Less Wind to Cool

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In two papers — published today in the journals Environmental Research Lettersand Joule — Harvard University researchers find that the transition to wind or solar power in the U.S. would require five to 20 times more land than previously thought, and, if such large-scale wind farms were built, would warm average surface temperatures over the continental U.S. by 0.24 degrees Celsius. 

Well, yes. If you extract such enormous amounts of energy from the atmosphere (basically reducing wind speed). And with less wind to cool… it warms up.

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