For decades, climate scientists have watched their models predict surprisingly stable global wind energy under warming conditions, without fully understanding why. A new study by Malte Jansen and colleagues offers an elegant answer: two competing forces—greater radiative cooling in the upper atmosphere and a wetter, less heat-efficient atmosphere below—very nearly cancel each other out, leaving the atmospheric heat engine running at roughly the same pace through the end of this century. The finding does not promise calm skies, however; it reveals instead a world where the same amount of wind e