A new study published in the scientific peer-reviewed journal, Climate, by 37 researchers from 18 countries suggests that current estimates of global warming are contaminated by urban warming biases. The IPCC estimated that urban warming accounted for less than 10% of global warming recorded in government temperature datasets. However, this new study shows that urban warming accounts for 40% of the warming. The study also suggests that the solar activity estimates considered in the most recent reports by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) likely underestimated the role of the Sun in global warming since the 19th century.
[ceres-science.com]