Henry Payne for August 19, 2021

Speaking of turning Orange, did anyone see Joe’s spay tan today on his ABC interview with Geo Stocotopolis ? While Trump looked like a Puffy Cheeto, today Biden looked like a Crunchy Cheeto. Someone will get fired for trying to hide Joe’s fish belly skin tone with Cheeto Dust.

That’s one flaggable cartoon.

An Oklahoma senator did the same bit. Payne must be planning to pass a lot of wind to run those vehicles.

I am beginning to think that Payne actually believes what he draws, which is really sad.

I see Pain is keeping up with the current science from the GQP.

Hey Pain, it will be your great grandchildren that will be lining up to pee on your grave.

Hey Payne? Did you also hear that in some places around the world, experts predict there might be some small ice crystals precipitating in a few months? Unbelievable!!! (/S)

Payne alone can provide plenty of wind for all those GM cars. And we could convert them today. Or yesterday. Or from the day Payne drew his first “cartoon”.

Stupid Henry Payne gets dumber every day. I’d think he was devolving into his second childhood, but he never left the first one.

Wow, did not really believe that Payne could actually draw a more insipid and inane strip than previous ones. He breezed past them today.

The amount of hot air produced by Republican propagandists is enough to cause global warming on its own.

The history books will remember when a Republican brought a snowball into the Senate to dispute global warming.

If there will be any history books.

Yes, folks. This is what passes for intelligent political discourse in conservative circles in 2021.

I especially “like” the part where he predicts that by 2030 all cars will be wind-up toys.

Mr. Payne is just disappointed that he won’t be able to get a toy and go “VROOM VROOOOM VROOOOOOM” any more.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/ford-mustang-mach-e-sales-outsold-2021/

fusilier

James 2:24

Typical republican opinion. Ignore the problem by making a simplistic weather/season/climate comparison that a 2 year old could see through. It’s snowing so there can’t be global warming. Why don’t you go an buy some Miami beachfront property and see the tide come in through your basement…

This idiot cartoonist is coming out strongly as a climate change skeptic/denier? Way to confirm your stupidity, Henry!

I’ll never understand why people read cartoons they hate everyday. Seems to me they would be happier if they read cartoons they enjoy reading. After all, cartoons are for entertainment.

Good gracious.. Henry finally draws a “reality” cartoon and all the pundits go crazy. sheesh.. the man can’t win can he? Absolute truth is obviously a problem with the climate change advocates.. As someone living on the north side of the fence I can vouch Henry’s headlines “will” come to pass.

Hank can’t be that dumb.

This July was the hottest month in history

a town in Canada Hit 121 degrees THIS IS NOT NORMAL

https://www.theguardian.com/weather/2021/jul/08/weatherwatch-canada-records-its-highest-temperature#:~:text=Temperatures%20soared%20in%20western,country%2C%20a%20staggering%2049.6C.

The climate is changing, rapidly, largely because of human actions, and billions of people are going to suffer because of it. I am just amazed that there are still people who deny this. There are only a few questions now that really matter— What can we do to slow this process? How quickly can we do it? How can we prepare for the coming natural, political, and social disasters? Deniers like Payne are a problem, but a bigger problem is the people who say, “Oh, sure, I think the climate is changing, sure, too bad, but I’ve got other things to do.” That group includes almost all politicians, even relatively progressive politicians.

This cartoon puts me in mind of the old Onion headline: “Death Rate Holds Steady at 100%”.

Henry forgot to mention that the fall will come in February.

Henry Payne has bee imbibing that “happy juice” again.

The world is LITERALLY burning. Wildfires out of control in multiple countries, and Payne put out some BS argument against climate change.

This guy seems a little weird and it is hard to follow what his points are. I assume he’s mocking the Dems on their perspective view of climate change?

‘StupidPayne’ or ‘PatheticPayne?’

Gee Whiz – why not trivialize something that will bring the world and humanity to the brink

Love this! Too many Chicken Littles in the USA today. And then there is the out an out crazy liberals!

Just Payne Stupid. Still.

So frightened of the truth about climate change that he’s put on his blinders.

Profoundly imbecilic. Probably so ideologically loyal/driven as to be rendered intellectually incapable of discerning fact from disinformation.

The only other reason reasonably intelligent people proffer this opinion about AGW climate change is they are capable of setting aside every other human value to be a beneficiary of immediate monetary gain for promoting this falsehood, since 1980 behavior almost exclusively rooted in advantage for ROI, a financial outcome bestowed with near deity-like inherent value/power.

Follow the money, and not almost in every instance discover an appalling pile of shit fertilizing its root.

Not sure I understand the point. Are you saying that there is no reason to worry? That the massive and unseen until now wildfires, in so many parts of the world (including surprising places like Finland or Siberia) are no more unusual than autumn leaves falling? Or the unheard -of melting of the icecap witnessed in Greenland? Or the West being for the first time ever submitted to water cuts?Can you elaborate your point, Mr. Payne?

“Millions and millions of passenger pigeons die every year. This is nothing that should concern us.” – - Henry Payne, 1890.

Does Payne try to appear stupid and useless?

But you must never call Payne lazy. He has to work SO HARD every day to make sure he never accidentally learns anything.

You just had to go there with teachers, huh? Give them the respect they have earned. Millions of parents found out last year that a teacher’s job is no cake walk so these same parents are clamoring for in-person classes only, who cares at what cost.

And this is why we lost the climate battle.

If cars are going to be wind powered, the Republicans are going to have to make more speeches

Sigh! Once again:

Evidence for man-caused global warming

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=26912

https://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/trends/emis/glo_2011.html

1) Rising Carbon levels in atmosphere and ocean.

https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-atmospheric-concentrations-greenhouse-gases

https://scripps.ucsd.edu/programs/keelingcurve/wp-content/plugins/sio-bluemoon/graphs/mlo_full_record.png

But the ratio of C14 to C12 is falling, which means that the Carbon is mainly from burning of fossil fuels, whose carbon was deposited so long ago that C14 in them has depleted due short isotope life span. The ratio of stable C13 to C12 is also falling.

http://www.dummies.com/education/science/environmental-science/isotopes-how-do-scientists-know-that-humans-cause-global-warming/

2 CO2 causes tropopause to rise higher, but stratopause to go lower. Predicted in 1957. Solar heating effects would cause both levels to rise.

http://www.theclimateconsensus.com/content/satellite-data-show-a-cooling-trend-in-the-upper-atmosphere-so-much-for-global-warming-right

3 Ocean acidification has increased because of increased ocean intake of CO2.

http://ocean.si.edu/ocean-acidification

4 Global average surface air temperature has increased. (So has globally averaged near surface ocean temperature.)

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-temperature

5 Arctic temperatures are rising even faster than global. Amount of sunlight reaching polar regions is not changed, but CO2 works 365/7/24 to retain heat.

Point Barrow for example:

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/barrow-alaska-climate-change-action

6 Night-time temperatures rising faster than day-time (Can’t blame the sun for that!)

https://phys.org/news/2016-03-nights-warmer-faster-days.html

cont’d

7 Rise in Global averaged sea level (some (~20%) is due to pumping ground water out, but most is due to warming of the oceans and melting of ice.)

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-sea-level

8 Globally averaged loss of ice mass and in the polar regions loss of ice-covered water. Which translates to a lower albedo, hence less sunlight reflected back to space and more surface heating. (Hint for the challenged, the amount of ice surface area lost in the Arctic greatly exceeds the gain in the Antarctic.)

https://climate.nasa.gov/interactives/global-ice-viewer/

9 Satellite observations of infrared emitted by upper atmosphere show a decline, which is due to Greenhouse gases trapping more of the infrared radiation.

https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=35

10 No increase in solar output (beyond the normal variations due to solar cycle, which amount to about +/- 1 part in 1,000. Might even be a small (smaller than the above) decrease.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-incoming-sunlight

11 Volcanic released CO2 is about 1/130 of human activity released CO2. So no, it is not volcanoes.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/which-emits-more-carbon-dioxide-volcanoes-or-human-activities

12 CO2 from Soil is increasing:

https://www.nature.com/news/2010/100324/full/news.2010.147.html

Although the emissions from soil are “natural” to a large extent, they have increased by 0.1% per year from 1989 to 2008. Generally, we expect that soil emissions should be balanced by intake by plants, water, etc. Certainly there seems to have been a balance before the industrial age.

https://www.co2.earth/co2-ice-core-data

Could soil be the culprit? No.

In absolute numbers, 98Gt CO2 from soil per year, and 9Gt roughly from human activity. The 0.1% year increase from soil is then 0.1Gt/year, so represents only a small effect compared to human activity.

cont’d

If soil were the culprit, the isotope ratio mentioned in Point 1 would not be changing.

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My credentials in this matter: Graduate course work in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, including a graduate course on the Physics of Climate. My main research thrust for the last 20 years of my work was on atmospheric turbulence and its effects. In the course of my research, I delved into the workings of the US Navy’s COAMP weather model. Yeah, it’s not a climate model, but the physics has to be much the same. Unlike most deniers, I can read the journals and understand what they are saying. I also have 50 years of experience employing the scientific method in research.Does that make me a climate scientist? No, of course not. But it does mean I am going to make judgements based on actual data and not a political opinion.

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The troll never offers counter evidence. Instead it is his opinion (and yes, it is an opinion) that tens of thousands of scientists in fields both related and unrelated to climate science have failed to be credible — to him. That’s a bit like arguing with someone who does not believe in atoms.

The abyssal depths of Payne’s profound ignorance never cease to amaze me.

Today, for the first time ever, it’s raining in northern Greenland.

Actually, with severe drought here in Minnesota, the leaves are turning orange and falling already, in the heat of summer.

When Al Gore’s prediction that the Arctic would be ice free by 2013 is proven right, and Obama sells his $14 million mansion on Martha’s Vineyard, I’ll start to worry. Otherwise, liberal propaganda.