Singapore is hot, and will get hotter but it has nothing to do with climate change - Urban Heat Island images show heat spots coinciding with new buildings

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

                                                                         2003

                                                                       2020

Singapore is hot, and will get hotter  but it has nothing to do with climate change. The images above extracted from Yale 's  Global Surface Urban Heat Island (UHI) Explorer    show heat spots coinciding with new buidings over a period of  approximately 20 years, between 2003 and 2020. 

These are images of heat islands captured at night, and show where heat has been trapped during the day and radiated at night. Suffice to say that heat is quite likely to be absorbed, or captured  by buildings and other concrete structures. 

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Reference  

Global Surface UHI Explorer

This app displays surface urban heat islands (SUHI) at a global scale from 2003 to 2020. Use the search bar or pan over the map to find your urban cluster of interest. Click anywhere within the boundary of an urban cluster, and the cluster mean statistics will be listed in the space below. You also have the option to subset and download the gridded SUHI intensity rasters for the selected urban cluster at the bottom of the panel.

Click here to read methodological details

SEE ALSO 

Singapore chooses hottest day to demonstrate in 2023 that it has an Urban Heat Island problem- BCA research demonstrated the same in 2004, Janet Nicol in 1994 -Both provided solutions that have not been implemented