This article follows the one published in the daily swiss newspaper 24Heures on February 1, 2025: Los Angeles / Devastating fires fully controlled after 3 weeks
where I demonstrated in two comments that it will be very interesting to check whether the giant wind farms in the United States would not be RESPONSIBLE of them (?!)
« 1. Among the root causes of the fires in California since early January 2025, there is the precipitation regime, two years of abundance, followed by 8 months of severe drought. A scenario of manufacturing highly combustible plants, extremely rare for centuries. // It will be interesting to have an analysis of the repercussions:
§ on the wind regime 🌬 💨,
§ therefore on the precipitation regime,
of the GIANT WIND TURBINE farms in service in the United States; we know that those currently in service extract more than half of the energy, each from more than 500 km³ of air per year (generally at very low altitude). In California, THERE ARE A MASS OF THEM…
For practical reasons, they are located as close as possible to the consumers of their electricity. In principle, their influence on the wind regime 🌬 💨 should be regional rather than continental (in any case not global), but this remains to be verified! // Knowing that the damage is more than $250 billion, this study will be worth it! »
« 2. Citation of the article: « … climate change caused by man has prepared the ground for fires… », it is implied that this is the GLOBAL CLIMATE, in all likelihood. // However, the accepted global climate change is +1.3°C on average, which has been attributed in climatology to greenhouse effects; however, calculations in quantum physics of the effect of CO2 on the lower atmosphere (which is at issue here) in the last 150 years is at most +0.12°C – this is a thermal effect, without a greenhouse effect; other gases (for example methane CH4) have negligible effects. // The statement « … caused by man… » is therefore probably a big mistake.
It is quite different with regional and local influences: there, man has something to do with it, for example by systematically slowing down the movement of hundreds of billions of m³ of humid air, each year, by each giant wind turbine… »
André Bovay-Rohr, Colombier (VD) Switzerland, February 3, 2025