Actually, light surfaces reflect heat just as dark surfaces absorb them. I restore the black color on my driveway about every other year because surface snow and ice will actually start melting in the mid-20's when the sun is out. It saves me a lot of work on scraping and a lot of money on ice-melt chemicals since 25 degrees or so is an average winter high for SW Pennsylvania.

On the downside, of course, I have to put up with a driveway which is extra hot in the summertime. But the science of surface coloring, unlike the science of global warming, is sound. If global warming were a real problem, this would be a far more realistic remedy than cap and trade, CO2 emission regulations and some of the other cockamamie solutions being bantered about.

Here's another logical remedy:

Qattara Depression

If Greenland melted down completely, 88% of the excess water produced could be contained by flooding the uninhabited Qatarra Depression in northwest Egypt, producing thousands of miles of valuable lakefront property, generating electrical power as water flowed from the Medditerranean to the depression and potentially turning much of the surrounding Sahara Desert into arable land.

It took Greenland 18,000 years to accumulate as much ice as it has now. How long do you think it will take it to melt?

How long do you think it will take the global warming Chicken Littles to even propose a simple countermeasure such as this?