{"id":3940,"date":"2016-09-02T00:03:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T00:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/?p=3940"},"modified":"2016-09-02T00:07:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T00:07:00","slug":"wind-electricity-kills-many-less-birds-than-do-windows-coal-and-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wind-electricity-kills-many-less-birds-than-do-windows-coal-and-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind electricity kills many less birds than do windows, coal and cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_3941\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3941\" style=\"width: 467px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climaterealityproject.org\/sites\/climaterealityproject.org\/files\/windmyths_final020316_0.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-01-at-19.41.21-467x500.jpg\" alt=\"What&#039;s killing birds\" width=\"467\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-01-at-19.41.21-467x500.jpg 467w, https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-01-at-19.41.21-768x823.jpg 768w, https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-01-at-19.41.21-956x1024.jpg 956w, https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-01-at-19.41.21.jpg 1312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3941\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Climate Reality Project<\/figcaption><\/figure>The Climate Reality Project e-book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climaterealityproject.org\/sites\/climaterealityproject.org\/files\/windmyths_final020316_0.pdf\">Wind Energy Myths<\/a> points out that while wind turbines do kill birds, apparently they kill many less of them than do windows in tall buildings, the coal industry &#8230; and cats.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/outdoor-cats-kill-between-14-billion-and-37-billion-birds-a-year-study-says\/2013\/01\/31\/2504f744-6bbe-11e2-ada0-5ca5fa7ebe79_story.html\">&#8220;Outdoor cats kill between 1.4 billion and 3.7 billion birds a year.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Climate Reality Project e-book Wind Energy Myths points out that while wind turbines do kill birds, apparently they kill many less of them than do windows in tall buildings, the coal industry &#8230; and cats. The Washington Post reports that &#8220;Outdoor cats kill between 1.4 billion and 3.7 billion birds a year.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,25,176,58],"tags":[552,935,934,439,933],"class_list":["post-3940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-energy","category-justice","category-protection","tag-birds","tag-cats","tag-death","tag-energy-2","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3940"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3949,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940\/revisions\/3949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}