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Wind farms do affect climate – but they don’t cause global warming

Wind farms do affect climate – but they don’t cause global warming

A study published today claims that if the US generated enough energy from wind to meet its current electricity demand, the surface of the continental US would warm by 0.24°C. What’s more, it goes on to compare this increase with global warming.

It would take 100 years for the savings in greenhouse gas emissions from all those windfarms to counteract this warming, the researchers estimate. “Large-scale US wind power would cause a warming effect that would take roughly a century to offset,” claims …