Posted on 07/26/2023 6:41:20 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
More than 40 million Americans in cities live with the impact of the “heat island” effect, in which city centers absorb more heat than surrounding areas, according to an analysis published Wednesday by the organization Climate Central.
Cities are particularly susceptible to the heat island effect due to the replacement of natural vegetation with infrastructure like pavement, which absorbs more heat. This can mean the impact of climate change is more keenly felt by the 80 percent of Americans who live in cities, particularly in the recent waves of extreme heat.
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In other news today, the sun rose in the east.
the pavement and roofs are like magnets. Get those streets tree lined or figure out some sort of canopy in summer.
And tax the snot out of everyone- tax em to the max!
We always used to say “weather will be weather whether or not”
There was a recent, comprehensive study from a local university that demonstrated the undercity of Chicago is warming at a pretty unexpected clip. It’ll likely cause issues with the structures above in the coming 2030s, as warming/cooling contracts and expands the firmaments holding the whole swamp-built city above.
I lived in the city on a main drag. We had huge Chestnut Trees that provided a canopy over the streets. And guess what...when it was really hot...we'd run through a sprinkler.
And then winter would come...and we'd freeze our butts.
So the cause of climate change is Democrat infested cities?
Wow! Northern city denizens having to endure the same July heat and humidity as is experienced every summer by those who live in the Deep South. See, there is still some minor sense of justice in the world. Karma’s a b***h ain’t it?
No news here. Ask anyone who has worked on a flight line.
We leave our house in Atlanta and drive north 67 miles to our rural compound and it is noticeably cooler and there is usually a breeze. By 11:00 PM we dont even need AC.
Joe wants all air conditioning banned.
It’s alway been hotter in cities. Read about the summer of 1776 in Philadelphia, nearly 250 years ago. That’s before pavement. Anytime you have anything that absorbs heat, buildings for example, that heat is retained and takes longer to cool.
That’s freaking hot.
Yeah but, yeah but...
They can walk everywhere. And then there’s all that culture they can sop up at any time!
Not like us poor country mice.
Well no s#!t Sherlock. And that is where the NWS official temperatures are typically taken, the metro areas.
Back in the early 1960’s, I realized this when my parents took me to Chicago in the middle of Summer from the U.P.. As we ventured further south to Springfield, IL, it got even hotter. I was only 6, and could see that the further we traveled south in our carbon emitting station wagon, the hotter we made the climate. Funny thing is that when we traveled back north to the U.P. in the same carbon emitting station wagon, the cooler we made the climate. When I was a freshman in high school, my biology teacher wasn’t much help in solving that irregularity I had witnessed as a child.
Joe wants all air conditioning banned.
It has been true since the first house was built on a rock.
Rocks are know for their stability, to make a great foundation, but rock heats up differently than say, a tree house.
Not sure why these “researchers” felt that this was newsworthy but I suspect that they wanted a little free press, before their next grant submission.
That “Captain Obvious” guy is everywhere.
So... as cities continue to grow, more concrete and more buildings to retain heat, the temperatures there get warmer and warmer over the years along with the increase in concrete. Then, the recorded temperatures in these cities naturally chart an increase across years, and this makes it look like global warming is happening. Hey after all, it’s a lot hotter in Dallas today than it was 50 years ago when there was way less concrete!
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