Gary Varvel for May 31, 2019

And what’s your alternative? Pollute as much as you want? Use up all the resources with no thought of the future?

The Republican take on the environment is just like their take on healthcare.

“We don’t have a plan, but we’ll think of something. And whatever it is, it’ll be WAY better than any plan from those other people who actually do have a plan.”

Then in the next breath they complain about how it’s the Democrats who don’t have a message.

Looks more like Trumpy’s North Korea policy to me.

Not to mention his easy-to-win trade war.

republicans prefer a hazy old deal.

So now it’s back to leaky pipelines.

Republicans hate the idea of making the USA energy sufficient.

The Vestas plants (gigantic windmills) here in Colorado are at full production.

Willful ignorance, lies, and self-serving partisan politics are the greatest threat to the Green New Deal.

Not the technology needed.

Not the feasibility of the idea.

Not the fact of it being a government, not private, initiative.

Can’t be having any discussion of common sense legislation.. Got to go for the crazy stuff like walls.. tariffs..abortion.. gerrymandering.. voting fraud.. Hillary.

The Green New Deal is not dead, but very much alive. But, the concept of the Deal has been around for decades. And in recent years, many large corporations have recognized the cost saving benefits of renewables in their business plan. So, the Repubs, Trump and oil interests can deny all they want, but the move in on for the many benefits of alternative energy, recycling, and reuse.

Nations such as China are making major investments into solar and wind powers and electric car production. Continued U.S. reliance on fossil fuels will render this nation another fossil.

Did that Windmill succumb to noise cancer? Was Trump right??? (nah…lol)

Why are we so caught up in our world when there are billions of undiscovered planets that we can colonize and live on? Fund NASA, make space travel easy and accessible to all, and let’s spread the human race throughout the entire universe.

Varvel doesn’t even try to make sense.

Yet another empty declarative cartoon without even a hint of substance.

This cartoon is paid for by the oil and gas industry.

Did a tornado get that windmill? Does Varvel know about the prediction that warming will increase storm intensities and frequencies? Or is he totally clueless as usual? (I thought he had announced his retirement. It’s certainly time or past time for it.)

I love how he has the blackening clouds gathering in his cartoon.

Trump Disciples like Varvel believe that Mr. Potter will make Bedford Falls Great Again.

Analysis skills.

Is that the windmill that gave Trump Brain Cancer?

I would rather see 1 of 100 windmills fail than 1 of 1000 oil pipelines fail.

Let’s ignore all the stupidity in the Rump universe and try to distract with an irrelevant reference. A weapon of minimal distraction.

1: The Green New Deal is about raising awareness and discussing options.

2: If it seems likely to be successful, but goes against the One True GOP Way, then denigrate it.

3: If you cannot figure out a good way to put it down, simply lie.

Mr. Varvel is fulfilling his contract, as he so often does, by choosing option 3.

Living in your comfortable cocoons as the real butterflies suffer and die; try reading a little reality into your dreams.

I am not worried about you feeble humans. Past history indicates, we Lizards will survive your stupidity. We will flourish. You will be a bad taste in Nature’s mouth.

Dinosaurs were not lizards. And anyway we can trash the planet. The American Empire can stay in the black toxic land of carbon based technology as it adds to the heating that will sooner rather than later will crush us all under the oppressive heat and slashing storms. The rest of the world can go green, and technology that doesn’t burn carbon and have to compensate for the 2nd Age of Coal for the American Empire goes chugging along and spreading its contagion to other places globally.It will take between 5 – 10 million years for Nature to clean up that mess. Humanity will be gone either into space or just died choking.

The fact (!!) is that non-carbon energy sources are growing by leaps and bounds,, growing much faster than what comes from expanding conventional energy sources. The small percentage of power generated by wind and solar right now is not the point, the point is the accelerating rate of growth (fueled, you should pardon the expression) by rapid improvements in efficiency. In the past ten years, there has been significantly more new energy generation from non-carbon sources than from carbon sources.

Also growing rapidly are non-carbon uses of energy, e.g. electric or hybrid automobiles.

Britain has not used power from coal for TWO WEEKS

- the first time since the industrial revolution

Britain has enjoyed more coal-free hours in May than it did for the whole of 2017This means that Great Britain has not needed energy from coal for 336 hoursThe last record for the longest time without coal, set in May, was 193 hours

Coal has not been burnt in the UK for two weeks as Britain hits a new clean energy record by generating electricity without coal for two weeks.

The new record marks the longest period that coal has not helped power Britain since the industrial revolution.

National Grid said yesterday: ‘We can now confirm that Great Britain’s electricity system will pass the fortnight mark for no coal generation this afternoon! The last coal generator came off the system at 3.12pm on 17th May – meaning we will achieve #coalfreefortnight at 3:12pm today!!’

This means Great Britain has not needed coal – considered a highly polluting way to produce energy fuel for 336 hours.

The last record was 193 hours, set at the beginning of May.

The new record marks the longest period that coal has not helped power Britain since the industrial revolution. This image shows National Grid confirming the record on Twitter

Britain has enjoyed more coal-free hours this month (679 hours) than it did for the whole of 2017 (624 hours).

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7091509/Britain-not-used-power-coal-TWO-WEEKS.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019/05/29/department-energy-uses-freedom-gas-refer-natural-gas/1270444001/?fbclid=IwAR1uivlC4sju1_eVHINStaaq3hIgb6gL6YSdgLEEHLkvhovXFEwYLkXEfC4

Funny. The cartoon is about how badly the GND has been handled. He isn’t commenting on the merits of the plan, he is depicting the disaster called AOC and the absolute collapse of the efforts of the left to sell this turd.

Yes, Mr. Varvel, you are right. And that’s inexcusable for this country.

No birds killed either. See, no cancer, birds healthy.. Hence….Bonespurs is an environmentalist

I just returned from a trip with a friend through southwestern Sweden (from Denmark to Norway). We saw quite a few wind turbines along the highway, with life (mainly farming) proceeding normally under and around them.

I know there are other areas with even more, and near one friend wind-turbine power is even partially replacing hydroelectric. I haven’t heard of any problems or complaints, except for a few visiting individuals who feel that they’re harming the “scenery”.

Not getting Gary’s point