REoL
June 3rd, 2009, 02:28 PM
Yet another thing the Al Gore worshippers didn't think through, even to the slightest degree (choose your poison):
http://wolfsden.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/white-roof-and-concrete-roads-could-help-slow-global-warming/
http://www.physorg.com/news140875649.html
http://www.wral.com/golo/blogpost/5227328/
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/05/27-3
Or choose your own ----> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=white+roof+concrete+roads&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
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Let's face it, helping the environment is a good thing, but the Looney Libs are blowing way out of proportion how bad things are, and how unnatural this phenomenon is.
How to cope? Replace your dark roofs with white shingles, and replace the asphalt roads with concrete. Sounds good? Depends where you live.
In the Southern areas, the concrete roads work, but up here in New England, this would be a disaster waiting to happen. Not only would ice stay on the roads a LOT longer, but the frost heaves, salt, and plowing would destroy these roads to impassability within a few years. Granted, no raods will survive a tough winter forever, but it's well known that concrete surfaces can't. Bridges that are left with it's concrete roadbed exposed, wind up looking like the surface of the Moon, yet the asphalt will look fine. Also, Libs didn't take into account that all the waste being put into landfills removing roads to make way for concrete. However, where the climate doesn't wreck a concrete road, replacement of an asphalt road is feasible, only if the road has to be totally ripped out and be completely rebuilt. Other than that, a whimsical replacement is just adding more waste in a landfill.
As for the roofs, white is not the best option everywhere. Here in New England, you need the darker roof colors to retain heat. A white roof would make the home colder, and during the winter, would cause heating systems to put out many tons more of carbon monoxide, the exact thing these Libs want to eliminate. Way to think this one through, Al Gore wanna-be's. However, there is a flaw to the darker roof, is that the homes are hotter during the summer, and would use more energy trying to keep things cold. Still, signifigantly less pollution, but high energy bills. Here in New England, we have a better way to handle this: gray, or colored roofs. They help shed the heat during the summer, hold it in during the winter. It's a compromise that works, especially with the extra insulation used in the attics by modern code, at least here in Massachusetts.
Again, ripping off the black roofs to replace them with white, adding to landfills. On the other hand, in areas where a white roof is usable, probably a good idea when your old roof is in need of replacement, to put an all-white roof on.
One other little point the Libs don't tell you, is that most white roofs will turn black over time, because of pollution. People will need to wash their roof to keep them bright and white, wasting water, and adding chemicals from soaps/detergents into the water table. Yay. Good job. Go smoke a doobie in the corner, and realise where the epic fail occurred.
Of course, if you find the more sensible environmentallists, they'll pretty much hit on the same issues, and do talk about this being mostly a southern issue. (Of course, if you're on the Southern Hemisphere, you flip the north/south thing around.)
http://wolfsden.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/white-roof-and-concrete-roads-could-help-slow-global-warming/
http://www.physorg.com/news140875649.html
http://www.wral.com/golo/blogpost/5227328/
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/05/27-3
Or choose your own ----> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=white+roof+concrete+roads&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
================================================== ===============
Let's face it, helping the environment is a good thing, but the Looney Libs are blowing way out of proportion how bad things are, and how unnatural this phenomenon is.
How to cope? Replace your dark roofs with white shingles, and replace the asphalt roads with concrete. Sounds good? Depends where you live.
In the Southern areas, the concrete roads work, but up here in New England, this would be a disaster waiting to happen. Not only would ice stay on the roads a LOT longer, but the frost heaves, salt, and plowing would destroy these roads to impassability within a few years. Granted, no raods will survive a tough winter forever, but it's well known that concrete surfaces can't. Bridges that are left with it's concrete roadbed exposed, wind up looking like the surface of the Moon, yet the asphalt will look fine. Also, Libs didn't take into account that all the waste being put into landfills removing roads to make way for concrete. However, where the climate doesn't wreck a concrete road, replacement of an asphalt road is feasible, only if the road has to be totally ripped out and be completely rebuilt. Other than that, a whimsical replacement is just adding more waste in a landfill.
As for the roofs, white is not the best option everywhere. Here in New England, you need the darker roof colors to retain heat. A white roof would make the home colder, and during the winter, would cause heating systems to put out many tons more of carbon monoxide, the exact thing these Libs want to eliminate. Way to think this one through, Al Gore wanna-be's. However, there is a flaw to the darker roof, is that the homes are hotter during the summer, and would use more energy trying to keep things cold. Still, signifigantly less pollution, but high energy bills. Here in New England, we have a better way to handle this: gray, or colored roofs. They help shed the heat during the summer, hold it in during the winter. It's a compromise that works, especially with the extra insulation used in the attics by modern code, at least here in Massachusetts.
Again, ripping off the black roofs to replace them with white, adding to landfills. On the other hand, in areas where a white roof is usable, probably a good idea when your old roof is in need of replacement, to put an all-white roof on.
One other little point the Libs don't tell you, is that most white roofs will turn black over time, because of pollution. People will need to wash their roof to keep them bright and white, wasting water, and adding chemicals from soaps/detergents into the water table. Yay. Good job. Go smoke a doobie in the corner, and realise where the epic fail occurred.
Of course, if you find the more sensible environmentallists, they'll pretty much hit on the same issues, and do talk about this being mostly a southern issue. (Of course, if you're on the Southern Hemisphere, you flip the north/south thing around.)