Kevin Scharfenberg
This story was posted on Yahoo last evening. Below is a snip of the first couple paragraphs. The results are what I've suspected for a long time... Urban heat island may explain a good chunk of the "warming" going on.
It's quite a stretch to take one study from California and extrapolate it to the entire globe. The most recent studies on global temperatures show that even when taking heat island/urbanization effects into account, there is still considerable warming at stations far from urban centers that cannot be explained.