Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 05, 2020

Maybe if we called it Coronavirus warming, people would pay appropriate attention. Or even inappropriate attention.

If you’re on the other side of the world from glaciers, you still have glaciers.

Flushing a grapefruit?! Whassamattah, these kids don’t have access to cherry bombs?

He’s a cartoon character. But I’d still love to be that quick with a relevant response, to have that sort of mind.

Kid fell into his own trap.

Now…Do you have a grapefruit you wanna get rid of?

That was smooth, Frazz!

Downhill…

And Artic ice is increasing. We have seen MUCH colder centuries, and warmer ones, according to core samples. Warmer is better for plants and animals(including people). Thankfully we have the technology to deal better with both now day’s.

With the Arctic melting, where’s Santa going to go?

I love this one today, Jef. On so many levels!

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” —H.L. Mencken

Your problem, Frazz. Not mine!

Welcome to the mop brigade.

yep I hate it when my ice melts in my glass and over floes

Dale Gribble:[regarding global warming] I say let the world warm up, see what Boutros Boutros-Ghali-Ghali thinks about that! We’ll grow oranges in Alaska.

Hank Hill:Dale, you giblet-head, we live in Texas. It’s already a hundred and ten in the summer, and if it gets one degree hotter, I’m gonna kick your ass!

If you really want to cause trouble, flush a pool ball down a older toilet that lets you, because sooner or later it will find a section of pipe through which IT SHALL NOT PASS. The one flushed by some still unknown toddler in my family back in the 1970s took 500 feet to do that, and the family had to dig up all 500 feet before they found the blockage.

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Frazz15 hrs · When a chunk of a glacier separates and floats away, it’s often described in municipal terms: “A floe the size of Manhattan broke off the Antarctic ice shelf today …” Come to think of it, it’s almost always described in metropolitan New York terms, one of the boroughs and almost always Manhattan. You never hear about a chunk of glacier the size of Walla Walla drifting out to sea, although you sometimes hear people wishing it about certain parts of Florida.

I wonder what size unit you use to describe when a chunk of conversation breaks off and goes its own way. Probably a magazine article. “A digression the size of an Esquire profile departed another Jef conversation just as it was starting to get somewhere …”Where was I?

They’ve been monitoring sea level in Sydney harbor for the past ten years. In that time, it has risen 0.0 centimeters.

Never mind the other side of the world. Visit Glacier National Park, or areas further north. They’ve been tracking the extent of the glaciers over the years, and the receeding is evident. Ok, so maybe it’s not that they’re melting; maybe aliens are sneaking in stealing chunks of them while we’re not looking.