Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 12, 2014

Of course, electric cars are hardly any greener than other cars.

Don’t you just hate it when land sharks burn those oil can fires.

Somehow, I never expected to hear the dialogue Pig recites in panel 3…..

I have no idea how a coal-powered car is supposed to be good for the environment. Especially since coal-fired power plants have far less stringent emissions limits than gas-powered cars.

Now a bicycle…that’s good for the environment and your health. Unless some car runs you over.

Given how bad this winter has been, I think I’m siding with the shark.

The various Tea Party groups seem to stand for smaller government and adherence to the Constitution. How does this make them a dangerous cult? Or is a dangerous cult anyone who doesn’t agree with you!

That is so much FUN!

I like this new direction the strip is taking. Pastis is able to take something that is not inherently funny – global warming – and make it funny. Very clever!

Science is real even if you don’t believe it.

Shanksmare is the only option!

I though it was hilarious that he told Ken Hamm (quite rightly) that true science makes predictions that are later verified by observation, but the next week was stumping for a theory that has consistently failed to do so. Every time their models fail, they give a bunch of explanations after the fact (sea water absorbing more heat than expected, volcanic eruptions, pine forests). That’s fine, refining models to match observations is what science does, but the science isn’t settled until they have a model that can accurately predict climate change.

Bill Nye: “Belief in Creationism will stifle America’s innovation.”Raymond Vahan Damadian: “I am a Creationist and I invented the MRI.”Bill Nye :“I stand by my previous statement.”-later-Audience member: “If presented with just one piece of evidence to disprove what you believe, would you change your belief?”Bill Nye: “Absolutely!”-It appears Bill Nye is a lier who religiously holds on to a disproved belief.

Gorebal Warming is real! He’s serial, or cereal, or something….And Manbearpig is out there too!

That’s the spirit. No point in making waves!

So the thing about the rising sea levels that continues to confuse me is this:

You have a glass of any liquid. You add ice to it and the level rises to the lip of the glass, because of the added ice. Now, as that ice melts, you know what doesn’t happen? Overflow. Because the “water” level remains the same.

Now, I would figure the same principle is true of glacial ice. If all the ice in Antarctica and Greenland melted, about the only places that I would expect to be underwater are Antarctica and Greenland, since they essentially already are.

At what point am I missing where buoyancy in a glass of water is not the same as “buoyancy” of continents?

Time to find a recipe for shark-fin soup.

Frack him!

they are about buzz-word feel-good TODAY You mean like your bumper sticker?

I’m thinking some grilled shark steaks right about now…

In panel three doesn’t Pig mean Sharks can be so shell fish…? Just curious.

I’m waiting for the shark to meet the crocs. (I left my political commentary in my other pants……..)

Then they’ll get the shellfish into it.

Could that be WHALE oil that the shark is burning?!?

i feel so sad. here i thought people with intelligence love pearls before swine – after reading these comments i find out even non thinkers like it – oh well – back to globalwarmingscientifici’msmarterthanaboxofrocksbecauseithinkicanquotepeoplewhothinktheyaresmarteveniftheyprovetheyaren’tbysayingdumbthingsthataretheoryratherthanscientificallyprovenbyrepititionoveragainbecausethenewyorktimesorwashingtonpostorwallstreetjournalhaditinanarticaltheypublishedtosellpapers

I’d like to make a shout out to those of you who restrict your remarks to amusing, friendly comments about the daily strip. You’re an encouragement to all the readers who view comics as [mostly] for fun. I’m frankly not certain I can glean the author/artist’s political views from reading his work and I’m glad. I’ve got plenty of opinions about the Environment, Economy, and society in general; I just don’t for a moment expect that I’m going persuade someone with an opposing view to come around to my way of thinking by posting a couple of sentences worth of arrogant, sarcastic, or just plain mean rhetoric.If you don’t like the strip or what it appears to stand for, why not just stop reading it. If you love the strip because it you think it illustrates the stupidity of the people you love to hate, why not just smile a satisfied smile and forward the link to someone you know will get the same level of enjoyment out of it. The rest is, as @Gresch put it, just ‘shellfish’.

My favorite will always be the Global Warming Expedition ship that got stuck in the ice, because it was too cold. While I am not a let’s burn everything kind of guy. I only switch to “alternative” power sources when it makes sense economically (price per output). The concern of possible Ozone depletion and Global Warming has been called hogwash by enough scientists that I’m not buying it. Go sell it to people who don’t read.

@Overtaxed. No. Up to this point, I haven’t expressed a belief. But, since you’re asking…I believe that my own opinion splayed out in a comment thread on a comic strip web page is of roughly the same value as the average lottery ticket.I believe that there is an entire class of people (on either side of any argument) who define their existence by being offended. Their rehearsed but ill-conceived gainsaying of rehearsed but ill-conceived rhetoric is as the bleating of sheep in a room full of those who would otherwise carry on an intelligent conversation.

I believe that great advancements can be made in the wake of a frank exchange of views and I wouldn’t stifle that for the world.

I also believe that you have essentially proven my point and that I will henceforth heed my own advice and save my opinions for a forum in which civilized and gentlemanly discourse can occur.

Gentlemanly discourse? In the comments section of a comic strip? Now THAT would be out of place. Not as out of place as releasing a book predicting the “end of snow” during the worst winter in many, many years, but still, out of place.

First, check out the sources that climate change deniers post. You’ll find that every one of them is funded by oil companies or conservative think tanks, i.e., those who have the most to lose when we stop spewing our waste into the air we breathe. Then, check out http://www.350.org and http://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php and you’ll find a well-reasoned consensus of the world’s scientists, together with supporting data. If you believe the wolves, prepare to be eaten.

If it’s not Rat… It’s the Crocs and if it’s not the Crocs, It’s Carbano and his ‘tribe’Poor Goat.xxx

I look at the middle panel, and two words come to mind:Arthur Treacher’s.

Now if we can just get Russia, China, India, Malaysia and the rest of the new world to go along global warming can be halted.It is not just the US for crying out loud and that is the problem. China has no restrictions on emissions and they are how much bigger than us??So when everyone else gets aboard you can count me in. Till then I will use the electricity generated by the coal plants to watch my TV about how China is taking over the financial markets of the world.

electric cars wont stop global warming because the electricity used to power the car is made by burning coal and oil. If you want to stop global warming stop eating meat. As funny as it sounds, it’s a scientific fact that the number one producer of greenhouse gases is the worlds livestock.

I found the cause of global warming – the EPA. It did not exist until that devious Richard Nixon created it, and as it grew in political power, global warming expanded x 10000.

Yeah riding in a vehicle that could hold 80 but only has a couple passengers and a driver will eliminate a lot of pollution.

Where is goat getting the juice for his P®ius? That oil drum represents the power plant feeding faux zero emission cars. Yea goat, see how that works out for you.

I was gonna say …

Pastis, you’re slipping. Missed a chance for a pun!

“Someone”? Source please?

Since CFC’s were brought up: That concern was not about global warming, it was about depleting the ozone layer. That layer protects us from harmful UV rays. We now have UV intensity indications on the weather channel.

I have a 2013 model Nissan Leaf EV. It is good. I can travel around Sweden with neither problem nor cost. I do not contribute to city smog or import from oil producing states. My choice has nothing to do with global warming. I think that both Stephan and some persons commenting here got it a little bit wrong.

With Bill Nye’s statements, we are not talking about biology; we are talking about innovation. Please pay attention to the argument here.The point is Mr. Nye states repeatedly and publicly that belief in Creationism will stall American Innovation. That statement has been definitively proven false, yet he still clings to it religiously despite his claims to be “scientific” in his beliefs.

That is just evil.