found this and wanted to share...a graph about the global winds over the past years...getting less!
A Tarifa local told me, many years ago Tarifa had much more wind than nowadays.
Global winds...getting less?
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Re: Global winds...getting less?
Far too short of a sample set given the population size for it to mean anything. Heck even on that chart you can see a similar decline in the 90s before it went back to the chart's more typical range.
Granted, you gotta wonder if all of those wind turbines aren't eating up our wind
Granted, you gotta wonder if all of those wind turbines aren't eating up our wind
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Re: Global winds...getting less?
I have heard the same thing from long timers on Maui. It's been steady foiling wind on the North Shore this week.Toby wrote:found this and wanted to share...a graph about the global winds over the past years...getting less!
A Tarifa local told me, many years ago Tarifa had much more wind than nowadays.
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Re: Global winds...getting less?
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Re: Global winds...getting less?
Its important to not generalize local weather patterns to global trends.
Toby: Where did you find the graph and what does it show?
Toby: Where did you find the graph and what does it show?
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Re: Global winds...getting less?
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mike-ciand ... disappear-
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/201 ... _year.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/201 ... _year.html
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Re: Global winds...getting less?
that's scary but i'd like to see the analysis done with the same year-span. The first two spans are averages over 10 years, and the last one is approximately ~3.5 years. I think they should all be broken down into 4 year averages.
