[TexasCajun]

Ahhhh ...This is what I've been waiting to read!!

[DownInFlames]

Damned if you do and don’t.

[thackney]

According to temperature readings from one of the oldest wind farms in the U.S., near Palm Springs, Calif., the turbines make it warmer at night and cooler during the day, generally speaking.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wind-turbines-affect-temperature/

“For most regions, the mean temperatures may not change by much because the warming and cooling effects may cancel out,”...

[trisham]

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[BitWielder1]

Well, if the climate supposedly depends on what kind of light bulb I use, then tens of thousands of giant blenders poking up into the atmosphere would certainly affect it even more.
Since everything humans do is by definition bad, why would windmills of all things be good?

[Psalm 73]

"...Marilyn Vos Savant, once considered the smartest person in the world..."

At least until she questioned the efficacy of Green Energy.

[GraceG]

[ Vos Savant claimed that wind turbines “will have an impact on the weather,” in addition to causing “ground warming and drying.” ]

Might as well move back to the Caves and cull 99.99% of our population to be sustainable... We will start the Culling with the fools who want the culling the most...

Somewhere about culling 2-5% we can probably stop as no one will want it anymore...

The eco freaks annoy me so much I am half tempted to start literally living underground and building a civilization there and then poke our heads up after the co weenies and the islamists kill each other in 200-300 years and then take over as the only things left as weapons up top will be sticks and stones...

[Buckeye McFrog]

I always doubted her claim to be the smartest woman in the world.

After reading this though, I may have to rethink that.

[The Great RJ]

Wind being fickle makes windmills an unreliable source of electric power and creates a need for fossil fuel plants to pick up the slack when the wind isn't blowing. There are also studies of the health effects of wind turbines on humans that conclude that infra sound waves from the spinning blades may be a health hazard and even the flashing shadows from the blades on nearby homes may disrupt circadian rhythm in humans. An unlighted wind turbine recently was the cause of a recent plane crash in South Dakota when the pilot was unable to see the turbine blades in foggy weather. Three people were killed in the crash.

[Raycpa]

So this means no need to put up windmills near Martha’s vineyard or Nantucket. The Kennedy’s will be pleased.

[jonno]

Something doesn’t smell quite right.

Question: are not wind-turbines essentially a passive device? That is, don’t they only move when the wind is blowing?

And if the above is true, how then could they contribute to “ground warming and drying”? Is the suggestion here that the turbines somehow redirect the blowing wind towards the ground??

Building on the above, it seems odd that even a large farm of turbines could sufficiently dampen wind speed/volume/velocity (however it is quantified)...

[cripplecreek]

Well its a simple law of physics. When the wind energy is converted to kinetic energy the wind energy is lost. New wind energy will be produced downrange but in the immediate vicinity there will be changes.

Seems that I read about higher nighttime temps at ground level under Texas wind farms, which meant no fog and no dew.

[veracious]

I agree with MarilynV; anyone who didn’t think there were real side-effects to wind turbines is a dumb-stick. All energy usage has pros/cons, but the _environment_ folks are populated with sticks.

[hadaclueonce]

Wow, wind turbines cause the drought in Texas and the Tax payers get to pay the Production tax Credit!

Too bad eagles and bats don’t get to vote.

I wonder how many Whooping Cranes have be hauled off and buried in the middle of the night?

[I want the USA back]

But the things are a sacred object for the left! They’ll never let this get into print.

[justa-hairyape]

This was obvious years ago. The only information you need to understand the affects is basic physics knowledge.

[kathsua]

Does this mean that if an attorney could prove a client suffered damages because of a wind farm’s impact on local weather that the client could collect damages?