| The City of San Francisco has come up with a brilliant | | | | The lighter color would decrease the urban heat in |
| strategy to try to slow down the traffic. They want | | | | the area, and with a proper cooling that would lower |
| to change the color of the streets from black to a | | | | the ambient temperatures from the heat coming off |
| nice Starbucks Mocha Frappachino color. And you | | | | the road during the day. By lowering the temperature |
| probably think this is a joke, but it's not. You are | | | | of all the roads, less hot air would rise catching the |
| welcome to search on the Internet and find out for | | | | prevailing winds and then heating up the atmosphere |
| yourself. Apparently, they've done psychological | | | | as a blows across the land. |
| studies, which show the people will slow down when | | | | This would prevent areas around our major cities |
| driving on a nice brown roadway. | | | | from warming. And if all the cities did this maybe we |
| Now, I am not sure if that will work, it sounds like a | | | | could stop "Global Warming" that is of course if you |
| crackpot idea, and something that the folks in San | | | | buy into global warming theory in the first place. |
| Francisco might come up with, while they are sitting | | | | If you think you want to come up with a better idea |
| there drinking their latte looking out the Starbucks | | | | why not go down to Starbucks and put some |
| window at the world go by, but it did bring up a | | | | caffeine in that brain of yours and let us know. You |
| pretty good idea. Why not paint the streets a | | | | may as well get those neurons firing once again, and |
| Starbucks "White Mocha Frappachino flavor" a much | | | | use that mind of yours to solve some of these |
| lighter beige or mauve color? | | | | problems. Please consider all this. |