Whales And Windmill Cancer

I’ve stopped trying to keep up:

[Sen.] Johnson went on to claim that windmills are killing whales based on reporting he said he saw on Fox News earlier. According to the Department of Energy and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, there is no evidence to support Johnson's windmill/whale claim.

It’s really not worth this much trouble  

A spate of nine whale deaths in New York and New Jersey in the last two months have prompted several New Jersey GOP lawmakers to question whether the deaths were linked to development of a major proposed offshore wind farm in the area. But scientists say there’s no evidence to support a connection between the two. 

After a young humpback whale washed up on shore last week in Brigantine, New Jersey, several local, state and federal Republican lawmakers called for a halt to the development of the planned offshore wind project until an investigation could be done. 

Fox News host Tucker Carlson went further, blaming the wind project for the death of the whales and calling offshore wind “the DDT of our times.” 

A preliminary necropsy on the humpback whale conducted last weekend by scientists at the Marine Mammal Stranding Center found the whale “suffered blunt trauma injuries consistent with those from a vessel strike.” And on Wednesday, officials from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Bureau of Ocean Management told reporters no whale deaths have been attributed to offshore wind projects to date.

Ron Johnson is an idiot. Isn’t that enough?