By then I plan to have leveraged my way to wealth via real estate development and tax dodges, and – unlike you losers – will be staying at my Kombu Mar-a-Montaña resort in Nepal, swilling thukpa.
If you switch to computer based spreadsheets, the employees of the slide rule industry will be out of a job! Won’t you think of the slide rule makers????
If you allow horseless carriages on the roads, the employees of the buggy and buggy whip industries will suffer! You have to protect their jobs!!!!
If you switch to metal based tools, the makers of stone tools will be out of a job! You must protect the livelihood of the stone tool makers!!!!!!
The compounded effects finally started to react in the 20th century. This was predicted. Unlike natural climate change, anthropogenic climate change happens fast. IN several hundred years while Nature takes many thousands of years. And we are just twiddling our thumbs while we alter the climate for maybe 90,000 extra years making it Hot House Earth. We should be cooling and when the sun starts “waking up” it will get worse much much faster. We might not survive for that long or fix it. We aren’t even trying to mitigate it. And we have an omnicidal president and his backers who don’t care and think they will somehow either survive or die first. Too late now.
For you see we should be cooling. We are instead, heating.
People like Mighty Mouse and BO are going to be cursed for generations to come. It seems very clear they are deeply ignorant of the facts, clinging to nonsense.
The species will survive. But in a diminished state. How many will die? Hard to tell, probably in the hundreds of millions. Maybe billions.
Drier droughts. Bigger storms. Stronger winds. Species extinction. Acidified oceans. Expanding deserts. Rising seas with monster storm surges. Famines. Plagues from destroyed infrastructure, bad drinking water and outbreaks of disease. Taxes explode to pay for clean up. And the regressives change EPA rules to permit more ethanol in summer gas mixtures.
Thanks, regressives!!
We could start crash programs to develop alternative energy sources (think about the cancelled supercollider in TX). We could start to resettle people away from the coasts. We could do a lot of things. But, no, the anti-science idiots continue to spout nonsense.
The real irony is that today’s world is the best it’s ever been for our species. By almost every measure: poverty, disease, mortality rates, sanitation, absence of war, and countless other areas of positive development will be cancelled out by climate change over the next 50 years. But the regressives want to expand coal use.
I’m talking to YOU, Mighty Mouse and YOU, BO. And all the idiots with similarly stupid, ignorant, clueless notions of what’s going on with the climate.
I think we have more than adequate proof that climate change is a hoax. It’s just greedy “scientists” looking to the federal government to refresh their beer fund. Now we certainly have not spent enough money or time investigating the Clinton Crime Syndicate. We need to fire that bad boy up and restart investigations on Bill and Killary. Where are your priorities people?
The first graph in this link shows how the global use of fossil fuels has increased since 1800. It is a little misleading in that coal was in use prior to 1800, but at a rate far lower than can be shown on a linear scale.
https://ourworldindata.org/fossil-fuels
Note that petroleum doesn’t really get burned much until after 1900, when internal combustion engines and Diesel engines became popular and practical.
Think of the excitement all those naysayers will have looking for all that buried carbon dioxide! If they can’t find it, they’ll simply blame everyone for fibbing about the stuff and trying to make themselves important.
Radish the wordsmith over 5 years ago
Right where Republican Idiocracy is leading the United States.
They don’t care about the earth, vote them out.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 5 years ago
As their houses flood they deny that it is happening. Many drive into the flood waters because they know that it is fake news.
Fuzzy Kombu over 5 years ago
By then I plan to have leveraged my way to wealth via real estate development and tax dodges, and – unlike you losers – will be staying at my Kombu Mar-a-Montaña resort in Nepal, swilling thukpa.
RAGs over 5 years ago
Climate has been changing regularly and cyclically for millions of years. This WARMING is out of cycle. We should be slowly approaching an ice age.
bakana over 5 years ago
Lets see:
Over 20 “500 Year Storms” just in the last 10 years.
Nope, nothing to see here folks.
Jason Allen over 5 years ago
If you switch to computer based spreadsheets, the employees of the slide rule industry will be out of a job! Won’t you think of the slide rule makers????
If you allow horseless carriages on the roads, the employees of the buggy and buggy whip industries will suffer! You have to protect their jobs!!!!
If you switch to metal based tools, the makers of stone tools will be out of a job! You must protect the livelihood of the stone tool makers!!!!!!
Radish the wordsmith over 5 years ago
We have 12 years to change, Republicans are pouring on the coal and making matters worse.
julie.mason1 Premium Member over 5 years ago
HEY everyone! This earth is the only source of chocolate in the Milky Way galaxy. Climate change is a threat. "Nuf said?
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 5 years ago
The compounded effects finally started to react in the 20th century. This was predicted. Unlike natural climate change, anthropogenic climate change happens fast. IN several hundred years while Nature takes many thousands of years. And we are just twiddling our thumbs while we alter the climate for maybe 90,000 extra years making it Hot House Earth. We should be cooling and when the sun starts “waking up” it will get worse much much faster. We might not survive for that long or fix it. We aren’t even trying to mitigate it. And we have an omnicidal president and his backers who don’t care and think they will somehow either survive or die first. Too late now.
For you see we should be cooling. We are instead, heating.
twclix over 5 years ago
People like Mighty Mouse and BO are going to be cursed for generations to come. It seems very clear they are deeply ignorant of the facts, clinging to nonsense.
The species will survive. But in a diminished state. How many will die? Hard to tell, probably in the hundreds of millions. Maybe billions.
Drier droughts. Bigger storms. Stronger winds. Species extinction. Acidified oceans. Expanding deserts. Rising seas with monster storm surges. Famines. Plagues from destroyed infrastructure, bad drinking water and outbreaks of disease. Taxes explode to pay for clean up. And the regressives change EPA rules to permit more ethanol in summer gas mixtures.
Thanks, regressives!!
We could start crash programs to develop alternative energy sources (think about the cancelled supercollider in TX). We could start to resettle people away from the coasts. We could do a lot of things. But, no, the anti-science idiots continue to spout nonsense.
The real irony is that today’s world is the best it’s ever been for our species. By almost every measure: poverty, disease, mortality rates, sanitation, absence of war, and countless other areas of positive development will be cancelled out by climate change over the next 50 years. But the regressives want to expand coal use.
I’m talking to YOU, Mighty Mouse and YOU, BO. And all the idiots with similarly stupid, ignorant, clueless notions of what’s going on with the climate.
Striped Cat over 5 years ago
I think we have more than adequate proof that climate change is a hoax. It’s just greedy “scientists” looking to the federal government to refresh their beer fund. Now we certainly have not spent enough money or time investigating the Clinton Crime Syndicate. We need to fire that bad boy up and restart investigations on Bill and Killary. Where are your priorities people?
Cerabooge over 5 years ago
Shouldn’t an editorial cartoon exaggerate?
Baslim the Beggar Premium Member over 5 years ago
@ Mighty Mouse: I get your sarcasm, fear not!
The first graph in this link shows how the global use of fossil fuels has increased since 1800. It is a little misleading in that coal was in use prior to 1800, but at a rate far lower than can be shown on a linear scale.
https://ourworldindata.org/fossil-fuels
Note that petroleum doesn’t really get burned much until after 1900, when internal combustion engines and Diesel engines became popular and practical.
The graph on this link
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=26912
only shows US use, but shows how biomass (wood) burning peaked with the railroads and early wood-burning steamships.
KevinSheridan over 5 years ago
And what will happen when we’re being beaten down by nature? We’ll tear each other apart.
https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B00EWM9ZC6/
kfccanada over 5 years ago
Think of the excitement all those naysayers will have looking for all that buried carbon dioxide! If they can’t find it, they’ll simply blame everyone for fibbing about the stuff and trying to make themselves important.