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Yes that data exists. No, urban effects don't account for much of the temperature rise. http://www.skepticalscience.com/urban-heat-island-effect.htm http://www.
by anon1385 11y ago
Yes that data exists. No, urban effects don't account for much of the temperature rise. http://www.skepticalscience.com/urban-heat-island-effect.htm http://www.skepticalscience.com/urban-heat-island-effect.htm
In the case of last month in particular a lot of the biggest anomalies were in the arctic where there are no urban cities (see the map in the Guardian article).
- mSparks 11y agoI wonder what that graph looks like if you scroll it back 10000 years... You know during the ice age. Wish these climate nutters would stop trying to send us back there. It wasn't very nice.
- th0waway 11y agoI'd have to disagree with the UHI paper because of personal experiences in my own life - I live outside a major metropolitan city. Over the past twenty years, I have noticed that the heat-island has expanded as the city has expanded. There is a noticeable difference. Any measurements made within the heat-island are affected.