The city UHI factor did not just appear when the climate change acceleration took place.
It's always been there over these last century(s).
(UHI now) - ( UHI back then) = the d(UHI) factor. Doing that arithmetic results a positive number; in other words, a net gain from the UHI factor.
The UHI contribution is responding to the atmosphere's ability to store more thermal energy than it had prior to the Industrial Revolution ... just like the ambient planet is. It just so happens to be that the environmental prompt of the urban setting is so conducive to heating, it responds faster than the open terrain of rural regions. But his ability to respond quicker is not an offset argument to CC - it's ironically more of a metaphoric thermometer that exposes more heat quotient available to the UHIs. Not sure what's motivating your question, but it's air apparent ( pun hopefully annoying ...) that people that attempt to ply the argument of exaggerated heat, have less learned and/or native understanding that the science is simply more right, whereas the less educated/intelligentsia are more wrong for even thinking that idea is correct. Utterly false
Op Ed beyond this point: Which is why I blame the science community for a lot the sociological stigma to climate change. It was never brought forth the way it should have been. In stead of breaking press to the media as finger wagging doom, this should have been handled in the Pentagon, as it is both a national and global security risk. Top down corruption may also have blocked this, granted, but just living through the last 40 years of zeitgeist, one does not get the feeling this approach was really even attempted in that order/consideration. Instead, it was a PR failure to attack the custom of that cultural heritage - which was entirely built by the energy provided by fossil fuels...etc..etc.
That was skeptically processed ( probably) as something else in a world where media has degraded its credibility spanning that same time - and gotten far worse. This is like ... intuitively automatic at this point. "Media" has become a veritable ongoing movie, thematically a comedy over a backdrop of dystopian colors. And now with AI obfuscating truth and fiction, what trust could remain... Good luck with Greenland and Antarctica ice sheet failures and ocean catastrophic rises now.
The biggest failure of the scientific ambit's PR tactic was not the the climate is changing. The problem isn't global warming. It's not. Yeah...the world has been warmer, and colder, over geologic history.
The problem is lack of understanding that the human species, like every species on the planet, in inextricably dependent on the health and vitality of the whole systemic ecology of the planet. That's always been the failure. Humanity has created this industrial bubble, within which we are very successful at creating surpluses, and options in the ongoing survival motif. Over successive generations...this has become entitled. And part of sense of abstract entitlement is an utterly suspended disbelief that these advantages could be taken away, that they are immutable - thus ... "we'll be fine".
We won't be. ...unless we win the technological race against our own demise... Maybe some tech will be invented, just in time, that restores the system back from the edge, bringing back vitality by turning on some sort of sci-fi-bilator
This is an illusion in the bubble. We are still alive because of the immeasurable vastness of species interaction in the Gaia-life, the ecology of the whole planet. And that ecology is fragile. Life evolved within certain tolerance bandwidths, one of which is the exceptionally complex way in which temperature effects environments. When the temperature changes at a faster rate than the adaptation rate of the ecology's constituent codependencies, by the time observations are made that suggest stress, stressing had already begun. Failure is by then imminent. Diasporas trigger problems when species flee to new, unfamiliar realms to survive [enter the Gaia bible here ] ... culminating in extinctions. Remove enough keystone species from the entire ecological scaffolding of the world, and the world crumbles. The mass extinction events in Earth's history were linked to sudden disruptions in the environmental status quo, kind of like a billion years worth of fossil fuel stowed in the Earth, being liberated in just 300 years by an innovating agency that has no checks and balances built in to modulate the roll-out of its technologies - certainly not for using oil. And now? we're ironically too inextricably linked to using it, to abruptly stop would unfortunately represent a problem, huh.
You know ...the greatest natural disaster to have ever occurred on this planet might in fact turnout to be the advent of human innovation.