Extreme Heat

From Brian Stone and The City and the Coming Climate - -

"A key planning challenge confronting the most densely populated regions of the planet today concerns the extent to which rising levels of heat will threaten human health in the coming decades.  Extreme heat presently accounts for more weather-related deaths per year than any other form of extreme weather; in fact, extreme heat is more deadly than all other forms of extreme weather combined.  Although global-scale climate change is projected to bring more intense storm events and extensive flooding due to rising seal levels, it is quite likely that the rising level of heat at the root of these problems will itself constitute the greatest threat to human health in cities.  Thus, there is a critical need for data on the pace of warming trends underway at the urban scale."

The Urban Climate Lab at Georgia Tech has developed an urban-scale temperature-trend analysis.  The seeks to address the basic question - - "Are large cities warming more rapidly than the planet as a whole?"