Of wind and warmth

Anti-green Buck Throckmorton is still at it, now hitting wind. This mainly relies upon CFact, which Buck consolidates with a 2014 piece by SciAm. Wind, slowing down at the surface, means less local cooling.

Local warming of course means the site isn't good for measuring global anymore. Just a reminder for those ClimateGate veterans. Also I imagine that burning battery-cells might be warming things up a bit too.

Unlike Buck I see local warming (which isn't fire) as a local opportunity - dependent upon WHERE you erect the windfarm. I expected less wind, also, to mean less evaporation as a rule but apparently not. Still: there might be places already too cold and dry which we'll want warmer. This looks great for, say, sea-salt. Elsewhere the warming might be at the still-cool level where it doesn't dry out the soil.

I think windpower might be best in the Antarctic Dry Valleys where is katabasis. We won't want it where the skiing is but we might consider it for where it already isn't, like on the east side of various high mountains. Boulder Valley has already figured this out.

The same problem still applies to East Texas, that the local warming won't happen when the ice freezes the fans. So it's no mitigant for that...

Further afield, yeah, it's a local warming problem for the station I want at Maxwell Montes - so, better keep that some distance from the airconditioning units.