The irrigation would lower the temperature during the reference period (1961 - 1990), making the 30s hotter in rural location, while
the urbanization around the 5s would cause the reference period to be hotter, making the earlier temperatures look cooler by comparison.
See # 52 I don't think the sites moved to the airport are better than where they were before, I think they just aren't getting worse as fast as before, and I don't think the present 5's were would have been ranked that in the past as they are now because of
the urbanization around them.
Addendum: There's a lot of fascinating background on the city's growing pains, and the lessons Istanbul holds in an age of
urbanization around the globe, at the Web site of the Urban Age conference held there last year.
«That matches the rise of population centers,» Gemmel explained, suggesting that
urbanization around that time paved the way for the AIDS epidemic.
Not exact matches
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Rapid
urbanization and industrialization will keep China's coal consumption at record highs of
around 4 billion tons per year by 2015.
To their surprise they found that this happened in High Middle Ages,
around 1000 A.D. Intriguingly these strong selection pressures coincided with increasing
urbanization and Christian edicts that enforced fasting and the exclusion of four legged animals from the menu.
The land records contain artifacts due to things like
urbanization or tree growth
around station locations, buildings or air conditioners being installed near stations, etc., but laborious data screening, correction procedures, and a-posteriori tests have convinced nearly all researchers that the reported land warming trend must be largely correct.
But given that I've never been to this part of Africa, I've also been exploring
urbanization issues and opportunities in the city's sprawling slums and I spent Sunday in and
around Nairobi National Park.
If a substantial fraction of all the weather stations from
around the world have been affected by
urbanization bias, then this could have introduced an artificial warming trend into the «global temperature trend» estimates.
One such premise revolved
around a cause and effect relationship between
urbanization causing difficulties in absorbing poor from rural areas, increased squatter settlements and poor infrastructure, and leading to a hotbed of political activity and a fertile ground for communist organizing.
The IPCC also reports that the resilience of many ecosystems
around the world is likely to be exceeded this century by an unprecedented combination of climate change; disturbances associated with climate change, such as flooding, drought, wildfire, and insects; and other global change - drivers, including land - use changes, pollution, habitat fragmentation,
urbanization, and growing human populations and economies.
Objection: The apparent rise of global average temperatures is actually an illusion due to the
urbanization of land
around weather stations, the Urban Heat Island effect.
Deriving a reliable global temperature from the instrument data is not easy because the instruments are not evenly distributed across the planet, the hardware and observing locations have changed over the years, and there has been extensive land use change (such as
urbanization)
around some of the sites.
I finally got
around to doing a back - of - envelope calculation on the direct UHI impact — what we know «for sure» about the impact of
urbanization — for the 6000 - acre suburban - U.S. community into which I and 75000 other people have moved during the past 45 years.
(Part of the How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic guide) Objection: The apparent rise of global average temperatures is actually an illusion due to the
urbanization of land
around weather stations, the Urban Heat Island effect.
With fast
urbanization and population growth in Iran, the number of visitors to green spaces
around the cities has increased, putting a strain on the environment with increased littering.
Dense
urbanization, with
around 75 % living in urban areas in Europe, inherently leads to acute awareness of space limitations, road congestion and eco-degradation due to increased road transport emissions.
The 1990s and 2000s brought with it an age of
urbanization centered
around the renewal of inner cities, development of mixed - use properties in urban areas, increased attention to mass transit, and a renewed focus on downtown condos.