Hey Dalton, Suzuki, and Al baby... "wind farms contribute to global warming"
hey Peeves baby... you don't know enough to know you don't know!
localized effect... nothing to do with global warming... occurs at night only (see temp inversion)... daytime temperatures unaffected... at night, turbines pulling warm air down to ground level... see distinction between land surface temp & air surface temp...
in the paper's main author's own words:
we express the warming effect as a linear trend in °C per decade units. This is just one simple way to quantify the wind farm impacts while reducing the year-to-year data noise. The estimated warming trend only applies to the study region and to the study period, and thus should not be extrapolated linearly into other regions (e.g., globally) or over longer periods
compared to impacts of other human-made land use changes, the estimated warming over the wind farms is small
Overall, the warming effect reported in this study is local and is small compared to the strong background year-to-year land surface temperature changes. Very likely, the wind turbines do not create a net warming of the air and instead only re-distribute the air’s heat near the surface (the turbine itself does not generate any heat), which is fundamentally different from the large-scale warming effect caused by increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases.
note: the actual original source of your linked reference, of this stellar BS is, in fact, a British tabloid newspaper... does Shady know you are taking over his beat?
