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PugRexia t1_j6vfkdt wrote

It might be heavier than air but it's still a gas so it's really light, weather events, temperature, wind will all cause enough turbulence to disperse a plume and vertical mixing will send it up into the atmosphere. Think about it like a pile of feathers, they are light and a good gust of wind will send them scattering.

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kerfitten1234 t1_j6v2m7y wrote

Did you even read the paper? What the paper authors did was take a real heatwave (August '15 I think), model what the cities temps would have been with 30% more trees(something that requires a decent understanding of the effect you claim is just being 'discovered' here), calculate new death tolls from that, then compare the new death tolls with the real death tolls.

Your annoyance is misplaced, scientists know that trees make cities better in many ways, which is why they are performing studies like this one, to convince policymakers and developers to consider the benefits.

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real_bk3k t1_j6v04zw wrote

It's a problem in that some people imagine this is a real solution. I'm afraid we need real solutions to real problems, and Climate Change is a very real, very serious problem.

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