Do wind farms cause global warming? A new study published in Nature Climate Change could answer yes to that question. According to the BBC, a study of wind farms and ground temperatures in West Texas show an increase of 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit in recent years. The increase, measured by NASA satellites, has led researcher Liming Zhou to sound a warning about wind farms and their impact on the environment. The area studied saw an increase in temperature as the number of wind turbines rose from 111 in 2003 to 2325 by 2009. An earlier study published in 2010 reached the same conclusions that wind turbines appear to be mixing warmer air with cooler air, especially during the hours of night. Prof. Steven Sherwood of the Climate Change Research Centre in Australia was quoted by the BBC after he examined the data, ″The results in the paper looks pretty solid to me.″
Prof. Sherwood went on to say that ″Daytime temperatures do not appear to be affected. This makes sense, this same strategy is commonly used by fruit growers who fly helicopters over their orchards to combat early morning frosts.″ Well! So there it is! Proof that a key component of the Barack Obama ′green energy′ scam is just as wrong and flawed as the entire Global Warming/Climate Change scam is. No wonder Dr. James Lovelock, who predicted global doom in 2007 has reversed course and has joined over a thousand other climate scientists in rejecting the alarmist viewpoints. Lovelock announced late last month that not only are man-made carbon emissions not causing global warming, but may be responsible for preventing another Ice Age. According to Lovelock, ″The problem is we don′t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago.″
Bad enough that when an oil company, like Gulf Oil, accidentally kills 28 birds, the EPA slams them with a heavy fine, but wind turbine companies get a free pass despite killing tens of thousands of migratory birds each year, if not millions from bird strikes with the wind turbines! Now we can add how wind farms are causing Global Warming, or at least ′Local Warming′, thanks to them mixing warm and cool air during the over night hours. This is what the BBC reports on a new study published in the journal, Nature Climate Change. Another fly in the buttermilk is the fact that during the winter months, wind farms use more energy than they produce in order to stay heated. Just as in the case of ethanol, another green energy boondoggle, the reality is a negative net effect on our energy strategy.
April 30th, 2012 at 1:36 pm
Again with the National Enquirer headlines?
They warm the ground in their immediate location.
Global warming?
Oh well, there ARE bills to pay.
April 30th, 2012 at 2:17 pm
Sorry, Buzz, but its not the National Enquirer this time. The journal is Nature Climate Change, a pro-global warming publication.
http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate1505.html
Stick that in your reality pipe and smoke it!
April 30th, 2012 at 4:05 pm
Hey Andrew, I know you’re a stickler for details, and since you were so quick to offer your source after not including it in the original article, I’m sure you’ll correct your headline now to state that the study suggested wind farms cause local, not global warming. As in the immediate region around the wind farms.
As in Buzz was correct. So please, credit him or her in your correction for bringing it to your attention.
Since you apparently didn’t read the source you cited, please see today’s Christian Science Monitor (Headline: How wind farms could cause local (but not global) warming)for more on which pipe you may actually be smoking. This article was written by someone who actually read the research, which even in its abstract, clarifies that the warming could affect only “local to regional” climate.
I would hate, and I know you would as well, to think you were misinforming your readership about something. I know that the readers of this site demand nothing but reality.
Again, when you change your headline and update the text to be correct, please credit Buzz. Thanks!
April 30th, 2012 at 4:09 pm
Here’s the link.
Christian Science Monitor: How Wind Farms Could Cause Local (But Not Global) Warming
Andrew Z’s interpretation: Wind Farms Cause Global Warming
Excellent reading and analytic skills on display as per usual. You guys DEFINITELY are qualified to run this site.
April 30th, 2012 at 4:22 pm
There is no such thing as man-made global warming. How egotistical of climate change extremists to think that tiny mankind can change the sun.
By the way, if global warming exists, we would already all be boiled alive by Al Gore’s hot air.
April 30th, 2012 at 4:25 pm
How egotistical of climate change extremists to think that tiny mankind can change the sun.
There you have it, ladies and gentlemen, everything wrong about climate change denial, summed up one wonderfully nonsensical sentence.
Spoken like a true conservative disciple of “John Stuart Mills”.
April 30th, 2012 at 4:27 pm
up ->in-> one
I know you don’t believe in science, but could you hire one of those CGI “wizards” cast a, uh, a Preview button spell, please?
April 30th, 2012 at 4:32 pm
So these wind farms not only slice and dice the birds, they cook them too?
A warmists chicken salad of sorts?
April 30th, 2012 at 7:04 pm
“There you have it, ladies and gentlemen, everything wrong about climate change denial, summed up one wonderfully nonsensical sentence.”
Me, shut your pie hole and prove global warming exists. Your hero Al Gore warned of coastal flooding and then bought a house on the beach. Don’t you even know when you’re being used as a useful idiot?
April 30th, 2012 at 7:06 pm
ME;
” I’m sure you’ll correct your headline now to state that the study suggested wind farms cause local, not global warming.”
Yeah, so what the fck do you think will happen once all these “localized” pinweels are poppin up everywhere but up your ass ?
I’m willing to bet that most people having close contact with you are dead within 3 minutes
April 30th, 2012 at 7:20 pm
ME;
“There you have it, ladies and gentlemen, everything wrong about climate change denial, summed up one wonderfully nonsensical sentence.”
I got news for you Toto.
Day by day less people give less a sht about gerbil warming and more over the prospect of having dickhead for office twice around.
Also, this “Earth” has been through more natural disasters and radioactive carbon emitting footprints far outweighing anything man could produce in a millennium, and….
….here we are !
April 30th, 2012 at 7:41 pm
Force is the opposite of freedom. Coercion, be it direct or indirect, is the only way to violate freedom.
Coercion is what environmentalism espouses.
Yet, has little if anything to do with our environment
April 30th, 2012 at 10:33 pm
global warming->gerbil warming. Funny stuff.
Me, shut your pie hole and prove global warming exists.
Can’t argue with someone who has deliberately shoved spikes into their eyes and poured acid in their ears. Your head is buried up your– no, lets be charitable– in the sand. You are unreachable.
May 1st, 2012 at 1:59 am
“Can’t argue with someone who has deliberately shoved spikes into their eyes and poured acid in their ears.”
Which Alinsky rule is that Me?
There has been no warming in decades, Mann’s hockey stick graph was proven a fraud, nobody on your side will even debate the facts. Nobody!!!
All I ask of you is some proof. Start with counting polar bears!!!
May 1st, 2012 at 2:08 am
This “new study” of the effect of local air mixing at the site of a wind farm says nothing about wind energy and global climate, and casts no doubt on all the other studies that find wind power is one of the best ways to address climate change. Local air mixing has nothing to do with climate, because no heat or heat-trapping gases are being added to the atmosphere.
To clarify the facts:
-Wind plants do not contribute to climate change, and in fact they are one of the leading technologies preventing climate change by avoiding fossil fuel use and the emission of greenhouse gases
-All studies have found that any impact wind plants may have on local weather is trivially small.
May 1st, 2012 at 2:48 am
However, if wind farms were not the idea of the warmists, they would simply drop a thermometer in the middle of the field and raise hell with the results.
This is what they did when they left thermometers in urban areas where heat was retained by the steel and concrete while removing them from rural areas to prove the temperature of the planet was rising.
May 1st, 2012 at 4:02 am
No, ‘Me’, I will not change my headline nor credit Buzzbee as being correct. If you Liberals had your way, you would cover the entire Earth in wind farms, since that’s about what you’d have to do to fully compete with oil, natural gas and coal as energy substitutes. Throw in the ‘evil nuclear power’, too, which almost must be replaced by wind and solar.
So the more of these wind farms you build, the more ‘local areas’ experience warming. Soon, it will indeed be a global issue. A very real one since, unlike in the case of carbon dioxide emissions, there is no natural means of processing the warming caused by wind farms.
May 1st, 2012 at 4:06 am
@ AWEA_Jason,
One minor detail you seem to ignore concerning wind power. History has already determined it to be a failure. That happened a couple of centuries ago when coal-fired steam engines proved to be a better, more flexible means of providing needed power/energy.
But, of course, the whole Progressive-Socialist-Liberal-Moonbat cause is to turn back humanity 200-300 years, depopulating 90% of the planet’s human beings. Sorry, but your blood lust, namely through forced abortions, is not cutting the mustard with those of us who reject your desire for mass-murder.
May 1st, 2012 at 4:10 am
So it’s not “global warming” but we will call it that because if “moonbats” had it their way, there would be wind farms on every square inch of this Earth, therefor in your fevered-fantasy world it could cause global warming, but not in the way that we think of global warming because really it would be lots of local warmings, but on a global level, therefor your BS is still valid.
Got it. You truly are a useful idiot Andy!
May 1st, 2012 at 5:27 am
Me…I have no need or desire to explain my religion to you. Even if your religion is based on bullsht science.
If that birds too dumb to see that fckin monstrosity in its path its got to the least usefull animal created.
I know, lets make enough of them to fly us around the universe.
There’d be lots of laughter somewhere, I promise you.
You know ?
Those.
I just got an idea for a little hand held fans that double as dildos
May 1st, 2012 at 5:31 am
‘Me’ needs a new religion. I would suggest he/she/it worships Artemis, the Holy Blobfish, or perhaps the one true Cylon god?
May 1st, 2012 at 5:36 am
Snow, just how much laundry do you think you could do with wind power? How many cakes can you bake? How much floor can you vacuum? Nowhere near the same as with safe, highly efficient oil, coal or natural gas powered electrical plants.
Just keep in mind that before the internal combustion engine, women died usually before the age of 40. So to be a Moonbat, to be part of the ‘Green Movement’, is to condemn women to an early grave.
May 1st, 2012 at 5:37 am
One more like you Snow, hopefully genocide will be sold legally as bug spray
May 1st, 2012 at 5:51 am
Lets not forget all the toxic sht they found in the shuttered Solyndra factory in California.
I guess in order to create green energy you have to break a few eggs.
And in the case of wind power, you can cook them too!!!
May 1st, 2012 at 6:30 am
One more like you Snow, hopefully genocide will be sold legally as bug spray
Spoken like a true American Taliba– err modern day Republican.
Snow, just how much laundry do you think you could do with wind power? How many cakes can you bake? How much floor can you vacuum? Nowhere near the same as with safe, highly efficient oil, coal or natural gas powered electrical plants.
Nice dodge, but wind farms still don’t cause global warming.
May 1st, 2012 at 7:09 am
Actually they do in the foundries,fabrication, forging,transport and construction at destiny.
They’re only worth a fck if theres wind.
So line up,bend over, and all you believers can blow it a head start.
Of course, “no smoking” will be another mandate.
And Gaia forbids them n Kennedys backyards.
You could cover the planet in farms and panels but you’re still at the mercy of the weather.
Same goes for solar panels,which are not big sellers during the winter, weather,,climate,atmospheric conditions.All implausible, but hardly reliable.
(me forgot bout cars that will run on good ole oil for the next20 years..
May 1st, 2012 at 7:12 am
Actually they do in the foundries,fabrication, forging,transport and construction at destiny
So you’re admitting that man made global warming is real?
May 1st, 2012 at 7:24 am
KLO said that stupid.
“Spoken like a true American Taliba– err modern day Republican.”
That was in response to your class idiot klo wanting all the executioners in France to come America.
Try to keep up
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May 1st, 2012 at 7:25 am
moderation for what ?
This is gettin stupider and stupider
May 1st, 2012 at 9:51 am
Andy, your last two posts are so desperate and pathetic I’m going to do you a favor and ignore them.
You can’t reason with crazy, and what you posted above makes my point about your reasoning skills better than I could ever do.
May 1st, 2012 at 1:45 pm
My last 2 posts or comments, ‘Me’?
I would have thought my last 3 comments here would be worthy of your ignorance. I do thank you for staying under 300 words, though!
May 1st, 2012 at 2:32 pm
Pollution Snow, pollution.
Its not all about carbon footprints.
Recycling aluminum is nasty filthy business but the only recycling that actually outweighs the bad and turns a profit.
TP is made expressibly from farmed pulpwood trees, not 2000 year old Redwoods.
Yet you fckin idiots buy anything that says recycled thinking you saved that tree you can drive your car through.
Consider the amount of energy used to make one pinwheel and put it up against the term of a single windmills term between maintenance.
I’ll tell you what does make sense.
Nuke, natural gas we just found tons of, and getting off our fat asses and walking or biking. Sht, at least require two or more riders in a car.
I’ve gone on dates usin g trains. No problem here.
Its not the materials, carbon etc..
Its our fcking egos thats the problem
May 1st, 2012 at 5:58 pm
Snow;
“So you’re admitting that man made global warming is real?”
No ass hole. Whats your problem ? I said no such thing.
But, by your standards and the facts of industry the production of wind farms does quite possibly as much good as bad.
Make up a problem, get folks to believe it. Hype it, throw in some needy passion.
Otherwise no one will buy all your cackamooney sht
May 1st, 2012 at 9:00 pm
Here Blow, maybe this will help you move along.
Production of wind mills and associated apparatus contributes more to the problem than the one its aimed at solving, should that problem exist
“Check this little box to confirm you are a human.”
But… why would I do that if I’m a liberal ?
May 2nd, 2012 at 4:48 am
Snow, since I actually respect you, far more so than the other chaps like ‘Me’ and Klo, I am going to ask you a serious question.
Would you say that perhaps a far greater danger to humanity is not global warming but all of the chemical pollution in our food chain?
Pink slime, sugar substitutes, artificial coloring and flavoring, preservatives, genetically-modified foods, etc…?
May 2nd, 2012 at 5:05 am
You ought to do some research Andy. There is absolutely nothing wrong with pink slime. It was another panic created by the lame stream media on the order of DDT and alar.
May 2nd, 2012 at 8:24 am
“Andy, your last two posts are so desperate and pathetic I’m going to do you a favor and ignore them.”
Talk about “stupid”.
How the fck would you know unless you read them ?
At least have the forethought to use the headline as an excuse.
All you are is whats called an “antagonist” not quite good enough to be an irritant.
More or less you drive me (and I’ll assume a lot of others) to seriously feel sorry for you only because you’re simply unnecessarily miserable
May 2nd, 2012 at 8:26 am
Yeah Monkey, same thing with “gluten”.
Sounds bad but is actually a necessary and normal part of most grains
May 2nd, 2012 at 8:41 am
Micky, the whole “pink slime” bruhaha was started by a TV chef who who poured a gallon of ammonia over a bowl of ground beef and said this was the process used to extract otherwise unusable meat from the bone. Totally untrue!!
Of course, the MSM got hold of it and it was all downhill from there.
May 2nd, 2012 at 10:02 am
Yeah, even Megyn is comparing Obamas “Osama” moment with Bushs “Mission Accomplished” moment.
That banner was the Navys idea long in advance to celebrate “THEIR” mission accomplished.
Bush was in no way claiming the war was ovedr.
I swear…
…these fckers couldnt get something right if their lives depended on it.
Been in the rest business my whole life.
YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW HALF THE SHT THEY USE AS FILLER..but is perfectly safe.
May 2nd, 2012 at 10:03 am
You boil bones to remove stubborn meat