My brother, who always sends thoughtful and well reasoned articles, sent me this article on what appears to be the cheapest and easiest solution to the problem of global warming: white roof paint.
Akbari, along with Surabi Menon, another LBNL scientist, and Arthur Rosenfeld, a former LBNL scientist and now a California Energy Commission board member, claim that painting urban surfaces in warm parts of the world white or a light color could offset the carbon emissions of all 600 million of the world’s cars for 18 to 20 years — at a savings equivalent to at least $1 trillion worth of CO2 reductions.
This is not a hoax: Akbari, Menon and Rosenfeld are three of the country’s leading experts in their field, and their study published in the journal Climatic Change is backed by years of carefully calculated data.
And it would create jobs.
It wouldn’t create energy independence, but it would solve the problem for far cheaper than almost any other solution and could be done by the end of the year if we wanted.
