'Whitewash' could slow Global Warming: Peruvian Scientist »
Posted By WikiMap 1 month ago in Science & TechnologyA Peruvian scientist has called on his country to help slow the melting of Andean glaciers by daubing white paint on the rock and earth left behind by receding ice so they will absorb less heat.
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tadair9191 month ago
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woah, woah. the plan is already to tax life, pal.
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clearly, you didn't get the memo. taxing life is the way to go.
who do you think you are coming up with, alternatives such as this one, bouncing the sun rays off of the planet?
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djn3nunez31 month ago
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Isn't it the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, like di-hydrogen-oxide (water vapor) and carbon-dioxide causing the warm up by absorbing energy. Reflecting the energy back through the atmosphere just adds more energy to the mix. I think it would be better to reflect the sunlight and heat with clouds.
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http://www.theglobalcoolingproject.com/
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johnnyt1 month ago
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dont completely discount what the scientist is suggesting. i think it is far fetched and in the end will be too little to provide any real impact.
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we always hear about fossil fuels provide green house gas that is causing the heating of the earth but we often forget the impact of urban growth which i think is more directly related. ask yourself this how much concrete and asphalt has been laid around the world in the past 125 years. probably in the realm of 10-15 times more than in the history leading up to the turn of the 20th century. because concrete and asphalt store and radiate solar heat so well i would argue that it is more of a direct reason why we have any world wide temperature increase than what is produced by fossil fuel burn off. -
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Justice4All1 month ago
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Why not a giant orbeting umbrella in geosyncronous orbit permenently between the earth and the sun? That would cool things down.
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Oh wait, that wont work if it's geosyncronous. We would need a whole array of umbrellas in space. No doubt the coppertone lobby will fight us on this.
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