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New Study Suggests Wind Farms Can Cause Climate Change
nachiketas writes "A study led by Liming Zhou, Research Associate Professor at the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences at the University of New York concludes that large wind farms could noticeably impact local weather patterns. According to Professor Zhou: 'While converting wind's kinetic energy into electricity, wind turbines modify surface-atmosphere exchanges and transfer of energy, momentum, mass and moisture within the atmosphere. These changes, if spatially large enough, might have noticeable impacts on local to regional weather and climate.'"
We must stop this reliance on wind energy, which is causing such harm to the environment! Increased usage of this harmful wind pollution will inevitably result in a global climate catastrophe within the next century! We must start finding alternative fuels NOW!
Change is bad. Stop changing things.
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Anything that sticks out of the ground is going to have an impact on airflow and climate. We should demolish all buildings and trees and live underground. Lizard people figured this out centuries ago. That's why they live underground.
"These changes, if spatially large enough, might have noticeable impacts on local to regional weather and climate."
Headline matches the summary.
yes it matches .. sort of. The summary uses words like 'might' and 'could', but the headline uses 'can'. IMHO 'can' denotes something that is far more likely to occur than 'might' or 'could' - hence the headline is effectively editorializing (even if not explicitly done)
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Isn't one of the main purposes of using wind power to reverse the effects of global warming, in other words to change the climate?
Female reporter: "Those windmills will keep them cool!"
Morbo: "WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! GOODNIGHT!"
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
This is a great boon to those looking for a reason to choose solar over wind.
We could ditch oil, coal, and nuclear entirely if we just build solar farms.
They're using their grammar skills there.
To sum up your post: entropy is a bitch.
A very concerned bum asked me about that one time while I was walking around with a hard hat on.
I told him "No, solar panels won't suck up all the sun, they just used the wasted sunlight, so there will still be enough for you"