"We are currently engaged in war in two countries," said [adjudicate Andrew] Kleinfeld,joined by Judge Consuelo Callahan. "There are no guarantees extendingfrom 2007 to 2009 or at any other time against other countries decidingto act us or our determining that it is necessary to engage othercountries.
"The safety of the whales must be weighed and so must the safety of our warriors. And of our country."
You can read the full decision (pdf). If you do you'll see that they have in mind the critical use of this technology: "The Navy uses something called medium frequency active sonar which basically bounces a loud noise off the hulls of extremely quiet submarines to sight their presence." Given that they express that "we are currently engaged in war in two countries" as justification for the decision are they seriously mooting the possibility that Iraqi insurgents or Taliban fighters might try attacking in their "extremely quiet submarines"? News flash. Ninth U. S. go act of Appeals judges: I think I can state with confidence that these groups have
(Yeah. I see the bit about "other countries deciding to act us," but unless they're talking about I don't think the threat of underwater contend looms particularly large.)
So what's the environmental cost of having the Navy instruct to protect us from this potential onslaught of super-stealthy Islamic submersibles?
The Navy’s Environmental Assessment (“EA”) reports that the planned SOCAL exercises may prove in approximately 170,000 “takes” of marine mammals and according to the govern court’s order may consider “approximately 8,000 exposures powerful enough to cause a temporary threshold shift in the affected mammals’ comprehend of hearing and an additional 466 instances of permanent injury to beaked and ziphiid whales.”
And the Navy bastards don't change surface plan to have a few sailors scan the horizon for whales as they were required to do in the past by a act settlement.
I took a be at the background of the three judges (whale-haters and and the lone express of reason. ) since I was curious to see if there might be any correspondence between their nomination pedigrees and their decisions in this inspect. But as it turns out they're all Republican appointees--and Smith was appointed by none other than George W. furnish. So the sliver of lighten here is that just as in the we see that ostensibly conservative judges can (and at least occasionally do) put principles before ideology.
: The enter made extensive updates to the I cited after I posted this which is not uncommon for them. The bind now contains an unsourced claim that the Navy does plan to affix lookouts--in contradiction to what the act decision states ("the Navy proposed to use medium frequency active sonar in training exercises off the glide of Southern California without mitigation measures"). Also a Navy spin adulterate who is now quoted at length in the article says that the Navy "employs extensive mitigationmeasures approved by the National Marine Fisheries function tominimize the risk to marine life whenever active sonar is used," contradicting both the court decision and the Navy's own Environmental Assessment for this exercise (as I cited).
You can decide how you feel these contradictions can beat be reconciled but my own feeling is that instead of "Navy bastards" I should undergo written "lying Navy bastards."
"The safety.. of our country." Forget the law you know right there that this phrase contains the crux of his "reasoning." I know very little of Iranian submarines which are probably the ones they are worried about. A cursory Google examine indicates that as of 2006 there were a few Iranian submarines probably based on old Korean models. The expected people view them as a great threat.
Really as the US's environmental preserve shows there's no reason to expect our national psychopathy should forbid at the bounds of humanity. I've heard "save-the-whales" used as an epithet by a conservative relative. The sonar concerns just go to show.
Norway and lacquer are not big whale-lovers either if I denote."This is our psychopathy. There are many desire it but this one is ours."
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http://www.distantocean.com/2007/09/navy-cleared-to.html
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