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continue. Here we are in August, and the weather is hot, in
fact in the desert, a drill hot in August. But nonetheless the medium
against every broadcast with a weather report, and no matter where it is,
whether it's David mu or Lesterhold, whatever it is, all they talk about
is weather. And we do know that Al Gore left the vice presidency more
or less a pro man, having lost a George Bush in twenty oh one
by one or two electoral votes, despite the efforts of Democrats to have the
elector switch, which today's a crime, but that's a different issue. Now
he's a multi zillionaire because he hooked onto inconvenient truths about the weather and about
the climate. And now we know that windmills and solar panels are the key
to human life, that if you don't have a windmill, if you don't
have a solar panel, you're all going to die. Even though Ford Motor
Company has lost something like seven billion dollars on evs and making money unleted gasoline
internal combustion engines, we do know lots of money is in green in fact,
lots of moneys in the gold. Now we find out that off the
coast of the United States there's large numbers of whales and other mammals washing up
on shore and the windmills of Indiana and Kansas there are literally billions of birds
that are killed every year, which has the unintended consequences of hurting crops and
all the mosquitoes, etc. A man who's written about this is Craig Rocker,
President of Sea Fact. Craig Rocker, Welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show.
And first of all, Craig, can you tell the American people in
general, where is the so called environmental movement today and what part of it
is true and what part of it is false. Well, I would honestly
say that, and thank you for having me on the show. Bill.
I would say that there are kind of a bifurcation. That's a big word,
but there's a split in the environmental movement today. You have those who
are the mainstream, the big boys, the environmental defense funds, the green
pieces, Sierra Clubs, those organizations. When it comes to some of the
environmental impacts of this, particularly renewable energy, they're all crickets. You can
hear nothing. And that's probably because a lot of these groups receive big dollars
from those who are putting in solar and wind farms. On the other hand,
those on the grass roots level actually are concerned about these things and are
in dismay over the direction that's of these big groups are doing. Because as
evidence is coming out that wind farms are chopping up birds and bats, endangered
eagles and the like, and what you know, the offshore wind is possibly
harming whales and dolphins and other marine mammals. You know, this is actually
making this split in the environmental movement more apparent, and I think for moving
forward, it's going to be very interesting to see what actually happens there.
Well, what's going to happen is we're going to continue. I'm kind of
waiting for the Sierra Club to go after Greta Thunberg and others to eat their
own because one cannot imagine talk about the commercial fishermen off the east coast of
this great country of ours that are being chased out of business with these with
these windmills in the middle of the ocean. It hurts the views, which
those are Motha's Vineyard don't like. But nonetheless, what is the damage to
the marine life which you would think the environmentalists would be all off about.
The whales are washing up on shore, there's sonar abilities are being disrupted.
I can't imagine how many millions of fish are being being killed and how many
billions of birds are being filled killed. But why do you think that the
environmental movement ignores the damage done by the environmental movement. Well, there's actually
an article written by this in a Los Angeles newspaper recently that they say,
maybe some species you may have to be eliminated for the greater cause of climate.
And what you're seeing right now as a BIDE administration has this program to
put thirty thousand megawatts of offshore energy in place by twenty thirty, and no
doubt they're listening to the likes of AOC who said, we have only until
twenty thirty until the end happens. But they're going to be putting in one
thousand, five hundred gigantic wind turbines about fifteen to thirty miles off of our
coast. Well, these are right in the lanes of a number oft migrating
whales up and down the East coast, and the noise and vibrations many are
starting the wink to why we're having an unprecedented number of whales beaching themselves,
some say upwards of four hundred percent since twenty sixteen, really when they started
the sonar blasting and mapping of the ocean floor to put them in, and
today they're doing a pile driving where they use these loud hydraulic hammers to put
them in. But even once they're up, the size of these structures and
the turbulence that they can create when there's windy conditions can literally put an impenetrable
wall, hurting the sonar activity. Because of course these are marine mammals that
get their direction from sonar, and this could be three hundred and sixty five
days a year, you know, twenty four to seven where they're actually having
their direction messed up with and they really aren't doing any studies to do this.
If this was an oil platform, believe they would be out there.
So as far as the wind turbines, when I think of a wind turbine,
I don't see a huge structure. Can you describe the size one thousand,
five hundred additional wind turbines killing millions of mammals and also billions of birds?
What are the size of each one of these things? How big are
they? They're varying in size, but generally range from about six hundred feet
in the air to about seven hundred and fifty or eight hundred feet in the
air to their motor. When you include their blade, which is quite huge,
you're looking at over a thousand feet. Now, to put that in
perspective, the Washington Monument is only about five hundred and fifty feet tall,
So these are about, you know, just about double the size. When
you include the turbine and the spinning portion together, they're massive, and in
fact, the biggest ones in the world. They're supposed to be put in
off of Virginia, and that's why we and some of our allies are going
to try and sue to stop that, so they at least do a proper
environmental impact statement before they PLoP these things down right in the middle of where
you have. You know, some of these marine mammals are very threatened.
You have the right whale. It's not called right because of its political affiliation.
I guess whale hunters thought it was right for blubber and oil back in
the eighteen hundreds. But the right whale, there's only three hundred and fifty
of them left. They're critically endangered species, and nobody seems to care.
On the environmental movement. Why can you give me the reason? Because I
would think Greta Thunberg would attach herself to one of these wind turbines, maybe
throw tomato soup at it. Well. Why does the environmental movement New York
Times, Washington Post ignore the damage caused by environmentalists to the environment. Why
does the media ignore it? I would say twofold reason for that. I
would say number one is a lot of them are on the take to get
money from the renewable energy industry. It's big business. There's a lot of
money to be had in this thing. The second reason is because they are
bought and sold on the idea that the world's going to explode and come to
an end, despite the mounting evidence that climate hype is closely exaggerated, if
not completely fabricated in a lot of cases with some of the claims they make,
and they feel that the ends justify the means, you know, I
mean, Greta Thunberg actually made a prediction back in twenty eighteen the world would
end in five years on Twitter, and she just took that down because the
five years has come and went, and actually, there's life goes on.
It's not a whole lot different. And of course others have made such claims
as well, and the dates have come and gone. They just moved the
dates up, and it's almost like people forget that. They keep car crying
apocalypse and it has yet to emerge. And what is the value of wind
turbines when it comes to the production of clean electricity? By the way,
nuclear power plants are much more efficient, put many more people to work,
and has no environmental damage. You take natural gas and fracking puts to work
hundreds of thousands of middle class Americans. It's the cleanest source of energy this
side of nuclear power. Natural gas has been a revolution as far as cleaning
up the environment. Well, how much electricity are we talking about? Of
course, the cost of that is the natural world as being destroyed by the
environmentalist. But any idea how much electricity is actually produced by these wind turbines.
It depends where you are in the country. Some states that could be
as high as anywhere from ten to twenty five percent. In those are places
that are aggressive, other places much lower, but they do pay an enormous
cost for that, as do nations that go heavily into wind power. You
take like Denmark, for example, the citizens there paying about thirty five cents
a killowatt hour. It's approaching forty cents a kilowatt hour. By contrast,
Americans pay about ten to twelve cents a killer one hour. So the more
you have renewable energy, the more it jacks up the cost. Plus it
de stabilizes the grid because it's intermittent power. It does produce energy when the
wind is blowing, but you need backup and so what winds up happening is
you have these natural gas plants that have to be ready at the you know,
at any moment to crank it up and cover for wind. Wind energy
isn't producing anything, and that cranking up of natural gas actually admits a lot
of CO two. So even though they're putting this in and allegedly try and
lower CO two emissions, in truth, it's hardly limiting them at all because
they actually wind up, yeah, you know, having the backup power,
and that backup power winds up having to spew more CO two out in order
to cover wind's butt. And before we talk about evs and solar panels,
is there an idea among the so called the smart ones, you know,
the educated ones, the ones who use the proper prefects this pronouns those who
run our society. Any apprehension at this point in August of twenty twenty three,
relative to these wind turbines, that we're on the wrong track. We
got to stop doing this because it is being funded by the federal government.
The Green New Deal is being funded through the Inflation Protection Act, both of
which are misnomers. Is there any apprehension that this has got to change,
that we're on the wrong course, that we're killing mammals, we're killing birds,
where changing the environment, that our movement is causing damage to the environment,
we're hurting what we're seeking to help. Is there any idea that the
gretted Thunbergs and the Sierra Clubs and the al Gore types do they now know
they're on the wrong track. Well, there have been some, and I
point out people like Michael Schellenberger, who was once charge of there Obama putting
in the Green New Deal. He's now come out and done in about face.
Meredith Anglin, she's written a book now and she is understanding renewals aren't
doing that. You have Steve coon In and others who have written best sellers
it used to be on the left and now on the right saying that you
know, much of the climate hype is overblown, but this push for renewables
is actually bad news for the environment. But by and large, most of
the utilities and the public utilities commissions and the industry is seeing dollar signs.
They don't nobody's really managing the grid in a strategic fashion because thunder of dollars
are out there and you get certain perks for putting this in and if people
have to in their covered because the ratepayers pick up the tab. So as
long as the businesses are profiting, it's not really a market situation. You
have no choice but to get the energy from where you're getting it in most
cases, and they're making money at it. So no, they aren't really
taking charge of the grid. And many experts feel our grid is poised to
collapse unless somebody starts taking charge. You should be the job of Burt or
Nook some of these federal agencies. But there, you know, they just
seem to be blinded to everything is looked for with climate change lenses nowadays,
Creig Rucker. It's an old principle of government that when you fund something,
you get more of it. When you tax something, you get less of
it. And because of what Joe Biden has done with giving out money to
wind turbines and solar panels, you get more of it irrespect of the value
it brings to the environment. Now, lastly, on electric vehicles, a
guy named Farley runs a Ford motor company. He admits they lose every year
billions and billions of dollars in creating these electric vehicles without their power stations without
their power grid to support it, and we have no way of getting rid
of literally billions of individual solar panels once their use has been completed. Tell
the American people about solar panels and how much electricity they produce and what happens
when this one doesn't shine and the wind done blow so well, solar energy
one to three percent of our electricity production. They're very non efficient. They
have not shown themselves ready for prime time. Very disturbing about them is well,
first, they can only be used in limited places where it is a
lot of sunshine generally speaking, but they actually are composed of minerals that are
rare earth, minerals that have to be mined in other countries that don't have
the pollution standards nor the human rights standards. We get a lot of the
materials from the Congo, for example, where they use child labor, or
from China, which seems to have a corner on the market for the rare
earth that we use for solar panels, and they use weaker labor slave labor
in order to get it. And of course there are strategic enemy so by
going solar, we actually have serious national security interests that are at stake here
and really from our perspective, it's a you know, has not shown itself
ready for prime time and is just an energy source that I think again taps
of the federal dollars, nobody would be pursuing. When you fund bad policy,
you get more of it. I had a guest on two months ago
that talked about what happens to Congolese boys and girls who go into the mines
in order to with their bare hands, often use their fingertips to pick up
rare earth minerals, putting on their backpacks and then marching out of the mines
twelve hours a day, six days a week. And the communist Red Chinese
have bought off the leadership of the Congo with millions of dollars, taking billions,
and those rare earth minerals make their way to the coast, make their
way then to China, then they come into the solar panels we now use.
I could not imagine if America had elementary age children five six and seven
years old reporting to mines every day in West Virginia, digging with their fingers
for earth minerals. How long that would last? But as long as as
long as it is a black kid in the Congo. The liberals don't care,
do they no, And in fact, they get excellent ESG scores,
that's Environmental Social Governance scores. The companies that are involved in redewable energy are
looked at as you know, captains of industry and you know, the ones
that we ought to be following. It's it's actually kind of infuriating. We've
actually confronted Black Rock and Vanguard at some of their shareholder meetings about this,
trying to put in a resolution to say, hey, we won't do business
with companies that are involved themselves in these sorts of things, and they've basically
shot it down every time. So you know, I and you know they're
very far left, and they don't seem to really care about human rights or
the environment when it really comes down to it. They care about pursuing big
government policies, policies that empower China at our expense and pollute the environment.
It'd be interesting if Obama and Oprah Winfrey would leave their Martha Vineyards mansions and
take up the calls of black kids in Congo being killed to mind these rare
earth minerals to benefit the communist red Chinese. Wouldn't that be interesting if Oprah,
Winfrey and Michelle cared about the black kids being killed in the Congo,
wouldn't that be good? Well said yeah. And of course they're very involved
in trying to shut down wood bared pizza ovens and telling us we have to
get rid of gas stoves, barbecue grills. Yeah, that's the problem,
things that work. And I suspect that they don't actually believe any of these
regulations apply to them. Lastly, we have about twenty seconds remaining. Craig
ruck or what is your website if any of people want to become informed and
not robots? Yes it is. You can reach us at CFaCT dot org.
Thatt c fact dot rg. Craig Rucker, great review, Thank you
very much for the information. Thank you, thanks for having me on.
God bless you. All Right, let's continue with more. You're being warned,
you're being educated. What will you do about it? Bill Cunningham,
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