The article starts with some reasonable points about UHI in crowded new suburbs but then quoting an academic claims the BoM station sites do not reflect the UHI completely missing the fact the breezes and wind do blow and UHI affected air will move through the thermometer enclosures affecting BoM published weather observations. Then further … Continue reading ABC misinforms on Sydney UHI and fires→
Ch9 news reports Sydney records coldest stretch of May days in 54 years but not a word I saw on being more impressive for the location at the core of the ever growing largest Australian urban heat island (UHI).
Over a century of urban development must feed in to daily max and mins as would the late 20th Century change to AWS readings compared to to slower responding liquid in glass thermometers. Some old blogs — Satellites define the surface urban heat island (UHI) for 419 global cities 25Feb2013 The ever watchful Chris Gillham … Continue reading BoM omit UHI/etc claiming Perth hottest ever April day→
In the latest flurry of news from Europe about their summer heat records – has anybody heard the UHI (Urban Heat Island) referred to? Luke Howard who published on the London UHI near 200 years ago would turn in his grave. Even Catallaxy is onto the issue. If anybody notices the UHI referred to in … Continue reading UHI lost in Euro heat news→
After UN IPCC “global warming” was birthed over 30 years ago by the Gnomes of Norwich with datasets polluted by almost every city on Planet Earth – the UKMO finds 1.7 degrees UHI warming in UK wide minimum temperatures. There is an easily downloaded 5Mb pdf linked to at Watts.
Geoff Sherrington has a long blog on UHI and Australian temperature data “The Climate Sciences Use Of The Urban Heat Island Effect Is Pathetic And Misleading” over at Wattsupwiththat.com A late comment by Ron Long December 21, 2018 at 3:21 am mentions “…I am totally confidant a UHI signal can be identified from satellite data.” … Continue reading Reprising satellite images of urban heat islands UHI from USA→
The BoM is in contortions reporting the embarrassing news that Perth has had a second cool summer but the halt in warming can not be real says the ABC – so is it warming as usual? Not one word that the cool summers are in the face of the ever growing Perth urban heat island. … Continue reading BoM blind to Perth UHI reporting two cool summers for SW WA→
I see another edition in scaremongering articles about the UHI “Deadly mix of heatwaves and humidity could make some Australian cities virtually ‘uninhabitable’” cry me a river – Nobody asks “where has global warming/climate change been mostly measured these last 150 years?”
Primarily exposing faulty methodologies behind global temperature trend compilations