Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for November 08, 2009

I gotta agree about the whole wondering if it is really November - yesterday (Sat.) in Buffalo it reached 63 and today it is predicted that the high will be 61!!! If most of the leaves weren’t off the tress, I wouldn’t believe that it is November.

Well in the southern hemisphere, at around 38 degrees south, in Melbourne, we’re in the middle of a run of about 7 predicted days over 30 (centrigrade) which hasn’t happened in November since 1902. I’m not looking forward to summer this year!

What’s with the giraffe’s peering over the fence???

Our October was the third coldest on record. Enjoying November………… Predicting a mild winter.

It was warm here yesterday too and supposed to be today as well but then it’s getting cold. So we’re enjoying it while it lasts.

@Michle, I read the strip three times before I noticed them. In my opinion, their significance is:

Notice how easy it is to miss something if it’s not emphasized;

They migrated north awfully fast - I mean, if they’re encouraged by global warming, this is ridiculous!

Will all our trees lose all their foliage that’s below, say, 8 feet? And what other changes are to come?

I read that grizzly bears and polar bears are genetically the same. They can interbreed. And guess which the cubs are? Well, considering that they never even meet their father, and their mother teaches them all about hunting, etc., what do you think?

And the comment was made that grizzly bears wouldn’t be particularly affected by global warming, because they eat many different kinds of food. Polars bears basically eat seals. Now if they were taught how to catch fish, that might save them from starving!

Anybody care to volunteer to show them how?

We’re watching a hurricane make its way into the Gulf of Mexico. Is it really November?

Ashamed as I am to admit I live in SC, I have to report that we actually turned on the heat 2 nights ago - got clear down to the low 40s- hi 30’s.

Those who say man can not effect climate changes are those who do not read history… Man has several times made significant changes to an area… . the dust bowl of the 30’s is one example… it was fixed by liberal thinking… Use conture plowing.. the conservites said it was hogwash…till it worked…. I suggest people look up the ‘bread basket’ of Rome and what happened when Rome fell and bedouins began dramatically increasing their wealth (Goats) what was once verdent pasture became a part of the Sahara dessert… Increased the size of the desert between 10 and 15%… and with desert instead of medows the heat thermals caused a shift in the prevailing winds to move the rain that had kept the land green a few degrees to the north thus increaseing the problem. I learned about this in history class at Hillsdale College back in the 70’s before any of todays debate about the problem. This was just men with goats…….

The polar bears survived when Greenland was much warmer than it is today, when the Vikings were able to raise crops there and settled the place. They’ll do fine.

As for there being a “consensus among scientists” regarding Global Warming, or anything else – read up on the Scientific Method sometime. It talks about a lot of things, but polling scientists to find out what they think is NOT part of it, nor is voting. Those are POLITICAL acts, not SCIENCE.

It COULD be circus parade, people… [eyeroll]

I had snow on October 15… we had an overnight temp of 49 back in mid July… not warm here in northwest NJ

Listen to those “scientists”. They could be scientists in Ivy League Colleges, scientists who invented Napalm, or even political scientists.It doesn’t matter what their field, they know better. Think of the Professor on Gilligan’s Island. He knew everything

Every year in Seattle it starts raining in earnest about November 1st. The last four days we’ve had three inches of rain. More predicted. Seeing the sun in November? Doesn’t happen.

Giraffes? Its cold where I am, today is nicer, but it was freezing yesterday. Meh, about global warming, could be natural, but we’re certainly not helping things, and everyone is a hypocrite, not just whoever you consider as leftists.

Of course, watering your lawn isn’t really that great a use of natural resources, either…

I’ll bet we’re bashing “YOUR” America, aren’t we, Roger? I certainly don’t think we are bashing everyone else’s America. It HAS been a while, though, since I got to wallow in excess and waste. Wipe the spittle off your chin and throw some cold water on your face…

would people just lighten up! These are cartoons for COMEDY. Laugh and stop putting political bleeep where it doesn’t belong. Go somewhere else with that BS.

Vasgar: You read the comics for what you want, we’ll read the comics for what we want. Same for writing comments. Of course, you could always stop reading the comments.

As for climate change, it has always changed regardless of human activities. And humans have always adapted and always will.

The earth’s climate changes in cycles. This is nothing new. Someone just figured out that money and Nobel Peace prizes could be attained by exploiting it.

Cute. Except the whole “we had freaking record setting snowfall in the northeast 3 weeks ago” thing.

Leave the preaching to Gore a O’Blama.