Close to Home by John McPherson for March 28, 2022

The predictions of swamped coastal cities didn’t come true.

The cat is marooned on the coffee table. Swim for safety Bleeb!

But, in this guy’s case, it’s just that the toilets have backed up.

Forget climate change — what are we going to do about this out-of-control plate tectonics?

Seriously, I expect my grave to be underwater in a hundred years, since the family plot is about 3 miles inland in Florida. I guess I’ll just have to hold my breath. If the living can’t be bothered to move a few miles in 50 or 100 years, shame on them. Every generation has had to deal with coastlines changing and rivers changing their courses. Look up Helike and Pavlopetri. Look at what has happened to Dunwich in East Anglia — oh, the horror!

the bright side of the story: you can go fishing, at home!

Standing on Nevada’s shoreline watching California bubble beneath the ocean… (Corky Siegel, Good by California )

Also on the bright side, fresh cat food every day!!!

Indoor Beach Front property.

Lets have some math fun there are approx 139,000,000 sq surface miles of ocean water on earth, each square mile to raise water level 1inch will require 2,323,000 gals of water. so to raise water level over all oceans 1 inch or 2.4 cm will take 2,583,398,400,000,000 gallons of water. Now ice weighs 57 lbs per square foot versus water at 62-63 lbs per square foot (hence why ice floats) it will take 26,910,400,000,000 cubic feet of ice to raise water level 1 inch. Now erosion and other factors may contribute to localized raise also.

Then why do the elite have expensive beachfront houses?

gas oil automotive industries all say that. hmmm seems strange there isn’t a problem as long as they’re making billions of dollars

There was something fishy about that butler. I think he was a Pisces, probably working for scale.

zzzzzzzzZZZZZZZzzzzz- “BLOOP”!

“The only thing better’n fishin’ on a weekday…

… is fishin’ on a weekday… in the living room… from the ol’ easy chair!”

(Uh-oh, Green Plai.., wait he flip-flopped on me!)

I know this is a radical idea, but perhaps people could move away from the beach?

How long can you tread water, Bleeb?

Maybe not yet it hasn’t. Change does not happen overnight.

Human life span is too short to guage affects of climate change. The next 2 generations will get to profit from our negligence. The usual Wall Street short term thinking.

Really…

Hmmmm, seems a little humid in here?

The fish don’t seem to care

Hope my electric car doesn’t short out.

What’s going on? Didn’t all you guys have the same comments for 3/27 Wizard of Id? Take it easy. Now the cartoonists are all FOGs*.

*Followers Of Greta.For a laugh…..go to YouTube and look at CalSTRS videos of the FOGs. It is embarrassing.

Hey. we finally got indoor plumbing.

We now return to our regularly scheduled comic.

They’re gonna need a bigger boat, huh, Bleeb? :)

And yet, this man (and apparently several readers) still deny it’s a real thing.

On the bright side, his neighbors now have beach front property, for a while.

How high’s the water, brother?

Five feet high and rising.

DINO Joe wants more fossil fuel to be used because…

Senator Joe Manchin’s ties to a West Virginia coal plant made him wealthy. His actions in public office made sure it kept running.

Manchin, a Democrat who has served as one of West Virginia’s senators since 2010, has supplied a low-grade coal mixed with rock and clay (known as “gob”) to a plant in Grant Town, W.Va., for 20 years. While gob’s lack of efficiency has cost the state’s residents millions of dollars, it has turned Manchin into a millionaire many times over.

A Times investigation shows that at every level of Manchin’s political career his official actions have benefited his financial interest in the plant. Now, as a pivotal vote in the Senate, Manchin has blocked legislation that would speed the country’s transition to renewable energy and away from fossil fuels.