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Warming Effect of Urban Activities Felt Widely
2013-02-11 16:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: You dont have to live in a city or even near one for urban activities to affect your weather, according to a new study. Researchers using a computer model of the atmosphere found that activities from urban areas can warm the air as far as 1,000 miles away. In some areas, that increase was as much as 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit). The temperature changes were caused by human behavior in cities, like heating buildings and powering vehicles, rather than natural heat that was captured...
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