Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 05, 2024

The pond is stocked with ice donuts, as well as fish?

Most climate deniers haven’t come any closer to nature than the little pine tree shaped air freshener in their car.

Just a touch obsessive, perhaps?

They should have done that last year. Here in Minnesota, it didn’t stay cold long enough for the lake to freeze over. In an area that used to see snowfall as early as October and as late as May, we didn’t get snow this season until January and it all melted before the start of February. It rained the week of Christmas, and it’s due to rain before the end of this week.

Fact: There is more ice on North and South pole now then in last 20 years.

It hit 60 yesterday in my area. I remember the last time it hit 72. What followed was 23 inches of wet snow. It took months to get the mess cleaned up.

Too many people ignoring the current weather and trying to ice fish like they always used to, seem to be falling through a lot of thin ice lately.

Hundred year storms are now an annual event. But climate change is a hoax?

The denier on the left seems to have only one oar in the water.

BYOI (Bring Your Own Ice).

It’s All Trump’s Fault!

The global climate is, and has been for thousands of years, in a continuing trend of glacial recession and desertification. This is not due to global warming. Local atmospheric warming does result from it, however. When taken in aggregate, it may be seen as global atmospheric warming. But the fact is that the atmosphere is the least part of climate, except in its role as the Aquarian conveyor, being the conduit by which water is moved inland to create glaciers and hydrate the land. If one is to calculate warming, with greenhouse gases being significant, one must entirely remove all the atmospheric cooling effects of fresh water, and of fresh water ice. As it is, the warming is so slight, if it exists, that it cannot be measured beyond the margin for error in measuring.

As for local weather, such as depicted above, that is weather. That is not climate.

Isn’t it interesting the people stupid enough to believe this are smarter than 99% of the world’s scientists?

“I will build a Great Wall on our southern border and I’ll have Mexico pay for that wall.” – The Reality Show Con Artist June 16, 2015

Few people deny the climate is changing. It always has and does. There are many who disagree on the causes.

In the 1970’s the experts declared we were going through a period of global cooling. We were in a process of entering a new ice age. BTW, remember hearing about last year being the ‘hottest’ on record. Turns out many of the measuring equipment is placed in places like runways of airports, middle of big cities in which temperatures are actually 10-15 degrees warmer than in the country.

When the climate hoaxers stop flying in private jets and stop buying waterfront property, I might listen. Oh, and , Greta told us the date when it would be too late to do anything about the climate. That date passed last Summer, yet she’s still out there grifting.

Americans miss the point on Global Climate Change. It exists and man is the cause. Ninety nine percent of scientists who studied, trained and spent their lives on it agree. It is called “settled science” and your ignorant “feelings “ on the subject don’t matter. What democracy gives you the right to decide is what we do about the FACT of man made global climate change. That is where you can infect the rest of us with your stupidity.

Some parts of Chicagoland reached 50 in February.

For anything positive, God always provides a denier.

Climate deniers are not denying climate change. They are denying that CO2 emissions are a significant contributor to that change. And their are many facts to support this; such as: No one is asking India nor China to reduce their carbon emissions. The climate change advocates take private jets from ocean front properties to vacation areas to discuss the problem when they could use zoom and should want to get away from the coastal regions; so they do not act as though then even believe it. There are scientific reasons as well but the real movers behind it are politcal.

Follow the money.

It’s very sad to drive by the lakes in my town and see all of the “thin ice” markers already flopped over due to the ice softening. Waaaaay too early for that.

hmmm…so which beachfront property of Barry and Michael’s is this pond located…Massachusetts or Hawaii?

Pick any day where the temperature is below normal and that’s proof that “global warming” is fake news. Some places are hotter, some places are cooler, some places are dryer and some places are wetter. It’s called “Climate Change.”

The overall trend is to be warmer. Deniers tell us that this is merely a continuation of the thawing we’ve had for the past 10,000 years since the last ice age. Until you look at a chart showing the warming. It’s a nice gently rising slope for 10,000 years (with some wiggles) that suddenly skyrockets over the past 150 years.

I recall a statement by Trump during a particularly cold snap in the Northeastern United States. He said that this was proof that global warming was a hoax. He picked a particularly bad day to make this statement. The other 94% of the planet had warmer than average temperatures on that day. Data Analysis – MAGA-style.

BYOI (Bring Your Own Ice)

The fossil fuel industry and companies are paying huge sums of money to create dangerous doubt that their products are harmful to consumers and our environment. The real hoax is that everything is well and good. They want to control the narrative while storms get worse and sea levels rise.

Very timely. Michigan DNR announced this morning they were canceling the Black Lake ice fishing competition due to the poor condition of ice on the lake.

The onset of the Industrial Revolution signalled the beginning of the end,if you’re smart enough to understand…..

Since I am an optimist, I look at the bright side of MAGA-T stupidity.

Nearly twice as many Republicans died from Covid-19 than Democrats did, a new study has found.The initial takeaway is that nearly double the number of Republicans died than Democrats did during the pandemic, and the evidence suggests that vaccine adoption was a key contributing factor to those deaths. – The Independent 11/17/22

Enough of them have already ignored that liberal conspiracy we call “science” to give the Arizona governorship to the Democrats. Let’s hope they keep doing their “own research” through this fall.

Remember, the vaccine lets Bill Gates track your movements!

We’ve lived on Colorado for 47 years. Last week it rained, preceding a snowstorm. We’ve never seen rain in Colorado in January

We’ve had exactly one day of ice fishing here. The ice is so soft, the geese leave footprints.

Another lovely day in Florida.

I think most climate deniers only see ice in their coolers.

They’re in denial, all right.

The climate has been changing on our planet since the very beginning. Always will too.

THIS year it’s a WARM Pacific ocean current [instead of a cold ocean current that influenced weather in recent years.] THIS year, an EARLY Spring may happen. I am HAPPY that climate changes, since climate historians say we are “between ice ages”.

Climate has been changing for4.54 billion years & will continue until humans really destroy earth with Nuclear WAR. Fact we need carbon as plants & trees use that to make oxygen wish most all life on earth needs to live.

zxcarl: but on the other hand, XKCD should plot the population increase for each period which should have a substantial effect as well.

Northern Wisconsin, which relies on snow for tourism will have to rely on mud this year. The Merrill Ice Drags were cancelled this year for the first time since 1966.

Ha! Being the lazy cartoonist that I am, I can imagine the same caption running under a cartoon showing just the pond with a few air bubbles on the surface.

Nobody is a climate denier (that’s rather disingenuous) . Many scientists (all that I know – chemist, physicists, geologists) deny there is a crisis, especially an “existential” one.

Before human beings started burning stuff, the Earth’s climate was both stable and ideal: Never too hot. Never too cold. Always just right.

I wonder what the comic would be if the pond stayed frozen for 9 months out of the year.

I don’t get it. You don’t use a boat for ice fishing.

I guess Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau will have to t ake up a new hobby….

As long as they have beer…

Yes, climate has always changed… but it’s the change in the rate of change that’s important and that is caused by man and could be fixed by man. Just like we started to clear up so much pollution in the 70’s and mostly stopped damaging the ozone layer so it could start to repair itself.

Here’s a chart that helps highlight the impact by man and the industrial revolution on the rate of change:

https://xkcd.Com/1732/

And while it’s a comic, the data points are based on actual facts (as opposed to what “facts” the usual trolls pull out of their collective backsides).

Funny how the ice in Antarctica is EXPANDING, much to the disapproval of the climate fatalists.

For all y’all, no offense, but we are still coming out of the last ice age. Of course things should warm up a we go right back into another ice age.

The “ice” is Styrofoam, of course.

LOLOL!

BYOI (Bring Your Own Ice)

The nearly daily flooding in Miami at high tide is a hoax. Ignore it and it will go away.

Climate change has been proven to be a hoax by more scientists than than those promoting the hoax.

Wow… someone has not been watching the news.

Ice fishing from a rowboat is silly.

That’s what happened to the punch bowl ice rings for my party, …