Paint cities white to tackle global warming, scientist says

telegraph.co.uk ^ | January 16, 2009 | Jon Swaine

[gorush]

Reminds me of “High Plains Drifter”.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[MovementConservative]

That would probably be viewed as a giant palate for all the taggers and other graffiti ‘artists’ out there.

[max americana]

Paint it white..where’s the ‘That’s racist!’ GIF/mpg with the black kid?

[A message]

Cuckoo..cuckoo..cuckoo...cuckoo.....

[rickmichaels]

Paint cities white?

[TrueKnightGalahad]

Unless, of course, we’re headed for the deep freeze of global cooling, in which case the reflective white surfaces would accelerate the process. Then we’d have to re-paint everything black, to absorb the solar energy. In either case, I guess a play in Sherwin-Williams and Benamin Moore would be indicated. :-)

[Phantom Lord]

About as smart as covering all the glaciers with coal dust during the global cooling nonsense of the 70’s.

[babubabu]

check out this site

http://wattsupwiththat.com/

seems more reputable than gore

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[madison10]

Hey, dude, didn’t you hear? There is NO global warming. The earth is getting cooler, not warmer. We should probably be painting our houses chocolate brown.

[uglybiker]

[Wiseghy]

As wacky as this sounds, it does point up the problem of Micro-climate impacts.

Unlike other climate effects, the impact of urban paving may be easier to account for. Indeed, it may account for the recorded tempeture increases seen in many “Global” Warming studies, as development around century old weather stations increases.

Desertification if another micro-climate effect that is also quite real and well documented.

[ArmyTeach]

No, plant trees! Lots of them! Make it mandatory to plant trees along every highway divider and between the parking lanes in shopping mall parking lots. Reasons: 1) trees look pretty 2) trees consume CO2. 3) trees convert CO2 to oxygen! Didn't we learn that in high school or earlier?

[o_zarkman44]

Dark buildings in the winter retain more heat and cost less to heat.
Give the paint brushes to the obamacorps and direct them to their service /sarc

[SunkenCiv]

Okay, maybe one more. Better to move everyone underground and plant trees on top. Yeah, that’s the ticket. We’ll all be dead and buried within four years from today anyway.

[TaxRelief]

Now this makes perfect sense. Using solar panels to ABSORB sunlight would have the opposite effect.

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