Henry Payne for December 20, 2015

Does Mr Payne obsess over ISIS? I draw a strip on terrorism, including ISIS, and I don’t seem to spend half as much time going on and on about the alleged threat they pose that he does.

Being aware of the dangers of climate change doesn’t preclude being aware of the dangers of terrorism. I guess it’s too much for Payne to imagine a President capable of being aware of more than one thing at a time.The notion that the leaders of ISIS in Syria have much capability to orchestrate attacks in the US is dubious. The real problem is that we have plenty of people already here who are willing to commit murder & most of them aren’t Muslims.

I don’t believe in global warming as being manmade. But if it actually exists then it is much much worse than anything ISIS can do. If you don’t think so, stand in a tornado or hurricane. Also desertification is causing peoples to starve and this gives ISIS more recruits.

I guess I would wonder what it would take to convince the naysayers, that global warming exists and that the use of fossil fuels is a significant factor? Exactly what kind of proof are they looking for that would be sufficient to convince them????

Most of the people that I know, that honestly deny climate change, do so, for religious reasons … and then there are the politicians. Question; is Payne deeply religious?

Henry’s paycheck does not come from the Detroit News. He is financed (as are a few others) by the Republican Party’s slush fund.

Actual truth, Obama has identified the real world-wide threat. Daesh in Iraq/Syria about the size of the NYPD. 355 + mass shooting in the US this year, and Muslims involved in less than a full handful.

RATIONAL precautions against lone wolf operaters, make sense, but with thousands of potential nut cases out there, like Aurora, Coloroado Springs, Roseburg, Santa Barbara, Tampa movie theater, and gangs in Portland or Los Angeles or Waco bars, much scarier, a bigger threat to most people, and very hard to keep track of, let alone shut down.

Island nations, and low-lying countries losing their land and agriculture, or fisheries disappearing, or drought wiping out inland areas floods don’t get, represent the various impacts of climate change and human activities that threaten far more than any “terrorist” group.

Are you seriously trying to imply that the President of the United States is unaware of the danger ISIS poses simply because he is also aware of the global danger climate change poses? Hank, you’ve lost it. You’ve obviously got an ax to grind here.

Payne and his ilk are so used to Dubya’s incompetence that they have forgotten a president should be capable of multitasking — which Payne, with his constant harping on Obama, is apparently also incapable of.

Nance: the term Anthropogenic climate change dates to the early mid 1950’s in describing what was going on regionally in Europe and around the Mediterranean, down into North Africa, long predates any Bush era folks. Globally yes, but not the term “climate change”