This just in! Hot things are hot and they make other things hot.
No shit? 🤦
This study seems to be less about studying traffic’s effect on heat as it is refining the process by which that heat is measured in order to be more accurate for modeling and measuring that effect over time as traffic volume and type changes.
This model measures not just greenhouse gas emissions, but also the “anthropogenic heat” generated by ICE, HEV, and EV vehicles including when they brake, the heat their engines produce (yes even fully electric vehicle engines), and their exhaust gases.
If you are one of the people who made a knee jerk reaction comment without reading the article or the study, all I can say is that you’re preconceived notions on the subject are keeping you from good data
includesincluded in the study and it’s worth a read.I kinda thought that’s what the heat island effect was
This also has an effect on the local weather, right? Severe storms tend to break up or move around large urban areas that put out a lot of heat?
correction: heat from large and combustible vehicles
(also wide stroads and lack of trees; zoning laws, with the exception of isolating heavy industry, also don’t benefit society much, as they contribute to urban sprawl, meaning people need to travel longer to go to work).
Climate change, cars have been here since 1950
USA? In 1950 every third citizen of 150 million had a car. Now there’s a car for almost all the 340 million.
Yes we know, the cause of climate change is the increase of burning fuel which includes the increased cars being driven
And very often people sitting in parked vehicles will idle the engine for long periods of time so they won’t get hot or cold.
Heat from sun warming Earth.
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Ok bye.
