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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (39937)

5/22/2013 9:03:22 PM

From: Wharf Rat

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"What I CAN TELL YOU is that this has been one of the coolest springs I've ever experienced in 40 years..."

and I can tell you this is the driest 4 months in Calif recorded history.

Urban heat? Really? Back to that? Even the bought and paid for Koch Bros. study couldn't find it. Not too mention, 6/7 of the planet has some islands, but no urban heat islands...

Have you heard the one from climate deniers that the “Urban Heat Island” effect has ruined all the weather stations and made the data they collect completely useless? The deniers claim any warming trend seen from these temperature recordings is from concrete buildings and asphalt roads – and that climate change is therefore a myth?

That would be false. Says whom, you ask? How about a new Koch-funded scientific study?

An investigation by the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project released yesterday once again thoroughly dispatches the skeptic myth about the “Urban Heat Island” (UHI) effect.

Many global warming skeptics have long claimed that the urban heat island effect is so strong that it has skewed temperature measurements indicating that global warming is happening. The skeptics argue that efforts to curb global warming pollution are therefore unnecessary, citing their pet theory that surface temperature stations were swallowed by, or moved closer to, cities, thus skewing surface temperature records on the whole.

The BEST papers – which still must go through rigorous peer review – confirm what climate scientists have correctly stated previously, demonstrating without doubt that “very rural” temperature stations miles from any new “UHI” towns or cities have also recorded warming at 0.9 degrees Celsius over the last century. ??

To put it plainly, even the Kochtopus denial machine will have a tough time trying to twist this Koch-funded project’s findings. It looks like the Kochs backed the wrong horse here - one wonders whether they thought Hadley CRU would be proven wrong?
desmogblog.com


Seeding ocean with volcanic iron did little to lower CO2 – study

wwwp.dailyclimate.org

Maybe you should push iron coated with NPK.