filed:  May 10, 2024 • Scotland
More than 1 million trees cut down for wind turbines last year, 17 million over 24 years
Credit:  "Anger as 17 million trees chopped down in SNP's Scotland to clear way for wind farms" | By David Walker, Politics reporter | 9 MAY 2024 | scottishdailyexpress.co.uk ~~
 

A Scottish Government quango has commissioned the destruction of more than 17 million trees in the last 24 years in order to build wind farms on public land.

The Scottish Government has been blasted after it was revealed that more than one million trees have been chopped down on publicly owned land in just a year to make way for wind farms. This mass cutting down of trees came despite the SNP and Scottish Greens claiming environmental credentials.

Communities in rural Scotland have complained about massive turbines blighting their landscapes, with even more planned in areas such as Aberdeenshire and Moray. And now it has been revealed that a SNP quango is getting rid of healthy trees in order to make space for them.

According to new statistics, more than one million trees were chopped down on public land, which is the equivalent to 2,700 per day. Critics described this as “appalling” and warned that the rising number of wind farm developments are causing “irreparable damage” to the countryside.

https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/05/10/more-than-1-million-trees-cut-down-for-wind-turbines-last-year-17-million-over-24-years/

It depends on how much grease they have to put in Newsom's back pocket.

Beverage company that promotes “environmental sustainability” found to be among California’s top sprayers of PARAQUAT in 2021
05/02/2024 / By Ava Grace



A beverage company that purportedly touts its “sustainability initiatives” has been found to be among California’s top sprayers of the toxic weed killer paraquat for the year 2021, according to a new analysis.

The analysis published by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) found that The Wonderful Company (TWC) was the Golden State’s second-largest paraquat sprayer. TWC sprayed almost 57,000 pounds of the weed killer on its fields, accounting for over 13 percent of the state’s paraquat use. Only the J.G. Boswell Company used more paraquat in the state, spraying more than 58,000 pounds.

The analysis, which drew data from the California Department of Pesticide Regulation and county agriculture commissioners, also found that both TWC and J.G. Boswell sprayed 27 percent of all the paraquat used in California. It ultimately found that just 10 farms and companies – including TWC and J.G. Boswell – sprayed 40 percent of all paraquat used in California in 2021. (Related: EWG study: Economic benefits of paraquat herbicide DO NOT outweigh its health risks.)

TWC – which owns POM pomegranate juice, Fiji Water and other popular brands – has been reportedly recognized for its sustainability initiatives.

https://www.pollution.news/2024-05-02-sustainable-beverage-company-top-paraquat-sprayer-california.html

A More Honest Climate Science? Maybe scientific journals are ready to move past the era of politicized pronouncements
By Marc Morano
May 16, 2024
10:43 am
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-more-honest-climate-science-82f928a0?mod=opinion_lead_pos12&mc_cid=910009ce82

By James Freeman

A plague of our age is the abuse of scientific credentials to advance political ideologies. But maybe there’s hope that establishment scientific journals will now chart a different path. Giving cause for fresh hope is Nature magazine’s publication of a comment by Ulf Büntgen of the University of Cambridge, who writes on the importance of distinguishing scientific discovery from political advocacy:

… I am foremost concerned by an increasing number of climate scientists becoming climate activists, because scholars should not have a priori interests in the outcome of their studies. Like in any academic case, the quest for objectivity must also account for all aspects of global climate change research. While I have no problem with scholars taking public positions on climate issues, I see potential conflicts when scholars use information selectively or over-attribute problems to anthropogenic warming, and thus politicise climate and environmental change. Without self-critique and a diversity of viewpoints, scientists will ultimately harm the credibility of their research and possibly cause a wider public, political and economic backlash.

Likewise, I am worried about activists who pretend to be scientists, as this can be a misleading form of instrumentalization. In fact, there is just a thin line between the use and misuse of scientific certainty and uncertainty, and there is evidence for strategic and selective communication of scientific information for climate action. (Non-)specialist activists often adopt scientific arguments as a source of moral legitimation for their movements, which can be radical and destructive rather than rational and constructive. Unrestricted faith in scientific knowledge is, however, problematic because science is neither entitled to absolute truth nor ethical authority. The notion of science to be explanatory rather than exploratory is a naïve overestimation that can fuel the complex field of global climate change to become a dogmatic ersatz religion for the wider public. It is also utterly irrational if activists ask to “follow the science” if there is no single direction. Again, even a clear-cut case like anthropogenically-induced global climate change does not justify the deviation from long-lasting scientific standards, which have distinguished the academic world from socio-economic and political spheres.

https://www.climatedepot.com/2024/05/16/a-more-honest-climate-science-maybe-scientific-journals-are-ready-to-move-past-the-era-of-politicized-pronouncements/

NOAA’s Latest Climate Data Shows the Global Land Region Temperature Anomaly Peaked in February 2016 Over 8 Years Ago
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Guest essay by Larry Hamlin

The graphs below from the NOAA April 2024 Climate Report  show comparisons of the latest April 2024 Global Land and Ocean average temperature anomaly results compared to all other April months from 1850 to 2024 and all January through April Global Land and Ocean average temperature anomaly results from 1850 to 2024


Unfortunately, NOAA’s latest climate report does not provide comparisons of the April 2024 average temperature anomaly results for all months over time which led to an incomplete and misleading evaluation of the April 2024 outcome.

Fortunately, NOAA’s extensive climate temperature data base provides the information and data needed for making comparisons of April 2024 with all other months with that information and comparison results discussed below.

To provide better visibility of the differences between the results of all monthly measured average temperature anomalies (versus just looking at the month of April) a 30-year period from January 1995 to April 2024 is being used.     

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/17/noaas-latest-climate-data-shows-the-global-land-region-temperature-anomaly-peaked-in-february-2016-over-8-years-ago/