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Alan wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> On 2025-01-06 06:19, AlleyCat wrote:
>> 
>> Trump to Joe Rogan: Windmills are killing the whales, it's horrible.
>> 
>> The left: Trump is a liar, windmills wouldn't do that. We need the windmills for cLiMaTe ChAnGe
>> 
>> The truth. Trump was 100% correct
>> 
>> https://x.com/i/status/1867395134276743608
>
> Because "Johnny Midnight" is a cetacean expert?
>
> I can see why you'd post that screen shot rather than a link to the 
> actual article....

    https://www.factcheck.org/2023/03/no-evidence-offshore-wind-development-killing-whales/?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI6uCSgtzhigMVbHF_AB2JJwEMEAAYASAAEgKFg_D_BwE

    “I don’t think there is a single scientist out there who thinks that these
    deaths are being caused by wind energy activities,” Andrew Read, a marine
    science and conservation expert also at Duke University, told the Gothamist
    this month. “I think the people who are making those claims have other
    reasons to make those claims.”

    https://environmentamerica.org/center/articles/is-offshore-wind-killing-whales/
    What is putting whales at risk?

    The biggest threats facing whales include entanglements in fishing gear and
    being struck by boats and plastic pollution. Other risks include a rise in
    ocean noise and climate change, which threatens to alter whales’ habitat
    and food sources.

    For the Atlantic’s most at-risk whale, the numbers on this are crystal
    clear: of the 30 known North Atlantic right whales deaths examined by
    scientists between 2017-2024, 25 whales died from vessel strikes or
    entanglement. Getting this highly endangered species’ population back on
    track means tackling those two threats directly.

> ...which doesn't actually quote an marine environmental experts.

What's doing the most killing of whales elsewhere are Japanese fishing boats,
IIRC.

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