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- BOM 'predicts' a hot Summer in Australia
BOM have just announced that due to a three day 'heat wave' we are due a hot Summer...
- Climate Change Weekly #495: New Research Further Demonstrates Problems with Surface Temperature Records and Models
And does Michael Mann really have a strong case for defamation? He himself frequently spreads false and malicious rumors about colleagues who challenged his science... - Major Climate Alarmist Fail: “The Hottest Summer Ever” that Never Was
The failure of climate alarmists to use NOAA summer maximum temperature measurements and instead rely on temperature anomaly related analysis using summer average temperatures in making flawed “hottest summer ever” claims is a major error. - Climate Change Weekly #454: Economic Realities Dash Biden’s Offshore Wind Plans
President Joe Biden’s plans for a offshore industrial wind facilities lining the nation’s coasts have more than a few hurdles to clear before they can become reality. - More surfacestations project vindication: Strong UHI temperature biases confirmed in USA
WUWT readers may recall that NOAA did an experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory that vindicated my findings about the effects of local urbanization on surface temperature measurements... - NASA satellite offers urban carbon dioxide insights
University of Utah A new NASA/university study of carbon dioxide emissions for 20 major cities around the world provides the first direct, satellite-based evidence that as a city’s population density increases, the carbon dioxide it emits per person... - Southern California is losing its clouds, increasing the risk of more intense wildfires
The elevated summer temperatures in California are causing decreased levels of the low-atmosphere clouds that were once common throughout the southern coastal regions of the state... - Why Los Angeles has started to paint its streets white
Though it lacks the humidity of East Coast heat, Los Angeles still burns. The City of Angels is one of the only places in the United States where heat-related deaths occur regularly during winter. This public health hazard is only expected to worsen as... - Climate change could make cities 8C hotter by 2100, new studies show
Climate change is raising temperatures, but the impact could be worse in the world's cities. Researchers say the urban heat island effect - or the fact that cities are hotter thanks to human activity - combined with climate change could increase temperatures... - France now requires all new buildings to have green roofs or solar panels
France has just passed a trailblazing new law that requires that all new buildings constructed in commercial areas must be partially covered by either solar panels or green roofs...
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About urban heat island. - BOM 'predicts' a hot Summer in Australia