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New Temperature Study in Reno Finds Strong Urban Heat Island Bias at Official Climate...
Independent reference system shows airport station reporting temperatures up to 3°F warmer than nearby properly sited station. Official recorded temperatures at Reno-Tahoe International Airport are...
Sorry, ABC News, Early Cherry Blossom Bloom Is Due to Urban Heat Island, Not...
ABC News ran a story this week reporting on the early bloom of the cherry blossom trees in Washington, D.C., attributing the early bloom...
Summer Warming in U.S. Cities is Exaggerated By the Urban Heat Island Effect
Guest Post by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
We are now getting close to finalizing our methodology for computing the urban heat island (UHI) effect...
No, WHYY, a Heat Wave Is Not a “Fingerprint of Climate Change”
A recent article from the climate desk at Philadelphia’s WHYY news titled “‘Fingerprint of climate change’: April heat wave could break a record in...
No, NPR, Climate Change Didn’t Cause the Recent Heatwave
National Public Radio (NPR) recently posted an interview, titled “How climate change has powered the heat wave blanketing much of the U.S.” claiming the...
No, Associated Press, This Southwest Heatwave Was Not ‘Virtually Impossible’ Without Climate Change
A recent Associated Press (AP) story titled “Records shattered as summer heat hits Southwest in March; ‘This is what climate change looks like’” claims...
No, Washington Post, Climate Change Isn’t Killing Washington, DC’s Trees—Urban Stress Is
In The Washington Post’s (WaPo) article, “Climate change is coming for D.C.’s trees, and the city won’t look the same,” the authors claim that...
Al Jazeera Wrongly Hypes a Climate Connection to Recent European Heatwaves
A recent article at Al Jazeera, titled “Wildfire risks as climate change fuels extreme heatwave in Southern Europe,” claims that recent heatwaves in parts...
No, CBS Boston, Climate Isn’t Making “Extreme Heat the New Normal”
In the CBS Boston (CBS-B) article titled “Is extreme heat the new normal in Boston? What hitting 102 degrees tells us about climate change,”...
False, Sustainability Magazine, Heat Waves Aren’t Breaking the Grid
In the article “Climate Change: How Heatwaves are Affecting Power Grids,” Sustainability Magazine (SM) claims that human-caused climate change is increasing the frequency and...