Climate News NowTrees are countering nearly half the urban heating from pavement and buildings in the world’s cities, but they’re not doing enough cooling in hotter, poorer cities where it’s needed the most as the world warms, a new study found. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming
Trees cut extra city heat by half, but not quite fairly, study says
Tree cover globally cools nearly half the warming from built-up cities, but it’s doing it more in richer, cooler areas and less in hotter poorer areas where it’s needed most. Wednesday's study looked at how trees are cooling areas in each of the Earth’s nearly 9,000 large cities to counter the urban heat island effect. Researchers found a global average of 0.27 degrees Fahrenheit of cooling. But trees provide almost zero cooling in some places especially in the Middle East, while boosting cooling nearly a degree in richer already chillier places like Berlin. The study’s lead author says “trees won’t save us from climate change.”
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