"If you have a windmill [sic] near your house, congratulations. Your house just went down 75% in value. And they say the noise causes cancer - 'Rrrrr, rrrr' - you know the thing that make the - it's so noisy. And of course they are a graveyard for birds." That was the president of the US's impression of wind power, as revealed in a speech to Republican congressmen in March. Trump is right about one thing. Wind turbines do kill birds. The Conservation Biology journal says the global annual death toll could be as high as 320,000. He failed to mention American mobile phone masts and radio towers, which kill 6.8 million birds a year, according to a study by environmental consultants West Inc. Or tall, glass-clad buildings, collisions with which are responsible for at least 100 million, possibly as many as billion, bird deaths every year in the US, reports the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
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