The radical environmentalists who push Al Gore-Style alarmism over climate change keep claiming that so-called "alternative energy" is wonderful for the world.
They leave out all the negative environmental and aesthetic effects of giant wind and solar farms.
It's turning out wind isn't so wonderful after all.
The first wind farms turned out to be vast killing fields for migratory birds. And the noise and vibration they create makes them unsuitable as neighbors to humans.
Meanwhile over at the Lew Rockwell blog, I came upon a link to this British newspaper report on yet another negative effect of wind power:
Usually at night the air closer to the ground becomes colder when the sun goes down and the earth cools.
But on huge wind farms the motion of the turbines mixes the air higher in the atmosphere that is warmer, pushing up the overall temperature.
Satellite data over a large area in Texas, that is now covered by four of the world's largest wind farms, found that over a decade the local temperature went up by almost 1C as more turbines are built.
This could have long term effects on wildlife living in the immediate areas of larger wind farms.
Looks like it's time to look for a new magical source of carbon-free power.
Or maybe now the enviros will finally turn to the type of power advocated by those who started the scam.
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