Freewill
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I know! I read the entire article... my point is that EVEN the attempt to justify a solution has unintended consequences!
Remember the EXPERT said.."I think that these wind farms, especially if they are spaced sufficiently apart, will not have global-scale effects."
He "thinks"????
Well count me skeptical because when utilities first burned coal.. did the "experts" think there ever would be a "global warming" issue due to their CO2 emissions?
Of course not! Nor do the wind farmers see beyond their noses!
At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, did they even know what C02 was? Much less what the composition of the atmosphere was?
In the 1820's, Joseph Fourier recognized that there was something in the atmosphere that was absorbing some of the outgoing radiant heat from the Earth. By 1858, Tyndall of England was testing the various atmospheric gases for the absorption of infrared.
So, yes, at the beginning of the industrial revolution, it was recognized that CO2 was a GHG. However, even in 1896, when Arrhenius did the first accurate estimates of the increase in temperature with the doubling of CO2, they did not expect us to actually do that by 2100 or sooner.
The Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Effect
Did he realize that the rise in temperature lead the rise in CO2? Using Al Gore's famous chart it can be seen that temperature rises and CO2 concentration continues down for about 400 years. Besides why is cooler better?