This is close to the warming of 1.09 °C (0.86 — 1.31 °C) observed in global mean land temperatures over the period 1951 — 2010, which, in contrast to China's recorded temperature change, is only weakly affected by
urban warming influences.
Not exact matches
[1] Controversy has persisted over the
influence of
urban warming on reported large - scale surface - air temperature trends.
«Why does the
urban influence on our global analysis seem to be so small, in view of the large
urban warming that we find at certain locations (section 5)?
«Controversy has persisted over the
influence of
urban warming on reported large - scale surface - air temperature trends.
For example, Fall et al. (2011) concluded that for all temperature stations classifications with regards to the
influence of
urban influences, the long - term average global
warming trend is the same.
There is plenty of evidence of global
warming, not least from oceans far from
urban influences.
Another paper in Climate Change in 2007 stated: Studies that have looked at hemispheric and global scales conclude that any
urban - related trend is an order of magnitude smaller than decadal and longer time - scale trends evident in the series (e.g., Jones et al., 1990; Peterson et al., 1999)... Thus, the global land
warming trend discussed is very unlikely to be
influenced significantly by increasing urbanization (Parker, 2006).
2) Some stations must be biased
warm by
urban heat islands, but their
influence on the global trend can't be detected with any of the techniques available for separating
urban and non-
urban stations.
How is it that the conclusions of climate scientists can be called into question as a result of supposedly dubious statistical techniques, but the long history of nonsense from the skeptics, (such as the Robinson et al paper that accompanied the politically motivated Oregon Petition, the corporate funded propaganda campaigns of the Global Climate Coalition, and the recent
urban myth that Martian «global
warming» disproves a human
influence on earthly climate) tells us nothing about the integrity of the skeptic theory of climate?