I'm surprised that Nature Climate Change decided to accept it.
So Wind Farms = GLOBAL WARMING!!!! Who would have thunk that?
That's because there is grant money to be had proving that warming caused by wind farms actually cools the planet.
Related thread (not duplicate) from Monday.
(Texas)Wind farms may have warming effect - research
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2878026/posts
Work is being done and equipment is not 100% efficient. There should be no surprise that there is some warming in the area.
Because it is a non-problem and the alarmists will have no problem showing that these wind farms are just small "heat islands" that are dwarfed by even modest sized cities. Even if you are worried about Global Warming this is a gnat on an elephant kind of problem
so now the windmillers can chop up the spotted owls and bats, and cook them too
Dinner...and a show!
Funny
"Our results show a significant warming trend of up to 0.72 °C per decade."
Now, I'm still going to laugh at this... we're talking about 2 degrees on average in a decade. And there's just no possible way: the same bogus research that gives us AGW has to be at work here, too.
The only thing that wind farms do is perhaps stir up the air that's already present. Maybe the metal in the towers absorbs heat energy from the sun and reflects it into the air slightly, but that's gotta be it. But it's the same sun that shines on the entire area -- some of it simply hits the tower and doesn't hit the ground. And given the sparcity (is that a word?) of wind farms anyway, the total possible impact is negligible at best.
It's kind like the crazy ideas we hear sometimes about jetliner contrails causing greenhouse effects: it's stupid. But yeah - somebody got a grant to write that nonsense.
.... maybe if we build these huge fans behind the windmills, we can get the air moving again and cool things back down < /sarcasm>
That'll cool them off, and generate more wind, to boot!
This problem in Texas should be handled in 2 steps:
Sounds like a plot from Big Climate if you aske me. Anything to kill energy.
Take THAT James Cameron, a self proclaimed warmist.
When he talks about the hubris of Titanic’s designers and operators, he never considers the hubris of warmists. He’s just as blind as Captain Smith.
Farmers in the 40s, 50s, and 60s were using powered propellers to keep crops from freezing.
One Google search would have answered their questions.
I wonder how much the govt paid for this “study”?
Instead of the typical east moving gulf rains they have been mostly north moving. Weird.
I believe it is because of the huge concrete footprint they have to install for these over sized POS!
How ironic, the very thing they would tout to help against global warming probably contributes to it. Don Quixote has nothing on these enviro-clowns.
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Wow, that's a big number! Cooling winds slowing at night has a possible effect, but I would expect it to be barely measurable. Then again, what does "0.72C per decade " mean???
Wind Turbines
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I think the progressives have taught us a very expensive lesson about the new green economy and socialism.