Charlotte McDonald

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483 appearances 11 recordings 2 series first heard Feb 2012 last heard 11 Jun

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More or Less · Is Trump right that wind turbines are killing millions of birds? · 18 Apr 2026 podcast
It's been suggested that Trump's dislike of windmills goes back to a golfing dispute.
In the early 2010s, a brave soul proposed building a wind farm off the coast of a golf course he owns in Scotland.
Trump fought back, labelling the wind turbines monsters and even testifying against the plan to the Scottish Parliament.
But it's the cost to bird life that now seems his main concern.
Earlier this year, he posted on Truth Social claiming wind turbines were killing birds by the millions.
But is he right?
Do wind turbines kill millions of birds a year?
This is Dr Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor at Our World in Data and Senior Researcher at the University of Oxford.
OK, let's get into the details of this number.
And let's start with the basics.
We're going to focus on the United States because that's what Trump's comments were referring to.
And it's where we have reasonable data.
How do we count how many birds are killed by wind turbines each year?
It turns out those bird cemeteries Trump was talking about aren't far from the truth.
Sounds like a fun way to spend your weekend.
It's important to note that these studies only measure the birds killed by onshore wind farms.
It's much harder to measure birds killed by wind turbines in the ocean and the data on that isn't reliable.
Anyway, you can use the data from counting dead birds to calculate a rate of deaths per wind turbine.
Hannah found all the studies she could that did this to see if they agree.
They did not.
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