Solar Panels Contribute to Climate Change
http://www.weather.com/science/environment/news/solar-energy-contributes-climate-change-study
RUSH: It's a story from the Weather Channel. And the headline: "Solar Energy Contributes to Climate Change Some, Study Finds --Recent study reveals an aspect about solar energy we never expected or thought possible. It contributes to climate change." Oh, no! It's just like their modeling did not predict all the new ice at Antarctica. So if they're modeling didn't predict that, what good is their modeling? Their modeling is predicting stuff 20, 50, hundred years down the road, climate change.
But their modeling didn't predict all this new ice at the South Pole, so what good's their modeling? I think it's a legitimate question. "The study, conducted by climate change research scientist Aixue Hu of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change..." Are you kidding me? They actually now have a magazine named Nature Climate Change? See, they've got the journal Nature. That's been around a long time. Now they've got a subdivision, Nature Climate Change.
"The study, conducted by climate change research scientist Aixue Hu ... found that solar panels tend to cause regional cooling when converting sunlight into electricity and increase urban area temperatures when said electricity transforms into heat. Researchers conducted climate model sensitivity experiments to look at the effects of solar panels placed in various regions." Why? You've got solar panels all over half of North Carolina. Why do you need a model to predict or study this stuff?
You know, Apple's making a big... They're building these data centers all over the place to handle, oh, their iCloud servers and Siri and all the other things. They're making a big deal about how they're "green" and they're energy correct by building all these solar panels to power these data centers. Well, has anybody ever stopped to think that all of these solar panels prevent sunlight from reaching the earth? Now, before you go off half nuts, "Yeah, but so does a roof, Rush!" I understand that. But we are human beings.
It's incumbent upon us to build shelter. We have to adapt, protect ourselves from the elements. But dirt doesn't need to protect itself from the elements, trees and so forth. Does anybody ever stop to think what all these solar panels might be doing vis-a-vis the energy and the warmth of sun reaching places in the earth it's supposed to? I bet nobody's thought about it. (interruption) No, I'm talking about the proponents. They think these solar panels are creating green energy, clean energy, renewable energy, no fossil fuels, no pollution.
But they don't stop to think, okay, you talk about something abnormal and unnatural is a bunch of solar panels, man-made, laid out across acres and acres and acres of what used to be farmland. What's the impact of that sunlight being absorbed by the solar panels -- and, by the way, being converted to electricity very inefficiently -- what's the impact of that sunlight never reaching the earth? You know, there are little organisms in the earth that need the sunlight. You got worms in there, any number of organisms that are being denied their precious sunlight because of the solar panels.
And what are those things doing? They're either reflecting or they are absorbing, sucking up, if you will, the warmth of the sun. They are preventing vitamin D from reaching the planet. Vitamin D, sunlight is where you get it, and it has to have some kind of effect. "Researchers conducted climate model sensitivity experiments to look at the effects of solar panels placed in various regions." What do you mean model? Why do you need a climate model? Climate models missed the new ice at the Antarctic, they missed 18 years of not warming, what are you doing creating climate models when you have actual solar panels polluting half of North Carolina, now half of Oregon and a lot of the state of Washington and who knows wherever else?
"Solar power is the world’s most abundant source of renewable energy, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association." Well, of course they would say so, a bunch of special interest lobbyist types. "Yet despite its abundance, researchers say using even the smallest amount of attainable solar power would be enough to provide energy for the entire globe." Right? Well, why isn't that happening, then? "Large solar installations affect global --" This whole solar thing is a scam, starting with Solyndra. Well, not the whole thing, but -- alright, enough of that. I mean, that's just stream of consciousness stuff.
http://www.weather.com/science/environment/news/solar-energy-contributes-climate-change-study
RUSH: It's a story from the Weather Channel. And the headline: "Solar Energy Contributes to Climate Change Some, Study Finds --Recent study reveals an aspect about solar energy we never expected or thought possible. It contributes to climate change." Oh, no! It's just like their modeling did not predict all the new ice at Antarctica. So if they're modeling didn't predict that, what good is their modeling? Their modeling is predicting stuff 20, 50, hundred years down the road, climate change.
But their modeling didn't predict all this new ice at the South Pole, so what good's their modeling? I think it's a legitimate question. "The study, conducted by climate change research scientist Aixue Hu of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change..." Are you kidding me? They actually now have a magazine named Nature Climate Change? See, they've got the journal Nature. That's been around a long time. Now they've got a subdivision, Nature Climate Change.
"The study, conducted by climate change research scientist Aixue Hu ... found that solar panels tend to cause regional cooling when converting sunlight into electricity and increase urban area temperatures when said electricity transforms into heat. Researchers conducted climate model sensitivity experiments to look at the effects of solar panels placed in various regions." Why? You've got solar panels all over half of North Carolina. Why do you need a model to predict or study this stuff?
You know, Apple's making a big... They're building these data centers all over the place to handle, oh, their iCloud servers and Siri and all the other things. They're making a big deal about how they're "green" and they're energy correct by building all these solar panels to power these data centers. Well, has anybody ever stopped to think that all of these solar panels prevent sunlight from reaching the earth? Now, before you go off half nuts, "Yeah, but so does a roof, Rush!" I understand that. But we are human beings.
It's incumbent upon us to build shelter. We have to adapt, protect ourselves from the elements. But dirt doesn't need to protect itself from the elements, trees and so forth. Does anybody ever stop to think what all these solar panels might be doing vis-a-vis the energy and the warmth of sun reaching places in the earth it's supposed to? I bet nobody's thought about it. (interruption) No, I'm talking about the proponents. They think these solar panels are creating green energy, clean energy, renewable energy, no fossil fuels, no pollution.
But they don't stop to think, okay, you talk about something abnormal and unnatural is a bunch of solar panels, man-made, laid out across acres and acres and acres of what used to be farmland. What's the impact of that sunlight being absorbed by the solar panels -- and, by the way, being converted to electricity very inefficiently -- what's the impact of that sunlight never reaching the earth? You know, there are little organisms in the earth that need the sunlight. You got worms in there, any number of organisms that are being denied their precious sunlight because of the solar panels.
And what are those things doing? They're either reflecting or they are absorbing, sucking up, if you will, the warmth of the sun. They are preventing vitamin D from reaching the planet. Vitamin D, sunlight is where you get it, and it has to have some kind of effect. "Researchers conducted climate model sensitivity experiments to look at the effects of solar panels placed in various regions." What do you mean model? Why do you need a climate model? Climate models missed the new ice at the Antarctic, they missed 18 years of not warming, what are you doing creating climate models when you have actual solar panels polluting half of North Carolina, now half of Oregon and a lot of the state of Washington and who knows wherever else?
"Solar power is the world’s most abundant source of renewable energy, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association." Well, of course they would say so, a bunch of special interest lobbyist types. "Yet despite its abundance, researchers say using even the smallest amount of attainable solar power would be enough to provide energy for the entire globe." Right? Well, why isn't that happening, then? "Large solar installations affect global --" This whole solar thing is a scam, starting with Solyndra. Well, not the whole thing, but -- alright, enough of that. I mean, that's just stream of consciousness stuff.