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DanG
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Research suggests winds dying down
| Quote From Source: | The wind, a favorite power source of the green energy movement, seems to be dying down across the United States. And the cause, ironically, may be global warming — the very problem wind power seeks to address.
The idea that winds may be slowing is still a speculative one, and scientists disagree whether that is happening. But a first-of-its-kind study suggests that average and peak wind speeds have been noticeably slowing since 1973, especially in the Midwest and the East.
There's been a jump in the number of low or no wind days in the Midwest, said the study's lead author, Sara Pryor, an atmospheric scientist at Indiana University.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/2..._sc/us_sci_diminishing_winds
very interesting read... especially since it also mentions "a couple of earlier studies also found wind reductions in Australia and Europe" ...
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There is a little truth in the story....
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Still, the study, which will be published in August in the peer-reviewed Journal of Geophysical Research, is preliminary. There are enough questions that even the authors say it's too early to know if this is a real trend or not. But it raises a new side effect of global warming that hasn't been looked into before.
The ambiguity of the results is due to changes in wind-measuring instruments over the years, according to Pryor. And while actual measurements found diminished winds, some climate computer models — which are not direct observations — did not, she said.
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Source: Link in 1st post of thread
What does the Midwest have since the 1970's? Population growth. Buildings make for great wind breaks. And the last 20 or 30 years have also seen a drop in rural observation stations. Those stations would have offset some of the data contamination found in urban reporting stations.
Its a non story. Global nothing.
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my thoughts exactly indy |
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DanG
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SOL is down... "global warming" is down... winds are down.
personally I'm not surprised at all.
things will pick up soon I'm sure.
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FatalWishes
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Somebody needs to drive to Western New Mexico or Eastern Arizona. I could barely get my truck door open the wind was blowing so hard at the petrified national forest.
And they said that was a mild day. The wind has been blowing steady and hard since I left Fort Worth. We are now in Williams Arizona and again yesterday, the wind sucked so bad at the Grand Canyon we had to hold onto everything.
Today we are going to the Hoover Dam. I can tell you this much, if the winds are dying down then the places I have been were uninhabitable due to higher winds. These "new calmer" winds suck bad enough. They needed to die down.
Pecos Texas is the biggest shit hole on the planet FYI. Hot, windy, and miserable. The citizens were all on meth or drunk. Even the Walmart sucked ass and I was scared to get fuel because the wind was blowing so hard I thought it would rip the door off the hinges and all the locals would eat us. The drugs made them impervious to 100 degree heat with 40mph winds. It was like being in a blast furnace and these people actually lived there.
That town needs to be condemned. Most of the buildings I thought were...had people living in them. It was like driving through a war zone.
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DanG
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damn dude, sounds like a sci-fi movie
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