Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for January 28, 2025

I don’t see a ladder…

how the heck does he get up into it?

EXACTLY!

(Is John Kerry going to ride along?)

The elephant party doesn’t care about climate change.

He needs to go find that Scandanavian girl…she still around?

the privet jet of medieval times

Al Gore’s distant relative.

Elephants still break wind out backside with greenhouse gasses.

I actually agree with The Donald on his “Drill, baby, drill” position. Even the pessimists predict fusion reactors by about 2060, at which point our fossil fuel resources will only be used for plastic and pavement. The scientists at [understanding-climate/climate-change-global-sea-level] predict that sealevel might rise by as little as 1 foot by the end of the century, giving us 40 years to control the CO2. And speaking from Canada, maintaining our anomalously low CO2 levels will eventually doom our entire nation when the glaciers return. The scientists at the Potsdam institute [Human-made climate change suppresses the next ice age. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. 2016] understand that global warming will save us all.

Is that haze in the sky! From the California fires, that set the climate war backwards by 20 to 30 years. Well golly I think I need to be taxed, penalised and told that I am a worthless human because I am living on this planet.

Every year, world leaders fly off to some other country to pat themselves on the back for making their people pay big time to reduce carbon emissions and plan how to take even MORE money from them. To make themselves feel even better they give money to poor countries so their dictators have something to add to their Swiss bank accounts.

Ya knows elephants a lot powerful than horsies but there good reason why thems was not used for pulling carts in long distance travel. Finky sure won’t makes it to convention on time. And why he needing elephants when he gots steam powered wagon? The elephants will only gets in the way of the faster wagon behind em. This one a big fail.

Nice to see that elephants, as horses, only needs reins…

Overcompensating much?

Or hypocritical much?

on how not to take care of thee earth… :j

No bridles to the elephants. As soon as they start pulling , off come the king unless he’s super strong.

……seems a little contradictory!!!!!

Solid Gold!

This is so true, people want to go back to simpler times, use wind to cross the Atlantic and the Pacific. How much dung does it take to transport 8 billion people. Sorry, you think we go back to that tech, the population will drop by 2 or 3 billion.

Must be a rerun busting on Al Gore!

I thought… “Why steam power AND Elephants?” The I looked closer… A hot tub, maybe?

Off to give his Hannibal lecture

I would think elephant power would be green energy. But there does appear to be some smoke in the back. A fireplace maybe?

The dictator with a team of Republicans. It’s familiar.

Here’s looking at you Gore and Greta.

There are many world leaders who became richer because of Climate Change, right Al Gore?

The King’s actually driving himself? And not even a single guard riding “crossbow”?

I detect a smidge of sarcasm

Which pollutes more, the wagon or the elephants?

Say hello to miss Greta “how dare you” for us

That’s just the Fink’s vehicle. Wait until you see his whole convoy.

Ah, me…the Chicken Little’s are out in full force today.

Listen, people: climate changes. That’s what the world does. And it has done it all throughout history with no help from us. Are we doing things to the planet? For sure. But the one thing we are NOT doing is causing runaway global heating- or even fractional heating- by burning carbon. Why? Because CO2, no matter what the concentration, CANNOT form a greenhouse in the atmosphere. Neither can cow toots, for that matter. In fact, NO atmospheric gas can act like a greenhouse without a barrier to contain it.

This is SCIENCE 101! Empirical, repeatable experiments have been done for more than 100 years that show, without a doubt, what Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) said while laying out the Laws of Thermodynamics: the atmosphere cannot act like a greenhouse (he called it a hotbox) unless it was simultaneously SOLID and TRANSPARENT.

Fast forward to 1909, when Robert W. Wood, through a series of controlled experiments, demonstrated that the warming effect in a real greenhouse is not due to long wave infrared radiation trapped inside the greenhouse, but to the blockage of convective heat transfer to the surroundings. His experiments can be, and have been, repeated many times with the same end findings.

Think about it- if the atmosphere was a greenhouse, greenhouses wouldn’t work!

Here’s another interesting thing you can try, to see if that CO2 blanket is causing us grief: get one of those hand-held infrared temperature checkers. Aim it at the ground on a clear sunny day. Reads maybe 78ºF? Now aim it about 10 degrees above the horizon- maybe 45ºF. Now aim it straight up at the clear blue sky (not at the sun)- even on a hot summer’s day, it will probably read well below freezing. Now ask yourself: which way does heat flow? Hot to cold, or cold to hot?

So, if the planet actually IS getting hotter, go find the real culprit.

Just what does that contraption burn?