Posted on 05/26/2009 8:59:19 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
And, uh... what color again is the sand on the Sahara??? How’s THAT cooling effect working out?
“As I seem to recall from my sailor days, once you paint something, you’ll be painting it again. And again. And again. And...”
Ah! AFTER chipping the old stuff, of course. Did you have one of those commanders whose philosophy was: “the troops are happy only when they’re busy?”
A resident of Nome, Alaska, would probably not be wise to follow this advice. There are probably large areas in the lower 48 where the net heating season is longer and more costly than the need for cooling that would also find this a bad choice.
Is it too much to ask for a Ph.D and Cabinet Secretary of Energy to consider these factors in a sit-down interview? Or is he entirely motivated by predisposition to mitigation of human-caused global warming?
I agree the recommendations are overstated. That said, Alaska doesn’t get much solar radiation during its heating season. The sun is down most of the time, and when it’s not it’s at a very low angle.
Actually, during our long heating season, the roofs on most buildings ARE white. Every so often, I have to shovel that D&%$ white off.
Even a mild event like the Little Ice Age would kill billions. This is utter insanity.
I’d like show these folks my environmentally-friendly white ass.
If the atmosphere is a closed system wouldn’t reflecting heat from the surface displace it into the atmosphere where we don’t want it?
“If Greenland melted down completely, 88% of the excess water produced could be contained by flooding the uninhabited Qatarra Depression in northwest Egypt,”
Desert nomads affected most.
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