Right, Washington Post, Rural Areas Are Significantly Cooler Than Cities, But Please Learn How to Convert Celsius to Fahrenheit
9 hours ago Anthony Watts
An August 3rd article in The Washington Post (WaPo), “titled Study suggests nearby rural land can cool cities by nearly 30 percent,” admits what others, including The Heartland Institute, have noted for years: rural areas are much cooler than cities. What is new is they are suggesting that the rural areas actually keep the cities cooler by transport of cooler air from the rural regions into the city. They write:
Rural land surrounding urban areas could help cool cities by up to 32.9 degrees Fahrenheit, an analysis in Nature Cities suggests, hinting at a way to cool increasingly scorching urban areas.
In an attempt to understand how rural land cover affects urban heat islands — a phenomenon in which cities become significantly warmer than the areas surrounding them — researchers studied data from 30 Chinese cities between 2000 and 2020. They looked at land cover surrounding the urban areas and ranked the capacity of various urban-rural configurations to cool the cities.
Note the bolded 32.9 degrees Fahrenheit from the WaPo story. We’ve often said that journalists don’t have a clue about the most basic science, much less complex climate science. In this story WaPo reporter Erin Blakemore makes this abundantly clear.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/08/07/right-washington-post-rural-areas-are-significantly-cooler-than-cities-but-please-learn-how-to-convert-celsius-to-fahrenheit/
