From leed the cool roof rating council and energy star program all the way up to the u s.
White roofs and global warming.
Plans to slow climate change by reflecting sunlight back into space could in fact raise temperatures a new study concludes.
Installing white roofs or painting them white has been promoted as a way to help slow global warming.
Oleson found that even if every city building roof and stretch of urban pavement in the world were painted white it would only delay global warming by 11 years.
In the case of global warming white roofs looked to be the low hanging no brainer.
By reflecting more light and heat back to the.
White roofs aka cool roofs are a hot topic these days as a means to help stem global warming.
Painting roofs white has been like changing lightbulbs one of the well cited easy ways out of climate change.
White roofs are not a global warming silver bullet study finds.
Another question is the overall environmental benefit of reflective roofs and whether they actually do slow global warming.
To global warming.
Simple paint the roofs white so that they reflect more sunlight and presto chango.
A stanford study published last year found that the heat being reflected from white roofs may actually exacerbate climate change by contributing more heat to the atmosphere and absorbing more emissions.
Most of us know better than to wear black on a hot day but when it comes to the roofs on our.
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.
But its potential value in ameliorating the most severe consequences of excess heat in cities could be life saving.
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.