What would be interesting is if Congress would mandate that no US-paid weather station could not be within half-a-mile of any concrete or asphalt structure. This would force the relocation of almost every single site put up since the 1940s. It would also change overnight the data collected once the new sites were put up and everyone would asking if there was some correlation between urbanization and heat....which the heat-sink-collection concept would finally dawn on folks.
They install these stations on the tops of buildings, etc. where the HVAC blower systems are located. No wonder their data are skewed.
Yes to what you both said. The huge elephant in the room. Cities with row after row of homes with asphalt roofs and concrete roads and driveways. OF COURSE that will collect heat and discharge it.
Maybe we start a project here at FR to show this.
Go out say 5 miles or so into areas that are grass and trees. I would say being 5 miles away from an urban heat sink would be fair. This would be close to the conditions of how temps would have been measured 100 years ago or so.
Set up temperature measuring stations.
Then just compare those readings to what is officially being reported.
A difference could then be calculated. That difference would then need to subtracted from any “warming” the yahoos are calculating when comparing to conditions 100 years ago.
Can I have my Nobel Prize now?
Urban areas are like ovens. Out in the boonies we have pleasant cool evenings in summer and I love it! The radiant heat from city structures keep the temps up late into the night. Move to the sticks.