Media reports are related to unproven claims that people are overheating the earth. Every time climate change is mentioned in the story, even featured in newspaper food or fashion pages, it is understandable that humans are turning the earth into a stuffy greenhouse by burning fossil fuels. [emphasis, links added]
No evidence was provided to confirm the claim. Artificial global warming is just that skeptics are sad.
But the fact tells a different story.
Alabama – Roy Spencer of Hunsville climate scientist confirmed:
“From 1895 to 2023, 65% of the US linear warming trend was due to increased population density in suburban and urban stations. 8% of the warming is due to urbanization of rural stations. Most (urban heat island) effect warming occurred before 1970. ”
In other words, people have built a radiator, which biases the temperature data upwards.
Researchers have known about the urban heat island effect for nearly two centuries. “This is mainly due to the replacement of vegetation and inflatable soil with buildings and impermeable sidewalks.”
Spencer and co-authors John Christie and William Braswell explain “The global warming trend calculated by the land area has been exaggerated” because “most surface air temperature measurements are performed in or near human settlements, and most settlements have grown over time.”
It is impossible for the urban environment to have amplified the temperature readings. Three years ago, the School of Mind published a paper written by meteorologist Anthony Watts, which showed that ground systems that measure surface temperature in the United States are unreliable.
The report notes that a follow-up study from a 2009 study:
“…About 96% of U.S. temperature stations fail to meet the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) deems “acceptable”, which is an uncorrupted location. These findings seriously undermine the legitimacy and magnitude of formal consensus on long-term climate warming trends. ”
The radio station that recorded pollution data “is located next to the exhaust fan of the air conditioning unit, surrounded by asphalt parking lots and roads, located on foam-hot roofs, or placed near sidewalks and buildings that absorb heat.”
Nine out of 10 radio stations failed to meet the National Meteorological Administration's “its own site selection requirements”which stipulates that the station must be 30 meters (100 feet) or more from artificial or radiated/reflected heat sources. ”
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