Urbanisation and macroclimates?
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Urbanization is a natural expansion of an existing population, namely the proportion of total population or area in urban localities or areas (cities and towns), or the increase of this proportion over time. It can thus represent a level of urban population relative to total population of the area, or the rate at which the urban proportion is increasing. Both can be expressed in percentage terms, the rate of change expressed as a percentage per year, millenia or period between censuses. Urbanization can result from either:\n\n    * an increase in the extent of urban areas\n    * an increase in the density of urban areas\n\nFor instance, the United States or United Kingdom have a far higher urbanisation level than China, India or Nigeria, but a far slower annual urbanisation rate, since much less of the population is living in a rural area while in the process of moving to the city. Australia is at the opposite of the former two in terms of urbanisation rate but also the latter three in urbanisation level, making it one of the most urbanised countries in the world.\nThe city of Los Angeles is an example of urbanisation.\nThe city of Los Angeles is an example of urbanisation.\n\nThe rate of urbanisation over time is distinct from the rate of urban growth, which is the rate at which the urban population or area increases in a given period relative to its own size at the start of that period. The urbanisation rate represents the increase in the proportion of the urban population over the period.\n\nIn terms of a place, urbanisation means increased spatial scale and/or density of settlement and/or business and other activities in the area over time. The process could occur either as natural expansion of the existing population (usually not a major factor since urban reproduction tends to be lower than rural), the transformation of peripheral population from rural to urban, incoming migration, or a combination of these.\n\nIn either case, urbanisation has profound effects on the ecology of a region and on its economy. Urban sociology also observes that people's psychology and lifestyles change in an urban environment.\n\nThe increase in spatial scale is often called "urban sprawl". It is frequently used as a derogatory term by opponents of large-scale urban peripheral expansion especially for low-density urban development on or beyond the city fringe. Sprawl is considered unsightly and undesirable by those critics, who point also to diseconomies in travel time and service provision and the danger of social polarisation through suburbanites' remoteness from inner-city problems.\n\nThe zones created for air movement due to buildings, lakes and drains and the pollution sets up a climate within the city. This can have detrimental effects like Smog.
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Not really naive. Take a look at Venice, it is both an example of how bad a society can screw up it's environment and how little of an impact that change can have on society. Venice was originally above the water level. The Venetians withdrew too much water form the ground; this caused the ground level to sink below sea level as the sub-strait compacted. The result: a city with canals that tourists travel from all over the world to see. Man made disaster? Hardly. Never underestimate humans ability to screw up their environment and their ability to adapt, even to prosper form it. \n\nSo it is going to get 1 or 2 degrees warmer; who cares, nothing lives at the ice caps any way.
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its a temperate climate
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Urbanization happens when groups of people aggregate to form larger groups, in terms of both population and space, usually for mutual benefit.\n\nHistorically, urbanization happens in key locations such as shipping, cultural, and agricultural centers where people come together to exploit the benefits of the location.  Births and migration forces the expansion of commerce, industry, and arts to support a growing population, which in turn brings more people.\n\nThere are some great articles out there.  Try wiki.
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Climate and Weather:\nhttp://www.gov.pe.ca/infopei/index.php3?number=856&lang=E\n\nAnything else can probably be found in the links below.
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No.  If the planet were on a cooling trend, and stayed that way for a while, it might be heading towards a periodic Ice Age, as it has done in the past.  We would consume a lot more of outr limited energy resources just to keep ourselves warm.  Also, don't worry so much about Global Warming.  As I said before, nature goes through these cycles of warming and cooling.  Yes. humans have an impact, but it is small.
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Actually, global warming would lead to stronger storms which make larger hail. I think this idea you have said about hail decreasing in size over time is wrong because it doesn't make much sense.
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combination of theses but the weather has a lot to do with it
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Check under Science and Mathematics.\n\nthere is an Environment category.
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Probably Calcutta, India. The normal summer temperature in this large metropolis often rises above 115 F. I met some lovely people from Calcutta during graduate school. They told me that often it would get so hot in the evenings during their summer season that they would have to sleep on the roof! Also, many of the homes in Calcutta don't have air conditioning. Now THAT would be a hot place! San Antonio, Texas seems cool compared to this!
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There are many websites that could help you with this answer - I would first try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning and the website for the APA at http://www.planning.org/ to help you get your answers.\n\nGood Luck!!!
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Human Activity\nMunicipal Wastewater and Solid waste\nLand Development\nMaterial Consumption
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The most striking immediate change accompanying urbanization is the rapid change in the prevailing character of local livelihoods as agriculture or more traditional local services and small-scale industry give way to modern industry and urban and related commerce, with the city drawing on the resources of an ever-widening area for its own sustenance and goods to be traded or processed into manufactures.\n\nResearch in urban ecology finds that larger cities provide more specialized goods and services to the local market and surrounding areas, function as a transportation and wholesale hub for smaller places, and accumulate more capital, financial service provision, and an educated labor force, as well as often concentrating administrative functions for the area in which they lie. This relation among places of different sizes is called the urban hierarchy.\n\nAs cities develop, effects can include a dramatic increase in rents, often pricing the local working class out of the market, including such functionaries as employees of the local municipalities. Supermarkets and schools sometimes relocate or close down owing to the same financial pressure. Dramatic increases in land values also encourage further development, and may bring an increased tax revenue for local government.\n\nIn order to mitigate the problems of city growth, certain policies such as zoning or growth control or creation of an urban growth boundary are put in place, although the eventual effect of those policies sometimes turn out to be inflated land and housing prices due to a restricted supply.
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www.ineedajobandgirlinthis climate.com
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Follow the following links ::\nhttp://www.discoverybangladesh.com/meetbangladesh/climate.html\nOR\nhttp://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/bg.html
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1.  Yes, temperatures actually have been rising - in certain places.  2.  No, it isn't too early to make predictions, as long as they are based on sound, unbiased scientific findings.  3. I believe that the warming is being driven by both people and natural causes.  We can do something about the former, but not the latter.  To what degree (no pun intended) each one is a factor is still up in the air, I think.  4.  Yes, it certainly could benefit some regions of the earth, but it would damage many populated regions tremendously.  That's why we need to try to slow down the human contribution a.s.a.p.
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Climate Change, Enviromnetal stuff, Threatened Habitats decreasing... the list is endless!! Oh, have I metioned Obesity?