By Kirye
and Pierre
The meteorological summer 2021 has ended and the mean SUMMER annual temperature data for Tokyo and Hachijojima island are now available from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).
Today we plot Tokyo’s mean summer temperature going back 27 years. There’s been no rise over the period. In fact the plot shows a slight cooling trend:
Data source: JMA
Also an volcanic island – Hachijojima – belonging to Tokyo located in the middle of the ocean 287 kilometers south of Tokyo saw a mean summer temperature this year of 24.3°C. For Hachijojima we plot the summer mean data going back more than 80 years, to 1940:
Data source: JMA
Hachijojima
The rural features of the island Hachijojima make it ideal for eliminating the urban heat island effect that we would expect to find in the huge sprawling metropolis of Tokyo. As the summer mean temperatures show, there’s been no summertime warming since 1940. The climate there in terms of temperature is no different than it was in 1940!
The hottest summers were decades ago.
As we mentioned earlier, the urban heat island effect is clearly visible when we compare the data from Tokyo and Hachijojima:
Tokyo’s maximum daily temperature has been rising much faster than that of Hachijojima. It’s not CO2.
“The rural features of the island Hachijojima make it ideal for eliminating the urban heat island effect that we would expect to find in the huge sprawling metropolis of Tokyo.”
I’ve pretty much validated that theory with my research. Here is a large collection of locations that show no continual warming trend. Volatility yes, up-trend, no. Antarctica is the ideal location to test this theory. Identify locations that are controlled for the UHI, Water Vapor and Albedo effects, and you will get no warming. Here is the evidence. These locations are selected to isolate the impact of CO2 on warming.
https://imgur.com/a/CDasqHH
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