Wind Turbine in Texas Causes--You Guessed It--Global Warming

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Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling

Dr Katovich assumed, reasonably, that if wind turbines harmed bird populations, then the numbers seen in the Christmas Bird Count would drop in places where new turbines had been built. He combined bird population and species maps with the locations and construction dates of all wind turbines in the United States, with the exceptions of Alaska and Hawaii, between 2000 and 2020. He found that building turbines had no discernible effect on bird populations. That reassuring finding held even when he looked specifically at large birds like hawks, vultures and eagles that many people believe are particularly vulnerable to being struck.
But Dr Katovich did not confine his analysis to wind power alone. He also examined oil-and-gas extraction. Like wind power, this has boomed in America over the past couple of decades, with the rise of shale gas produced by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, of rocks. Production rose from 37m cubic metres in 2007 to 740m cubic metres in 2020.
Comparing bird populations to the locations of new gas wells revealed an average 15% drop in bird numbers when new wells were drilled, probably due to a combination of noise, air pollution and the disturbance of rivers and ponds that many birds rely upon. When drilling happened in places designated by the National Audubon Society as “important bird areas”, bird numbers instead dropped by 25%. Such places are typically migration hubs, feeding grounds or breeding locations.

 

Looks like the portion that are born male will be having a good time for a while.

 

Having driven across the country many times, there are wind turbines all over the plains into Utah. Pretty impressive and they are spaced pretty far apart which allows for farming on the land around them. It's a good strategy. I haven't heard anything about them in a while but the other energy producing strategy of using wave action in th oceans to generate power seems pretty cool. Not sure how it affects marine life though.

 

Have no fear for the climate Czars are here!!!!