"As a result, we show a break-even between the cumulative disadvantages and benefits of photovoltaics, for both energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, occurs between 1997 and 2018, depending on photovoltaic performance and model uncertainties."
Oh Please! You do not have to educate me, unlike Moral Horsemen, I already have 10 KW SolarPV, my disagreement was not with Solar that much. We are discussing Wind Turbines here. If a counter point article in IEEE spectrum is FUD, good luck!
The major point you have not quoted it, Wind's intermittent generation relies heavily on an infrastructure that is majorly oil based. Also Wind kills lots and lots of birds.. but lets ignore that too.
Fossil fuels wouldn't disappear overnight but there is less and less real dependency on them and more of a choice of using them.
There is no reason not to go wind/solar if looking just at greenhouse gases emissions.
http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13728
"As a result, we show a break-even between the cumulative disadvantages and benefits of photovoltaics, for both energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, occurs between 1997 and 2018, depending on photovoltaic performance and model uncertainties."