One source of renewable energy often bandied about is wind power. It seems some proponents would have "wind farms" all over the planet harvesting the kinetic energy of air.
Given, however, the principle of conservation of energy, if we begin to harness this energy and convert it to electrical energy on a sufficient scale could we, in fact, disrupt weather patterns by removing so much energy from the atmosphere?
I know I'm being a little facetious, and I suspect that we would have to cover a large part of the earth's land mass with wind turbines before we saw any appreciable impact on the total energy in the environment. I just thought it was something interesting to contemplate.
Dean