Rat forgot Frosty’s top hat, his corn cob pipe, his button nose, and two eyes made out of coal ( now try to get that song out of your head anytime today ).
Just keep adding more snow. You will create a localized glacial micro-climate and eventually an ice age that will catastrophically cool the entire globe. Moving all that water into the upper atmosphere to cool it to make the snow, and moving it far enough inland to put it where you want it, will take a lot of thermal energy, though. So you’re sort of in a Catch-22 situation. You can’t have cooling until you’ve had your warming.
“If you don’t get yer heat, you can’t have any icing. How can you have any icing if you don’t get yer heat?”
Now see, this perpetuates the general misunderstanding about global climate change.It’s not “global warming” (although that tag seems to have attached like a bad tick).In the summer, the carbon build-up traps sunlight and makes it hotter.But in the winter, that same carbon prevents sunlight from reaching the earth properly and can actually make it COLDER. Definitely a 2-edged sword.What it does most of all though, is melt icebergs (because the summers are hotter), and worst-case changes the ocean current, causing ecological disaster. Disasters such as increased hurricane count and intensity, tidal waves, not to mention skin cancer and premature aging. And best of all: we’re already past the point of no return! Even if we completely stopped carbon emissions at this point, it would take decades for the Earth to clean itself. But those holes in the ozone layer… a bit more tricky.Mankind: the most intelligent species to ever endanger the very planet we live on.And I’m just telling the basic truth; I’m not even an “environmentalist”. Some of us however, can see the gigantic writing on the big, huge flippin’ wall.
Not relevant to today but…I just read Sundays strip. My deepest condolences. Having gone thru the same thing, and knowing your ireverent sense of humor, I kept waiting for a shoe to drop and wondering if I would have to abandon my favorite strip. I feel for you brother.
“When life gets rough I like to hold onto my dreamsOf relaxing in the summer sun, just letting off steamOh, the sky will be blue, and you guys’ll be there tooWhen I finally do what frozen things doIn summerIn summer!”
BE THIS GUY over 5 years ago
Rudolph lead the sleigh on a smoggy Christmas Eve.
Templo S.U.D. over 5 years ago
you’re not a jolly, happy soul either, Rat
DennisinSeattle Premium Member over 5 years ago
Well, at least the music pun arc has come to an end.
enigmamz over 5 years ago
That will be trouble when if freezes overnight.
Darsan54 Premium Member over 5 years ago
Oh SNAP !! Thanks again Jim Inhofe.
finkd over 5 years ago
Rat forgot Frosty’s top hat, his corn cob pipe, his button nose, and two eyes made out of coal ( now try to get that song out of your head anytime today ).
electricshadow Premium Member over 5 years ago
must have gotten the idea from this
https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2018/12/09
chris_weaver over 5 years ago
♫ I’m dreaming of a wet Christmas… ♪
Gent over 5 years ago
Frosty! Noooooooo!
Gent over 5 years ago
If only hyoomans focused on their need rather than their greed, this world would be a better place for everyone.
Breadboard over 5 years ago
Hard to think of Rat decorating anything …. For that would equal work …. The only thing Rat works at is being Rat ;-)
Radish the wordsmith over 5 years ago
How did “Rat” get to be 3 feet tall anyway?
nosirrom over 5 years ago
Hey everyone. Ives got an earworm for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4EA5n8Ub5Q
uniquename over 5 years ago
It’d be interesting to see Calvin’s take on this.
Brass Orchid Premium Member over 5 years ago
Just keep adding more snow. You will create a localized glacial micro-climate and eventually an ice age that will catastrophically cool the entire globe. Moving all that water into the upper atmosphere to cool it to make the snow, and moving it far enough inland to put it where you want it, will take a lot of thermal energy, though. So you’re sort of in a Catch-22 situation. You can’t have cooling until you’ve had your warming.
“If you don’t get yer heat, you can’t have any icing. How can you have any icing if you don’t get yer heat?”
Snoots over 5 years ago
Now see, this perpetuates the general misunderstanding about global climate change.It’s not “global warming” (although that tag seems to have attached like a bad tick).In the summer, the carbon build-up traps sunlight and makes it hotter.But in the winter, that same carbon prevents sunlight from reaching the earth properly and can actually make it COLDER. Definitely a 2-edged sword.What it does most of all though, is melt icebergs (because the summers are hotter), and worst-case changes the ocean current, causing ecological disaster. Disasters such as increased hurricane count and intensity, tidal waves, not to mention skin cancer and premature aging. And best of all: we’re already past the point of no return! Even if we completely stopped carbon emissions at this point, it would take decades for the Earth to clean itself. But those holes in the ozone layer… a bit more tricky.Mankind: the most intelligent species to ever endanger the very planet we live on.And I’m just telling the basic truth; I’m not even an “environmentalist”. Some of us however, can see the gigantic writing on the big, huge flippin’ wall.
mail2jbl over 5 years ago
Has Cartoon Boy been ripping off FoxTrot? This past Sunday strip for FoxTrot had Frosty melting at the North Pole due to global warming.
The Handsome Raspberry over 5 years ago
My attempt to build a snowman
gileshead over 5 years ago
Ha ha ha, tha tis funny!
Geezer over 5 years ago
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61oggxbvICL.SY450.jpg
txmystic over 5 years ago
I thought he might have liquified Franz…
B UTTONS over 5 years ago
You forgot Al Gore crying for the loss of another mass of snow and ice.
gjaymac over 5 years ago
Not relevant to today but…I just read Sundays strip. My deepest condolences. Having gone thru the same thing, and knowing your ireverent sense of humor, I kept waiting for a shoe to drop and wondering if I would have to abandon my favorite strip. I feel for you brother.
garcoa over 5 years ago
At least Rat’s carbon footprint is low this year.
jdsven over 5 years ago
Figured Rat would opt more for the Home Alone traps.
Sisyphos over 5 years ago
Rat is just dodging his decorating duties by this glib invention. Do not be so gullible, Pig!
(Yeah, I know, Pig is perpetually super-gullible.)
johngregor Premium Member over 5 years ago
“When life gets rough I like to hold onto my dreamsOf relaxing in the summer sun, just letting off steamOh, the sky will be blue, and you guys’ll be there tooWhen I finally do what frozen things doIn summerIn summer!”