Recently our Board of Supervisors, led by Supervisor Rushing, voted for our county to lead the world in abolishing global warming. The vote to accomplish this monumental task was unanimous except for that of Supervisor Brown, who snidely remarked that putting Al Gore in charge of global warming was like putting Michael Vick in charge of Animal Control. He later apologized to Vick.
Brown was in error, belittling our Board that way; the last time our distinguished Board took command of worldly matters was when they voted to censure South Africa. They were marvelously effective; the white government collapsed soon afterward and the citizens of South Africa lived happily ever after.
It”s beside the point that, shortly after our board voted to knock off global warming for the planet, a group of five hundred of the world”s most distinguished meteorologists published an opinion that manmade global warming is a crock. They don”t deny that global warming is occurring; it obviously has been since the last ice age when Yosemite was under a glacier two miles thick.
They simply doubt that man has contributed much to it, starting 10,000 years, or so, ago when this last earthly warming cycle began. They point to sun spots, global tilt and, and tectonic plate shifts as provable causes. But what do they know, compared to Al Gore and our Board of Supervisors?
Now that our Board has straightened out South Africa and world global warming, I do wish they would be so kind as to turn their attention to our local potholes.
Randy Ridgel
Kelseyville
