Someone should tell the Gore-Bull Warmists that in micro-climate heating of cities filled with asphalt and cement absorbing large amounts of heat along with the direct heating of large building and homes causes large columns of rising hot air. This rising warmer air from large metro areas disrupts the jet-streams and has far far more of an effect on local and national weather than a few tenths of degrees here and there...
And then tell them that there is ONLY ONE SOLUTION to fix this, TEAR DOWN THEIR PRECIOUS CITIES!!!!
But I don’t think Ted Cruz should bring this up, because that would mean there would be so many exploded liberal heads that the entire country would smell like rotting meat for a couple decades...
Yes, this is called the Urban Heat Island(UHI) effect and it is as you point out unrelated to CO2.
The temperature data set people claim that they calculate in some factor to supposedly cancel out UHI. Anybody what to bet that they don't do this correctly and that the results remain skewed on the high side.
Bullseye!