A study shows Louisville may be getting hotter at a faster rate than other large U.S. cities
During the past 50 years, the annual average temperature at Louisville International Airport has been warming up about eight-tenths of a degree every 10 years — a rate that would add up to a sizable 8.3 degree increase over a century, according to Brian Stone Jr., a Georgia Institute of Technology city and regional planning professor who is studying rising urban temperatures and their consequences nationwide.
What’s more, Louisville’s rate of warming has outpaced rural areas and is more than double the rate planetwide. And the numbers also show that Louisville might be getting hotter faster than other large cities across the United States.
Congressman John Yarmuth (KY-3) announced that the Louisville Regional Airport Authority is receiving $6.6 million in federal funding for construction at Louisville International Airport. The funds will go toward completing work on the Taxiway Alpha project, which is designed to ensure Louisville can handle the largest and newest long-range commercial and passenger aircraft.
“Ever since the construction of UPS Worldport and the addition of thousands of new jobs in Louisville, the benefits of having an advanced and modern airport have been clear in our community,”
http://yarmuth.house.gov/press/yarmuth-announces-66-million-in-federal-funding-for-louisville-international-airport/
Maybe the article’s writer needs to do more research?
Wow – 1.8 degrees over a 50 year period.
And then I looked at the data over on the Weather Underground, and saw that in the 16 years that their “interviewee” has been running, the temperature has NOT CHANGED – NADA….nothing.
all in the name of the agenda…
Ooops…my bad, the site I quote will only give 1 year increments….so it’s not as easy as I hoped it would be. I’ll have to look deeper….apologies.