1.0Climate Change Dispatchhttps://climatechangedispatch.comThomas Richardhttps://climatechangedispatch.com/author/ccdeditor/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="wNunl5IqVu"><a href="https://climatechangedispatch.com/green-energy-threatens-amazon-s-wildlife-china-s-rivers/">‘Green’ Energy Threatens Amazon’s Wildlife & China’s Rivers</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://climatechangedispatch.com/green-energy-threatens-amazon-s-wildlife-china-s-rivers/embed/#?secret=wNunl5IqVu" width="600" height="338" title="“‘Green’ Energy Threatens Amazon’s Wildlife & China’s Rivers” — Climate Change Dispatch" data-secret="wNunl5IqVu" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); /* ]]> */ </script> As countries build more hydropower projects, new research warns that massive dams pose an extinction threat to mammals, birds, and tortoises—at least in the Amazon. "We're watching extinction unfold right in front of us," says co-author Carlos Peres, a Brazilian professor at the university's School of Environmental Sciences. "We uncovered astounding local extinction rates," he says, even in areas that belong to a biological reserve and are protected from hunting. --Wendy Koch, National Geographic, 1 July 2015 Ever more evidence is piling in these days to show how one of the oddest anomalies of our time is the astonishing extent to which the dream of "renewable, carbon-free" energy is creating one environmental disaster after another. Like so many of the great crimes of history, this one is being perpetrated by people who imagine they are doing something praiseworthy. In fact doing as much as anyone to destroy the very things they kid themselves they are trying to save. --Christopher Booker, The Sunday Telegraph, 5 July 2015https://climatechangedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/images_pics8_friedman_quote.jpg