Mayor trashes green energy group; has climate change denial views likened to "Flat Earth Society"

[Liberty Belle]

This is how to respond to climate change deniers! Comments on this site are welcome, as the heads-in-the-sand crowd have started a lively debate.


September 16, 2011 (Santee, CA) – SanDiego350.org, a coalition of three dozen community organizations, invited local officials to participate in a Sept. 24 event titled “Moving San Diego to a Clean Energy Future.” Far from fringe extremists, the group includes major entities such as the American Lung Association, U.S. Green Chamber of Commerce, San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council, Sustainability Alliance of Southern California, and Earthcare at First United Methodist Church.


Santee Mayor Randy Voepel fired back a vitriolic response. “I do not believe that climate change is man made,” the Mayor said in an e-mail declining the invitation, calling himself a “proud, Rush Limbaugh, Tea party, Conservative that will never cease fighting socialism.”


Voepel went on to state that he believes the “sun’s solar cycle” is the greatest influence on climate change and that “mankind’s impact on the climate is less than 2 tenths of a percent and even that is a challenge to the computer models to track with any accuracy.” He added, “I believe that `climate change’ is a fabrication of the left wing environmental types that are inherently anti-capitalist and liberal to the Nth degree. Al Gore and his misguided followers are sending this country to ruin in the name of a false “Climate Change” premise.” His signature line carries the title “Mayor, city of Santee, located in the People’s Republic of California, United Socialist States of America.”

Event organizers expressed disbelief, then amusement at Voepel’s fiery response.

While the Mayor is entitled to his opinion, there are some key flaws in Voepel’s conclusions...


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