FedditHeat from traffic is contributing to rise in city temperatures, new study finds
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/heat-from-traff…
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shiningheroBetween this and the large swathes of asphalt for driving and parking, of course every city is boiling hot.
Stop routing highways through cities and start making bike lanes, dammit!
Heat sources contribute to rising temperatures. Weird.
Thousands of internal combustion engines. Go figure!
I ride motorcycles unless it’s snowing or free ing rain out as a cheap way to reduce carbon footprint. It’s incredible how much warmer it is when driving into cities, and as you pass cars you can feel the heat coming out from underneath them. I have tried to explain to climate change bay Sayers that just the heat we throw out of vehicles and ac units and coming off black roads etc adds to the global temp nevermind the emissions!
The normalization of car-based infrastructure is one of the biggest fuck-ups of civilization. The negative effects just keep on going
We dont even realize how much impact it has.
Lets take China, they only switched from ice to evs, and there are so quiet. What would you achieve if you wont have car infrastructure at this scale
Look I get the point people are making about cars but the basics of this is just stupid. Things that generate heat contribute to the overall temperature?!
empireOfLove2Next they’re gonna tell me the widespread use of air conditioning heat pumps also generates heat island effects!!!
Yeah, cities have been heat islands for millennia. This is just another thing on the pile. Plant trees, put solar on roofs, use waste heat for building heat (in cities is basically the only place this makes sense).
NakedmoleWhat a surprise! Who would have thought hat having thousands of gasoline powered radiators driving around 24/7 would generate heat in a city.
Obligatory !fuckcars@lemmy.world
WIZARD POPE💫Fork found in kitchen type findings.
Always did?
What is the point of a study that confirms what is already known? Paved streets are an even bigger contributor.
Obinicehaha, I was just thinking about how this is very noticeable here in Manchester, then saw the URL!
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.This just in! Hot things are hot and they make other things hot.
No shit? 🤦
I kinda thought that’s what the heat island effect was
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.
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
Heat from sun warming Earth.
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Ok bye.