Cities tend to be warmer, but its spatially variable within cities, says Joyce Klein Rosenthal, a researcher at Harvard who published a recent study on the impact of climate change in cities. Generally, higher poverty neighborhoods are warmer and wealthier neighborhoods are cooler.
You don't necessarily have to be an idiot to be "a researcher at Harvard", but apparently it was a real career enhancer for Joyce Klein Rosenthal.
28 posted on 10/03/2014 1:26:20 PM PDT by Zeppo
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