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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6366639.ece...A global initiative to change the colour of roofs, roads and pavements so that they reflect more sunlight and heat could play a big part in containing global warming, he said yesterday.
Speaking at the opening of the St James’s Palace Nobel Laureate Symposium, for which The Times is media partner, Professor Chu said that this approach could have a vast impact. By lightning paved surfaces and roofs to the colour of cement, it would be possible to cut carbon emissions by as much as taking all the world’s cars off the roads for 11 years, he said...
That should read that it would yield the same benefit as removing all of the cars for 11 years...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLlxjYACa5U