No, Climate Central, Summer Warming Isn’t Due to Climate Change
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No, Climate Central, Summer Warming Isn’t Due to Climate Change
The Urban Heat Island is a primary factor in urban warming trends, not the footnote that Climate Central treats it as. Before attributing summer warming in 221 cities to human fossil fuel use, Climate Central should first ensure that what they are measuring is a long-term atmospheric temperature trend, not the bias from urban asphalt and artificial heat sources. The post No, Climate Central, Summer Warming Isn’t Due to Climate Change appeared fi…
No, Climate Central, Summer Warming Isn’t Due to Climate Change - ClimateRealism
Climate Central claims in “Summer Warming (1970–2025) Driven By Climate Change” that summers have warmed in 97 percent of 243 U.S. cities and that human-caused climate change is the leading driver in 91 percent of them. This is misleading at best. The analysis relies on biased average temperature trends and model-based attribution while downplaying one of the most important and well-documented drivers of urban warming: the Urban Heat Island (UHI…
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