[Tarpon]

Kook chu chu wants to paint the world white ...

[lookout88]

This idea tells me that we are too stupid to survive

[rabscuttle385]

...the Obama administration wanted to paint roofs an energy-reflecting white...

[rabscuttle385]

Nuts.

[oblomov]

Justice Sotomayer will put a stop to this.

[MontaniSemperLiberi]

Goodness.

“Making roads and roofs a paler colour could have the equivalent effect of taking every car in the world off the road for 11 years, Chu said.

It was a geo-engineering scheme that was “completely benign” and would keep buildings cooler and reduce energy use from air conditioning, as well as reflecting sunlight back away from the Earth.”

As sanity check, if painting roofs white saves “11 car-years” of energy and it’s so easy, why don’t we do it already?

Dr. Chu fails the sanity check.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

This guy makes Algore seem normal.

[beethovenfan]

So is Obama going to start going around in whiteface?

[Uri’el-2012]

US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Tuesday the Obama administration wanted to paint roofs an energy-reflecting white, as he took part in a climate change symposium in London.

This does not speak highly of UC Berkley or the Physics Nobel.

This guy smokes way too much crack.

[Argus]

We could also all wear hats made of tin foil to reflect the sun’s rays back into space.

Gosh there are just so many things we can do to save the planet I don’t know where to begin.

[garyhope]

Uh oh, white racism.

Better not talk about “black holes” or “niggardly” which is derived from the Latin and predates the “n” word by several hundred years,....but never mind that or any other historical fact or tidbit,.....

It’s only “feelin’s” that count, not any kind of reality, historical accuracy or logic, etc. that matter.

[hinckley buzzard]

This is like something out of Gulliver's Travels. Soon they'll be trying to extract sunshine from cucumbers.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

This would look awful funny on Google Earth.

In all seriousness, I’m not sure how much of an effect this would actually have, since most of America isn’t covered by roofs.

[Born to Conserve]

I grew up barefoot, so I feel I have expert status in this debate. Some of the roads were paved using white gravel and tar when I was a kid — you could walk on them barefoot in the summer without having to do the oo-owe dance. The black gravel pavements — no way you could walk more than about 100 feet, unless the parking space stripes were painted with white paint, and you used them.

Of course in the winter, the black pavement was free of ice, and the white pavement was a hazard . . .

One thing for sure, we don’t need the feds or the world court telling us what to do.

[HereInTheHeartland]

I have an easier idea that would be similar to the whitewash idea.
We will just go to a 10 month calendar; and skip July and August. The calendar will just advance from the end of June right to September 1st.

[synbad600]

Don’t tell George Obama over there in his Hut-Sweet-Hut. Next thing ya know he’ll have to paint the dirt floor white, too.

[I got the rope]

Ok...I hope people don’t take this the wrong way BUT...my first thought after reading this was that Chu is a fag.

Homosexual Steve wants to paint the roofs white...hmmmm.

[hattend]

WTF, over!

[MinuteGal]

Mayor Daley turns the Chicago River green every St. Patrick's Day. Maybe the Messiah can turn the oceans and waterways of the world white with a wave of his hand. That would REALLY be energy-saving.

I've arrived at the conclusion that all Nobel Laureasses should be waterboarded and locked up in Guatanamo for a period of thirty years to life with no possibility of parole.

Leni

[BookmanTheJanitor]

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