Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for October 01, 2020

Nope. It was always called “Climate change” and it has always been warming which has been known to cause extreme weather conditions. Even with the polar vortexes that have been occurring more often, the hottest years on record have all been within the last 20 years (and 1998 which was an extreme el nino year).

10 PM in Denver: Almost full moon, very dark red.

I’ve heard some say that it’s time to stop calling them “wildfires.”

I have joined them. These are “climate change” fires and “climate change” hurricanes.

Not that we haven’t always had fires or hurricanes.

But that, of late, the fire and hurricane seasons are approaching twelve months long.

Is it human caused? But even if it wasn’t; if there’s a chance that lowering our carbon footprint might slow the damage, isn’t that worth it?

Tryn’a figure out what RJ is holding in his left hand in panels 2 and 4. A twinkie and a test tube?

Verne you have that fallen cow look in the last panel :-)

One volcano seriously farting is worth more than all humanity’s exhaust fumes combined.

Not living near any volcano, I’d prefer clean air nonetheless.

Forrest fires are necessary to clean out everything and even to enable several seeds to sprout.

I try to keep my negative footprint small.

Just ranting here. No humans necessary.

Avoidable.

Verne, you are speaking my language for me.

IIRC “global warming” was put out during a short stretch of cooler weather to make it easier for the Know Nothings to debunk their own strawman.

There is no climate change this year we broke her records but you had to go back 90+ years to do it. The earth gets warm and then it gets cool jus the normal.

Fake News?

Is Verne nekkid?

Doesn’t matter whose fault it is or why it’s happening, if the ocean used to be over the dunes and is now lapping at your second step, you’ve got a problem.

yep

Global warming means that ON AVERAGE the Earth is warming. That is accurate. That added energy (heat being a form of energy) fuels changes in climate by shifting wind and water patterns, adding more fresh water to the oceans through melting (temperature differences, and salinity and pH changes driving other changes), and the added heat (energy) in the atmosphere and in large bodies of water fuels worse storms. Notice that the warming is on average, and that as previous patterns alter some places will get cooler (at least at first), most warmer, the locations of certain storm types can alter (tornado range moving more toward the east in higher rates, for example, which is already doing), droughts can worsen in some places, etc.

You don’t know how accurate that is Vern.

It is a global warming but anti-science people chortled as they pointed out that in some places winters were getting colder. Of course the idea that a global warming meant changed weather patterns and in some places colder weather, or wetter, while the average world temperature rose was too complicated. Or too easy to ignore. So to get the message across to them the name was made easier into climate change.

Also known as an extinction event!

Climate crisis.

Weather.