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From the web site Save Loch Ness

Please help save Loch Ness and the Great Glen the world’s most famous loch and Glen.

The Highland and national planning systems fail to protect the World’s most famous loch and Glen.

Loch Ness is under threat from over 500 wind turbines approved and in the planning stage within a 22 mile radius (Daily Mail 28/1/2015). Loch Ness and the Great Glen are now prime targets for windfarm developers. There are calls to classify Loch Ness and the Great Glen a World Heritage Site because of their international importance. They are Scotland’s second most popular tourist draw. Yet, environmental destruction could threaten some of the Highland’s most scenic areas.

Loch Ness and environs and the Great Glen are under threat as never before from the attention of wind farm companies. You can make a difference by signing a petition to the Scottish Parliament…

Matt Canavan: for “Greens”, hypocrisy is the new “black”.

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Queensland National’s Senator, Matt Canavan gets it. An economist by trade, having worked for the Productivity Commission, he’s got a head for facts and figures. Matt’s reasoned musings have graced the pages of STT a couple times:

Senator Matt Canavan: mandatory RET is an Enormous Wind Industry Protection Racket

Senator Matt Canavan: Australia’s RET Policy: “Robin Hood visits Bizarro World”

Now, he’s on fire with this brilliant speech, delivered in the Senate, that canes the so-called “Greens” for their hair-brained hypocrisy; and thoroughly belts the infantile nonsense of wind power.

STT commends it; and, because, common sense rarely needs an advocate, has nothing further to add.

THE SENATE PROOF MOTIONS
Coal Seam Gas
SPEECH
Thursday, 19 March 2015

Senator CANAVAN (Queensland) (17:45): It is a great honour to stand up in unity with so many other senators in this chamber…

U.S. and Chilean researchers join to study wind turbine vibration, dampen unwanted noise.

Virginia Tech — March 30, 2015

Newswise — Wind turbines provide clean, abundant energy and bolster America’s power grid. But across the world people are banding together to fight wind farms, blaming noise for interrupted sleep and a host of health problems.

Scientists lack sufficient understanding of wind turbines’ noise and best ways to mitigate the effects, says Jorge Arenas, a faculty member in the Universidad Austral de Chile’s College of Engineering Sciences and director of its Institute of Acoustics.

Noise is annoying and, worse, linked to health problems, many researchers say. A newspaper in the U.K. captures the sensation: “Residents near some wind farms have likened the noise to a cement-mixer or a shoe stuck in a tumble-dryer,” writes energy editor Emily Gosden in a story in The Telegraph.
“The noise from wind turbines is not…

And then the hammer came down …

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Back in November 2013, we reported on the orders made by a Court in Falmouth, Massachusetts that pulled to a halt the operation of a couple of giant fans that have been driving townspeople nuts since they kicked into gear over 5 years ago (see our post here).

We’ve also reported on Barry Funfar, a former Marine whose own country has forsaken him and his family, by aiding and abetting the local wind power outfit to ride roughshod over the rules; and decent Americans, like Barry (see our post here).

Here’s an update from Frank Haggerty of the Falmouth Patch.

Falmouth Wind Turbine Lawsuit Explanation: Town of Falmouth Avoided Special Permit Bylaw 240-166
Frank Haggerty
Falmouth Patch
20 March 2015

The Town of Falmouth placed two massive commercial wind turbines at the Falmouth waste water treatment plant. The two turbines…

Donna Rachel Edmunds — Breitbart.com — March 25, 2015

In the nearly two years since John Cook and his colleagues published their ’97 percent’ paper claiming a scientific consensus on climate change, the term ’97 percent’ has become something of a mantra for global warming advocates. President Obama tweeted “Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: #climate change is real, man-made and dangerous.” The Guardian runs a regular column headed “Climate Consensus – the 97%” (regular contributors include co-authors of the original paper).

The paper, published by the Institute of Physic’s IOPScience has been downloaded over 300,000 times and was voted the best 2013 paper in Environmental Research Letters. But does the 97 percent claim stack up? (h/t Bishop Hill)

Richard Tol, Professor of Economics at the University of Sussex and the Professor of the Economics of Climate Change at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, says no. He has penned a blog, since…

The Climate Change Discussion Paper public town hall in Guelph will be held from 6 — 8 p.m. March 18 at the University of Guelph Arboretum on College Avenue East.

Tom Harris — Guelph Mercury — March 17, 2015

On Wednesday, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment is leading a town-hall meeting in Guelph to gather public input on their Climate Change Discussion Paper 2015.

After attending a similar event in Ottawa, I write to alert Guelph residents to the many basic science mistakes to which you will soon be subjected.

Ministry of the Environment spokesperson Karen Clark set the tone by starting her talk in Ottawa by stating, “Scientists around the world agree that climate change is happening,” a statement as meaningful as “water is wet.”

Carleton University earth sciences professor Tim Patterson explains, “It’s obvious that climate is and always has been variable. In fact, the only constant…