<div dir="ltr">I once read that housecats annually kill some number of birds measured in the Billions. If the wind farms are killing even more than cats (and assuming the cat number is anywhere near correct) we're going to see a pretty serious ecological shift as the bird populations diminish.<div><br></div><div>SO</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 3:36 PM <<a href="mailto:pga2@basicisp.net">pga2@basicisp.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><font size="2">I don't understand what effect stirring the air flow around wind farms might do to affect the weather, but I recently read an articlre that said that the single largest cause of bird mortality is now wind farms. I can't remember if that was nationwide or for a particular state. Interesting.<br><br>Phil in TX<br></font><br>--- <a href="mailto:crbearden@copper.net" target="_blank">crbearden@copper.net</a> wrote:<br><br>From: Cecil Bearden <<a href="mailto:crbearden@copper.net" target="_blank">crbearden@copper.net</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:at@lists.antique-tractor.com" target="_blank">at@lists.antique-tractor.com</a><br>Subject: Re: [AT] OT Weird Weather<br>Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 09:04:04 -0500<br><br>
This record setting weather gives me plenty of time to think about
why. Let me state that I am not a believer in Man-made global
warming. The earth has gone through many cycles prior to man's
existence. Now let's not start a political discussion here that is
not my intent. Just thinking.<br>
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<p>My farms are 50 miles apart as the crow flies. Both sit SE of
gigantic wind farms. our storms used to come from the NW, but now
when they get near the wind farms, they turn and go straight
south... If you really look at wind generators, those fans are
300 ft diameter and sit about 300 ft above ground to the center.
That means that the fan stirs up 450 ft of air so that when a low
lying storm or tornado flows near, the heat from the ground is now
mixed for450 ft.. Just a thought... The trend is to go to more
wind generation and less fossil fuels... Has anyone done any
study on the effect of wind farms.. ??<br>
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<p>Another thought is that in the last 100 or so years every large
nation has tried to weaponize weather. The jet stream is now
flowing in a pattern that has been experienced before, but not for
the length of time. Ralph has said that Canada is drier that
ever, while we are so wet nothing can get planted. The pressure
systems over Canada and Greenland are causing the jet stream
patterns. <br>
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I won't go any further with my personal thoughts on this as I
don't want to start a political flaming war... <br>
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<p>Cecil<br>
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