Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 10, 2014

No we don’t.

The shark is as equally dumb as those crocodiles (except that one’s wife and son).

Yes, we do (and cue the argument in 3…2..1!)

What’s the shark worried about ocean levels? Looks to me like he’s not having any troubles getting around on land.

I don’t deal with door-too-door solicitors (to give them a polite name)….

Doesn’t warming increase the amount of water not at the common level, actually reducing the sea levels? That’s how it works in a universe where the laws of thermodynamics are in force. Feel free to argue against the basic laws of physics, though. Climate is a special case.

Anybody remember a political cartoon a few years ago? About global warming, it featured rich people wondering why people were complaining about global warming – as they enjoyed their beach vacations.- in Antarctica!

The melting of sea ice would not affect the level of the oceans in either direction. It is the ice that is up on the land (i.e. glaciers) that is the problem, and most of Antarctic is covered in an immense ice sheet that is an AVERAGE of about 7,000 feet — over a mile — thick. When that melts, the resulting melt-water runs off the land and into the ocean, raising the levels. It is unlikely that it would ever ALL melt, but (despite the impressions gullible people got from the research ship caught in the ice recently) significant melt-off is occurring in some parts of Antarctica. See the following website for a reasonably neutral discussion of the matter: http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/question473.htm

I assume you mean the ice melts as opposed to the water melts. Flaw in your argument – water level does not decrease when floating ice melts. Put an ice cube in a glass of water. Let it melt. The water level in the glass will stay the same, not go down. That is “simple physical reality”. #2, There is a huge amount of ice that is NOT floating in the water, such as glaciers. When they break off and slide into the ocean (or melt into it from land) that’s where the rise comes from, added volume. Libs can figure out that simple fact.

Exactly. Also, another factor involved is that water reaches a maximum density at 4 degrees C (39 F). Above this temperature, the density decreases with increasing temperature. So an increase of a few degrees would cause liquid water to expand, and ocean levels to rise.

Those land sharks are the most dangerous ones.

That shark looked little like Al Gore!

Are you sure its not Chevy Chase in disguise?

Did someone actually write that the more liquid water on Earth, the lower the sea level will be?

CCNJ how exactly does “water melt?” Generally water in its solid state is referred to as “ice” not water even if it still is…

Do flounder flounder? And is the plural (of the fish) flounder or flounders? Help! My comment is floundering.

Science has not referred to it as “Global Warming” for years, since some areas will experience times of extreme cold (Midwest USA this winter?) – the proper name is “Global Climate Change”

I like Carbano’s innocent look in the 2nd panel.

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While there was certainly no “scientific concensus” regarding global cooling or an “impending ice age”; some scientists were talking about it, in the late 1970’s, to early 1980’s.

Water vapor in the atmosphere is steam. That is gaseous water. It would be more correctly called “wet steam” as it is a combination of water and water vapor..At least that is the correct engineering / scientific term for it per Mollier’s description and diagramming:.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollier_diagram

Sea ice has nothing to do with sea levels. Sea levels can only be altered by having more water raised above sea level than exists at sea level. Physics again. Air temps are not that significant, and can be appreciably higher in the absence of fresh water caused by oceanic cooling. Imagine that. Cooler oceans can cause atmospheric warming by decreasing the amount of evaporation taking place with a constant input of solar radiation. This results in lower atmospheric H2O, meaning less precipitation and less available fresh water for converting heat energy to kinetic energy by the state change of water, especially from green plants, which need that water. Cooler oceans mean growing deserts, shrinking glaciers and general increases in atmospheric warming.Again, physics.

Candygram!

Global warming is a hoax…climate change is real.

“Hullo zeeba neighba.”

I went dynamite fishing today. All I caught were 3 firecrackers. Lousy day in the boat.

Blame the Sun. Nothing we can do, even ASSUMING that global warming malarkey is true. WE (mankind) ARE NOT THE CAUSE.

Thats disturbing and I don’t know why…

Poor Zebra, everybodys out for him

Never trust a smiling shark.