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Coloring Roofs Really Can Help Fight Global Warming posted 22nd July 2010 in Environment, Science by The Green Man
Climatologists, on the other hand, didn’t waste their time with idle speculation. They dedicated themselves to empirical study of the premises of Steven Chu’s suggestion. This week, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory released the results of its research of the concept. Their work found evidence that Chu was on the right track after all – that light colored roofs could result in a cooling effect on a global scale. The impact could be enough to negate two years of current carbon dioxide emissions.
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