I know this will seem unbelievable, but Donald Trump is completely wrong about ocean-based windmills are causing massive whale die-offs. (It’s okay. Take a deep breath. Regain your composure. We’ll get through learning Donald Trump was wrong about something.) And the reason for the mass losses stems from the issue the windmills are meant to address.
According to the journal Science, gray whales have had three massive die-offs in the past three decades causing losses of 15-25% of the species’ population each time. Scientists discovered the deaths were due to the whales migrating to find new food sources because of climate change: a major source of food for the whales, an algae growing on the bottom of ice sheets, is disappearing because the ice sheets are melting. In the latest wave since 2017, nearly 700 have washed up in North America.