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\"00018\"<\/a>Wind speeds are increasing.\u00a0 In the past I have blogged that wind speeds were generally falling (although not everywhere).\u00a0 No one seemed to know absolutely why this was, but one theory was that increased urbanisation and construction was taking the energy out of the wind.\u00a0 Now a group of scientists has analysed the weather data from over a 9000 weather stations worldwide going back to 1970.\u00a0 This suggests that wind speeds are rising after a slowdown.\u00a0 The increase is thought to be due to climate change and is set to keep going for another decade.\u00a0 This is exactly what you would expect from climate change putting more energy into the atmosphere.\u00a0 Its not stated what will happen then but I personally cannot see wind speeds falling.\u00a0 Although global heating makes all this very uncertain.\u00a0 It thought that large-scale ocean and atmospheric circulation patterns like the gulf stream and the jet stream are altering and increasing wind speeds.<\/p>\n

There is of course good news and bad news here.\u00a0\u00a0 The big news in the story is that wind turbines are going to generate a lot more energy.\u00a0 And that those who have invested in them are going to make a lot more money.\u00a0 A windfall if you like.\u00a0 But the fact that wind speeds are increasing is not wholly good news.\u00a0 There will be increased damage to trees, buildings, tidal surges and course loss of life.\u00a0 There is of course probably nothing we can do about the the fact that wind speeds are increasing.\u00a0 But will have to learn to adapt to the more malign effects and look forward to more wind generated electricity on the grid.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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