Sydney Asphalt Was The Hottest Ever

8 Responses to Sydney Asphalt Was The Hottest Ever

1. igsy says:

   October 3, 2014 at 10:30 am

   It’s only speculation, I haven’t looked into this, but I wonder if the trivialise-the-UHI strategy works nicely in concert with homogenisation?

   The argument is that whatever the size of UHI, it doesn’t matter since urbanised space is a small proportion of the earth’s total land area.

   Enter homogenisation. The more thermometers you can drop or can find “need” adjusting, the more you can blend the city temperatures into the regional data. And if those city temperatures have not been sufficiently adjusted downward for UHI, then, well, that’s a nice convenient result for some folk.

   But maybe that base has been covered.

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   • gator69 says:

     October 3, 2014 at 12:11 pm

     I like my milk homogenized, my temperatures raw, and both harvested far from the city.

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     • mjc says:

       October 4, 2014 at 4:32 am

       I prefer both raw…

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2. Russell Seitz says:

   October 3, 2014 at 6:29 pm

   Not only is the official roof white, but as time goes on and the old asphalt grows ever lighter, the official temperature continues to rise.–

   What part of Berkeley Study don’t you understand?

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   • gator69 says:

     October 4, 2014 at 1:09 pm

     Studies have shown that the UHI effect acts like concentric domes of heat, the closer to the center of urban sprawl one travels, the higher the temperature. So even ‘well cited’ stations are going to be effected by the surrounding infrastructure. Cities and the surrounding suburbs of today are Urban Heat Continents compared to what we had in the 1930’s.

     What part of “Urban Sprawl” do you not understand?

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   • Gail Combs says:

     October 4, 2014 at 1:43 pm

     We understand that Mueller is a paid stooge of Shell Oil who expects to win big with the Green Energy/Carbon Tax scam. After all that is why he has a Shell Oil Company President as an ‘Advisor’ in his privately held consulting firm.

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3. Colorado Wellington says:

   October 4, 2014 at 3:36 am

   Bob Maginnis, call the control center. Progressive science under reactionary attack!

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4. rishrac says:

   October 5, 2014 at 3:51 am

   Which gets hotter, asphalt or concrete?

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