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Remember All of the Controversy Regarding Hurricane Forecasting Earlier This Summer?

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Turns out, everything is solved and there will be no adverse effect to hurricane forecasting. 

Wind Turbines: A Threat to National Defense -- Really!

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This classic World War II story from the late, great George Gobel on The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson  on this Veteran's Weekend is a humorous way of getting into a rather serious subject.  On a number of occasions (examples here and here ) we've written about the numerous issues with wind turbines interfering with weather radar. Below is a Kansas radar image with the wind turbines circled.  None  of the echoes below are storms. It is all wind turbines across northern Oklahoma and Kansas.  While we -- I hope -- don't have to worry about enemy aircraft being obscured by wind turbines in Oklahoma and Kansas, we may have to worry about them   off our coasts .  The Telegraph  of Great Britain brings us this story : It seems that British Royal Air Force pilots have learned to, during exercises, duck around the wind turbine installations to avoid detection. With all of the concerns about war with Russia -- which would involve aircraft and high-speed...

April's Required Reading: Defense Department Discovers Wind Energy Doesn't Work

The Department of Defense is -- finally -- discovering what the rest of us have known for two decades. Story is here .