Painting Roofs White Global Warming

Painting roofs white has been like changing lightbulbs one of the well cited easy ways out of climate change.

Painting roofs white global warming.

The idea of painting our roofs and roads white to offset global warming is not new but a recent study has calculated just how significantly white surfaces could impact greenhouse gas emissions. New york for instance introduced rules on white roofs into its building codes as long ago as 2012. Paint the world s roofs white to reflect more sunlight and it could help cool down both cities and the. Things are getting too hot.

In the case of global warming white roofs looked to be the low hanging no brainer. White roofs are not a global warming silver bullet study finds. Volunteers have taken white paint to nearly 7 million square feet of tar roofs in the city though that is still only about 1 percent of the potential roof area. Steven chu the us secretary of energy and a nobel prize winning scientist said yesterday that making roofs and pavements white or light coloured would help to reduce global warming by both.

New weapon in climate war is brilliant white roofs david adam environment correspondent thu 15 jan 2009 19 01 est first published on thu 15 jan 2009 19 01 est. Installing white roofs or painting them white has been promoted as a way to help slow global warming. By reflecting more light and heat back to the. Seemed like a cool idea.

To global warming. Not only that you get to save the planet. Painting roofs white or covering them with plants could help fight global warming but they don t offer the same bang for the buck everywhere says a study monday of six u s. There are many small scale initiatives in cities to make roof surfaces more reflective.

Secretary of energy and a nobel prize winning scientist has said that painting roofs white or another light color would help to reduce global warming by reflecting sunlight back into space it would be like removing every vehicle from the planet for 11 years.