Cars, asphalt, heating/cooling, industry, and population density increase? "According to the EPA, many U.S. cities have air temperatures up to 10°F (5.6°C) war

Cars, asphalt, heating/cooling, industry, and population density increase? "According to the EPA, many U.S. cities have air temperatures up to 10°F (5.6°C) warmer than the surrounding natural land cover." https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/climate-change-impacts/urban-heat-islands https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/climate-change-impacts/... This "urban heat island" warming has progressed at the same time as CO2-driven global warming, and its measured magnitude (5.6°C) is larger than the estimated effect of CO2 so far (up to 1.5°C). I'm startled to read an article that claims to be "putting myself in the shoes of a climate change sceptic" without even mentioning this basic confounding factor of any urban data set. Even CNN and MSN (those bastions of climate change skepticism) call out the urban heat island effect when talking about early blooming cherry blossoms: "There are two sources of increased heat, which is the main factor making the flowers bloom earlier: urbanization and climate change. With increased urbanization, cities tend to get warmer than the surrounding rural area, in what is called the heat island effect. But a bigger reason is climate change, which has caused rising temperatures across the region and the world." https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/japan-just-recorded-its-earliest-cherry-blossom-bloom-in-1200-years-scientists-warn-its-a-symptom-of-the-larger-climate-crisis/ar-BB1fj17B https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/japan-just-reco... (note that this link is msn, but the authors are cited as CNN)