{"id":454423,"date":"2026-07-07T04:35:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=454423"},"modified":"2026-07-07T04:35:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:35:40","slug":"doing-the-opposite-studies-show-gigantic-wind-farms-significantly-warm-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=454423","title":{"rendered":"Doing The Opposite: Studies Show Gigantic Wind Farms Significantly Warm The Night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NoTrickZone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By P Gosselin<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Germany\u2019s online Report24 has an article titled<\/a>: \u201cStudies Show Gigantic Wind Farms Significantly Warm the Night\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Researchers analyzed satellite data from 2003 to 2011 covering an area in Texas that hosts four of the world\u2019s largest wind farms. In the areas with wind farms, nighttime surface temperatures in summer increased by up to 0.65 \u00b0C more than in comparable areas without turbines. The calculated warming trend was up to 0.72 \u00b0C per decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019s local climate is being disrupted by its widespeard use on wind turbines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politicians and mainstream media of deliberately ignoring these facts since 2012. It argues that the local warming caused by wind farms is falsely blamed on CO\u2082-driven climate change in order to maintain the narrative of \u201csaving the climate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, deforestation is underway in Germany<\/a> in order to clear the way for largescale windparks, severely damaging a natural ecosystem that acts to cool the local climate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The climate fanatics claim that wind farms can “save” the global climate. 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