White Washed: Could a Coat of Paint Fight Global Warming?

Doing their part (Wikipedia)Theres a good reason the famous White Towns of Andalusia, in southern Spain, are all white-washed. The sun is hot in Andalusia, and white paint reflects the heat, keeping interiors cool. Could that age-old Mediterranean remedy help fight global warming? Increasingly, a lot of scientists think it could, if big chunks of the earths urban rooftops and paved surfaces were covered with light colors that reflectedrather than absorbedthe suns rays.Researchers at the Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory in California just presented new work showing that the heat savings fro...Original article link