Obama’s Energy Secretary: Hey! Let’s Paint All The Roofs In The World White!
Someone please tell me that this is a joke. Please.
This country cannot possibly be in the hands of people who would say something as idiotic as this:
Energy Secretary Steven Chu stunned the audience at a London scientific conference Tuesday with a radical but simple proposal to combat global warming: Paint all the roofs of all the buildings in the world white.
If we did so, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist said, and if we also made sure the world’s roads and sidewalks were light-colored, it would have the same effect on global warming as taking all the cars in the world off the world’s roads for 11 years.
You.
Have.
Got.
To.
Be.
Kidding.
How can any grown and presumably educated man make such an idiotic statement, at least when he’s not just drinking with his buddies and spouting off all sorts of nonsense that no one will take seriously tomorrow. Remember, this guy is a Nobel prize winner, too. Not that that really means anything. So are Al Gore, Yasser Arafat, and Jimmy Carter, so before we start swooning over his credentials we should remember that the Nobel thing has boiled down to liberals praising and rewarding one another for, um, damn little, really. Sounds good. Here’s your prize.
Paint all the roofs in the world white. Hoo, boy. I don’t think I would even say something like that out loud, much less at a scientific conference. Hey! While we’re at it why don’t we go ahead and paint the deserts? Just imagine what kind of helpful effect that would have on the climate. Come on, think about it.
Do these people lie awake at night thinking this stuff up?
It is truly scary that our government is in the hands of delusional idealists like this because nothing is more frightening than a crackpot with the poltical power to make his dreams happen.
Paint the world’s roofs white. Egads. We are so screwed.
