Deadly collision? Really? This must be before they remove all the automobiles from London per the recent edict from the EU/EC. The author must have suffered through too many “BBQ summer” heat waves in the London tube.

Here’s more:

“We are seeing how urbanisation is growing – we have passed the threshold of 50% (of the world’s population living in urban areas),” he told BBC News. “There are no signs that we are going to diminish this path of growth, and we know that with urbanisation, energy consumption is higher. According to UN data, an estimated 59% of the world’s population will be living in urban areas by 2030. Every year, the number of people who live in cities and town grows by 67 million each year – 91% of this figure is being added to urban populations in developing countries. The main reasons why urban areas were energy intensive, the UN report observed, was a result of increased transport use, heating and cooling homes and offices, as well as economic activity to generate income. The report added that as well as cities’ contribution to climate change, towns and cities around the globe were also vulnerable to the potential consequences, such as: Increase in the frequency of warm spells/heat waves over most land areas

Greater number of heavy downpours

Growing number of areas affected by drought

Increase in the incidence of extremely high sea levels in some parts of the world

The first two are effects of UHI, especially downwind of city enhanced precipitation effects. The last two have nothing to do with city growth at all.

But who are you to believe, the UN or the lying eyes of the satellites and the data they produce?

Anyone can measure their city UHI effect themselves. It makes a great science fair project.

Of course, my friend Jim Goodridge, former California State Climatologist, had this nailed in 1996 with his study of surface temperature in California:

The full BBC scare story is here h/t to a bunch of people, you know who you are.

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