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City heat might warm up distant rural areas, too, study says
2013-01-28 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: eat rising up from cities such as New York, Paris and Tokyo might be remotely warming up winters far away in some rural parts of Alaska, Canada and Siberia, a surprising study theorizes. In an unusual twist, that same urban heat from buildings and cars might be slightly cooling the autumns in much of the western United States, Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean, according to the study published Sunday in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change. Meteorologists long have known that cities...
Wasted heat from large cities affects temperatures in distant regions
2013-01-27 23:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The waste heat generated by large cities can affect temperatures in areas hundreds of miles away by changing wind patterns in the upper atmosphere, a study has found. Scientists have estimated that the heat released into the atmosphere from buildings, cars and factories could play a significant role in the warming and the cooling of locations in other countries. Using computer models of how heat is transported around the globe, the study published in the journal Nature Climate Change says that...
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