Doing The Opposite: Studies Show Gigantic Wind Farms Significantly Warm The Night

[rangerrebew]

Doing The Opposite: Studies Show Gigantic Wind Farms Significantly Warm The Night
By P Gosselin on 5. July 2026

Germany’s online Report24 has an article titled: “Studies Show Gigantic Wind Farms Significantly Warm the Night”.

Proponents of the energy transition often ignore or conceal the negative local climate impacts of wind turbines. Report24 references a 2012 study published in Nature Climate Change by Liming Zhou and his research team, which investigated the impact of large wind farms on land surface temperatures in Texas.

Researchers analyzed satellite data from 2003 to 2011 covering an area in Texas that hosts four of the world’s largest wind farms. In the areas with wind farms, nighttime surface temperatures in summer increased by up to 0.65 °C more than in comparable areas without turbines. The calculated warming trend was up to 0.72 °C per decade.

Why do turbvines cause warming? At night, the ground cools down, making the air near the surface colder than the layers above. The turbine rotors disrupt this natural stratification, mixing the layers and forcing warmer air down to the surface, which warms and dries out the ground. Germany is plastered with circa 30,000 turbines spread across the country.  In addition to the growing urban heat island (UHI) effect, Germany’s local climate is being disrupted by its widespeard use on wind turbines.

https://notrickszone.com/2026/07/05/doing-the-opposite-studies-show-gigantic-wind-farms-significantly-warm-the-night/

[Fishrrman]

So much for lowering the rising temps caused by global warming, and saving the environment...

[IsailedawayfromFR]

So let's see now:

Windmills

1. Are catastrophic for killing birds and bugs on land and whales when in the oceans,
2. Take up to a 10x as much land to produce the energy as a field of wells can produce.
3. Cannot store the energy they produce as oil, gas and coal can. (called potential energy)
4. Require natural gas backup systems to become reliable, like when the wind doesn't blow or blows too much
5. Are so expensive that the only way they can be installed is to obtain subsidies.
6. Generate power that is far more expensive in kwh than oil, gas, coal or nuclear
7. Actually contribute to global warming instead of reducing it.
8. Mostly are produced in China so we send them billions of $ to make so they can build more coal-fired power plants

PS - ever wonder why the Chinese don't build these for themselves, and choose coal plants instead?

The scam is revealed here in this somewhat long documentary.

https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=584050.msg3330445#msg3330445

[Smokin Joe]

Well, this answers the question I've been asking for years.

What happens when you remove gigawatts of energy from the dynamic atmospheric system that redistributes heat from the tropics to the poles?

It is as I suspected.

Now the question is one of whether the electricity generated is sufficient to counter the effects of reduced airflow in the system that would have transported heat out of the lower latitudes into more northern (and southern) regions?

Of course, the 'Social Justice' bunch would howl because really poor (and British) folks will suffer 'cause they can't get or use air conditioning.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Well, this answers the question I've been asking for years.

What happens when you remove gigawatts of energy from the dynamic atmospheric system that redistributes heat from the tropics to the poles?

It is as I suspected.

Now the question is one of whether the electricity generated is sufficient to counter the effects of reduced airflow in the system that would have transported heat out of the lower latitudes into more northern (and southern) regions?

Of course, the 'Social Justice' bunch would howl because really poor (and British) folks will suffer 'cause they can't get or use air conditioning.

Trust your scientific instincts, Master Scientist, even if Sheldon scoffs at you.