Beijing’s Hottest June Day ; But BBC Forget To Mention UHI
By Paul Homewood
h/t Jon Scott
Beijing has recorded its hottest June day in more than 60 years with the mercury touching 41.1C (105.9F), Chinese weather authorities say.
The city is experiencing a prolonged heatwave with extreme temperatures to persist until the end of June.
On Thursday, officials said it was the hottest June day since record keeping began in 1961.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-65984383
According to KNMI, the previous record for June was 40.6C, set in 1961, so we are only talking half a degree higher, which hardly justifies the BBC’s hysteria.
But since 1961, Beijing has been transformed out of all recognition; roads, high rise buildings, traffic and industry have replaced the city of Mao’s time. Unquestionably UHI is now adding at least a couple of degrees to today’s temperatures.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Was it climate change that caused the hotter day 60 years ago?
all that bike pedalling giving off CO2
—and probably methane…
naw it was Wuhan flu
Higher than rural CO2 in urban air is part and parcel of the UHI, and on bad days Beijing now gets up past 520 PPM, 100ppm above the global average.
see
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 26 Jan 2018
Characteristics of CO2 Concentration and Flux in the Beijing Urban Area
X. L. Cheng, X. M. Liu, Y. J. Liu, F. Hu
https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JD027409
9 million bicycles….
Next to be found in London.
Not to mention the population of Beijing was barely 2 million after the war, 3 million in 1960 and now over 21 million. It sprawls over such an area that there are at least 5 ring roads.
I’m going to look up the population of Bejing 60 years ago compared to today…
This is most appropriately called, “hot weather.”
Millions of air-conditioning units chucking out heat will help too.
http://www.chinatoday.com/entertain/pictures_from_china_2017/fully_air_conditioned_building.htm
Paul, as so often, you hit the nail on the head. I have long been convinced that nothing like enough attention is paid to the impact of UHI. If I may:
Paul, so much of your output is necessarily devoted to fact-checking/correcting the BBC propaganda machine that I begin to wonder whether you should set-up a linked site solely for that purpose to bring home to people just what a torrent it is, as well as being a reference site for real world data. You could call it, say, Verify BBC.
“Unquestionably UHI is now adding at least a couple of degrees to today’s temperatures.”
Add to that that the measurement system has changed. Back then, there were only a few measurements per day. A person had to actually go to the measuring station and look at the thermometer. Nowadays, there is an automatic reading every minute (or more frequent??). More measurements per day make for a higher chance to get an extreme value.
I had a statistics teacher that was fond of saying, “You get what you measure.” It follows if you are bound and determine to tell people the Earth is warming, and you look hard enough, you will find some data, somewhere, no matter how irrelevant of improperly measured; e.g., next to the tarmac, or in the city center at 4:oo PM on a clear day. Figures do not lie, but liars often figure.
“It goes without saying that the Earth looks nothing like this at all. Neither are GHGs “wreaking havoc”. And as CO2 is invisible, why try to persuade people it is not?”
Actually Paul may have stumbled on something very big here. Remember the clown show puppet St Greta of Stockholm claiming she could see CO2? Well to do that she would have to have “eyes” which were sensitive to the ultra far infra red end of the electromagnetic spectrum. With all this talk about aliens of late, maybe she was telling the truth. Could it be she be one, she certainly looks odd.
Remember the movie The Arrival with Charlie Sheen?
Shock, Horror spotted on Al Beeb!!!…..Friday 23rd June 06.56 – Just heard a story on the Toady programme where they discussed a verboten narrative: climate change being ‘beneficial’!
Large Tortoise shell and Long Tail Blue butterflies – LTS, thought to have gone extinct in England back in the 1970’s making a return to southern England and the LTB breeding in increasing numbers.
Expect story to be spiked before 08:00………..
My visa was delayed when my work sent me to Beijing in 2012.
The day I should of arrived a torrential downpour caused flooding.
People in cars drowned. The week after I left the smog came down killing more.
Bad planning on drains not designed to handle torrential downpour caused the flooding and deaths. This can be fixed.
But the massive expansion of people with many more switching from bicycles to cars and how close the smog polluting industry is not so easy to fix.
Massive increase in public transport would help.
Working from home more would also help
Electric cars might be the only other answer. The same is true in other cities like Mexico and India.