Wind turbine & Climate change Wind turbines have the potential to affect temperatures because they reduce wind speed, a process that has a slight warming effect on the atmosphere. In addition, the kinetic energy produced by turbines returns to the air as heat, after the electricity they produce is used. After constructing or conducting research on your wind turbine, how are you able to explain the direct relations that wind turbines and wind energy have on global warming? How can you relate what you have learned about force, mass, motion, and energy to your PBL project?