New Study Suggests Wind Farms Can Cause Climate Change 384
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.'"
No way! (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!
Re:Local impact = climate change? (Score:3, Funny)
Umm.... so do buildings... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Local impact = climate change? (Score:4, Funny)
"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)
Climate change, isn't that what we want? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Local impact = climate change? (Score:5, Funny)
Female reporter: "Those windmills will keep them cool!"
Morbo [youtube.com]: "WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! GOODNIGHT!"
yet another reason for solar (Score:2, Funny)
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.
Re:Duh, removal of enegy from enviro affects envir (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I've never understood... (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"
Re:yet another reason for solar (Score:3, Funny)
Dumbass, he wasn't talking about "building a farm on the Sun", he was talking about a farm where we could grow our own tiny stars right here on Earth.