Scientists decry ‘collapsing’ bird numbers, but can’t figure out what’s possibly causing the mass deaths in landscapes splattered with wind turbines

 Just yesterday, Patrick Greenfield at The Guardian reported on “new research” which is “prompting fears of ecological collapse” as scientists have announced that “bird populations across North America” are rapidly declining:

The study, published in the journal Science, indicates that former strongholds for bird species are no longer safe, particularly in grasslands, drylands and the Arctic.

Now, these brilliant scientists didn’t offer any speculation as to why this occurrence might be happening, but here’s where my brain went: wind turbines.

Those devilish machines are known to be a major killer of birds, including a number of endangered species. And, Greenfield notes that the areas seeing “particularly” high bird deaths are “grasslands, drylands and the Arctic.”

Well, that’s exactly where our wind turbines are concentrated. For reference, the “grasslands” are the prairie states including the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Montana, Oklahoma, and Wyoming; the “drylands” are basically West Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, parts of California, and Nevada; and the “Arctic” of North America is Alaska, Canada, and Greenland.

Texas, but specifically West Texas, leads the nation with the most wind turbines (more than 19,000 active machines, followed by Iowa (a prairie state), California (dryland), and Oklahoma (another prairie state). And, from an Arctic energy website: “Today, the use of wind turbines is also growing in the Circumpolar North.”

(Recall that Dr. Thomas Lifson has covered wind turbines and bird deaths on several occasions, found here and here.)

Scientists decry ‘collapsing’ bird numbers, but can’t figure out what’s possibly causing the mass deaths in landscapes splattered with wind turbines - American Thinker