Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for December 18, 2022

Hey Shannon, With how cold it is right now… I think a whole lot of us would like some ‘warming’.

Don’t believe everything your teachers tell you. The Earth has been around for approx. 4.5 Billion years.. It’ll be around long after climate alarmists are but a distant memory. Enjoy being a kid! If you want to ask Santa for something big… how about food for all the starving, houses for the homeless and peace in an ever increasingly hostile world.

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P.s. Were you really good? I heard something about you snipping Luann’s hair??? ;)

Christmas is a week away.

Hear! Hear! I am so sick of losing parts of fall and winter to earlier springs and longer summers! The GOP kept saying Biden was going to cancel Christmas last year, but he didn’t . . . Mother Nature did. Seriously, it was almost as bad as that infamous Blowtorch Christmas of 2015, when it was warm and springlike nearly the entire month. Honest to God, I cannot remember the last time we had a normal December, where it was actually nice and winter-like for the entire month . . . ditto with February; anymore, it’s already spring and blooming before Valentine’s Day! But, nooooo; let’s just keep denying Climate Change despite all of the evidence and signs all around the world, because a “Silent Minority” (which are anything but) keep insisting that it’s all a “liberal hoax.”

Sorry kid. Santa’s too busy bailing water out of his workshop and protecting his elves from ravenous, emaciated polar bears.

Don’t worry, eventually we’ll get another Ice Age.

Oh yeah, bring us another ice age. I’m tired of being warm and comfortable.

You can’t change the weather by throwing money at it….

Save the earth for future generations?

Let’s first see if we can end the war. Global warming goals are worthless if we end up incinerating it all in a nuclear glow.

Never figured Shannon for the Greta Thunberg type.

Shannon should warn Santa about the North Pole melting and all the toys will be floating around.

For real… I read comics as an adult to escape the painfully brutal lives we live…for a quick chuckle. We really gotta make a stand for our beliefs in a doodle and using a kid to portray it? Come on.

George Carlin was pretty sharp- he had it figured out a long time ago- “Save the planet? We haven’t even figured out how to take care of ourselves!” (Heavily censored version):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rld0KDcan_w

It’s Greg’s strip but its our forum and he has crossed a line that we have tried to establish. No politics and no religion. And, his scientific expert in this field has only one accomplishment: she graduated from potty training.

Ending global warming means that everybody worldwide has to agree

At first I thought she was going to ask for a little brother or cousin, but it turned out that Shannon is more aware of what we would suppose of the world we live in.

Actually, Shannon will get her wish within 30 years.

Everybody will have electric cars and everyone will be happy.

Until the gird goes down….., ;-)

If our planet increases by 2 or 3 net degrees then the ice caps, Artic and Antarctic will melt and most of the major urban areas, by the oceans (billions of people) will no longer have cities to live in. And that is just one possible outcome that a child of her generation (real not Luannverse) will inherit from our profligate fossil fuel use. we have 8 billion souls on Mother Earth. Oh right she is Momma you all know, but this is a heck of a way to thank her for being our only home in an enormously hostile universe, over which we have no control. At some point we may be able to live on other planets, moons, artificial habitats, interstellar arks, etc., but now Shannon has a very pertinent message. I agree kids should be kids, and all the play, mischief, growth, and learning that should go with it, but they also should have a future, not despoiled by us beyond hope so some of us can have all the comforts of a complicated civilization and the existential pain that goes with it, Sigh! Whew! Wait, I forget, this is Luann and Luannverse, so hilarity ensues.

Santa would need most of the wealthy people who claiming to care about climate change to ACTUALLY lower their own much higher impact on the climate first, and we all know that won’t even come close to happening. But us common people more likely will end up being forced to lower OURS, which will come at the expense to our quality of living and just make things more dystopian cause the rich will still go on as they are. I will say though that wildlife conservation and reforestation are wonderful causes, but I’m just skeptical of the browbeating narrative about how the collective “we” are killing the planet when it’s so out of the common person’s hands that it’s hard to see it as a burden that comes down to the corporations and I can’t see them changing.

Also this is the same Shannon who is the plucky little scamp who’s all about consumerism and loving to be treated to presents and gifts and feeling generally entitled, right? It seems so… un-Shannon-ly for her to ask for something like this! Who is this and what has she done with Shannon?

are we finally getting that ice age they promised in the ’80’s?

Dear Santa,

Please bring me a heater for my workshop. The old one pooped out, and it has been dropping into the 20’s here at night in Sacramento. When I go out in the shop in the morning, it is refrigerator temperature in there.

Thank you

P.S. I always leave out cookies and milk for you. The cookies should be OK, but the milk may be frozen…

J Scarbrough and I agree on the fact that it simply has been a long, long time since I have experienced a December or February where it has been by the 30 year averages “below normal”. When I was a kid growing up here in Central FL and as a college student in the ‘80s and early ’90s there were years where we’d have cold snaps, some lasting for weeks. Yes, some Decembers were warm, so warm you could hit the beach on XMas day or New Years. It actually snowed a couple of times here as well: January ’77 with parts of Central FL getting solid accumulations and Christmas Eve ’89 where here in Tampa everyone got flurries for 2 straight days and some areas even got up to an inch of snow while North Florida got up to 3 or 4 inches on the I-10 corridor. There were some flurries in this area in 2011 but not officially documented, so the last official snow in Tampa was December 23 and 24 1989.

The 30 year averages have risen by 3F since 1970 and the number of below average days are outnumbered 3 to one in the past few years. 2010-2011 was the last year where we had a below average winter where December, January, and February all were well below average and we had 10 days reporting freezes. Since 2000, no other winter has reported more than 2 freezes and most have zero. My wife tells our daughter and her FSU roommate of the White Christmas of ‘89 where her parents house up in Columbia County (Lake City) got 4 inches of snow and I-10 and I-75 had to shutdown. I can tell them that the flurries were nice to experience in Tampa but the 2 mornings at 21F basically killed the last of my Dad’s tangelos, navel and valencia oranges which had survived numerous freezes in the ‘60s/’70s/‘80s. Nowadays my citrus is threatened by greening and hurricanes, not cold weather. The citrus blossoms come out around Valentine’s Day now when it used to be spring training/spring break/March when that would happen on average.

So, is the climate warming for whatever reason? Look at the data!

If it wasn’t for “global warming”, we would still be in the last Ice Age. At at the age of 61 years, I am STILL waiting for all of the dire predicitions from the late 1960’s to early 1970’s to come true. Why I remember when scientists said were heading towards another Ice Age.

All of a sudden she’s gone from Satan’s spawn to Greta Thunberg? I don’t buy it.

Dear little Shannon, what a beautiful poem♡. She’s really growing up and becoming less selfish and more interested in the happiness of others. Let’s hope the people of the world will do something to make her wish come true.

Ask for another ice age. I wanna go skiing.

Oh, joy. Another GoComics climate change debate. Nothing I haven’t read a thousand times before. I shall pass today.

The best way to end global warming is to be rid of the frauds that spew forth their lies then fly to XYZ place in private jets to preach their B/S to us.

I dislike the use of the words, “global warming” for whereas it is true, it leaves many in colder than normal weather wondering just where is this warming. The globe is warming much higher than the normal increases over the centuries. These precipitous increases in temperature are throwing climate out of kilter. Thus, what we’re really talking about is climate change which makes drier area’s drier, wetter areas wetter, storms more long lasting, and droughts more severe. Many species are already going extinct at an alarming rate, much higher than the norm. And while the human species will probably adapt, we will have to adjust ourselves to live even close to the recent past’s expectations.

First, kill all the reindeer who expel greenhouse gases, and then take the private jets away from the idiots using them to go to global warming conferences so they can tell everyone else what to do.

For some of us to think about: Stuff really is made up of atoms and molecules we can’t see with the naked eye. Bacteria and viruses really do cause illness. Gravity exists, we just aren’t sure how to explain it. Eclipses really do occur because we have displeased the moon goddess.

End global warming on Christmas morning for a Christmas wish???? Would thing she’d want to see her daddy Christmas morning.

And triggered right-wing snowflakes get offended in 5…4…3…

Overpopulation is more of an immediate problem.

There are many days where the comments are far better than the strip

Because as we can see from a lot of these comments calling it global warming (even though it’s mostly accurate, is still deviceive and leads to misunderstanding I propose a slight modification:

“And so on Christmas please arrangeA way that you could bringA fix for climate change.”

That’s sad…a little girl should be thinking about climbing trees and playing, not heavy adult issues.

Thanks for telling it like it is.

Done. Also and equally staved off the leprechaun menace.

Creating a scary future where kids imagine the world is in peril is emotional abuse. I grew up back in the 70s when the environmentalists at the time said we have 30 years left on the planet due to pollution… I believed them. Most pessimistic time off my life. Sorry. Stop creating a black cloud of doom.

They were right about one thing: they said water would be so rare we would be paying $5 per gallon. That’s about what Evian costs I think.

It’s 1° F this morning, I doubt there is “global warming”.

I’m not sure if Santa is the right guy to ask. Of all the people who would appreciate a warmer climate, he’d probably be it.

The planet will still be here, but it won’t support human life.

Yes, the biomass of the planet has increased by 15 percent due to extra carbon. Instead of desertification, deserts are actually decreasing. We are well within normal historical temperature variations.

Now Shannon, it’s not nice to lie to Santa.

For all who say that climate changes are natural, I suggest looking at the history of the Sahara Desert. It’s been discovered that for thousands of years, that area was green, meaning full of plants and animals and people who were settling down Then a natural climate swing happened that caused the rains to move away. The Sahara dried up and became what it is today. That’s what climate change can mean.

What I find most amusing about today’s “comic” offering is imagining Greg and Karen walking up and down the proverbial “aisle” and laughing at all the posters and comments from both sides of the room. This was done on purpose and it worked.

Just an FYI to Greg and company: The term “Global warming” is out. It’s referred to as “Climate change,” because not everything that is happening applies exclusively to the planet’s rising temperature.

I don’t deny global warming. I expect it to change to cooling in a few million years (long after humans are extinct?).

I’m sure Santa helps fight global warming. After all, he can’t have his home melt away.

Looks like Shannon writing to Santa is a mite too controversial for us here. From now on, Sunday strip should just show Nancy in the bath. 6 full panels, different angles. Few bubbles.

Sorry to see this in a comic. Nothing is sacred any more. We need funny, not stupid.

amen

Magic won’t help climate change and overpopulation. People can.

he could shut down the Sun which would fix things pretty quick, but I’m not sure we’d like the consequences

Comic readers are science deniers? And you watch FOX news also? Please, read the data and science. But I suppose facts don’t matter to you…

What? No one is going to comment on Shannon’s impeccable handwriting?

To me the point of the strip is that kids today are worrying about things when they should be having fun. So sad

Shannon is growing up; she’s thinking outside of herself and starting to care about others and the world around her. nice strip.

Greg you should talk to China has the highest GHG.

silly indoctrination of the youth. Really wish Greg would avoid this crap.

I’ve been following this comic for decades, but Today is my last day. Greg just lost a follower. Too bad there isn’t a dislike button

Santa is the real problem, leaving coal for all the bad boys and girls! Coal use across the world is set to reach a new record this year amid persistently high demand for the heavily polluting fossil fuel, the International Energy Agency said. “This means coal will continue to be the global energy system’s largest single source of carbon dioxide emissions by far,” the IAE said.

eyeroll

How about an end to capitalism? Duh!

I think it was a sweet strip. A young child wanting to benefit the world. I think that was the real point of it. Thanks, Greg!

I cancel all woke ‘things’ that get any money from me. Goodbye.

I think it’s very irresponsible of the schools to frighten our children at such an early age. Shame on them! I remember back in 7th grade during the early 70s. Our teachers told us that in ten years we would all have to wear gas masks whenever we went outside. And that the oceans would be so full of trash all marine life would be dead. Complete BS! But it woke me up many nights trembling in fear at this dire outcome. Obviously this dark scenario never happened. That was over 50 years ago. Fortunately I talked to my parents and they reassured me the earth would survive and be ok.

Santa should blow up all the oil pipelines…

Another tool who just can’t make a good comic without jumping into politics. Read this comic for years. Today’s the last day.

Shannon,

You were indeed very good. I wish I could help you but Mrs. Claus says these last few centuries were too cold to suit her and refuses to stay at our place in Rio, so I’ve had to leave the thermostat alone.

Santa

There are problems with the measurements used to calculate temperature trends worldwide. Those data are based on ground measurements, taken mainly in cities. Most of the world, especially the Southern Hemisphere, is water, and there are no figures for much of this area. Mountainous regions also sport few thermometers. Poor and primitive areas are underrepresented in the data since most gauges are located in the more economically advanced parts of the world.

Pretty mature wish Shannon.

The caveman who discovered fire probably heard the same complaints from the local liberals of that era. He didn’t care about me, and I’m not worried about any survivors in the 23rd century.

It’s going to be in the upper 20s to the lower 30s in central Florida on Christmas Eve. Santa fixed global warming.

Please no more global warming dysphoria….

Cute – but with everyone from Minneapolis to New York to Dallas hunkering down for a major winter storm, the best you’re going to get is an ironic chuckle…

Reindeer farts contribute to global warming

Santa can not fix Climate Change, humans caused it and only humans can mitigate it. We have passed the “tipping point”, Climate Change will continue to get worse. Vast populations will be displaced, partly due to rising sea levels, and as those people seek new lands to live on there will be conflicts and wars. Now is a good time to focus on mitigating this looming catastrophe, mainly by avoiding petroleum energy. Green energy industry will provide many jobs and a better environment. Fossil fuel corporate interests will dispute this and supply much obfuscating propaganda to encourage doubt. China is largest contributor to greenhouse gases, followed by USA, EU, and Russia, in that order.

Overpopulation is a far more clear and present danger.

Global warming, it’s a fallacy…

Of course this one opens up a can of worms.

Well he won’t be allowed to leave coal in your stocking.

I imagine that Greg will be disappointed by the vast and vocal number of climaye deniers. sigh

Shannon is being a very sweet, unselfish child today.

And to those of you putting her down and raining on her parade, I have this for you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hj3U18FHgQ

Shannon: “I’ve been good.”

Santa: “A lump of coal [fossil fuel!] for lying to Santa, little girl!”

Oh, Greg, do you really expect us to believe that this oblivious little Shi…, um, I mean Shannon, even knows what global warming is, much less cares about it?

Personally, I think it’s the beginning of the “End Times”. Jesus Christ will be returning soon, and everyone who hasn’t been “raptured” won’t be in any condition to worry about global warming.

It would have been better for Shannon to ask for a daddy who wants her.

No Shannon, he can’t. When he found out about the heat trapping abilities of CO2 in 1898, he moved Xmas town to Antartica by 1904 in the area later to become a no-fly zone. Later they got some bad neighbors in Nazis setting up a secret lab and arms base not too far away. From Xmas town you can just see the line of purple Mountains of Madness. Their shield of anathema keeps many away.

I just HAD to scroll down to the comment section. I just HAD to. And now with much regret, I shall never make that mistake again…. good grief

Good Lord…crock city.

Only in a comic strip can you believe in both Santa Claus and climate change.

umm no…

Those of us who are called “Climate Deniers” actually do believe that it is quite possible that the Climate is changing. But if the climate is changing, it is happening naturally. We believe that there is nothing any human being can do to stop it, or make it worse. To believe that we humans have some kind of power over nature is the ultimate in human vanity.

fOlLoW tHe ScIeNce

At least he called it ‘Global Warming’ instead of ‘Climate Change’.