The other day, the current Secretary of Energy Dr. Steven Chu was speaking at the "St James's Palace Nobel Laureate Symposium" in London which, if it is not the most pretentiously named meeting on the planet, it must be among the top five, told his laureateal colleagues that we should paint much of the world white to reflect heat back up into space and, thus, cure global warming. I am not making this up. Ok. I made up the word "laureateal" but the rest of this is true. From the London Times: Building regulations should insist that all flat roofs were painted white, and visible tilted roofs could be painted with "cool-coloured" paints that looked normal, but which absorbed much less heat than conventional dark surfaces. Roads could be lightened to a concrete colour so they would not dazzle drivers in bright sunlight...
Rich Galen says Secretary Chu recommended all roads and roofs be painted white to fight global warming. Galen adds green trees, all cars and human heads - all six billion of - them to the list.
What would you add to the list?
2 comments:
Great idea! White roofs actually looks pretty and clean. Now we know they can lessen the effect of global warming which adds to its charm. We can hope other cities will follow London's example in painting roofs white.
This is a very promising yet ambitious suggestion from the experts. I wouldn't be surprised if they would soon recommend us to wear white tops or even have our hair colored white. LOL! But hey, painting our own roofs white isn't so bad of a change, if you think about it.
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