Reading an article on E&T about wind farms causing stress and sleep loss and I can't understand why people complain about the noise and yet there are hundreds of thousands of people living much closer to main railway lines and major motorways etc? Surely they generate more noise than a windfarm? I live close to a windfarm (you can see the turbines from my bedroom window) and they're not that noisy?
Andy, thats an interesting link from the Independant and for once the actual paper isn't behind a paywall. It has all the usual maybe, possibly and large uncertainties. What I found interesting was the initial assumption that the previous ice age cycle have been caused by CO2, this did not appear to be justified. If you start with this assumption and then try to calculate the CO2 sensitivity you will automaticaly end up with a higher value than if you include other influences on the temperature such as variations the Earth's orbital path (Milankovich Cycles).
Andy, thats an interesting link from the Independant and for once the actual paper isn't behind a paywall. It has all the usual maybe, possibly and large uncertainties. What I found interesting was the initial assumption that the previous ice age cycle have been caused by CO2, this did not appear to be justified. If you start with this assumption and then try to calculate the CO2 sensitivity you will automaticaly end up with a higher value than if you include other influences on the temperature such as variations the Earth's orbital path (Milankovich Cycles).
