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Los Angeles painting city streets white in bid to combat climate change
Fox News ^ | 4/10/18 | Fedschun

Posted on 04/10/2018 12:45:48 PM PDT by pabianice

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To: z3n

Don’t know if this helps but it’s from the article.

“While most cool pavements on the market are polymer based,
CoolSeal is a water-based, asphalt emulsion.”


41 posted on 04/10/2018 1:11:19 PM PDT by deport
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To: pabianice
It won't battle Global Climate Change, but it will battle another known weather phenomenon known as Urban Heat Island effect.

UHI has been responsible for poorly sited weather reporting stations to record higher temperatures that led to the myth of global warming.

The station pictured below is but one example:


42 posted on 04/10/2018 1:11:41 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: pabianice

And paint is so environmentally friendly, right? Not to mention, think of all the union government jobs that will need to be created/maintained, just to keep up the paint, fix up patches, etc., while the maintenance trucks are out burning gasoline, creating pollution.

Shaking head......


43 posted on 04/10/2018 1:11:51 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: pabianice

“While each coasting could can last up to seven years . . .”

Who edits these stories?

In any event, the durability of the coatings seems tentative. I can’t image a coating lasting for years while being beaten daily by thousands of cars and trucks weighing tons.

Truly a silly idea. When my son was 13 he could have ran their road department better.


44 posted on 04/10/2018 1:12:59 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: pabianice
A minuscule section of road in the size of Earth is going to make a difference in any weather? How long will that paint last with cars driving over it? The easier thing would be for Moonbeam to tax climate change and it'll just leave and go elsewhere.

Now to go and put some carbon in the air.

45 posted on 04/10/2018 1:13:39 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: pabianice

I think that they should dig up all the asphalt and let it go back to natural. That is the most environmentally friendly way.


46 posted on 04/10/2018 1:14:18 PM PDT by jrestrepo (See you all in Galt's gulch)
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To: NEMDF

Every greasy dirty black rubber tire that rolls down that street will leave its prints. I dare them to show a picture of that street a day AFTER this paint job was dry.


47 posted on 04/10/2018 1:14:24 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: pabianice

” -———reduced the temperature of roadways by up to 10 degrees.”


This could mean as little as 1 degree. Someone is making a ton of money on this.

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48 posted on 04/10/2018 1:17:08 PM PDT by Mears
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To: deport

Nothing on their website says how it’s manufactured.
http://guardtop.com/products/

However, I still seem to recall that a lot of the chemicals to make polymers and paints are petrochemicals


49 posted on 04/10/2018 1:17:19 PM PDT by z3n
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testing shows has reduced the temperature of roadways by up to 10 degrees

Wonder what the increase in skin cancer/sun block usage will be for the neighborhood.

50 posted on 04/10/2018 1:20:13 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: Little Pig

Why not use white concrete BECAUSE CA. is chock full of IDIOTS, I can say this because I unfortunately live here!!!!


51 posted on 04/10/2018 1:20:39 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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"Officials in Los Angeles have been painting streets white to reduce the effect of urban "heat islands" and combat the effects of climate change."

Los Angeles paints its roads white* (that’s racist / sarc) while California gives 1,000,000+ CO2-exhaling illegal aliens driver’s licenses so that the illegals can drive vehicles that produce hot exhaust that also contains CO2.

More Than 1 Million Illegal Aliens Have Received California Driver’s Licenses

What’s wrong with this picture?

* "The project involves applying a light gray [emphasis added] coating of the product CoolSeal, made by the company GuardTop."

52 posted on 04/10/2018 1:20:39 PM PDT by Amendment10
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"....so the first night you drive down a road thats painted white obliterating the the double white lines indicating no passing could lead to interesting stories"

53 posted on 04/10/2018 1:21:15 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: pabianice

Having a Shaman do an adapted rain dance would be just as useful.

Who says civilization has advanced?


54 posted on 04/10/2018 1:21:27 PM PDT by PGR88
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RE: Los Angeles painting city streets white in bid to combat climate change

If black does not help combat climate change and white does, there are all sorts of implications, some of which cannot be mentioned if you don’t want the “R” word thrown at you.


55 posted on 04/10/2018 1:22:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: pabianice

They will need to mandate white tires as black tires will change the road surface back to black.


56 posted on 04/10/2018 1:25:06 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Mr. K

Article says the coating passed traction standards


57 posted on 04/10/2018 1:25:38 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: pabianice

bet the trees near by will start dying due to reflective heat.

may do more damage to cars or anything else on the road or catching reflected heat close to the road.


58 posted on 04/10/2018 1:26:49 PM PDT by b4me (God Bless the USA)
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To: pabianice

Crooks wearing white hoodies just might be less noticeable.

59 posted on 04/10/2018 1:26:52 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: Cold Heart

https://www.theonion.com/los-angeles-painting-streets-white-to-offset-climate-ch-1819563740

The Onion called this last September.

With these liberals, it’s satire today, but reality tomorrow


60 posted on 04/10/2018 1:27:34 PM PDT by captaincaveman
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