2009Jan16: Painting roofs white would increase the amount of sunlight reflected from the earth by 0.03%, enough to eliminate the warming caused by 44bn tons of CO2 pollution and slash $1bn from electricity bills in the US alone, according to Hashem Akbari, a scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (UK Guardian).
Reference: UK Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/16/white-paint-carbon-emissions-climate
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