Urbanization Increases Temperatures in China
Rapid urban growth in China has caused its average temperature to rise at least twice as fast as anywhere else in the world, according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences released Tuesday.
Even after removing the heating due to the greenhouse effect, Georgia Institute of Technology scientists reported, changes from a rural society to a more urban one increased average temperature over China by about 0.09 degrees per decade, twice as fast as the highest estimate for the U.S., and more than 10 times faster than estimates for the whole globe.
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