“Politicians and nonprofit groups have blamed offshore wind turbines for whale deaths, but the science doesn’t support those claims—at all”

“Conducting necropsies on beached whales to pin down a cause of death is made difficult by the animals’ layer of blubber and by the fact that organs can literally cook inside a stranded whale. But it is starkly clear that human activity—in the form of ships that hit whales or fishing gear that wraps around them—is often to blame.”

  • paul0207@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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    2 months ago

    I agree that they could be a source of weak infrasound (<20 Hz), but apart of fringe web sites nobody was able to determine a significant effect on humans or animals.