A new study published in the latest issue of the journal Landscape and Research Planning, entitled “Managing climate change in cities: Will climate action plans work?” presents findings that show that: “Since the mid-20^th century, most large cities of the United States have been warming at more than twice the rate of the planet as a whole between 1961 and 2010.” The principal reason is the “urban heat island effect.” Their conclusions, based on the assessment of their research data, “suggest that the climate change management policies adopted through municipal and state climate action plans may fail to adequately protect human health and welfare from rapidly rising temperatures.” Their recommendations are “that municipal and state governments broaden climate action plans to include heat management strategies in addition to greenhouse gas emissions controls.”