It’s beginning to look as if environuts are actually looking for environmental initiatives that harm national security. Yesterday I mentioned the Clintonista federal judge in California who decided that temporary whale discomfort is worth our using Cold War radar for the next 40 years. Today we find that huge onshore and offshore wind farms pretty much cancel out defense radar in Great Britain. That’s a two-fer for the enviros. I’m including the following excerpt just to use the air marshal’s name:
Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, the Chief of the Defence Staff, has given a firm direction that radar surveillance capability must not be degraded.
No word yet from his attache, Sir Truss Pommel.
UPDATE: I used the term Great Britain above, which turns out to have been the correct one in this instance. United Kingdom also would have been correct. But if the wind farms had been located off Northern Ireland’s coast, for instance, it would have been incorrect to say they were in Great Britain, but correct to say they were in the United Kingdom. Confusing? Here’s an explanation.
