[HN Gopher] Nights are warming faster than days as Earth heats up
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       Nights are warming faster than days as Earth heats up
        
       Author : samizdis
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2022-07-17 18:16 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | bobbylarrybobby wrote:
       | Growing up, this is what my dad always commented on about
       | temperature changes (in the NYC area). "Sure, the daily high
       | isn't much higher than when I was growing up, but the overnight
       | temps are crazy high; up in the Hudson Valley, we used to almost
       | need blankets in the summer"
       | 
       | Not sure what my point is, other than the fact that, like
       | everything else in the sphere of climate change, if you've been
       | paying attention then nothing is really all that surprising.
        
         | jjtheblunt wrote:
         | I wonder if it's attributable to the asphalt and concrete
         | having proliferated.
         | 
         | North of Phoenix, where there are actual mountains and trails,
         | it's super clear that those materials hold heat for a long time
         | after sundown.
         | 
         | When hiking/walking trails, just after sundown the temp drops
         | very noticeably as one steps from concrete/asphalt to natural
         | dirt, within a few steps.
        
           | toomuchtodo wrote:
           | Is there a reason Phoenix (and Arizona in general) doesn't
           | use road/tarmac coatings to reflect the daytime heat?
           | 
           | https://reasonstobecheerful.world/reflective-white-
           | streets-u...
        
       | jimmygrapes wrote:
       | Gonna just add my standard "climate denier" take and remind
       | everyone that we've been in something of an "ice age" for a long
       | time relative to mean global temperature
       | (https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hotte...
       | for a simplistic explanation). Yeah we're accelerating it
       | unnecessarily, but it wasn't going to stay this cold forever
       | regardless. Probably that doesn't make anyone feel better about
       | it, but maybe it does for some.
        
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