm neighbors claiming the cows were going insane from turbine vibrations and noise.

it is the sound of the windmills - the turbines cause cancer, according to our former president - maybe the sound underwater causes turbo cancer?

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Probably the chemicals in all the Chinese paint on the towers that are in the water.

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you'll have a whale of a time proving that

Well those are dead because they’re on land

Made me reminisce of a classic

OMG Jay! What is that thing? It's a baby whale bro!!

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