An interdisciplinary team affiliated with a host of institutions across China, working with one colleague from Singapore and another from MIT, has found evidence suggesting that if solar panels could be installed on every rooftop in the world, replacing traditional power sources, the result could be a reduction in global surface temperatures by as much as 0.13° C.
In their paper published in the journal Nature Climate Change, the group describes how they used a variety of tools to calculate global rooftop space and how much electricity could be produced if all that area was covered and the possible impact of doing so.
In this new effort, the researchers studied the potential…
