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Roads, roofs and other built surfaces absorb solar energy during the day and release it as heat after sunset, so a dense downtown can be measurably warmer than the countryside around it. This is the [tooltip tip=\\\"urban heat island effect\\\"]A phenomenon in which an urban area is warmer than the surrounding rural area because of differences in surfaces, vegetation and human activity.[\\\/tooltip], and it is one of the clearest examples of how the built environment shapes local climate.[cite id=\\\"epa-heat-islands\\\" type=\\\"web\\\" author=\\\"literal:United States Environmental Protection Agency\\\" title=\\\"What Are Heat Islands?\\\" year=\\\"2025\\\" url=\\\"https:\\\/\\\/www.epa.gov\\\/heatislands\\\/what-are-heat-islands\\\"]<\\\/p>\\n\\n\\n\\n
Vegetation behaves differently. Trees cast shade, and plants release water through [tooltip tip=\\\"evapotranspiration\\\"]The transfer of water from land and vegetation into the atmosphere through evaporation and plant transpiration.[\\\/tooltip], which cools the air around them. The height and spacing of buildings matters too, because it governs how much shade there is and how easily stored heat escapes at night.[cite id=\\\"urban-climates-2017\\\" type=\\\"book\\\" author=\\\"Oke, T. R.; Mills, Gerald; Christen, Andreas; Voogt, James A.\\\" title=\\\"Urban Climates\\\" year=\\\"2017\\\" publisher=\\\"Cambridge University Press\\\" place=\\\"Cambridge\\\" isbn=\\\"9781107429536\\\"][footnote]A heat island is not the same thing as a heat wave. A heat wave is a spell of unusually hot weather; a heat island is a persistent temperature difference between a city and its surroundings.[\\\/footnote]<\\\/p>\\n\\n\\n\\n
A systematic review of urban greening studies found that green spaces were generally cooler than comparable places without them.[cite id=\\\"bowler-2010\\\" type=\\\"journal\\\" author=\\\"Bowler, Diana E.; Buyung-Ali, Lisette; Knight, Teri M.; Pullin, Andrew S.\\\" title=\\\"Urban greening to cool towns and cities: A systematic review of the empirical evidence\\\" container=\\\"Landscape and Urban Planning\\\" volume=\\\"97\\\" issue=\\\"3\\\" pages=\\\"147-155\\\" year=\\\"2010\\\" doi=\\\"10.1016\\\/j.landurbplan.2010.05.006\\\"] That is not the same as saying a few street trees will cool a whole city, because a reading taken inside a park answers a different question than one taken across a metropolitan area.[footnote]Scale and measurement method matter when comparing greening studies. Cooling measured inside a park should not be read as an equivalent city-wide drop in air temperature.[\\\/footnote]<\\\/p>\\n\\n\\n\\n
Research on heat-related deaths shows wide variation between populations, which tells us that risk depends on who is exposed as much as on the temperature itself.[cite id=\\\"hajat-2010\\\" type=\\\"journal\\\" author=\\\"Hajat, Shakoor; Kosatky, Tom\\\" title=\\\"Heat-related mortality: a review and exploration of heterogeneity\\\" container=\\\"Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health\\\" volume=\\\"64\\\" issue=\\\"9\\\" pages=\\\"753-760\\\" year=\\\"2010\\\" pmid=\\\"19692725\\\"] Age, housing, access to cooling and night-time temperatures all shape the outcome, so the same forecast means very different things on different streets.[cite id=\\\"bowler-2010\\\"]<\\\/p>\\n\\n\\n\\n
Notice that the last marker reuses an earlier source: cite the same ID twice and CiteKit reuses its original number instead of adding a duplicate entry.<\\\/p>\\n\\n\\n\\n
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Can I reuse the same reference across multiple posts?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
What is the difference between a tooltip and a glossary term?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
What is the difference between a tooltip and a footnote?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
How are footnotes numbered?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
What's the difference between the Footnotes by CiteKit block and WordPress's built-in Footnotes block?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Is this a replacement for Zotero or EndNote?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does this work with the block editor?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does CiteKit support custom post types?<\/h3><\/dt>\n