Giving Compass' Take:

• Kate Wheeling at Pacific Standard writes on the debate over wind turbines causing cancer, showing there is little evidence supporting this. Meanwhile, there are countless studies linking the extraction and burning of fossil fuels to serious health problems and disease.

• How can donors and policymakers help fund more scientific research on the effects of clean energy?

• Learn why fossil fuels are harmful in other ways besides climate change. 

In a speech before House Republicans this week, President Donald Trump mocked the energy policies of his Democratic challenger in 2016 and claimed that wind turbines cause cancer.

"Hillary wanted to put up wind. Wind!" Trump said on Tuesday. “If you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations, your house just went down 75 percent in value. And they say the noise causes cancer."

Critics of the renewable energy source have blamed the technology for a whole spectrum of human ills over the years. One researcher from the University of Sydney compiled a list of nearly 250 symptoms and diseases that sufferers blamed on their proximity to wind farms, including accelerated aging, alcohol abuse, blurred vision, diabetes, head aches, infertility, weight gain and loss, and, yes, a variety of cancers.

Read the full article on the fossil fuel industry's causing cancer by Kate Wheeling at Pacific Standard.