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We have an early frontrunner for the Schadenfreude of the Year Award!...

Billions of dollars going to a cure worse than the disease...

Wind farms may have warming effect - research

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Large wind farms might have a warming effect on the local climate, research in the United States showed on Sunday, casting a shadow over the long-term sustainability of wind power.

Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels contribute to global warming, which could lead to the melting of glaciers, sea level rise, ocean acidification, crop failure and other devastating effects, scientists say.

In a move to cut such emissions, many nations are moving towards cleaner energy sources such as wind power.

The world's wind farms last year had the capacity to produce 238 gigawatt of electricity at any one time. That was a 21 percent rise on 2010 and capacity is expected to reach nearly 500 gigawatt by the end of 2016 as more, and bigger, farms spring up, according to the Global Wind Energy Council.

Researchers at the State University of New York at Albany analysed the satellite data of areas around large wind farms in Texas, where four of the world's largest farms are located, over the period 2003 to 2011.

The results, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, showed a warming trend of up to 0.72 degrees Celsius per decade in areas over the farms, compared with nearby regions without the farms.

"We attribute this warming primarily to wind farms," the study said. The temperature change could be due to the effects of the energy expelled by farms and the movement and turbulence generated by turbine rotors, it said.

"These changes, if spatially large enough, may have noticeable impacts on local to regional weather and climate," the authors said.
Hey! The earth has warmed one degree Celsius over the last hundred years! Let's fix it with stuff that warms the earth OVER SEVEN TIMES THAT!!!!...
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I'll bet that if we did a timeline analysis on when wind farms started and when GW started, we'd find that there's a strong correllation. More windfarms = more GW. We've got to save the world from these evil windfarm corporatist bastards before they turn the whole world into one big hot windfarm. I say we start planting rows of trees upwind from the windfarms to block the wind from getting to them. Yeah, that'll show those SOBs.
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I'll bet that if we did a timeline analysis on when wind farms started and when GW started, we'd find that there's a strong correllation. More windfarms = more GW. We've got to save the world from these evil windfarm corporatist bastards before they turn the whole world into one big hot windfarm. I say we start planting rows of trees upwind from the windfarms to block the wind from getting to them. Yeah, that'll show those SOBs.
Obviously, this study was done at the request of the rightwing extremist birds who died from wind turbines as an act of revenge and spite...
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Obviously, this study was done at the request of the rightwing extremist birds who died from wind turbines as an act of revenge and spite...
..and you know that the EPA has been blocking any pictures of the dead birds or their mourning families "out of respect for those families".

BTW - Those dead birds are actually avian terrorists trying to take out the windmills, so they deserve to die.
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..and you know that the EPA has been blocking any pictures of the dead birds or their mourning families "out of respect for those families".

BTW - Those dead birds are actually avian terrorists trying to take out the windmills, so they deserve to die.
Can't you get anything right?...

There IS no "avian terrorism" anymore...The term is "bird-caused disasters"...
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can't you get anything right?...

there is no "avian terrorism" anymore...the term is "bird-caused disasters"...
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