Mike Luckovich for June 26, 2014

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    TripleAxel  almost 10 years ago

    There has been no increase in global temperatures in the past 17 years. However, during that time there has been an increase in hysterical doomsday predictions and in verbal abuse toward anyone who questions their accuracy.

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    drivingfuriously Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    Property tax. Death tax. Sales tax. Income tax. Gasoline tax. Now exhaust tax (carbon footprint credits), what next?

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    UM5  almost 10 years ago

    Whether or not Global warming does exist what proof is there that CO2 is the cause. After-all CO2 does promote plant growth and this would remove the CO2 from the atmosphere.

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    Dtroutma  almost 10 years ago

    The problem with these exaggerations in not only ‘toons, but in idiot reporting like on Faux etc, is that the deniers try to claim this represents the scientific evidence they can’t stand, which it does not. Reality isn’t in these images, but the effects of climate change ARE more wide-spread, AND far more dangerous than the implications of these whacked out depictions.

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    I Play One On TV  almost 10 years ago

    There are consequences to invasive species, plant or animal. And humans are about the most invasive species the earth has. I would hope even the staunchest denier would agree that, since the industrial revolution, we have significantly changed the composition of sea water and air. There are consequences. Ignore them if you dare, especially if you don’t care about successive generations.

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    Motivemagus  almost 10 years ago

    Tigger, the difference between now and the LAST ICE AGE was two degrees. That’s pretty doggoned massive — and we’re a long way from the peak!

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    Motivemagus  almost 10 years ago

    Or try this:http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/131-years-of-global-warming-in-26-seconds/

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    Jason Allen  almost 10 years ago

    And climate change is credited with the increases in extreme weather conditions.

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    lonecat  almost 10 years ago

    The following is part of the chart for Global Surface Air Temperature Anomaly; the Base is the 1951-1980 average). The left column is the Year; the middle column is the Annual Mean, and the right column is the 5-year Mean. Source is http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/Fig.A.txt

    1996 0.46 0.541997 0.52 0.581998 0.83 0.59 1999 0.58 0.63 2000 0.56 0.68 2001 0.67 0.67 2002 0.78 0.69 2003 0.76 0.75 2004 0.67 0.77 2005 0.86 0.78 2006 0.76 0.75 2007 0.85 0.78 2008 0.64 0.78 2009 0.78 0.78 2010 0.90 0.76 2011 0.76 0.80 2012 0.75 * 2013 0.80 * 2014 * *

    By this chart, 1998 was an outlier, because of an El Nino, but the trend is clear, and there are several years after 1998 that were hotter: 2005, 2007, and 2010, which is the hottest so far. Because of the likely El Nino this year, either this year or more likely next year may beat the record.

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    frodo1008  almost 10 years ago

    Even if Rapid Global Climate Change was no treal, or caused by human activity it still makes no difference whatever!! Is the continued and exponentially increasing pollution of our tenuous atmosphere by the burning of more and more fossil fuels a good thing? Further is the increasing burning of these very precious commodities (and thus the eventual collapse of our very civilization through their disappearance also a good thing?

    I do not understand you ultra conservative deniers. Future generations are going ot hate the very memory of what we did to leave them an Earth that it will become impossible to even live on.

    Further,we do not have to do that. It is possible to come up with many alternatives, and even economically sound to do so. It might not be as convenient to do so quickly, but it is possible to do so in the long run, but just sticking our heads in the sand is not even going to get humanity even started moving in the right direction. Fossil burning energy and transportation is a very old and out modded way of doing things at best!!!

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    lonecat  almost 10 years ago

    You say, “I absolutely love how the liberals comment on these strips with their “You are wrong! Global warming exists because I said it does!”. I wonder how many of these people have MS degrees or PhD’s in climatology?” And your PhD in climatology is from which university?

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    echoraven  almost 10 years ago

    One thing that hasn’t been touched on by ANY cartoonist (and related) is power companies trying to squash rooftop solar. A technology that can not only help the environment, but businesses and the consumer as well.

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    Dtroutma  almost 10 years ago

    A few hundred thousand field study data reports, a few thousand scientists in agreement, vs 3 dudes working for oil companies, yep those three obviously prove the other data is wrong.

    Those same denier support report folks will also tell you that a guillotine doesn’t do anything but improve your blood flow, if their masters tell them to write it up.

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    SlightlySlow  over 9 years ago

    And why is AGW called a hypothesis?

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    SlightlySlow  over 9 years ago

    Thank you for clarifying that. I was somewhat confused. Recently I spoke with an old classmate of mine at Texas A&M. A scientist at NASA since 1962, and still with NASA and active in his field of gas reactions in space, writer of a zillion papers, who tells me that James Handsen has become an embarrassment to NASA because of his fringe AGW belief. If I remember correctly, Handsen was often quoted, until recently, as being the go to guy because of his association with NASA, that the AGW folks point to as their poster child. So maybe, just maybe, science is not settled on this issue?

    I recommend reading a short paper written by Adrian Vance on the properties of CO2, it goes into a little more depth than you might find in the New York Times. “All About Global Warming” @ Amazon.com well worth the 30 minutes and 2.99 change they charge for the Kindle edition. It’s my understanding that none of the original computer models have proven true on the original input… In my field, we say, sh*t in, sh*t out. I do love a good argument though.

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    goweeder  over 9 years ago

    | "You are oh so wrong. The Temp Increase over the past 100Years is only 1.53°

    That is far from massive"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~And when we DO reach the tipping point (the point of no return) what then?

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    SlightlySlow  over 9 years ago

    NeoconMan…If you had checked “All About Global Warming” you would have realized that Adrian Vance has broken down the numbers proving that an increase in CO2 could not cause any catastrophe the alarmist predict. Which, would strengthen your argument…but you didn’t. In fact, a quick check of the periodic table and a multiplication formula any 6 year old or some high school graduates can solve will verify his paper. The AGW people are barking up the wrong tree. AGW, never, GW, very questionable. But doing some research may be too much to ask of the people posting here…but one can hope. BTW, I’ve been a Republican since 1962, the first year I could vote. But then who cares.

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    goweeder  over 9 years ago

    “Weather is not climate change.”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~But you can’t deny that ‘climate change’ changes weather.

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    goweeder  over 9 years ago

    What a long tedious wind of hot air. If you keep talking, the globe is going to warm up even faster. Please zip it up — at least until you get the real facts. And please also keep your mistaken political beliefs to yourself — at least until you find the right forum.

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    goweeder  over 9 years ago

    “has it: “There is none so blind as he who refuses to open his eyes.””~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the actual quote is,“There are none so blind as those who will not see.” I know that ‘none’ is singular and should be coupled with ‘is,’ but I’m just sayin’...

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    goweeder  over 9 years ago

    “Because there is no difference whatsoever between a hypothesis, a theory, a belief, or a guess.”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I could be wrong, but I think that a hypothesis is based on an EDUCATED guess.

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    goweeder  over 9 years ago

    Please note:I didn’t ask the editors to publish every one of my posts twice, but they did it anyway. I guess they were so impressed by my obvious wisdom, they decided to do that. My apologies.

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    echoraven  over 9 years ago

    “TripleAxis is one of those low information voters.”.Like that lady in that “Obamaphone” music video? I guarantee she didn’t vote for Romney.

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    echoraven  over 9 years ago

    ..and I keep trying to convince you to invest and sponge that free energy from the sun and have people pay YOU to let them soak some solar energy. Like a bunch of suckers…

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    hippogriff  over 9 years ago

    lonecat: My MS is interdepartmental, which means how everything interconnects. Universities are independent of corporate interference? Where do they get their endowments? The one I graduated from was real eager to let me teach a course on environmentally appropriate technology, until someone realized what it would do to their tenure track if they had someone teaching how to do things for themselves and their neighbors instead of depending on giant corporate monopolies. After all, the Chair of the Board of Regents was also CEO of the local natural gas monopoly.

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