President Trump says he "doesn't understand the wind" and believes windmills are bird killers and causes cancer. Though windmills have killed some birds, studies show it's not the leading cause of death — cats have killed more of these winged creatures. And about the turbines causing cancer? It's part of a debunked conspiracy theory found on the internet.
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Donald Trump said that wind turbines kill "all the birds" and told Joe Biden that he knows "more about wind than you do" during a debate with the Democratic presidential challenger. During Thursday evening's debate, the subject turned to climate change and renewable energy. As Biden defended his $2 …
The quotation included in the Occupy Democrats meme was a highly, though not perfectly, accurate presentation of real remarks made by Trump during a …
When a wind farm in Norway made this switch, bird deaths dropped by 70 percent. Could a ridiculously simple change save birds from wind turbine-related deaths? Scientists in Norway have presented a 9-year study where they painted wind turbines a highly visible black and observed a 70 percent drop in …
President Donald Trump has a bone to pick with windmills — he says it’s because they kill a lot of birds. But if it’s the bird population he’s really worried about, his true enemy is cats, which are the true enemies of the birds. During the climate change section of Thursday’s final presidential …
The president doesn’t just hate wind power: he goes further than most die-hard conspiracy theorists to claim it can kill you. President Donald Trump …
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has made no secret about his disdain of wind energy. In 2012, he complained that Scotland was "hell-bent on destroying (its) coastline" with proposed wind turbines to be built offshore near the site of Trump's luxury golf resort in Aberdeenshire. In 2016, he ran …
President Trump recycled a grab bag of debunked claims Tuesday about wind turbines killing birds, causing cancer, and knocking out your TV. “The thing …
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