It's NOT CO2!-----Media Scapegoat Fossil Fuels For Heat Waves, But Experts Say Asphalt, Cityscapes Real Culprit - Climate Change Dispatch

Media Scapegoat Fossil Fuels For Heat Waves, But Experts Say Asphalt, Cityscapes Real Culprit - Climate Change Dispatch

Heat waves bring a barrage of dramatic media reports.

• This summer’s heat wave solicited a headline in the San Francisco Chronicle that claimed that 120 degrees is comparable to a pizza oven. Commercial pizza ovens are closer to 1,000 degrees, and home-baked pizzas are cooked between 425 and 500 degrees. 
• With the heat wave bearing down on the West Coast, the Los Angeles Times editorial board argued that life would be better if we just got rid of fossil fuels...

When it comes to mitigating warming, even if we eliminated all carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels today, it would be over a century before concentrations in the atmosphere would decline to preindustrial levels....
“Heat flux is just a fancy scientific word for heat,” he said. 

• It includes the heat that comes off of pavement, as well as the heat from air conditioning. 
• Air conditioners cool spaces by removing heat, which is then ejected out of a building, raising temperatures within cities...