Trump, a “Wrecking Ball for the Climate,” Goes Head-to-Head Against Wind Energy

I just caught a TV news segment on the Trump administration’s attempt to eliminate wind energy from our grid mix.  It’s possible that the reason behind this is more complicated than it appears, but we all need to take the obvious into consideration: Trump is on the receiving end of uncountable fortunes in gifts from the fossil fuel industry, perhaps in exchange for his destroying the competition.

From this segment, he appears to have convinced tens of millions of his supporters that wind turbines “don’t work,” that they are a blight on our landscape, and they have no place in replacing coal.  They appear not to understand that:

Wind energy runs about 15% of the overall grid-mix in the United States, and in some of the plains states, this figure is frequently north of 70%.

Wind largely offsets the burning of coal, which emits huge amounts of greenhouse gases, heavy metals like mercury, arsenic, cadmium, and selenium, as well as dozens of different highly toxic radioactive isotopes.

Of course, we’re talking to an audience that largely believes that climate change is a hoax, and God only knows what they believe about human health. Maybe mercury is kind of like a vitamin?  No one knows.  Let’s ask RFK Jr.