According to Damien McElroy at telegraph.co.uk:
An inventor has set out to paint the peaks of the Andes white in an attempt to combat the effects of climate change.
By painting the mountains, Eduardo Gold hopes to replicate the effect of Andean glaciers, which reflect back sunlight and hence heat back through the atmosphere. . . . .
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According to Van Helsing at moonbattery.com:
Painting mountains white won out over some other fascinating ideas:
Firing mirrors into space to reflect the sun's rays, or feeding cattle garlic to reduce methane emissions have been mooted.
Peru's Environment Minister Antonio Brack sums up the mountain-painting project succinctly:
"It's nonsense."
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Here's what some bloggers wrote:
Isn't it racist to paint the mountains white? That's hardly diversity in action. Perhaps there can be a U.N. commission to blame it on the United States, and to determine who pays reparations to whom.
Are they buying the paint from china, if so odds are everyone will get lead poisoning within a 500 mile radius.
Proving once again that truth is stranger than fiction. You just can't make this stuff up. But, why not do it here and call it a stimulus shovel-ready job?
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WTF is next? Painting the Colorado Rockies?
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7859009/Inventor-paints-mountains-white-to-combat-climate-change.html
