This is so so so so good. Great toon! Really clever! If only it weren’t a reflection of reality. We’re dying of thirst out here in southern California. In the 9 years I’ve lived here, I’ve never seen a winter this dry and warm. :-( It’s surreal to hear of all the snow and freezing temperatures in the east. Help!
^Spending over 50 years in the west and studying the impacts of climate change on biological systems, not just CO2, it really IS quite noticeable, and provable that change is not just happening, but caused in the massively overwhelming impacts of Man, rather the minor total effect of of other “natural process” impacts. Just the mechanical impact of rerouting rivers in California, and massive land changes for agriculture just in the U.S., far overwhelms any “natural events” we’ve seen in the past 300 or so years…
Nuclear power seems a non-starter…plant expense, NIMBY, (statistically small – politically huge) safety concerns, waste disposal problems…amd hopefully (soon?) to be superceded by “Fusion”, (promising but still ‘experimental’), so a dubious ‘investment’, private or public. As to NG, it’s 95% Methane and produces CO, CO-2 when burned…so “greenhouse-gas” before and after energy extraction…so why open “Federal land”, belonging to ALL of us, to benefit the energy purveyors for no real climatological benefit, as you imply ?
Enoki about 10 years ago
Hey did you notice that climate change happens and that we should adapt rather than flail uselessly grasping at straws trying to prevent it?
nate9279 about 10 years ago
This is so so so so good. Great toon! Really clever! If only it weren’t a reflection of reality. We’re dying of thirst out here in southern California. In the 9 years I’ve lived here, I’ve never seen a winter this dry and warm. :-( It’s surreal to hear of all the snow and freezing temperatures in the east. Help!
Dtroutma about 10 years ago
^Spending over 50 years in the west and studying the impacts of climate change on biological systems, not just CO2, it really IS quite noticeable, and provable that change is not just happening, but caused in the massively overwhelming impacts of Man, rather the minor total effect of of other “natural process” impacts. Just the mechanical impact of rerouting rivers in California, and massive land changes for agriculture just in the U.S., far overwhelms any “natural events” we’ve seen in the past 300 or so years…
Robert C. Premium Member about 10 years ago
Nuclear power seems a non-starter…plant expense, NIMBY, (statistically small – politically huge) safety concerns, waste disposal problems…amd hopefully (soon?) to be superceded by “Fusion”, (promising but still ‘experimental’), so a dubious ‘investment’, private or public. As to NG, it’s 95% Methane and produces CO, CO-2 when burned…so “greenhouse-gas” before and after energy extraction…so why open “Federal land”, belonging to ALL of us, to benefit the energy purveyors for no real climatological benefit, as you imply ?
pirate227 about 10 years ago
Climate change illustrated so even Republicans can understand it.