Posted by
Catmman on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 9:49:34 AM
What is the grand plan from the Obama administration to combat global warming?
Is it some massive technological innovation on par with the Manhattan Project?
Perhaps they have discovered some new means of producing energy on par with "cold fusion"?
Surely, Obama's Nobel Prize winning physicist Energy Secretary Steven Chu has discovered some out-of-this-world means of saving us all and preserving Mother Gaia?
He said lightening roofs and roads in urban environments would offset the global warming effects of all the cars in the world for 11 years.
If you look at all the buildings and if you make the roofs white and if you make the pavement more of a concrete type of colour rather than a black type of colour and if you do that uniformally, that would be the equivalent of... reducing the carbon emissions due to all the cars in the world by 11 years – just taking them off the road for 11 years," he said.
This is the 21st century equivalent to President Carter telling all of us to "put on a sweater" to save energy! Paint your roof white? Seriously? And in doing so we would save as much energy as if all the cars in the world disappeared for 11 years?!
They must just hand those Nobels out like so much candy if this is the best a Nobel winner can come up with, especially if we're dealing with such a "crises" like climate change. Honestly, this guy has the stones to make such a big deal out of climate change, how it's such "crises situation" - and they pick the "Hucklberry Finn Initiative"? A moronsayswhat?
Interestingly (or rather, tellingly), this isn't being reported in the American media
You have to wonder is these people even believe their own crap anymore.
UPDATE: I feel the need to add a bit of clarification. Painting things white would indeed make the surface more reflective, thereby reducing the amount of radiant energy absorbed by certain materials.
Even Bjorn Lomborg, an environmentalist and believer in global warming (though not a fanatical "alarmist" like, say, Al Gore) has said the same thing - paint everything white and heat absorbtion would decrease.
That being said, the idea that doing this in any meanigful amount to cause the kinds of global temperature change as suggested by Secretary Chu is what is laughable. A scientist should know this and uttering anything different other than in a toungue-in-cheek manner is disengenuous.