White Paint to the Rescue

Clearly not a long-term solution and one that is impossible to implement but I love the simplicity of the idea.

I need to get some roof work done anyway so now I'll be in the market for reflective roof materials.

From Good.is...

According to a soon to be published study in the journal Climatic Change, a few million buckets could buy the world a few crucial years.

Here’s the premise: if all the rooftops and paved surfaces in the world’s major cities were painted white or replaced by more reflective material (like roads made of concrete rather than asphalt), the global cooling effect would be enormous. Big enough, the study shows, to delay climate change by about 11 years.

“How can the reader visualize this one time offset of 44 billion tonnes of CO2? … This is equivalent to taking the world’s approximately 600 million cars off the road for 18 years.” The Los Angeles Times offered another comparison: “That is more than all the countries on Earth emit in a single year.”