August 15, 2025
All Warming is Urban
Timothy Birdnow
Guess what? Turns out that airports and industrial centers are warmer than green spaces in cities, according to new research courtesy of Jo Nova.
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Interestingly enough reducing immigration led to cooler temperatures too. More people mean more aircraft and more industries.
The cities they compared were Cairo (Africa), Chongqing (Asia), Delhi (Asia), Istanbul (Europe/Asia), Melbourne (Oceania), Mexico City (North America), Moscow (Europe), Nuuk (North America), São Paulo (South America), and Tokyo (Asia).
I would point out this comports perfectly with Dr. Roy Spencer's work showing land-use changes are responsible for all planetary warming (echoing Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. of U.C. Boulder, who was monomaniacal on the subject).
(Dr.Spencer runs the satellite division at the University of Alabama Huntsville.)
I would add that the cities are the power base of the Left across the globe, and so perhaps we should simply liquidate the cities as the ultimate cause of all our problems. (Yes, that is tongue-in-cheek; I am not advocating actually doing that unlike the Left who is deadly serious about getting rid of the "surplus population" as they see it.)
Guess what? Turns out that airports and industrial centers are warmer than green spaces in cities, according to new research courtesy of Jo Nova.
FTA:
A new study used satellite data to look at ten cities around the world to see which parts of cities are the warmest, and how that has changed in the last twenty years as they grew.
It looks like man-made global warming mainly applies to airports and industrial areas. We put most of our thermometers at airports which awkwardly turn out to be 2.5 degrees Celsius warmer than surrounding areas, and presumably warmer than they were 120 years ago when there wasn’t 3 square kilometers of concrete runway there sitting in the sun. Industrial zones were even worse, being 2.8°C hotter. Conversely leafy green areas with a lot of vegetation were nearly 4 degrees cooler than the average. So airports are at least 6 degrees warmer than forests. Places near bodies of water were, not surprisingly, even more than 4 degrees cooler. It’s part of why people pay $5 million for a beachside mansion isn’t it.
It looks like man-made global warming mainly applies to airports and industrial areas. We put most of our thermometers at airports which awkwardly turn out to be 2.5 degrees Celsius warmer than surrounding areas, and presumably warmer than they were 120 years ago when there wasn’t 3 square kilometers of concrete runway there sitting in the sun. Industrial zones were even worse, being 2.8°C hotter. Conversely leafy green areas with a lot of vegetation were nearly 4 degrees cooler than the average. So airports are at least 6 degrees warmer than forests. Places near bodies of water were, not surprisingly, even more than 4 degrees cooler. It’s part of why people pay $5 million for a beachside mansion isn’t it.
Interestingly enough reducing immigration led to cooler temperatures too. More people mean more aircraft and more industries.
The cities they compared were Cairo (Africa), Chongqing (Asia), Delhi (Asia), Istanbul (Europe/Asia), Melbourne (Oceania), Mexico City (North America), Moscow (Europe), Nuuk (North America), São Paulo (South America), and Tokyo (Asia).
I would point out this comports perfectly with Dr. Roy Spencer's work showing land-use changes are responsible for all planetary warming (echoing Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. of U.C. Boulder, who was monomaniacal on the subject).
(Dr.Spencer runs the satellite division at the University of Alabama Huntsville.)
I would add that the cities are the power base of the Left across the globe, and so perhaps we should simply liquidate the cities as the ultimate cause of all our problems. (Yes, that is tongue-in-cheek; I am not advocating actually doing that unlike the Left who is deadly serious about getting rid of the "surplus population" as they see it.)
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Good point. Maybe, if cutting down on "global warming" is such a desirable thing, we need to close cities down.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at August 16, 2025 09:42 PM (gUtwc)
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