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Paint it white

As one of 26 winners in last year’s “100 Ideas to Save the Planet” competition, sponsored by the World Bank, Gold proposed an alternately ingenious and implausible plan to stall — and perhaps even reverse — the steady melting of Andean Glaciers: paint them white.

…By coating the increasingly bare (and increasingly brown) rocks at the summits of the once-snowy mountain range, Gold hopes to simulate the eco-saving powers of a true glacial surface: the white veneer, if all goes according to plan, should reflect the sun’s rays, sending them back out into the atmosphere and preventing warming effects at the Earth’s surface.

From FP Passport.

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