"Save the Whales" was the rallying cry of Greenpeace and other environmental extremists in the 1970s and 1980s, and it might be time for them to pull it out of the attic, dust it off, and use it again. Since 2016, 204 humpback whales have died off the east coast of the United States, most of them in the area of New Jersey to Massachusetts and North Carolina to Virginia. This number is far from norms in numbers, and the clustering is unusual. Many of the whales have been killed by boat strikes, but that still doesn't explain why the number of humpback whale deaths jumped by over 100% from 2015 to 2016.

There are several moving parts here. First, this is not the product of the imagination. The number of humpback whale deaths has skyrocketed since 2016. //

What these two pieces of data have in common is that 1) the first offshore wind farm went into operation in 2016, and 2) there are two wind farms in operation, one off of Cape Henry, VA, and another off Block Island, RI.

If you were a detective, you might call this a clue. //

You'd think the same environmental movement that put national security at risk by forcing the end of sonar testing by US submarines would be up in arms. But you'd be wrong.

The bottom line is that a huge, multi-billion dollar gift is at stake, and government, industry, and their fluffers in the media all know that if offshore wind farms are associated with the kill off of whales and other marine mammals, that industry is dead. This is the same behavior that led to the environmentalists shutting down nuclear power in Germany and replacing it with coal-burning generators.