Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 20, 2022

Looks fishy to me

Isn’t this the diner on the bay?

You have to admire her flexibility.

I know her name: Madison.

(Take it, Sebastian!) Arctic gets hotter, ice becomes water, oceans go higher, coasts become dire, inland waters flow, as our cities go, Under the Sea!

Climate change has been happening about 3.5 billion years. Current geological rise in the oceans has been going on for the last 20,000 years since the end of the last glaciation. There was dramatic increase for about 10-12 thousand years then it slowed. The rise has been slow but steady for about 8,000 years and has not increased significantly in recent times. Do a search for sunken cities.

The Mayor of New York City saw the water rising and he panicked. The Mayor of San Francisco saw the water rising and she panicked. The Mayor of New Orleans saw the fish swimming by his desk and said “My, it surely is humid today!”

Ask her her maiden name.

She signed a lucrative contract to pose for Starbucks ads.

Sometimes climate change doesn’t look all that bad.

Sometimes she even looks kind of nice.

Climate change will be ruled unconstitutional by a trumpet anointed federal district judge.

I must say, she’s not the littlest mermaid I’ve seen.

One might expect her to feel like a fish out of water, but this is clearly not the case.

What’s so strange about sitting in a bar and seeing a mermaid after three or four drinks? Then after a few more ask “Wanna Dance?”

Ya know, the last time i saw a merperson in a bar, it was a Merman and it was down in the Keys. Some guy named Stonebender owned the place. Weirdest bar i ever hung out at. This girl kept popping in and out of sight, without apparently moving, a cat came in through the wall, and I swear I heard a German Shepherd (a dog, not a sheepherder from Germany) debating with a woman about the merits of interspecies relationships.

“Swim here often?”

As long as stepping down from that stool doesn’t make your feet wet you may just as well order another beer. And maybe order a Bud Light or similar water for the fluke… lady.

One of them is thinking about “tail”.

The rate of sea level change has not changed over millenia. There is no man made impact causing sea levels to rise any faster than they already were. Florida was largely underwater in previous interglacial periods (in between ice ages). Florida was markedly wider during ice ages. We are about 19,000 years since our last ice age ended. Hence we have some rising sea levels. But making making “decarbonize” the economy won’t help that. It will help enslave man and create more poverty death and destruction however. It will also create an even more powerful elite .

Obviously, not a bar in Florida where “climate change,” “global warming,” “gay” and “slavery” are forbidden speech.

I had a dream about a mermaid once. It was a truly wet dream. Napping in a wading pool is rarely a good idea.

Wonder if the line “Come up to my Plaice” would work?

She drinks bottled water?!

I wouldn’t be worrying about climate change. I’d be worrying about what the bartender slipped into my drink. Nice hallucination, though.

if she’s from the sea, she’ll probably want sea water, but then again, maybe non-sea water is alcoholic to their system

Southeastern Colorado ties the record today for the most “Red Flag” days in a row, 16, with more to come.

“Climate change has been going on for a long time, and humans don’t have anything to do with it.”

Sure…

BS! Look at a 1920 picture of the Statue of Liberty and the water level around it compared to a 2020 picture of it!

Something puzzles me. I know Climate Change is real. But, if the situation is as dire as the elitists are proclaiming, why do they continue buying expensive seafront properties and flying around the world on carbon-heavy personal jets?

A mermaid sitting next to me at a bar? I think I would be more intrigued than alarmed.

“Because it seems to be affecting my vision.”

I’m thinking I want what they’re drinking.

This is the first time I have started to consider sea level rise to be a good thing.

If this is the result of rising sea levels, bring it on.

so the mermaid is good to forgo the ocean for land…

She’s a lobbyist for the seafood corporations. (♫ Ask any mermaid you happen to see…♪♪)

I’m for anything that results in more mermaids!

You’re just going to blow all your money buying her drinks. She drinks like a fish.

Topless Bar?!?

With my luck, the ugly mermaids will wash up in my town

A YouTube video, entitled:

“Are prominent environmentalists buying beachside properties?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deVkQB6jb7g

Is this guy perchance named Milt?

Mermaids do not exist, so I’m not sure what this comic means.

No, no – as we all know, mermaids transform into two-legged maidens when they are on land.

And they are always looking for a good stiff drink.

Score.

40 years ago we worried about California falling into the ocean. Now we worry that rising ocean levels will drown flat coastal areas like Florida.

Tell that to all the climate change elitists who purchase mansions near the beach.

I bet she’s waiting for Captain Eddie.

Well if you can’t stop climate change you might as well cash in. I’ve got a plan to open a chain of sunbathing resorts on Hudson Bay.

“Oh, why couldn’t she be the other kind of mermaid, with the fish part on the top and the lady part on the bottom?” Phillip J. Fry

The sea level has been rising for centuries. So what else is new?

Time to get some tail.

She looks like a fish out of water …

Hmmm … actual scientists and peer reviewed studies, or some rando with just their assertions …

Which one is based in reality?

Wow! Looks like she drinks like a fish!