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After months of sleepless, sweaty nights agonizing over imminent man-caused global warming doom, I was unimaginably relieved to read that Mayor Ray Miller of Sandpoint had signed on to the Kyoto treaty. My presumption is that this now takes care of the matter once and for all and I can return to seeking other issues toward which I can devote sleepless, sweaty nights of concern.

I am sure that some issues of irony did not escape his honor?s attention during the festive signing at Sandpoint city beach, such as the fact that the location of the signing, save for a prodigious case of global warming between twelve and fifteen thousand years ago, would be resting glumly still under 2000 feet of glacial ice.

That warming too was no doubt man-caused, as uncontrolled bands of nomadic hunters startled otherwise harmless herds of mammoths into methane-intensive flatulence, while the hunters themselves carelessly exhaled carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. There should have been a treaty back then, whereby ancient politicians convinced the masses that all that eating and breathing was destroying the planet, and that it should all be stopped. Except, of course, by ancient politicians.

There can be no doubt the world shall be a better place because of the actions of Mayor Miller of Sandpoint and thousands of others with cases of relentless politically inspired scientific panic.

TERRY LAMB

Sagle