To the editor: Rising temperatures attributed to local weather change have pushed Los Angeles County leaders to mandate that landlords in unincorporated areas hold their models under 82 levels (“Rental models in unincorporated L.A. County should keep cool beneath new legislation,” Aug. 5). This can require extra air conditioners, which is able to spew extra scorching air out of buildings and into the streets, rising the city warmth island impact. In the meantime, the extra required A/C models will eat extra electrical energy, which is nonetheless largely produced by burning fossil fuels, and thus will produce extra carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gasoline, which is able to additional warmth the planet.
What an excellent resolution our county supervisors have cooked up! Can they rewrite these pesky legal guidelines of physics for us subsequent?
Jack Debes, Santa Monica
