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Paint cities white to tackle global warming, scientist says
telegraph.co.uk ^ | January 16, 2009 | Jon Swaine

Posted on 01/19/2009 5:20:25 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

Hashem Akbari believes that whitening 100 of the world's largest cities could wipe out the effect of the expected increase in emissions over the next decade.

White buildings and surfaces reflect far more sunlight than dark ones. Reflected sunlight does not contribute to the greenhouse effect, unlike the heat energy emitted by dark surfaces heated by the sun.

Dr Akbari, of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, also argues that if built-up areas were made white, less heat would accumulate within them, allowing residents and workers to reduce their use of air-conditioning units, which use a large amount of power.

Dr Akbari has calculated that making 100 of the largest cities white would increase the amount of sunlight reflected by Earth by 0.03 per cent. He believes it would cancel out the warming caused by 44billion tonnes of carbon emissions.

He told The Guardian: "Roofs are going to have to be changed one by one and to make that effort at a very local level, we need to have an organisation in place to make it happen."

He argued that while the move would not address the cause of climate change - rising carbon emissions - it would delay its effects.

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KEYWORDS: agw; globalwarming; moonbats; whitepaint
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To: TaxRelief

Who’s going to bury the last guy?

a Democrat Congressional Detail


41 posted on 01/19/2009 6:24:47 PM PST by Son House (Mr. Øbama, Your Tax Increases Are Decreasing Job Opportunities)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Isn’t it inspiring that a man with severe mental retardation can become a research scientist?


42 posted on 01/19/2009 6:37:38 PM PST by TheWasteLand
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Well, there goes Ray Nagin’s Chocolate City.


43 posted on 01/19/2009 6:43:29 PM PST by FReepaholic (Diversity = .45 .357 .223 .38 ...)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Wait until this chucklehead notices that all roads are BLACK.

Then he’ll be selling a book that Global Warming is due to the reflective black roads that the evil mankind has pasted all around the globe.


44 posted on 01/19/2009 6:47:13 PM PST by R0CK3T
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Wait until this chucklehead notices that all roads are BLACK.

Then he’ll be selling a book that Global Warming is due to the reflective black roads that the evil mankind has pasted all around the globe.


45 posted on 01/19/2009 6:47:15 PM PST by R0CK3T
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To: Free ThinkerNY

These climate change people are out of their minds.


46 posted on 01/19/2009 7:06:21 PM PST by Force of Truth (Sarah Palin in 2012!!!!!! WOOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

If everybody starts wearing “whiteface” makeup wont that be considered racist?


47 posted on 01/19/2009 8:18:18 PM PST by pankot
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To: madison10

Now, THAT’S racist!


48 posted on 01/19/2009 8:19:56 PM PST by pankot
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To: Starfleet Command

That is what D.C. should be renamed. What if a bunch of Freepers painted all the signs at the entrance to D.C. “HELL” in red paint? Now there would be a practical joke for the ages.


49 posted on 01/19/2009 8:25:33 PM PST by pankot
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Two words....Minas Tirith


50 posted on 01/19/2009 8:54:10 PM PST by ak267
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To: MovementConservative

But what if its a “Chocolate City”?


51 posted on 01/20/2009 10:10:21 AM PST by Holicheese (Get up Tom Brady, get up! PLEASE!!)
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To: TaxRelief

The killers.


52 posted on 01/20/2009 5:26:29 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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