Michael Ramirez for February 17, 2021

Careful what you wish for.

Welcome to Climate Change, Mike. Too bad people like you don’t understand it.

Oh please. Stop perpetuating that ignorance.

It IS global  warming. What it’s NOT is warmer everywhere every moment of every day. In fact, the added temperature makes polar vortices more likely, and that’s what’s happened this week.

It’s not like you don’t have the resources to educate yourself on this subject. It’s sad that you refuse to.

Speaking of willfully ignorant clichés…

The five stages of AGW do-nothing:

• Denial – Yeah, right! They screw up the forecast on a daily basis! The weather is always changing, so how could they possibly know?

• Anger – Look here, these fancy talking weathermen are lying through their teeth! I’ll be damned if I let them screw up my life and cost me money just so they can get rich & famous!

• Bargaining – Alright already. If you all are gonna make such a big deal about it, maybe we could make some plans about cutting back on stuff in the future— as long as you don’t bug me about it now.

• Depression – Oh god! What’s the point in trying? This thing is too much to deal with and we’re all gonna die and there’s no way out.

This is typical Republican crap. Ordinarily, I would ignore this cartoon and move on but I am feeling cranky today and am in no mood for this type of BS. Local weather does not disprove climate change. A strange and temporary weather pattern does not disprove climate change. You are welcome to argue that it is too expensive to deal with climate change or that it is impossible. You would still be wrong but at least you are not basing your argument on a complete and total lie.

If only Mr. Ramirez could think as well as he draws.

Day after day, week after week, month after month Sr. Ramirez demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of science, morality, and ethics. So this cartoon is no surprise,.

“Hi! I’m Michael Ramirez and I STILL DON’T UNDERSTAND GLOBAL WARMING!”

Just wait a season, Mike. Heat waves and hurricanes will wreak their havoc soon. Those accompany weather extremes like this one now.

It’s climate change you moron. More extremes not just warmer.

Climate change, not global warming. You know better.

Conservative is one thing, deliberately ignorant is another. We know you’re an educated, intelligent type. You have NO excuse. This is a lie. And not even a good one. When you lie, hoping your audience is simply too ignorant to know better, that’s an evil, dastardly lie.

I’ve stopped being polite about climate change deniers. At this point anyone who denies that the climate is changing, anyone who denies that a large part of the change is because of human actions, anyone who denies that there are really really really serious consequences not just in the distant future, not just in the near future, but actually right now, is an idiot. This is not some abstract academic argument. This is happening, and people are suffering and are going to suffer a lot more because of climate change. The pandemic is nothing compared to what climate change is bringing.

NC had an F3 tornado in winter. I imagine Mr. Ramirez thinks that is normal.

The climate isn’t changing; it’s ALWAYS this cold in Texas….

Okay Einstein. Confusing climate with a weather event.

Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get. Change climate, and the weather will change, but not necessarily the way one might expect. There will always be hot and cold weather until the planet is uninhabitable. Radical changes may make the planet uninhabitable. If we behave intelligently, we may keep the planet inhabitable a bit longer, as long as the means aren’t ‘socialist’.

Last month Texas was threatening to secede now they want Federal Aid.

Global Climate change has been the preferred term, for years. Warming and weather are useful in clouding the issue.

This winter is showing the paradoxes of global warming. We do need to take care of things better.

Texas is big, but it isn’t even as big as Alaska, much less being the entire earth.

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/weather_climate.html

How about a little science-ing, Michael.

Bill Gates was somewhat amoosing on 60 Minutes last Sunday. I’d like to chill out at the Burgermaster restaurant, too.

I KNEW some lame brain would say something this stoopid!!

Texas as usual is all republican talk and no socialist cattle.

The natural gas froze in the pipelines, don’t blame wind power, it was still working.

I well remember then president Trump complaining with DC having cold weather that he wondered where this global warming thing was. Well, the globe is warming year by year. But, that doesn’t mean that we’ll experience warmer weather all the time. What a warmer mean temperature means is that the weather patterns will be thrown out of kilter from their expected norms. I’d hate to be in charge of long range weather forecasting these days as it’s practically a crap shoot. All over the globe, weather patterns are in disruption. Areas that can’t remember a snowfall are getting them. Greenland may actually live up to its name as their growing season keeps getting longer. The hurricanes in the US are stronger and more long lasting adding to the damage caused by flooding. Glaciers are becoming a thing of the past. And we will still have colder than normal winters as well as warmer and dryer sections making seasonal fires more pronounced.

To Senor Ramirez: humor is a lost cause today.

When your’re ready for a break from artwork and check out the Weather Channel. Take a minute to learn about record high temperatures in the stratosphere above the North Pole and the effects on the polar vortex and our US weather patterns.

Along with the pandemic, this debacle in the South – especially TX – the economic catastrophe, the troubling state of infrastructure, the increase in wealth of billionaires while the rest of us loose out. [I probably am missing areas at issue]

This is very ignorant, I’m sure his slope-browed base will all laugh like hyenas — when it’s read to them.

Rush Limbaugh, conservative radio titan, has died of lung cancer at age 70

Mr. Ramirez, just wait a few months. The northern section of the globe will warm.

This is caused by global warming. The summers are going to keep getting hotter, and the winters colder.

Suggest you look up the difference between climate and weather. Twit.

To show how “stories” develop.. The TV announcers are blaming frozen gas lines for the power outages. Natural gas “freezes” at -297 F. I doubt it’s that cold in Texas.

Frozen instrumentation, lower gas pressures absolutely but the gas.. NOT FROZEN.

As a retired scientist and teacher for many years I can say that climate change happens every three months. I ask why did Obama buy a multimillion dollar mansion on the ocean if sea levels are rising. And please don’t believe anything Bill Nye ‘the science guy’ says, he is not a scientist- he is an engineer.

What an idiot. Climate change caused by global warming IS what is causing the new levels of extreme weather highs and lows, and the types of weather never seen before in new locations. Moron.

The issue is that ERCOT never imagined we’d have a blizzard this bad, and so they weren’t maintaining the equipment needed to keep the wind turbines and natural gas facilities working.

Governor Abbot is furious over the matter, and there are likely going to be consequences.

Wait until August then you can make fun of global warming

From Clay Jones, on FB:

“It’s that time of year again where every conservative political cartoonist draws his annual global-warming-is-a-hoax-because-it’s-cold-somewhere-in-February cartoon. And each and every single one will be unique and totally original, at least that’s what the groundhog predicted.”

For the love of….pickup a damn science book and read the chapter on climate and weather.

That extreme cold snap is a byproduct of global warming. And why do you expect somebody to suddenly reverse it, when it’s been allowed to build for decades?

How do people in Alaska survive without the knowledge of their Texas cousins ? . . . /S

Can you still get frozen Trump Steaks on your doorstep in Texas ? If the steers freeze to death on your property is that free shipping ? . . . . ./S

It is Climate Change of which the rising temperature is only one sign. I would say the climate change in Texas is quite evident, but of course we all know it is all a “liberal hoax” to steal American jobs and elections.

The Socialist snowplows are coming for your snow!

My Dad, who spent the last 33 years of his long life with the American Meteorological Society never called it “Global Warming”. He called it “Catastrophic Adjustment.” Dad held an MS in meteorology and a PhD in physical oceanography.

Its called CLIMATE CHANGE .. global warming is a broader phrase that indicates the cause for the change..

Some folks with limited education have a hard time understanding this.

Earth’s flat. Just look!

Supposedly otherwise intelligent humans who latch on to one weather event as proof of their idiotic views. Makes me sick! Go away and read up a little on the facts. “The current conditions in Texas are historical, certainly generational,” said Judah Cohen, the director of seasonal forecasting at Atmospheric and Environmental Research. “But this can’t be hand-waved away as if it’s entirely natural. This is happening not in spite of climate change, it’s in part due to climate change.”

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/feb/17/arctic-heating-winter-storms-climate-change

Folks, it is Global Warming. It is not just the upper atmosphere, as someone here asserted. The oceans are warming. Nearly half of the rise in ocean level is due to expansion of water from being warmed. All during the time when morons were declaring a “pause” in global warming, the oceans were measurably warming. Water is the model for the thermal reservoir so beloved of thermodynamics lectures.

And contrary to Alberta Oils usual deflection, the Arctic Ocean is warming because there is less surface ice, which permits deeper penetration of light, and a decrease in the overall albedo. The oceans, seen from space, are dark compared to ice, so they absorb more heat. And waters flowing into the Arctic ocean from rivers have warmed.

Another property from thermodynamics — good absorbers are good radiators. The snow and ice also act as insulators on land. No insulation, more radiative cooling. So those warmer Arctic waters will, in the long dark Arctic winters, be radiating heat up into the Arctic atmosphere, something which did not happen so well when there was snow (on land) and ice (on the sea and land). If this does not spell climate change to you, you need to spend some time on 7th grade science.

While cold spells like that in Texas have happened before, just as prolonged hot spells have happened, the warming of the global atmosphere and global waters means that events in the tails of the distributions of energy happen more often, while the mean distribution shifts to warmer events.

And funny, thing, they have working wind turbines in places like Scotland and Germany. Maybe because they understand that Winter Happens and that you need to be prepared? And natural gas is a big export from Russia to Europe. Probably not too many frozen pumps along the way there because Winter Happens and you need to be prepared. (See 1812 and 1941, for example).

Ramirez, you are a moron.

The corrupt Texas republican politicians took their electric grid off the national grid so they would not have to pay for upgrades and they deregulated it so they could charge what they wanted to and pocket the profits.

Yes, the weather in your village this week totally refutes/proves the whole concept of global climate change, and the weather in your village next week will totally prove/refute it. Keep us posted….

Wrong! Weather is not the same as climate.