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• Wind power reduces emissions while causing climatic impacts such as warmer temperatures
• Warming effect strongest at night when temperatures increase with height
• Nighttime warming effect observed at 28 operational US wind farms
• Wind's warming can exceed avoided warming from reduced emissions for a century
• Windmills create more heat

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Climatic Impacts of Wind Power

Wind beats fossil, but wind power does cause non-negligible climatic impacts. This study advances work on wind power's climate impacts by: (1) providing a mechanistic explanation for wind turbines' climate impacts by comparing numerical simulations with observations, (2) filling a current gap betwee...