Hey Mr. Green,
An article I read recently claimed that wind farms increase ground warming and drying for miles around. Have you heard such claims before? Is there validated research confirming or denying them. And if the claims are accurate, then how does the impact compare with the impacts of burning coal and oil?
—Glen, in Kokomo, Indiana
Fox News online made such claims, whose headlines blared the clamant prophecy that, “Wind farms are warming the earth, researchers say.” In fact, the researchers said nothing of the sort. Based on satellite data, they only found a correlation between an increase in nighttime temperature of .72 degrees C over a decade near the locations of large wind farms in West Texas. In other words, wind farms have less effect on the earth’s climate than the hot air from the contrarian crowd at Fox News.
Read the entire story in Sierra Magazine, originally published on the Sierra Club website (www.sierraclub.org): http://sierraclub.org/sierra/2014-4-july-august/green-life/do-wind-farms-increase-global-warming