And wear only white clothing and develop white grass (it's called snow in Minnesota) and go to all-white country clubs...oops..I don't think the libs intended that!

More mindless non-sense from the Church of Global Warmi...oops...Church of Climate Change where Rev. Al "Money Love" Gore preaches every Sunday!

Angry White Dude

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For folks like me to drive on white roads covered with white snow.

Hello, massive accidents!

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam

hey knuckleheads-how about us folks in the upper midwest-we want black to help draw the warmth when its winter-besides roof paint is made by folks like Kool Seal(sherwin williams bought them several years ago) in Cleveland ohio-its not regular house paint-this white paint thing has been in play for years in those hot climates-where have these morons been.

BHO- the one term DIMOCRAT

From Stephen Chu's speech: "Yes, make people paint their roofs white. I THINK WHITE IS PRETTY..."

Another Nobel Laureate.

PS, Kaufman: the reason Greek villages are white is because they have traditionally been lime-washed, not painted - and lime is white.

"The building doesn't get as hot so you don't need to run the air conditioner nearly as long."

The building will only get hot if there's nothing between the roof and the living space inside the building. But if you have this neat stuff called insulation, and other neat stuff called ventilation, you don't care how hot your roof gets.

Also,  if you have your water heater in your attic, like I do, that hot roof creates a hot attic, which reduces the amount of energy the water heater needs.

I read about this, and loved the money quote: But at least one science expert thinks Chu [the scientist who proposed this] is nuts. "It's past simplistic -- it's ridiculous," says Steven Milloy, publisher of junkscience.com and an avowed climate-change skeptic.
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Liberals constantly demand that we accept a glaring falsehood as truth; Obama's elimination of the word "terror" will make terrorist acts less terrifying

There are so many angles to this idea that are just plain stupid.  First of all, a building more than a few stories high has neglible loss of heat/cool as an overall percentage of energy used.

Secondly, you can't PAINT a house roof in most cases.  The roofing shingles just won't hold the paint, and then you have the runoff polluting the groundwater.

And what about making the white "paint"?  White is the most energy intensive color to make.

And how do you paint a road white without making it dangerously slick?  And how often do you need to repaint it?

And don't you love how she introduces Bill Nye and how he "used a meter to demonstrate" something, but never identifies what the meter measures exactly, or even what the meter is?  She just spouts the numbers, as if they magically translate to energy savings without any detail behind them.  Did anyone else think of Spinal Tap ("...because eleven is one more than ten...") when she said that?

Holy crap, I'm gonna explode...

this is really from the Onion.  It's gotta be. 

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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past - George Orwell - 1984

The onscreen graphics: "...FIGHT AGAINST GLOBAL WARMING"

It's fact now, just like that. Nevermind debating whether it's happening or not, it's been decided arbitrarily. I suppose now it's heading towards summer for much of the planet they can use "Global Warming" again as opposed to "Climate Change."

"Nye declared that asphalt was: "...absorbing more heat...squandering billions of tons of carbon dioxide every year."

Pardon? *Squandering* CO2? So we're wasting it on asphalt now? I thought it was a waste product in itself with no legitimate use? I'd love to see a detailed breakdown of the *correct* amount of CO2 needed for every country/ecosystem on the planet. How do we know when we've gone too far? Do we wait till the plants start dying and then buy those old lightbulbs again till it balances out?

Why did no-one think of painting the roads white before? Oh that's right, common sense. I assume triple-strength sunglasses will become mandatory during daylight hours given the reflections off of the shiny white surface. I suppose keeping it clean will create a few million jobs though.

2 days ago Joseph Romm was all tingly over this.  He is the touch guy that wants us to hustle and sign energy tax legislation.  No reading it of course.

He is a liberal Dem formerly of the clinton era.  No industry experience.  Where do these idiots with no industrial experience alll of a sudden know all about agriculture, industry manufacturing and economics?

They claim to know all.   Most actually need to take lithium and forget running everything on lithium batteries.

Assuming he paid for his education, I think Steven Chu is entitled to a refund. And if we the taxpayers paid for it, we deserve one too ... and fast.

These people are intent on spending trillions of dollars on solutions that won't work to correct problems that don't exist.

Maybe "Big Paint"  is behind this foolishness. I can see the people lining up for grants to study the feasibility of this boondoggle now.

What a racket!

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these environmental geeks are CRAZY! The fact the we have a high ranking member of this administration saying these types of things is both hilarious and scary. First it was "inflate your tires", and now we get " paint everything white"! Who the hell are these wackjobs? The shame of it all is that 'global warming' is nothing more than a money making scam, headed by that Internet creator Al Gore. Many scientists now believe that the planet is COOLING, yet the farce is still supported by our government, all for economic gains. As Jerry Lewis once said....Laaaaddddyyy!  

President Obama is nothing more than a lying empty suit; a Hollywood style special effects smoke and mirrors show that has shown itself to be a total fraud.  

WAKE UP AMERICA! SAVE OUR CONSTITUTION! 

I'm all for this plan...

if Kauffman's wiling to re-tar my roof and then paint it white free of charge.  I never see it so I couldn't care less about what color it is.

First, while it does sound silly, there is at least some validity in the concept (though as many have pointed out, you can't paint most roofing material). School busses here in Arizona have white roofs for the same reason.

Second, and most important, this is a HUGE opportunity for the Republicans.  What they need to do is to embrace this concept and push HARD for legislation to lighten future road surfaces (there are some alternatives to asphalt that accomplish this at a low cost, and have other advantages).  They could push for tax credits for white roof coatings (which would apply primarily to businesses, since most industrial buildings have non-shingled flat roofs).

The advantage of this is that the Republicans would then be able to - through the science of one of the left's own - claim having done many times more good in "greening" the planet than all of the expensive plans of the Democrats.  They'd also be able to claim that such "progress" makes the plans to force us all into tiny electric cars unnecessary.

It would be a beautiful thing.

OK, I admit I didn't read the whole article.  But how long does it take to point out that while painting a roof white would make the house it covers less hot, the heat reflects right back in the local atmosphere.  It doesn't go back to the sun!

 This guy got a Nobel Prize!!  What an idiot!! 

...an increase in stip mining, pollutted water, energy use, and poisonous chemical use just to make enough white paint to do the job.  That's green eco-friendly philosophy for you.  They don't bother thinking of the ramifications of their hair-brained ideas.

“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds”

Samuel Adams

There is a great clip on Youtube from a Larry King interview in which MIT climatologist Richard Lindzen absolutely destroys Bill Nye. 

Nye spouts a few of the alarmist speaking points and the brilliant Dr. Lindzen makes Nye look like the complete idiot he is.  Nye actually mentions his role on the advisory council of the environmental extremist Union of Concerned Scientists as if to puff up his credentials. 

The guy is a Mr. Wizard who does cool science experiments for elementary students.  According to his bio, he holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering.  But he's clearly out of his league in any discussion about climate science.  Furthermore, it's a reflection on the credibility of the CBS Morning Show that it would use Nye as a subject matter expert.

I think they just want to make sure the terrorists have an easier time finding their targets from 30,000 feet.

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).

To avoid attention on the economy and the government take-over of it.

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

What happens in the winter when our homes absorb less heat and we have to run the furnace more? Shall we paint everything black after Halloween and then switch back to white after spring break?

Um, why does this nitwit and anyone else who buys this not understand that 70% of the Earth is ocean and that the 30% of the Earth's surface that is land is actually really very incredibly sparsely covered with civilization.  In America, only about 5% of the land is actually developed.  You can paint every inch of it white or black or whatever you want.  It will amount to absolutely nothing as far as the larger climate of the Earth is concerned.  New Jersey is the most developed state in the union, and it is about 30% developed as of the turn of the century.  70% of the most heavily developed state is beautiful farmlands.  (It really is called the Garden State for good reason, all joking about New Jersey aside.)  Now, if the average is 5%, imagine how completely EMPTY large swaths of the country must be if Jersey is the max in the data set, and it isn't anything close to a mechanized asphalt and metal metropolis across its length and breadth--though you'd think the whole country was just shy of this state to hear a liberal, statist, green, control freak talk.  

Paint stuff white.  What a smack.  What's next, reflective metal flakes in airplane contrails . . . :)

Next you're gonna say, "But it's the energy savings, not the reflected heat itself," but that's my point.  We don't have a big enough footprint to alter the Earth's overall climate in any way.  You can do whatever you want locally, and you can save energy doing what Bill says, but you won't be anything but a small particle in the tiny footprint that civilization is on the face of the Earth.  A footprint incapable of changing the direction of global climate, which is probably run more by the sun and cosmic rays interplaying with the Earth's atmosphere at a macro level anyway--a level that is completely disconnected from your heating bill or that oil burning in your heater even across the span of your whole lifetime. 

Since we're "guilty" of global warming, they can paint the top of their heads white.