New Study Suggests Global Warming Could be Mostly an Urban Problem

New Study Suggests Global Warming Could be Mostly an Urban Problem - From CERES-Science

• A new study published in the scientific peer-reviewed journal, Climate, by 37 researchers from 18 countries suggests that current estimates of global warming are contaminated by urban warming biases.
• The study also suggests that the solar activity estimates considered in the most recent reports by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) likely underestimated the role of the Sun in global warming since the 19th century.

It is well-known that cities are warmer than the surrounding countryside. 

While urban areas only account for less than 4% of the global land surface, many of the weather stations used for calculating global temperatures are located in urban areas...

However, this new study suggests that urban warming might account for up to 40% of the warming since 1850.

Source: Maps taken from NOAA Climate.gov...