Court clears Navy to use sonar deemed risky to whales

[Bonobo]

You mean it's not just evil Japanese whalers!?

It's US!? For self-defense?


SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- The Navy can use high-power sonar during exercises off the Southern California coast, despite the technology's threat to whales and other marine mammals, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

National security interests outweigh the possible harm to marine life, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determined in overturning a judge's order banning the practice

"The public does indeed have a very considerable interest in preserving our natural environment and especially relatively scarce whales," Judge Andrew Kleinfeld wrote for the majority. "But it also has an interest in national defense. We are currently engaged in war, in two countries."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/08/31/navy.whales.ap/index.html

[Mythsaje]

1. "At war in two countries."

Two DESERT countries. What, they're defending us from those insidious long-distance swimming insurgent bombers?

Do you have to be a moron to be a judge these days?

[pushycat]

2. I thought Navy sonar were banned from the CA coast:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20150817/

How did the national defense situation change so quickly since Aug 6, 2007?
This is a bad decision by that judge...what a joke of a decision.

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/n/navysonar.htm

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. America declares war on Aqua Man, story at 11, dolphins do in

fact bite side scan sonar cables. I guess they crave the taste of plastic, aluminum and copper. Good grief.

[papau]

4. high-power sonar during exercises off the Southern California coast" - two countries at war with us?

Which two countries are at war with us and how many attack submarines do they have in total and how many of those can not be found by current means - making this test necessary?

There must be a tough entrance test to get in the pool of eligible persons for a GOP appointment to the bench.

[mod mom]

5. UFB!!!!