Mike Luckovich for July 07, 2023

Thanks to oil companies who paid republicans to lie, right wingers are STILL in denial.

This is fine, everything is fine…

It’s becoming ever more painfully, disastrously evident that the best thing I ever did for my children, and the world, was to not have them.

Pretty sure venus is hotter than earth but ok

“Fastest setting new record” record.

Is it legal to yell, “Fire!” in a crowded planet.

Solar panels were a great investment. We can afford our a/c.

I’m glad I won’t be here in a decade.

If we don’t drastically reduce world population we are doomed. Almost everything else man can do is trivial. A nuclear war or super virus could do the trick. More people are getting our creature comforts and very few are giving them up. Expecting congressional legislation to save us is laughable. The unintendended consequences often do more harm than the bill does good and it often takes many years to realize the error of their ways. I am in my twilight years and hope my cremation doesn’t hasten the doom.

My guess: it will look like the earth from Fifth Element in few more decades. Avoid the bottom, smog area!

Broke the record for hottest day three days running. Can we make it four?

The prophetess AOC in 2019 predicted the world would end in 12 years. So don’t worry about it, by 2031 we will all be cooked anyway.

This cartoon is crap. Trump declared climate change a hoax in 2016.

Hottest Day Ever has happened several times this year. Care to bet on how many more before the climate change denier frogs get boiled in the pot that keeps getting hotter but they still do not want to notice?

You know, I heard the Ice Age ended because all the Wooly Mammoths were driving SUVs.

Bit of a stretch I think to say “today” (now yesterday) was the hottest day in 200,000 years. Yes, it was hot yesterday but “knowing” global temperatures before the age of satellites is pure speculation.

Great job, Mike. Nicely zeroed in.

Up to humans whether we make heaven or hell on Earth. Verdict’s been in for a few centuries now.

[sfx: game show buzzer, followed by the silence of extinction]

Need to add countries with the highest breed rate. Which ever country takes us to 7 billion past sustainable first wins the biggest trophy. We’re currently over 6 billion past sustainable and adding a net gain of ~250,000 per day. Over half of those are unplanned and unwanted. This does not bode well for the remaining future of mankind.

Over on the other site, the redhatted Arcamaxianites are already screaming “Fake News!”

So is it China or India the two worst polluters on the planet?

..Just more existential catastrophes that can be laid at the feet of population overgrowth.

The Pentagon admits the objective reality of climate change and is scrambling trying to prepare for its dire results. Are all climate change deniers draft dodgers, or was that just Traitor Trump?

For a chilling preview of where we’re headed, check out anthropologist Jared Diamond’s 2005 book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. It details how half a dozen historical cultures met their ends. And clearly they must have seen it coming, yet did nothing (or too little) to prevent it. But those were isolated groups — on islands, in valleys, in remote states — and the rest of the planet survived. The same cannot be said about climate change.

Wikipedia also mentions the common factor in most of those societal implosions: “The root problem in all but one of Diamond’s factors leading to collapse is overpopulation relative to the practicable (as opposed to the ideal theoretical) carrying capacity of the environment. One environmental problem not related to overpopulation is the harmful effect of accidental or intentional introduction of non-native species to a region.”

Humankind deserves all those “participation trophies” and more…

BBBBut we have to extract the last milliliter of fossil fuel raw materials first. Otherwise it wouldn’t be fair. /s

Time to chop down another tree to build a new trophy case.

We’re #1 thanks to solar and wind hating republicans.

People in the 21st Century who deny the climate crisis are the intellectual heirs of those in the 20th Century who denied evolution or those in the 19th Century who denied that the Earth was round. History now laffs at those earlier loons, but if we can’t get past the obstinacy of their modern equivalents, there won’t be a history for future civilizations to shake their heads over.

Modern human beings have been around for what? 200,000 years? (Please correct me if I have the numbers wrong — I don’t claim to be an expert, but I hope my point will be made even if the numbers are a little off.) For almost all of that time human population was tiny. A visitor from another planet might not have noticed us at all. Gradually, very gradually, people figured out some technology that allowed them to live in larger groups in more parts of the planet. Along with this came cultural developments, including writing. Writing isn’t very old — a few thousand years out of the 200,000 years of human life on earth. And now we are throwing the human achievement (if that’s what it is) into the dust bin. I find it sad that we are taking a lot of non-human species with us — not through their fault. Most of the time I would like to put this depressing out of my mind, but somehow I can’t. I’m so sorry that we messed up so badly.

Greed, ignorance, and arrogance drive world destroying denial.

And the RNC chants: “U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A…!”

The sad part is the number of people who will say it’s ony 63 degrees (F) what’s the big deal?

Too right: our children are going inherit a scorched earth, thanks to Republican years of denial- then a do nothing policy…