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September 12, 2007

Wacky Japanese Forego AC For Gaia

Posted by Dave Blount at September 12, 2007 6:39 AM

The Wall Street Journal reports on the latest wacky Japanese fad: Cool Biz, which entails keeping office temperatures at 82°F to please Gaia.

To compensate, businessmen are encouraged to go without jackets and ties. But this doesn't quite cut it. According to Kozo Hirata, a physiology professor at Kobe Women's University, 82° is a comfortable indoor temperature only if you are thin, naked, and motionless.

Alternative cooling techniques have been encouraged. The city of Hiroshima provided four tons of recycled sewage water for "water-splashing ceremonies" that allegedly reduce the surrounding temperature by a few degrees.

Office workers squeamish about splashing sewage water on their desks have resorted to electric fans. But they'd better not use them too ostentatiously. In Shizuoka, a hotline has been set up so that whistle-blowers can report overcooling.

The effects of this idiocy on the climate can be reliably predicted at exactly zilch. The point must be to dupe people into thinking that warm weather in the summer really has become a problem that warrants draconian taxes and regulations.

Or is the whole global warming farce just an exercise in masochism? Maybe if we just passed out hair shirts to liberals, the rest of us could set the AC where it belongs.

On a tip from Bill.