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Large-scale warming is not urban

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  • David E. Parker

    (Hadley Centre, Meteorological Office)

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Controversy has persisted1,2 over the influence of urban warming on reported large-scale surface-air temperature trends. Urban heat islands occur mainly at night and are reduced in windy conditions3. Here we show that, globally, temperatures over land have risen as much on windy nights as on calm nights, indicating that the observed overall warming is not a consequence of urban development.

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  • David E. Parker, 2004. "Large-scale warming is not urban," Nature, Nature, vol. 432(7015), pages 290-290, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:432:y:2004:i:7015:d:10.1038_432290a
    DOI: 10.1038/432290a
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    1. Li, Canbing & Zhou, Jinju & Cao, Yijia & Zhong, Jin & Liu, Yu & Kang, Chongqing & Tan, Yi, 2014. "Interaction between urban microclimate and electric air-conditioning energy consumption during high temperature season," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 117(C), pages 149-156.
    2. Junliang Qiu & Xiankun Yang & Bowen Cao & Zhilong Chen & Yuxuan Li, 2020. "Effects of Urbanization on Regional Extreme-Temperature Changes in China, 1960–2016," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(16), pages 1-29, August.
    3. Ross McKitrick, 2013. "Encompassing tests of socioeconomic signals in surface climate data," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 120(1), pages 95-107, September.
    4. Waleed Abbas & Islam Hamdi, 2022. "Satellite-Based Discrimination of Urban Dynamics-Induced Local Bias from Day/Night Temperature Trends across the Nile Delta, Egypt: A Basis for Climate Change Impacts Assessment," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(21), pages 1-25, November.
    5. Qingxiang Li & Jiayou Huang & Zhihong Jiang & Liming Zhou & Peng Chu & Kaixi Hu, 2014. "Detection of urbanization signals in extreme winter minimum temperature changes over Northern China," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 122(4), pages 595-608, February.
    6. Huaijun Wang & Yaning Chen & Zhongshen Chen & Weihong Li, 2013. "Changes in annual and seasonal temperature extremes in the arid region of China, 1960–2010," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 65(3), pages 1913-1930, February.
    7. Pengke Shen & Shuqing Zhao, 2021. "1/4 to 1/3 of observed warming trends in China from 1980 to 2015 are attributed to land use changes," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 164(3), pages 1-19, February.
    8. Nicholls, Neville, 2006. "Climate Change: Consensus or Controversy?," 2006 Conference (50th), February 8-10, 2006, Sydney, Australia 137791, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.

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