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$\"\"$ <\/a>President Donald Trump is a fool in denying manmade global warming. He does it because he is a narcissist who thinks he knows way better than climate scientists even though he is allergic to books. You can\u2019t be a smart person without reading nonfiction books written by experts. That\u2019s why Trump effectively pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement that was signed by almost every nation\u2013195 of them\u2013in 2015.<\/p>\n

Evidence of Trump\u2019s denial of climate change is that he likes to make fun, supposedly, of all the birds that fly into the \u201cwindmills\u201d and get killed. He means the many, giant, wind turbines increasingly frequenting the world that generate electricity. But he denounces them in favor of smog-making coal.<\/p>\n

In actuality, those skyscraper buildings that real estate mogul Trump used to build kill way more birds in the U.S. than its wind turbines do. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says in its online article entitled Wind Turbines, \u201cThe most comprehensive and statistically sound estimates show that bird deaths from turbine collisions are between 140,000 and 500,000 birds per year. As wind energy capacity increases . . . bird deaths resulting in collisions with turbines could reach 1.4 million birds\/year.\u201d<\/p>\n

In contrast, CNN reports, \u201caround 600 million birds\u00a0in the United States die every year from striking tall buildings . . . according to research from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Attracted to artificial light in high-rise [city] blocks, birds can become disoriented and crash into walls\u2013many of which are made of glass\u2013suffering injury and often death.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Trump\u2019s native New York City and headquarters of The Trump Organization, the New York City Audubon says its skyscrapers, especially with their lighted windows at night, are the 7th-worst killer of birds in the spring migration and the 5th-worst killer of them in the fall season. Just turning off the lights of skyscrapers at night helps a lot.<\/p>\n

Heh Trump, that\u2019s over 600 times more birds that crash into big buildings\u2013some of which you\u2019re so proud of building\u2013and get killed than birds that crash into wind turbines and get killed.<\/p>\n

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