How much has urbanisation affected United Kingdom temperatures?

It’s seems as if much of the data we’ve been using is simply not fit for purpose.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/05/03/big-news-verified-by-noaa-poor-weather-station-siting-leads-to-artificial-long-term-warming/

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

A study was published a couple of months ago, concerning the effect of urbanisation on UK temperatures:

ABSTRACT

This study aims to estimate the affect of urbanisation on daily maximum and minimum temperatures in the United Kingdom. Urban fractions were calculated for 10 km × 10 km areas surrounding meteorological weather stations. Using robust regression a linear relationship between urban fraction and temperature difference between station measurements and ERA‐Interim reanalysis temperatures was estimated. For an urban fraction of 1.0, the daily minimum 2‐m temperature was estimated to increase by 1.90 ± 0.88 K while the daily maximum temperature was not significantly affected by urbanisation. This result was then applied to the whole United Kingdom with a maximum T _min urban heat island intensity (UHII) of about 1.7K in London and with many UK cities having T _min UHIIs above one degree.

This paper finds through the method…

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