A global north-to-south shift in wind power by end of century

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A global north-to-south shift in wind power by end of century
December 11, 2017
 

CIRES and RASEI researchers suggest that wind resources in the next century may decrease in many regions in the Northern Hemisphere—and could sharply increase in several hotspot regions down south. The first-of-its-kind study predicting how global wind power may shift with climate change appears today in Nature Geoscience(linked).

"There's been a lot of research looking at the potential climate impact of energy production transformations—like shifting away from fossil fuels toward renewables," said lead author Kris Karnauskas, CIRES Fellow and Assistant Professor in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ATOC) at CU Boulder. "But not as much focuses on the impact of climate change on energy production by weather-dependent renewables, like wind energy."


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-12-global-north-to-south-shift-power-century.html#jCp

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"While not all of the climate models agreed on what the future will bring, substantial changes may be in store, especially a prominent asymmetry in wind power potential across the globe. If carbon dioxide emissions continue at high levels, wind power resources may decrease in the Northern Hemisphere's mid-latitudes, and increase in the Southern Hemisphere and tropics by 2100.

Strangely, the team also found that if emission levels are mitigated, dropping lower in coming decades, they see only a reduction of wind power in the north—it may not be countered with an increase of power in the south."

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The olde North-South thingie. Not just in the US but virtually worldwide.

The "ifs, maybes," etc. prove this to be a made up emergency. A way to find even greater reasons to fear global climate changes.