Posted on 10/23/2020 12:44:35 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
During Thursday's presidential debate, Donald Trump claimed that wind turbines kill "all the birds."
Wind turbines kill about 234,000 birds a year, whereas cats kill 2.4 billion.
North America may have lost nearly 3 billion birds, a quarter of its total bird population, since 1970.
During Thursday's final 2020 presidential debate, President Donald Trump repeated a claim he's made throughout his presidency: that wind turbines are extremely deadly to birds.
"I know more about wind than you do," Trump told former Vice President Joe Biden. "It's extremely expensive, kills all the birds, it's very intermittent, it's got a lot of problems."
Trump is wrong. Although wind turbines do kill some birds every year, they're not responsible for many avian deaths relative to other causes, and they certainly do not kill "all the birds."
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Catapults, obviously.
And turbines are located in areas where housecats usually are not present... areas that were until recently safe areas for birds in rural wide open fields, plains and desert. Any housecat in those areas would be swiftly caught and gobbled up by wild predators.
Areas where domestic cats are a problem are urban and suburban human-populated areas that aren’t prime territory for solar or wind farms.
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