Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 18, 2019

Sadly, the polar bears are NOT adapting so well. The polar caps are disappearing faster than predicted, oceans are warming at a rate faster than previously predicted and a catastrophic process is unfolding and we had better damn well take some action before we pass a tipping point.

There is close to 100% agreement by all scientists not funded by Big Carbon (coal and oil) that climate change is occurring and humans are the primary cause of the current change.

There is a war on science and a war against education by those who depend on an ignorant, uneducated voting populace to keep them in office.

We see it in the attacks on not only climate science, but the war against evolution, the war against immunizations.

We see it in the amazing resurgence of people who are seriously arguing that the earth is flat and not spherical and that the earth, not the sun, is the center of the solar system.

Climate deniers are just the latest incarnation of Flat Earth superstitious ignorance.

The bears have the researchers’ only way home. Play before picnic?

Smarter than the average bear as Yogi would say.

soon to be known as the “white zoo bear”

Wiley Bears are very adaptable,probably more so than us humans. Polar Bears, on the other hand, will likely survive only in hybrid form. Mating with other bears, such as the Grizzly Bear, hybrids between the two have been confirmed already, as they and perhaps other bears move north for cooler weather and the Polar Bears find fewer places that suit them.

I can barely bare that these Wiley bears are barely having so much fun, while barely holding on.

Let’s all hope so.

Even deniers who say it’s just a natural cycle should consider two things: 1). It ain’t just critters that get wiped out in large climate shifts,even cyclical ones, and 2). Only a moron wants to keep doing things that make a bad situation worse. They should consider but late night am talk radio tells ‘em to not worry their pointed little heads. But we don’t need to worry. It’ll be the problem of their kids and grandkids.

Oddly enough, this makes me sad.

If they are heading to extinction, at least they are doing it with a smile…

Sigh…if only it were true.

Now all that’s left is to migrate on down to Lake Michigan for the endless supply of free beach snacks.

Lots of people still think in terms of oh well, it’s done this before and come back to normal. This is just temporary.

Well, they have part of it right. Current conditions are temporary because they will continue to worsen to the ultimate point of no return. Our children and grandchildren will inherit problems that are not even visualized as this time.

There is no way to prepare for the chaos that will result as ocean frontage slowly moves inland. Or when massive amounts of salt water inundate the fresh water bays and inlets and kill off native species.

And yet NASA keeps reporting an expanding ice cap. The 100% agreement is not all non-carbon scientists but all grant-influenced scientists. There is a difference. Try including solar activity into your model, the sun has a greater impact on temperature than any other factor.

My local zoo has a good polar bear habitat. There is a sign that says “When the arctic ice is gone, the polar bears will also be gone”, or words to that effect.

The reality is so sad I can’t even suspend disbelief to enjoy this—not after seeing the starving polar bears. Can’t wash that image away.

The climate’s been changing since the atmosphere was born(came into being).

https://www.care2.com/causes/what-is-the-new-green-deal.html

We penguins at the South Pole are worried, too…

Give it a rest, Wiz…most of the scientists are funded by the government.

HAHA! Look how much fun they’re having.

A lack of education or information (accurate) is ignorance. A lack of ability to see accurate information and act on it, or totally reject facts (“deniers” regardless “politics”) is stupidity.

Over 70 years of research and facts show that humans have drastically altered natural cycles, even if you consider rare events like massive volcanic activity, or asteroid strikes. WE are a species causing the most drastic changes, and our actions CAN be slowed, and impacts reversed as was the case of resticting coal use in northern Europe after killer smog in London, and over-grazing and logging/vegetation change, in the eastern Mediterranean.

We will continue to need petroleum and fossil fuels in the near future, it’s the reduction of that use that can be accomplished with technology, and will…

Ignorant or stupid, not a hard choice to make. The real currency of action is: follow the money, and you find the real problem, and evil.

Maybe all of the people that drive over sized SUV’s and have monster trucks that don’t really a need for them are a big part of the problem. How many of you hypocrites that pretend you’re so concerned about the environment have an SUV or truck and 90% of the time you are the only occupant? I’m sure not all the people driving them are conservatives. Also how many of you actually recycle? I drive a compact and drop off my recyclables every Saturday morning!

Laugh at the Apocalypse.

Fascinating animals, polar bears. Huge apex predators (dangerous), yet with a beauty and “character” we enjoy at a distance… Witness the affection here for the generic W. bears… If they were as sociable as dogs, you might well be buying 100 lb sacks of bear food instead of 20 for a dog. A polar bear cub is about the cutest creature extant, so somebodyshort may well be right. As was Joni Mitchell…

Would that they were.

Al Gore is your god.

My my mr. Miller you did strike a chord today good for you let’s have a drink before the world ends

NOT funny.

200 years ago there were less than one billion humans living on earth. Today, according to UN calculations there are over 7 billion of us. To believe that we don’t impact the environment is ludicrous, but other than doing away with 6 billion of us I’m not sure we can fix this.

This is what Republicans think, when they hear Climate Change.

Huh, that’s funny. I thought they would have been bear-footing instead.

Polishbearskis!

Better than the guys who Used to own that boat and those Skis adapted to Wiley Bears.

If only…

If you do not allow dissent in science, you do not have science, you have religion. You need deniers in science. If you are correct, then you can withstand the scrutiny. All science is subject to be disproved, that is the core tenet of the scientific method.

y’all are arguing,“it’s your fault…” “no, it’s YOUR fault”. Seriously, things are changing and we can disagree how much of it is our fault and how much in natural and it does nothing but get everyone upset. I’d be happy to get started with small grass roots efforts of people not tossing cigarette butts out on the ground (not air pollution but pollution in general). We can’t even get people to stop throwing their empty beer cans into the bushes, or taking a bus over a car because the bus is not convenient.