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  1. cdward

    cdward said, about 1 month ago

    To think that our actions have no consequences is ridiculous. And even deniers who claim it’s all natural ought to ponder how they want humanity to survive in that new world. But if there is even a small positive change we can make – even if reducing, reusing, recycling only helps a little, we have a moral obligation to do so.

  2. Wildcard24365

    Wildcard24365 said, about 1 month ago

    Well, it’s simple! Once the full effects of climate change kick in, and the economy of the U.S. is in ruins from all the passive-aggression on the part of the corporations and their co-dependents running it, life in the U.S. will look just like a Mad Max movie, the ultimate Neo-Con fantasy:
    -no central government
    -no mamsy-pamsy artists criticizing our way of life
    -no lawyers making ridiculous rules protecting minorities
    -most of all, NO GUN CONTROL
    just one big character-building environment where people prove their worth every day, the Ayn Rand way!

  3. BOB HASTY

    BOB HASTYGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    AH! Ayn Rand!!!

    Great FICTION!!!

  4. eft

    eft said, about 1 month ago

    Why is there so much push back on the global warming problem? It’s not just the greedy rich not caring if the poor live in waste. Truly understanding the issue, one realizes that the foundation of American economic theory does not work in a closed system. This foundation is Growth. From all sides, the benchmarks used to measure economic health is constant growth. Who will explain the wheat and chessboard problem to the American people?

  5. harleyquinn

    harleyquinnGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    wt gets it half right
    “Controlling carbon dioxide is probably not the only thing we need to do. In fact there are far more powerful gases to keep the planet warmer being released.”
    Right the most powerful green house gas is dihydrogen monoxide. It accounts for up to 98% of our weather. The sun is the engine that drives the weather and the spin and the wobble of the earth are other key factor!
    wt also coughed up this gem “I personally believe we need to get a grip on the population.
    If there were far fewer of us then the Earth”
    Lock step with one of Omaba’s czars. I mean lets just look at China and there policies have worked ow so well.
    And this one from wt
    “I hope it will give you some insight into my feelings on the matter of excessive pay for executives and why we need to raise taxes.”
    Sure lets just play the class warfare card then the add the cap tax and trade the plunder. Even if the hockey stick of Al’s gorbull warming has been debunked, let’s make a demon out of CO2. This way we can play a shake down game of being neutral. accomplishing nothing but taking money from programs that can help. Like wet lands.
    wich brings me to cdward
    “To think that our actions have no consequences is ridiculous. And even deniers who claim it’s all natural… But if there is even a small positive change”
    You are only half right. I do not deny that we need to take care of this planet. I just do not support going after Al’s Gorbull warming demon. I also think the it is not the government place to to tax us to death in order to follow his teachings.

  6. eft

    eft said, about 1 month ago

    Again harleyspin -

    You call us chicken littles - then your counter-argument is “tax us to death.” Do you know the history of tax rates in this country?

  7. poppabob

    poppabob said, about 1 month ago

    HQ - dihydrogen monoxide? Let’s see, that’s - WATER! And it is a “greenhouse gas” (but not, apparently, classified as such by the US Supreme Court) and it is in much higher concentrations than CO2. So how much tax money are we going to spend to prevent water evaporation around the planet and, therefore, prevent global warming?

    My question is, who is getting rich on all the millions spent to lower CO2 emissions? Follow the money, folks.

    BTW - wt… - take a spelling class!

  8. harleyquinn

    harleyquinnGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    ”. Excessive money paid to executives is a waste , It is stealing from me and the community.
    As a different toon put it SWAG Stolen Without A Gun.”

    Again with the money earned by a Private company is stolen. Yet the money that is taken by a gun by the IRS is not?

  9. poppabob

    poppabob said, about 1 month ago

    Tom Toles - how about taking up a REAL issue, like all the OHB campaign issues that are unfulfilled? Or non-job creation? Or the disintegration of family values?

    News item - it was reported today that rape is “down” due to DNA testing. So, how long will it take for the ACLU to ban DNA testing on the basis of “privacy”???

  10. eft

    eft said, about 1 month ago

    pb -
    so your issue with this cartoon about global warming is that it doesn’t mention rape?

  11. motivemagus

    motivemagus said, about 1 month ago

    Toles is one of the best cartoonists today, poppabob, and he hits a lot of topics. Do your own if you feel the need.
    As for “dihydrogen monoxide,” yes, indeed, that contributes to the Greenhouse Effect. This is one reason that the melting Arctic and Antarctic icecaps is such a concern. Ice reflects light and heat back into space. Liquid water absorbs heat. One of the many “tipping points” people are looking at is how much faster warming takes place when we lose more of the icecap.

  12. NoFearPup

    NoFearPupGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    What are you going to do about it, Motey? Live in a cave? It’ll happen anyway. Now, pollution_ - that is another matter entirely. Or is carbon your way to fool the rubes into backing your mandates? Just admit it and then we can talk about redistribution of wealth and power. Is that what Libs want? Why lie about it? It just turns into powerless presidential terms when you’re caught in a lie (for Dems). Better yet - fire Emanuel before it’s all lost (for the Dems).

  13. NoFearPup

    NoFearPupGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    HQ, what’s your opinion of declining small reptile populations?

  14. harleyquinn

    harleyquinnGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    “HQ, what’s your opinion of declining small reptile populations?”
    well the theory that frogs who have mutations are being effected by Gorebull Warming has been debunked. if that is what you are referring to?

  15. harleyquinn

    harleyquinnGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    eft said, about 4 hours ago
    Again harleyspin -
    You call us chicken littles - then your counter-argument is “tax us to death.” Do you know the history of tax rates in this country?

    I know that cap tax and trade the plunder will hurt the USA. I know letting the bush tax cuts expire will hurt our Country. I know Income tax is just plain stupid.
    You want a better way?
    FAIR TAX!

  16. rikoshayrabbit

    rikoshayrabbit said, about 1 month ago

    Harley, are you suggesting that we need more people on this earth? Or is it that it simply doesn’t matter how many people there are? That the human population is of no relevance to what the scientists have been concerned with lately? I’m truly wondering what point you’ve been attempting to voice.

  17. HabaneroBuck

    HabaneroBuck said, about 1 month ago

    What is “Climate Denial”? Since Global Warming is no longer the buzzword (or the observed data), we just generally throw out something about the “climate”? It is getting impenetrable anymore trying to decipher what the elites actually want us to believe about what man is doing to the climate, other than that we need to reduce emissions, i.e. cut back on Western Civilization.

    wtf, interesting points about Carter’s inheritances, but you deny human nature and experience if you think that raising the taxes on the rich will ultimately have a positive effect on the economy for the poor man. The economy was bad through four years of Carter and well into Reagan’s presidency. Can’t blame Nixon for that long of a streak, sorry. It always results in less activity in the marketplace…you just have to pick your poison, and history shows that when you fatten the gov over individuals, people become more reliant on the gov, which equals less freedom.

  18. motivemagus

    motivemagus said, about 1 month ago

    Pup (“manna and quail?”) -
    Funny - we can end a war, cure diseases, improve the world – but we can’t battle global warming? No, it isn’t going to just “happen anyway,” that’s the whole point. We’ve contributed to global climate change. Therefore, we can contribute to changing it. And pollution is one of the things we can address, too, while we’re at it, since some kinds of pollution make it worse, too.
    Quit calling me a liar, you twit. I’m not lying, I’m citing evidence. I have no interest in redistributing power or wealth. Frankly, what I am more interested in is building up everyone’s wealth. Currently it is flowing from the poor to the rich. But you’d call that “earning.”

  19. harleyquinn

    harleyquinnGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    HQ if we use the Fair Tax consumption tax idea you harp on we would have to raise sales tax to 40% or more to cover the lost revenue of the income tax break on the wealthiest alone.

    Repel the 16th and Nope 23%

  20. fennec

    fennec said, about 1 month ago

    HQ and Pup: since when are frogs small reptiles?
    (Shows the factual quality of the argument, doesn’t it?)

  21. NoFearPup

    NoFearPupGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    ^I’m sorry Princess Pea…Amphibian…is that the term?

  22. jimmywfl

    jimmywflGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Actually, it is getting colder. The Artic sea ice GREW for the last two years. The article headline of this twists it backwards “Artic sea ice at third lowest…” Shows you how they are manipulating the data.
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6203411/Arctic-sea-ice-at-third-lowest-level.html

  23. ahab

    ahabGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Motivemagus, you are a patient man. When someone can’t even understand National Geographic level science. How on earth can you reason with or educate them? Barren ground man!

  24. mustbeunique2

    mustbeunique2 said, about 1 month ago

    Death to Taxes!!!!

    I vote we start a movement to get rid of every vehicle and start riding bikes!!!!

    And stop replacing Facts for science.

  25. Magnaut

    MagnautGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    this is all about AlGore getting rich…….he one the PEAS prize and is finnaly in the right pod with arafat and carter…..they don’t deserve capital letters

  26. NoFearPup

    NoFearPupGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    ~ ^ Shows the quality of debate with Libs. Name calling, arrogance, etc.

  27. fritzoid

    fritzoid said, about 1 month ago

    ”~ ^ Shows the quality of debate with Libs. Name calling, arrogance, etc”

    Which is the kettle and which is the pot here?

  28. d_legendary1

    d_legendary1 said, about 1 month ago

    HQ and and mutt are forgetting two things when it comes to fair tax: corporations have special tax breaks. So they won’t be paying the “fair tax” that you guys are clamoring for. Also rich guys won’t be paying that income tax anyway. Their income comes from capital gains, which can be anywhere from 0% to 15%. The only thing that fair tax is going to do is kill off social security and medicare.

    Oh wait…that’s what you guys want. My bad. YEAH! FAIR TAX (smirk).

  29. NoFearPup

    NoFearPupGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Well, get it done already - you have your votes… Oh, wait-a-minit, you do have your votes, don’t you? Did you go and lose your votes again…or maybe you never had them?

  30. ahab

    ahabGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Whupped pup.