Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 20, 2011

How about a life line?

Three close is what you buy to keep your Christmas three from freezing.Poor Santa! The horror, the horror! All that ice, and not a bottle of whiskey to be found!

does he get your $1000 prize then? or are you going to keep it because you got the 100th comment yesterday?

Wait a second — what’s the worry?The reindeer can fly, can’t they?

Cap’n Eddie to the rescue!

Get a rope Santa.

Will it be Eddie to the rescue?

@LegendaryColonelCrustwoodRet: One way we can stop global warming is to get out of our cars and use more public transportation. If public transportation (pt) is inconvenient where you live, then lobby for better pt. If people live so far from each other that pt isn’t worthwhile, then we should live closer to each other. Apartment houses conserve energy better than McMansions. If people in the developed world didn’t live so luxioursly than those in the developing world could also enjoy more of the bounties of the world and we could still retard global warming. Oh, as for keeping the population down, another cause of global warming, haven’t you seen statistics? People in the developing world are limiting the number of kids they have when women become more empowered and their children’s health improves so families don’t have to have extra kids to make up for all the kids who die of diseases.

There are eight reindeer floating away.That leaves Rudolf to save the day.Since a song sung by Gene Autry brought him fame.He don’t hang around with the others playing any reindeer game.

Wiley, the houses in the first panel are precious. I love the snow too…excellent!

Dogsniffmas, about your reward for your comment being the 100th one, yesterday. I think you get a genuine Noprize from Jack Kirby and Stan Lee….

`Rudolf snorted as to say, “Have yourselves an another exclusionary christmas while I watch you float away”.

So far, incorporated the jobs unbooming and global warming… I LOVE IT! Definitely a sign of the times…

@Nightshade09 I just LOVE IT! LOViN it! Yes!:)

@LegendaryColonelCrustwoodRet Right on on the comment from yesterday… Where to from here would be the best question… I think it could be resolved if the country was focused on the now… Now, wait a sec… well, no, that may hurt somebody’s pockets…

Looks like I made a wrong turn coming to nonsequitur. I thought I was reading the funnies. And trading funnies with other readers. Little did I realize that “nonsequitur” applies most appropriately to most of the comments here – they “do not follow” the subject. Alas. I’m outahere.

@HighPriestMikhalFloods can happen without being caused by human endeavour, too. That doesn’t stop us building flood defences. It’s a red herring to go on about what is causing global warming; it’s still going to foul us up if we don’t do something about it.

Get some zebras and beans for propulsion.

@Nightshade -I think yesterday’s strip stated they can only fly while hitched to the shed.try to keep up.

Does this have the same punchline as “How the Grinch Stole Christmas?” If so, then Santa doesn’t have to do a thing. But then, humanity doesn’t have the grace (and lack of greed) of the Whos in Whosville.

Too true, and well said.

This is a family-like story. CAN WE KEEP POLITICS OUT OF THIS?!

The writer of this comic is the one that started the political discussion, not his readers. I read this for the same reason I watch MSNBC sometimes, just for the absurdity!

Yesterday, “Pygar” said the following: “We are in no way at fault for the increased solar activity warming Earth and the other planets.”.Only one problem: solar activity has in fact been at some of its LOWEST recorded values during the solar minimum that we are now coming out of. Got that? The sun has been COOLER that it’s been in, oh, at least two or three centuries, and the cool period has been significantly longer than average. Despite this period of DECREASED solar activity, the planet has been getting warmer. And if the sun’s been cooler than normal and the planet’s still getting warmer, what do you suppose might be the cause?.Who was it said, “everyone’s entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts”?

It’s gonna be Eddie. You know it’s gonna be Eddie. It involves water, after all. The next element will be a nor’easter that blows him to the Pole.

“@LegendaryColonelCrustwoodRet: Your late comment yesterday was a masterpiece, sir.”-I agree … but I must say that I’m rather surprised by the number of climate change deniers that posted yesterday and today … just can’t understand how they come to such screwed up conclusions.

Don’t worry about giving a gift

as you sit there watching them drift.

Just throw them a rope and pull them quite near

so those at Christmas will have nothing to fear.

When the iceberg hits with a bump

tell each flightless reindeer to jump.

Really Santa This I must confess

How do you get by without a GPS?

“…like a balloon made of lead.”

I saw one of those on Mythbusters. They didn’t have any trouble at all making it fly, so I don’t see why Santa’s complaining.

hahahah@ FUNNY!

IT’s santa, after all he only has 3 billion stops to make,no global warming there. I’ll bet he’ll get the penquins to fly!! They just stand around anyway.

Hey, what’s the problem? The reindeer can fly! They aren’t trapped, they’re just making a protest against the commercialization of Christmas :-)

Sorry to impose reality on such a great strip but, I’ve seen Lapps drive Reindeer through freezing rivers with no ill effects. They swim pretty well.

where’s Rudolf? hitch him up to a real small sleigh, fly over and hitch all of them up and fly them all out!

Like most environmental idiots, Wiley forgot reindeer can fly.

Santa Claus is reality?

Get the rope and grappling hook.

well, with the house of reps deciding not to vote poor ole left wing santa just won’t get anywhere…..

The question is not why, but: “Can and/or should we do anything about it?”

Don’t waste time arguing about “Who did it?”

From today’s Science News

Greenland’s Helheim Glacier is shedding ice at a high rate

Big chunks of ice have been falling off Greenland’s Helheim Glacier at an unusually high rate over the past 10 years, a new study finds.

Warm summers and the intrusion of warmer Atlantic waters may be to blame, researchers in Denmark and the United States report online December 12 in Nature Geoscience.

To reconstruct the glacier’s history since 1890, the scientists examined sediments from the fjord below. Sand grains in the sediments revealed that only in the 1930s was the glacier falling apart as quickly as it has been recently.

I can see the future. I see aliens dropping off Eddie and his boat and saving the day.

hey, Santa’s reindeer can FLY so they are not stranded

Just drop many republicans in the vicinity, their frozen hearts will restore balance to the ecosystem.

I definitely see Eddie in the near future, AND his CAT that saves Christmas???

Am I wrong, or do santa’s reindeer fly?

And then Wiley snapped, pulled out the fire ax from the hallway and calmly walked back into the office. He raised the ax up over his head and with one deft stroke, buried the ax in his desktop computer. Screaming “Read Mondays panel for crying out loud!”

Reindeer can swim.

Where’s Rudolph?

Nobody’s forcing you at gunpoint to be here, you know.

Congratulations Wiley. Today’s panel has inspired more comments than perennial comments champion Luann. And in spite of all of your attempts to tell us that it’s only a comic strip and not an environmental/political manifesto, who better to make that decision, we the readers or you the author. I think even the most casual observer would rule in our favor.

First off, I’m not a con or lib, I’m a moderate. Also I am well aware of the Law of Conservation of Mass (your Einstein quote). I’ve read about humanity’s impact on GCC and the evidence just does not add up to humans making a huge impact worldwide; locally, yes, but not nearly as much as people think. The loss of calories (heat energy) is massive in the open air. Our so-called “heat emissions” dissipate within meters of the source, with the biggest contributors maybe reaching tens of meters at best. Plus many of your own examples of heat creation are of air pollution, not effects on GCC. The two are often, but not always, mutually exclusive. If you’re going to post facts, at least make them relevant to your argument.

I stand by the research I’ve done on the matter, which comes from more sources than one website. No, I don’t have millions of years; I have at best a decade before my organs begin to fail due to unnatural aging (speed abuse as a teen) and I’m just a rotting corpse fertilizing the earth. And as for being patronizing, I don’t think everyone here realizes that. Look at how many times Wiley has posted today. That’s a record!

@All postersI’ve said my piece and am washing my hands of this argument. And I should have known better than to post what is, in essence, my own opinion. I think we all know opinions are like anuses: everyone has one and they all stink. Good day.

hey, you, you chicken reindeer?http://www.nhusd.k12.ca.us/ALVE/wow/reindeer/reindeer.htmlsee – right there in the ocean – jump :)still reading story though

Anthropomorphic (man-induced) global warming is one of the biggest scams of our modern time. We have experienced natural climatic global warming since the Great Ice Age, about 10K years ago.

There is not one thing that we can do to change our climate. All of this push is the usual Marxists trying to conform the world economy to global socialism.

People, people, people… okay, I’m assuming you are people at any rate.

It.Is.A.Comic.

It is a piece written for entertainment for those who find it entertaining, which not everyone will. That’s the way of entertainment. Not everyone is entertained. Take me, for example – I can’t stand “reality programming” yet it continues to be popular for some unfathomable reason. Solution?

I DON’T WATCH IT!

No one is forcing you at gunpoint to read Wiley’s comic here. If you don’t like it, there are dozens of others here at gocomics.com to read. Take your pick! Some are even political comics geared for right-wing conservatoids! Enjoy!

Whether you agree that climate change is real or discard it as a hoax is immaterial.

Point one: the northern ice caps are, in fact, melting at a rate never before encountered by RECORDED human history. Some speculate that it is natural, others speculate that humans are causing it, still others argue that it is a combination of the two (meaning that humans are contributing to it). But…IT’S STILL HAPPENING, REGARDLESS.

Point two: the economy IS in the toilet and thousands of mortgages HAVE been foreclosed upon by greedy bankers who have squandered trillions of dollars of taxpayer money given to them by an out-of-control government from two administrations, one Repub and one Demo.

Can we just stop finger-pointing here and enjoy the comic strip?

And if you don’t enjoy it…DON’T READ IT.

Thank you, and have a blessed Yule, happy Hanukkah, joyous Kwanzaa, song-filled Saturnalia, festive Festivus, merry Christmas, or whatever holiday you observe this month.

@Night-Gaunt49 I didn’t know our oceans were empty.

The planet we inhabit was around long before we began our tinkering. Changes have been happening since Earth’s formation. Land and water have moved throughout the history of the planet. Planets die. Ours will die. The sun will cool. Everything that lives, will die. How much of an impact do humans have? Good question. I hope that when the end comes, if people still exist in a form that can feel, there is no pain involved.

Wiley is having fun; he has made it clear that is the purpose of this strip. Take the arguments to the proper blogs!

I like the Eddie theories and the self-help theories (sled as boat is good, very good). I will kick back, wait and read! I love the “funnies”.

Happy Holidays to all. May yours be filled with fun, family, friends, health, love and happiness. Anything else is icing on the cake – or polar ice cap!

Still only 8 reindeer. Where is Rudolph hiding?

Amen!