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Heat from North American cities causing warmer winters, study finds
2013-01-27 20:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Those who wonder why large parts of North America seem to be skipping winter have a new answer in addition to climate change: big city life. A study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, found that the heat thrown off by major metropolitan areas on America's east coast caused winter warming across large areas of North America, thousands of miles away from those cities. Winter warming was detected as far away as the Canadian prairies. In some remote areas, temperature rose by as much...
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