Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 30, 2019

Tommyrot! Next you will be telling us that enormous wildfires, a dead Great Barrier Reef, and 120+ temperatures even in the temperate parts of Australia are a valid reason for Australia to stop exporting more coal than anyone else on Earth.

Indeed.

Fun Fact: on January 5, 2020 Earth will be at its perihelion (i.e.: the point nearest to the sun in its orbit, this year approximately 91,402,000 miles away.) Try explaining to all too many people why it’s winter and cold when Earth is at its closest to the sun.

Let’s face reality, folx. Ain’t a single person reading these words who’s got the time, talent, training, ambition, knowledge base, or global reach to be able to arrive at an independent conclusion about climate change. Each and every one of us here is forced to rely on the voice of authority — to take someone else’s word for it. The trick is in choosing the proper authority.

So, whom should I believe:

(1) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of the planet’s top climatologists, specialists in this area, with more degrees among them than a case of thermometers, having access to centuries of global climate data plus the latest observations (many by sophisticated instrumentation specifically designed by them to answer these questions), explicitly charged with investigating this issue, who’ve spent the last 20 years doing exactly that, using the world’s most powerful supercomputers for their simulations and models, and who have reported their findings that (a) climate change is occurring, (b) it’s getting worse, © the rate of change is speeding up, (d) it’s caused by human activity, and (e) every subsequent investigation adds several percentage points to an already high degree of confidence.

vs.

(2) Some anonymous hack with a shaky grasp of spelling and punctuation in the comment section of a newspaper website, who is 100% certain that it’s all a hoax perpetrated by Big Environment.

Hmmm, tuff one. Can I get back to you on this?

Another one of these global warming topics. I’ll pass…gas. LOL.

As opposed to Christmas when it was 60 out. (That’s 21 for non-USA folks)

The “global warming” crowd had to rebrand it to “Climate Change”. There has been climate change since the earth formed. In the US power plants have gone from coal to natural gas(oops sorry fracking). Solar requires storage and Lithium Ion (the current best mass produced technology) has some really nasty byproducts.

Doesn’t matter anyway. It’s too late. Plus of course, the rapture will haul off the true believers leaving only the deserving sinners to reap what we’ve all sown.

Yeah, yeah: /s . Sort of.

When Miami and NYC are under water, I’m betting there will still be a large number of deniers!

“There is no global warming because it’s cold. Today. Where I am.”

Any more than a particularly hot day indicated global warming.

And also extends to not explaining to global warming alarmists why hot summers does not prove man is causing supposed unnatural climate change.

Last year, during one of our polar vorticies, Trump declared that “We could use some of that global warming now.” On the day he made this statement. The northeastern U.S. was colder than normal. The other 94% of the Earth’s land mass was warmer than normal.

Immanentize the eschaton & tokamak & perihelion & Anthropogenic – you guys are stretching my vocabulary, we learn something new every day!

It’s always funny (in a not-funny way) how, whenever there’s a cold snap, the climate-change conspiracy theorists shout out how this is proof that there’s no climate change; but whenever we have a prolonged heatwave (such as last summer in the northern hemisphere), they go deathly quiet. A bit of selective thinking, methinks.

Experts cannot get a two day forecast right but know everything about climate.

Another perfect example that the left can’t meme.

Correct, what refutes the climate change theory is that none of the things predicted by it have happened.

Is this a good time to point that when many people think they’re using sarcasm it’s actual satire?

“Snow is now a thing of the past. Within a few years winter snowfalls will become a very rare and exciting event. Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.” — Dr. David Viner, Senior Research Scientist, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, March 2000.

Milankovitch cycle explains why it’s getting warmer, the elliptical orbit of the earth caused by Jupiter and Saturn is increasing. The tilt of the earth on its orbit is also increasing causing the snow to increase during winter. Both are variables man has no control of, get use to it. You coastal liberals may want to move to higher ground.

By the same token, lack of snow does not prove climate change.

So insults are proof that anthropogenic climate change is real?

The xkcd vertical timeline of climate change is really sobering:

https://xkcd.com/1732/

How sad to read posts from those not aware of the depth of their ignorance.

Friends, ALL OF US ARE IGNORANT OF ALMOST EVERYTHING.

Attending to experts in their fields is a sign of wisdom!

The Earth will survive this trend. After, it self regulates and removes the parasites causing the ‘warming irritation’. Humankind will disappear, yes, the Earth will continue. Our view of the situation is narrow (based on our human experience of millenia) The bigger picture spans eons.

Some day coal,and oil will be a thing of the past.What then?We need clean air,and water to live.Wake up RethugliKlan party ;(

Check (Farm Progress winter of 40/41 a cold spell was one to remember). Some said was caused by global warming. I stood on the bank of the Mississippi River in Helena AR and it was frozen across to Mississippi. The river at this point is one mile wide with a channel up to 100 hundred feet deep.

The fast answers. Weather and climate are two different things. And only a fool believes that filling his home with sh*t and poison doesn’t cause problems.

Annother one to prove the ol’ lamento “NEVER READ THE COMMENTS!”

ROAR !!!! lol

Todays comic is a real “Non Sequitur”. This is fine as long as you don’t think summer heat means the planet is getting warmer also.

https://realclimatescience.com/2019/12/near-record-fraudulent-arctic-reporting/

Global warming will create more snow. More heat means more water in the atmosphere. More water = more snow. Yes it will be warmer, but not enough to stop snowing.

I’m starting to think Environmental Science should be mandatory to graduate high school. Then people would know it shouldn’t be warm enough for snow, which forms around 0º (32º in archaic).

In a couple more days we’ll be able to eat January snow.

Scientists say global warming is real. Politicians (on one side) say it’s not. Who should we believe? The people who’s profession it is to study the climate or people who lies to the masses to get or keep a job? For one side it’s all about the money. The other side gets paid the same weather we believe them or not.

I think it’s irrefutable that climate has changed often and dramatically over the aeons, and NOT because humans caused it. At the moment millions of tons of CO2 are being pushed into the atmosphere by major bush fires in Australia, and latterly wildfires in California. A volcano erupted in New Zealand recently. Man-made? These events have been happening since time immemorial. And not by humans.

Idiot

So, Houston having its third “500-year” flood in three years isn’t “Evidence” of anything?

Well, except maybe Ghod is just being a Real Dick to Houston.

All the scientists are lying to you about global climate change. The only ones you can trust are the fossil fuel companies and their spokesmen. They’re the only ones with no conflict of interest.

Research Milankovich cycles. That pretty much refutes AGW.

But then every hurricane or tornado or fire is proof of climate change, give me a break!

Science really only requires one contrary observation to refute a hypothesis but many to validate it. So when the warmists say that snow falls will end (as some have), it only takes one storm to refute the claim. But when they say hurricanes will be more frequent, it takes several decades to validate that claim. But then “climate change” stopped being a science decades ago.

It’s relatively warm here, so I guess climate change is for real! WE ONLY HAVE 12 MORE YEARS BEFORE THE END OF THE WORLD. DOOM DOOM DOOM DOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!

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