Visualizing the Urban Heat Island

I found myself explaining the Urban Heat Island to a cop a few nights ago after a lady in the neighborhood called the cops on me for planting trees on city property next to her house. This is the second time this has happened to me in the town I live in, a region inhabited by a populace that I (only half-jokingly) frequently refer to as “ hating trees ”. For many, this is hard to understand : why…