King County Exectuive, Ron “Tax to the Max” Sims, issued a press release from his office yesterday:
Members of the media are invited to join Executive Sims tomorrow morning as he meets with the President Kessai Note of the Marshall Islands to pledge their joint cooperation to deal with the extreme threat posed by global warming to the more than 60,000 residents of the islands.
President Note is extremely concerned about the looming impacts of global warming, and is emerging as an international leader on the issue. He has every reason to be concerned; his nation, a string of more than 1,000 extremely low-lying islets in the Pacific, averages only seven feet above sea level, and at its highest point is less than 20 feet above sea level. The Marshall Islands are thus considered a “front-line state†in the battle against climate change.
Global warming is expected to raise sea levels and increase the frequency and intensity of the tropical storms that batter the islands. If not checked, climate change impacts could become so severe that the islands will have to be evacuated. To help avoid that fate, Executive Sims will pledge today to deploy the county’s nationally-recognized experts of climate change adaptation strategies to assist the Marshallese in dealing with the climate threat.
The King County government can do very little right. The only two things I can think of that they can do with any competence is tax its citizenry and go overboard with political correctness.
If the officials governing the Marshall Islands are going to trust anyone from King County to help them, you might just want to get over to them as soon as possible. Because even if “Global Warming” doesn’t swallow them up, they may just collapse under a high tide with the county’s help.
I also suspect that the officals of King County are going to be taking many, many trips in the near future, especially during the winter, to the Marshalls to check on exactly how the beaches are doing.
All expenses paid by the taxpayer, of course.
Link found at Sound Politics
First, read my blog-post on this subject at the Rivrdog Blog: http://rivrdog.typepad.com/rivrdog/2007/01/its_your_duty_g.html
Then, crank out your letter to Ron Sims. If we can get a reliable few dozen King County citizens to hold his feet to the fire, at some press conference, he will probably be asked about that group of citizens which he is defying on the subject of doing the county’s business and ONLY the county’s business.
Perhaps, as an addendum to the letter, one might put Mr. Sims on notice that some citizens might hold him personally responsible for reimbursement of the County’s money which he spent on this brazen junket.
The man is really stupid. If he had only said he was going to the Marshall Islands to promote tourism and trade between that country and King County, he would have gotten away with it, but he is such a meglo he actually BELIEVES it’s King County’s job to “save” the world from “Global Warming”.
Global warming is probably occurring, and many years from now, the sea level will have risen enough to require new seawalls all over Puget Sound. There’s plenty of time to build them, and if Ron Sims actually wanted to DO SOMETHING with all that extra King County cash he has laying around, he should propose a permanent engineering firm retainer to do the studies for building those seawalls.
No amount of “emissions credit trading” is going to slow down whatever global warming is actually occuring, if any, and the sea level WILL eventually rise.
History will either curse Ron Sims because he played in the Marshall Islands while he could have been engineering the solutions to a sea level rise, or history will applaud him for his foresight if he gets those engineers busy now, before anyone else.
Time will tell, but I’m not holding my breath while Sims makes up his mind.
God, I’m glad I don’t live in King Co. I’m at 350′ elivation and don’t give a rat’s patoot if glowball warming raises sea levels 300′. As soon as SWMBO retires, we’re selling and moving, prolly to Idaho.
Oh, and remember about twenty years ago when glowball cooling was causing sea level to drop and was going to be the death of us all? These asshats can’t predict the weather accurately two weeks ahead, and they want us to take their word on what’s going to happen in a hundred years? Don’ thin’ so, Lucy.
As for history, I think in ten more years it will be asking: “Who da eff is Rong Sim, he run a Chinese restaurant or sumpin?”