Tom Toles for May 29, 2018

Hmm, Tonto call him “white eyes”, and that skin color, tanning booth fixation, why he’s not concerned about living long enough for climate change to get him?

The sincere belief that man is powerless to do anything positive about slowing/reversing AGW conflicts with the sincere belief that one cannot take one’s own life. Suppression of publishing climate change data is a form of bearing false witness and trying to destabilize the MENA to hasten the rapture also shares in that cognitive dissonance that American conservative Christians seem to share. The empathy that today’s Democrats display seems more in sync with the tenets of Christianity that my Eisenhower Republican family believed in. My grandparents would think their party had gone mad in choosing a candidate like Trump with beliefs contrary to both American and Christian values.

Republicans are a death cult.

What’s with the sunglasses? I thought he liked staring into the sun.

His reality check bounced.

Many of the horrible things Trump has masterminded may be reversible. Climate change and the extinction of Alaskan bears and other “trophy” animals are not. I wake every morning with tears in my eyes.

Republicans were elected, what more proof of no such thing as climate change do you need?

Trump made a deal with Carl Icahn to give Scott Pruitt the EPA job, in order to get a waiver for an energy company Icahn was invested in. What kind of kick back did Trump get?

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/09/senators-ask-billionaire-icahn-for-refinery-waiver-details.html

So, orange really is the new “Black”?

trumpster = expensive hoax

By the way, he is sunbathing on top of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. His happy Memorial Day gesture for veterans.

Republicans are block heads.

The safe level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is 350 parts per million.

We are currently at 400 ppm and the Republicdumb President wants to burn more coal.

Don’t vote for Republicans, they care about quarterly profits and have no vision for a long term future.

Where there is no vision, the people perish…

Nice pic, do I smell lard burning. Dude probably can’t spell melanoma.

And for thosei who claim that more CO2 is good for plants, there is this to consider. Elevated CO2 may make a rice plant grow faster, but it will have less nutritional value.

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/5/eaaq1012

Basically rice becomes less nutritious with higher CO2. This has a major impact on a significant population of the planet. If more rice must be grown to obtain the same nutrition, then that is a major impact.

And it isn’t just rice. Wheat also does not do as well.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17617-wheat-gets-worse-as-co2-rises/

But hey, the ignorant and foolish choose to remain ignorant — foolishly.

I wish that was the only kind of “evidence block” he was using.

Brawndo’s got what plants crave. It’s got electrolytes.

Here is an example of worst case scenario that is shaping up for us. 2145 AD

3. Carbon dioxide levels hit 1,100 ppm by 2100. The result resembles the worst parts of Earth’s past – The End of the Permian to the Triassic. Earth is 10 degrees Celsius/18 degrees Fahrenheit warmer. All of the world’s ice is melting. Sea level rise is measured in meters. Much of the world’s population is displaced by rising waters and vital infrastructure losses cannot be replaced. Polar bears are long gone, Homo sapiens is the latest endangered species. The ocean conveyor shut down decades ago. Signs of deep ocean anoxia are increasingly apparent and appalling – the sky turns a sickly shade of green. The sixth great mass extinction is underway. Remaining governments fight savage wars over scarce resources as entire ecosystems collapse. Natural selection and humankind are brutally reacquainted when medicine reverts to pre-industrial norms. Rampant famine and disease causes a global population implosion. Humanity will probably survive but a second stone age is the most likely outcome only without mineral resources. H2O + CO2 = H2CO3 or carbolic acid found in the oceans.

Good news! As the oceans heat they can hold less CO2 so it evaporates out lessening the acidity.

A recent Times opinion piece included this quotation from the paleoclimatologist Lee Kump: “The rate at which we’re injecting CO2 into the atmosphere today, according to our best estimates, is 10 times faster than it was during the End-Permian.” (2017)

Certainly, the central Arctic Ocean was ice-free before, during, and after the PETM. This can be ascertained from the composition of sediment cores recovered during the Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX) at 87°N on Lomonosov Ridge.16 Moreover, temperatures increased during the PETM, as indicated by the brief presence of subtropical dinoflagellates,17 and a marked increase in TEX86.18 The latter record is intriguing, though, because it suggests a 6 °C (11 °F) rise from ~17 °

Cheer up! roseanne got cancelled!The vile ignorant pig really screwed the pooch on this one! I’m having a Grand Marnier on the rocks to celebrate!

Yup, more carbon in the atmosphere causes plants to grow better. And when they die….uh…what happens to the carbon?