Deaths-head Jester

About:
[The Project]
[The ApocaDocs]
[Equal Share]
The Six Scenarios:
[Species Collapse]
[Infectious Disease]
[Climate Chaos]
[Resource Depletion]
[Biology Breach]
[Recovery]
Explore:

Play:

It's weekly, funny, and free!

SEARCH

More than 5,600 stories!

A great gift
for crisis deniers!


The ApocaDocs have a Book!
Humoring the Horror of the
Converging Emergencies
94 color pages
$24.99 now $15!
Or read FREE online!




Twitter




Ping this story
in social media:
del.icio.us
Digg
Newsvine
NowPublic
Reddit
Facebook
StumbleUpon

Posted Tue May 26 2009: from Times Online (UK):
Steven Chu: paint the world white to fight global warming http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1243369111
The Nobel prize-winning physicist appointed by President Obama as US Energy Secretary wants to change the colour of roofs, roads and pavements so they reflect more of the Sun's light and heat to combat global warming, he said today.... By lightening all paved surfaces and roofs to the colour of cement, it would be possible to reduce carbon emissions by as much as taking all the world's cars off the roads for 11 years, he said.... Pale surfaces reflect up to 80 per cent of the sunlight that falls on them, compared to about 20 per cent for dark ones, which is why roofs and walls in hot countries are often whitewashed. An increase in the number of pale surfaces would help contain climate change both by reflecting more solar radiation into space and by reducing the amount of energy needed to keep buildings cool by air-conditioning.... Professor Chu said: "There's a friend of mine, a colleague of mine, Art Rosenfeld, who's pushing very hard for a geo-engineering we all believe will be completely benign, and that's when you have a flat-top roof building, make it white.
[Read more stories about: geoengineering, global warming, efficiency increase]
This item will appear in our PANIQuiz!

New!:
Your Quips:
Curmudgeon says: "So my hair turning white is actually green?"

Got a PaniQuip?

Your Quip (limit 140 characters, no links, just wit):

First name:

The text shown in the Web image to the right:


We reserve the right to reuse, remove, or refuse any entry.

'Doc Jim says:
That's so reasonable it just... might... work!
Where are the Rolling Stones when you need them to re-record a song? Luckily, the Beatles already aced them with their album.

NEXT>
More stories:
  • Change to Ecuador's GM laws 'could allow suicide seeds'
  • Research suggests we are genetically programmed to care about climate change
  • (Steven Chu: paint the world white to fight global warming)
  • The Great Ethanol Scam
  • ...Could you be gargling your way to cancer?

  • Want to explore more?
    Try the PaniCloud!
    Copyright 2010 The Apocadocs.com