From: Watts Up With That

By: Charles Rotter

Date: December 1, 2025

The Severe Ecological Ramifications of Offshore Windfarms in the Atlantic

There is an old scientific maxim that complex systems rarely behave as planners expect. For decades, environmental policy has marched in the opposite direction—insisting that ever-larger interventions can be sketched out on whiteboards, implemented by decree, and assumed to behave as the architects intend. Offshore wind development is one of the latest manifestations of this technocratic impulse. The rhetoric surrounding it is full of confidence: these vast industrial installations are treated as benevolent intrusions upon the marine environment, as if nature would politely adapt to accommodate the turbines.

Yet here we have a study published in Science Advances, a journal not known for challenging the climate orthodoxy, suggesting that thousands of offshore turbines along the U.S. East Coast will significantly alter ocean physics, Sea surface warming and ocean-to-atmosphere feedback driven by large-scale offshore wind farms under seasonally stratified conditions. (continue reading)

The Severe Ecological Ramifications of Offshore Windfarms in the Atlantic