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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[Anonymous Coward]

Foaming at the mouth greentard. Climate change is normal part of Earth history. It's been caused by a number of things, and I assure you that Earth will still be here well after humans are gone.

And we know humans affect climate. So did dinosaur farts and collisions with large space debris.

A lot of you need to take a step back. Funny though, that your green-tech also causes climate change. Maybe eventually you'll realize that _everything_ affects climate and the correct climate for Earth is what it already is. It will self-correct when needed.