A couple of days ago, I highlighted a worst of the worst NOAA climate monitoring station in Arizona with the help of a scientist from the University of Washington. My…
Category: UHI
Study proves urban heat islands exist, even in the Arctic
From the “we told you so years ago” department comes this interesting study that might explain the 8 °C red spot in the Russian Arctic that NASA GISS always seems…
♫ I left my UHI, in Sannn Frannncisco ♪
Apologies to singer Tony Bennett for the title. Our own “Charles the moderator” writes in with this curious picture from Weather Underground showing downtown San Francisco at about 2:15PM September…
Obvious science: NASA finds vegetation essential for limiting city warming effects
From the “department of limiting UHI” and NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER Cities are well known hot spots – literally. The urban heat island effect has long been observed to raise…
Think UHI doesn't affect the climate? Think again.
From AGU: More urban heat; less summer fog, on California coast Larry O’Hanlon writes on the AGU blog Geospace: The summer fog that shrouds coastal southern California – what locals…
UHI – worse than we thought
Remember when I measured the UHI in Reno, NV? It seems the normally alarmist “Climate Central” is just now getting around to recognizing UHI, but of course, they have to…
Something Detroit has in abundance – UHI
Detroit gets a lot of negative press these days, mainly because it has become a poster child for badly managed cities and decline, but it does seem to have UHI…
Macro, Meso, and Micro Climates: The Importance of Trees in Urban Climates
Guest essay by Dr Tim Ball I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, –Joyce Kilmer Is dishwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me…
Why would climate skeptics hold a conference in HOT Las Vegas?
That is a question that I’m sure is on a lot of people’s minds as they wonder if they should attend. It seems like the sort of thing warmists would…
UHI and heat related mortality
From Arizona State University Study links urbanization and future heat-related mortality TEMPE, Ariz. – Phoenix stands at a parched crossroads. Global scale climate change is forecast to bring hotter summers…
Record Daily Temperatures and UHI in the USA
By Paul Homewood https://www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/news/1036/record-high-temperatures-far-outpace-record-lows-across-us Every so often, the hoary old chestnut of record daily temperatures is wheeled out, as evidence of global warming. The above chart is from the NCAR…
Yes, but what about all that extra UHI that water vapor will cause?
Not to mention the water pollution…from Springer Select: To curb China’s haze and air pollution, use water New geoengineering research suggests pollution-control measures inspired by watering a garden A new…
Unwarranted Temperature Adjustments and Al Gore's Unwarranted Call for Intellectual Tyranny
Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University For researchers like myself examining the effect of local microclimates on the ecology of local…
Does your weather station get the wind? How station siting compromises temperature measurements via wind issues
Guest essay by Bob Fernley-Jones Well Melbourne (Oz) sure does, (and we are the butt of a few intercity jokes, a polite one being; we can have “four seasons all…
Analysis Of UHI In South Korea
Guest essay by Paul Homewood Seoul I ran a post earlier about UHI in South Korea. A study by two Korean scientists found that over half of the warming reported…
New paper by Ross McKitrick – 'temperature data strongly affected by local population growth'
Ross McKitrick writes: I give a demonstration of why the Parker and BEST analyses don’t disprove the evidence of contamination of temperature data, and outline what it would likely take…
California to quantify UHI statewide
From the if we can quantify it we’ll figure out a way to tax it department comes this short press release (h/t Kakatoa) The Governor’s Office of Planning and Research…
Earth at night – wildfires in Australia
From NASA – Wildfires Light Up Western Australia (nothing unusual here, it happens every year) A stunning video of the Earth at night follows. Careful observers of the new “Black…
The heat is on: the UK SurfaceStations effort
They say “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”, so color me flattered. I’ve been remiss in writing about this effort by Roger Tattersall (aka Tallbloke) and his colleague Tim…
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