Told you that square was a hot public space

Sounds great! I can ride the thermal in my hang-glider ,while waiting for a serving of slow-cooked Eggs King George.

so the urban heat island effect is real. BOM better put a temp measuring station there so they can tell us proof of warming is proof of man made warming.

Yawn....heat island.

EPIC FAIL.

Sounds like a typical site for a temperature monitoring station.

When teh boards came down I immediately dubbed the new look KGS as ‘Queensland’s Biggest Solar Oven’.

Imagine the tourism opportunities! Brisbanians can take a cold collation and have it cooked free - and emission free - while they pop into the Museum of Brisbane. Don’t tell me that our newly ‘greened’ Lord Mayor didn’t have that in mind as part of his Big Green Heart Brisbane promotion!

When the cops stop cracking down on young folk in the valley for their kicks and decide to have another go at the homeless they could rig up a large magnifier and evaporate the problem like ants.

And if the heat gets too much just string some wire across from the ‘wedge’ to Town, sorry City, Hall and grow some nice wisteria, or even grapes if Cr Newman wants to emphasise local food production.

Cheers
Jeff

Graham - did you notice this bit in the article?

While’s Brisbane’s maximum temperature was 35.1C yesterday, the square was in its own climate zone.

Thermometer readings revealed the air temperature (in the shade) in the square around midday averaged 39C, before dipping around 2pm.

This is hardly surprising in the concrete canyons of inner Brisbane. Just a bit of UHI. Taking radiant heat readings and comparing them to standard air temperatures .... wouldn’t that be stretching just a tad? An elementary mistake which I am sure you corrected him on.

btw, how are the trees growing?

This is exactly why there has been “global warming” for the past century- - Urban Heat Islands. Rural weather stations in the USA have shown NO warming in the past 100 years.

Actually Graham, you guys could turn this into a good business opportunity.

Keep taking these readings and soon you will have enough data to sell to UEA, I hear they are a little short on raw data these days.  UEA could then claim that the data came from a private source and thus is not subject to FOI requests.

Failing that, I am sure that NASA could do with a few more readings like that.