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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.'"

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  1. No way! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  2. Umm.... so do buildings... by frente69 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Climate change, isn't that what we want? by unix_core · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  4. Re:Local impact = climate change? by ATMAvatar · · Score: 5, Funny

    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."
  5. Re:Duh, removal of enegy from enviro affects envir by Gotung · · Score: 5, Funny

    To sum up your post: entropy is a bitch.

  6. Re:I've never understood... by Ksevio · · Score: 5, Funny

    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"