Why wind farms attract so much misinformation

Sunday, August 24, 2025

If you think climate change is a hoax, you might believe wind turbines poison groundwater.

Posted by LampLighter at 08:30 PM | 7 COMMENTS | permalink

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... When Donald Trump recently claimed, during what was supposed to be a press conference about a European Union trade deal, that wind turbines were a "con job" that drive whales "loco," kill birds and even people, he wasn't just repeating old myths. He was tapping into a global pattern of conspiracy theories around renewable energy"particularly wind farms. (Trump calls them "windmills""a climate denier trope.)

Like 19th century fears that telephones would spread diseases, wind farm conspiracy theories reflect deeper anxieties about change. They combine distrust of government, nostalgia for the fossil fuel era, and a resistance to confronting the complexities of the modern world.

And research shows that, once these fears are embedded in someone's worldview, no amount of fact-checking is likely to shift them. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-24 08:30 PM

Because there's a fat idiot flapping his ignorant yap about it.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-24 09:16 PM

Putin wants the ice caps to melt. That is why Trump is killing all alternative energy.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-24 09:17 PM

@#3 ... Putin wants the ice caps to melt. ...

That seems to be the case.

Now the Hard Part: Implementing Arctic Strategy (2024)
www.defense.gov

... The previous DOD strategy for the region came out in 2019, but much has changed in the region and world since then. While the strategic environment has changed dramatically, climate change is rapidly altering the Arctic, Dory said.

The region "is warming three times faster than the rest of the world," she said. "Melting ice and warmer temperatures, they affect DOD operating context, and lead to increased human activity, including from our competitors."

Russia, with its large area above the Arctic Circle, is an obvious competitor, but China is also a player. "The People's Republic of China ... seeks increased access and influence in the region and leverages the changing Arctic dynamics to take advantage of Arctic resources and to seek a larger role in regional governance," she said. ...

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-24 09:27 PM

@#4

So, why does Pres Trump appear to be so against reducing global warming?

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-24 09:28 PM

Because the fossil fuel industry pays them to do it.

The terminally stupid do it for free though.

#6 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-08-25 07:43 AM

But China is continuing to add renewables to their grid.

#7 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-08-25 02:35 PM

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