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   ConserveGov said, 7 months ago

   Maybe Al Gores 20 room mansion caused Sandy. Btw it’s snowing here.
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   Radish said, 7 months ago

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   It shows the warm water of the gulf stream is moving further north, probably due to the melting ice cap. This warm water movement is predicted to create severe winters in Europe. Meanwhile the north pole is moving toward Siberia.
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   Doughfoot said, 7 months ago

   There really is no point in arguing this issue. Even if it were conclusively proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that the cyclical climate change of the earth was being accelerated and warped by human activity, it would not make an atom’s difference.
   
   All you would see would be a lot of recrimination and finger-pointing, everybody blaming everyone but themselves, everyone claiming they just “can’t afford” to do anything about it. In this world, short-term and selfish interests will nearly always triumph over long-term collective interests. People will come together and work together to save themselves only when the threat is obvious and immediate, the course to take is crystal clear, and the collective effort doesn’t take too long. The world wars are an example.
   
   We may in a century or so look with curiosity at images of “the way the world used to be” and wonder if, in theory, the calamaties and losses of the last few decades could have been averted.
   
   We will only know how real climate change is when it has gone too far for us to really do anything about it, and then we will piously declare that there was nothing we could have about it anyway.
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   motivemagus said, 7 months ago

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   Wait – I think you are missing the point of Tole’s cartoon. Each “extreme” storm that becomes the norm is eating away at climate denial (note the label). No, it’s not a nuanced understanding of AGW, but the deniers don’t have one!
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   uh-oh said, 7 months ago

   But look at the jobs created.
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   ssejhill said, 7 months ago

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   BASLIM … continue to bury your head in the sand. There obviously is no point in trying to convince someone who refuses to look at all the data that points to global climate change.
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   meetinthemiddle said, 7 months ago

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   To borrow from the summations the climatologists are using to explain it to the rest of us: “When a 100-year storm starts happening every 2 or 3 years, something is wrong.” Also, if there weren’t a warming trend, you’d expect the number of record highs and record lows on any given day in any given town to balance out – except it’s running 2 or 3 to 1 breaking highs instead of lows these days. And that’s with thousands of data points every day across the US.
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   ronald rini said, 7 months ago

   Yes we are causing some of it but it is giong to happen I has many a times before.ohio was under ice at one time and saudis had trees and animal (how else was the oil made.) THe good point is we pushed back the ice age 10,000 years
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   moderateisntleft said, 7 months ago

   @ssejhill

   I don’t think Baslim is denying climate change. He is judt pointing out that a single event in itself doesn’t prove anything. I would agree that Toles could have made his point better by using the SUM of all the recent extreme weather as better proof of climate change.
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    corzak said, 7 months ago

    @ConserveGov

    Any discussion of climate change . . . and some ‘Fox N’ Friend’ is guaranteed to bring out the ol “Al Gore’s mansion”.
    
    You forgot “Solyndra”, brainless parrot boy.
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    Omnius said, 7 months ago

    Toles is showing us how climate change deniers are losing the battle one record breaking storm after another. One of these days even these morons will have to face reality when it’s their homes being destroyed. Hey global warming deniers go buy some beachfront property as a long term investment.
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    ninety_nine_percent said, 7 months ago

    Nice ’toon Tom.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 7 months ago

    @ronald rini

    THe good point is we pushed back the ice age 10,000 years
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    Look up the Permian extinction and the following Smithian-Spathian Hot House Earth. The map shows the life distribution. Life was reduced by the extinction of only a few species. The heat was so high that in the wide equatorial belt very few plants could live-no trees, in the oceans no fish just shell fish could exist. Not 10,000 years think a delay of 100,000 years.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 7 months ago

    Also check out how many gigatons of carbon dioxide we can still put into the atmosphere before it is too much. Then look at how much the oil and coal companies have that they will demand to burn—-way more like 5X more.
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    INGSOC said, 7 months ago

    Natural Disasters are nothing more than Natural Occurrences.. To simply claim that human activity is essentially the cause is completely absurd.!!
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