Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 02, 2021

Around here, the ridiculous amount of rain we’re getting is our version of climate change.

Bubba had better learn to swim… and run a houseboat…

“Say, Noah, is that big tub ready?

One problem: As the contents of the keg are consumed, the keg gets lighter and starts to float. They may have to swim after it after awhile.

So Al Gore was right on hahaha

Qute.

“Climate change” was a euphemism ginned up a couple of decades ago specifically to sound much less threatening than “global warming.” So now what’s coming at us is no longer global warming, it’s global roasting.

I wonder who he’s talking to.

And once again the universe refuses to re-order itself in order to accommodate the fantasies of those self-deluded fools who try to deny reality.

“I’d rather be stupid than wrong”.

That sinking feeling.

No comment.

Equally hard to realize, and admit, that one has been fooled or mislead.

Ahh. Spring : )

When throwing a spotlight on the glaringly obvious, be aware that most people will just close their eyes.

In a world where it does not require energy to remove water from the sea and deposit it far enough inland to maintain glaciers and prevent desertification.

I don’t understand. We are not underwater. Does that mean the climate changers are wrong?

It appears to me that the main area of disagreement is the cause of climate change and possible actions. Many think that the climate has and is always changing. Many also think that humans can have very little effect on the climate. It is a good thing to be environmentally aware. It is not a good thing to wreck the economy of the world to try to fix something that is not broken.

Sometimes True Believers see confirmation of their faith a every turn. Claiming validation after two generations of failed forecasts of doom is a weak basis from which to mock.

When climate deniers’ beliefs can’t hold water… literally.

Can’t fix stupid

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody ever does anything about it. Especially politicians who want tax dollars to pretend they will do something about it but never do.

I remember my dad telling me about drought and dust storms when he was a kid in the 1920’s – that must have been due to global cooling.

I like to think of it like this. Picture the earth as a basketball, then lay two sheets of paper over the ball (NASA used to use this image to demonstrate how small a target a spacecraft had to hit to re-enter from space). That represents just how thin the 10,000 feet or so of readily breathable atmosphere we have. Looked at on that scale, anything we can do to protect, clean and defend it seems necessary. The outgassing of 7 billion of us has to have an effect, politics notwithstanding.

It’s not wrong to change your mind. Today is a day, but half of it is night. Truly a thing can be both black and white.

Anthropogenic climate change is not proven. Climate change happens. It’s been happening long before humans trod upon the earth…

Flood insurance is going up as 500 year floods are happening about every 5 years.

At least the beer stays cold.

Science is a system of beliefs based on fact. Conspiracy is a system of beliefs based on what I like to believe are facts. Tell me what I want to hear and I’ll follow you down any rabbit hole.

Thanks to the magic of “shadow banning,” no one but me can see this comment.

I believe it was the late “Brother” Dave Martin who once quipped, “I may not always be right, but by gawd, I ain’t never wrong!”

Looks right to me

Is the water keeping the beer cold enough?

The North Pole is moving. Its movement has more to do with the change in the climate than anything else.

“An we’d NEVER do that.”

Looks like Louisiana.

What you’re seeing and hearing is not what’s happening.

Noah, how long can you tread water?

There’s always been climate change. And there always will be climate change. Deny it at your own peril.

“Climate change – The Facts” was on PBS last week. It began with the usual lies about historically “unprecedented” global temperatures, CO2 levels, tipping points and catastrophes to civilization; but their history began in 1750 (obviously, no geologists were consulted). Their one point of fact was rising sea levels, which any geologist will confirm. I can’t verify their numbers, but they claim the Mississippi Delta is loosing a football field of land every 45 minutes; so today’s strip is current events (maybe change Bubba to Benoît).

Although we live almost a mile from the Chesapeake we are exactly t sea level, and the ground water is definitely rising. Hubby put a row of flagstones from the front porch to the pond, and they sank into the ground of their own weight. Now we have a series of puddles, instead of a walkway.

It’s spring.. mud and flood season, get a grip!

Typical tRumper, never admit when you’re wrong!!!

My brother, who has lived in South Florida for over 60 years and has seen first hand the effects of climate change; is a denier. Yet he even comments how over the past 20 years he’s noticed that the summer temperatures are getting hotter, it doesn’t rain nearly as much as it used to, and the everglades catch on fire every year — something that never happened when he moved there in the 1960’s.

With the temperature of spring run off, the beer will stay cold

Anyone want “tornado surprise” for dessert?

On a personal note: can someone send the excess water to Utah? We have a drought here.As a more general comment: Go to drroyspecer.com for an actual IPCC-accredited scientist, who explains the misconceptions of both deniers and alarmists. He has a variety of articles, for both regular and techie laypeople.

Just announce “Barbecue” and folks around here show up. We don’t need a “reason” for it.

The hoax is not there is climate change, that has been going on for several billion years here on earth. The hoax is that we can something about it.

Why does everything have to be my side or your side? Of course there has always been climate change, everything in nature is constantly changing and evolving. Of course we affect our climate, we are part of it as well a part of nature. We inhabit and interact with climate. The thing is, we have, supposedly, free will and with it the ability to alter our behavior when needed. Seven billion of us can, and do, use a lot of resources and generate waste that nature has to deal with. We alone in nature have the power to affect our climate by choice and we need to do a far better job of it then we have so far, else nature will do it for us. Maybe we can’t do enough, but if we don’t even try I guess we’re not fit to be here at all. Better to try, and possibly fail, than to ignore it and seal our own fate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6MVTcwjkfE&t=205s

next ice age coming up

Whatever floats your boat … or beer keg, Bubba!

Shouldn’t those hats be red?

Flooding in some areas, desert drought conditions in others.

Snow melts in the spring; Seasons change in Ohio; If rains coincide with snow melt, there is flooding; Climate change has nothing to do with it!

Both sides need to stop Confusing Weather with Climate.

I don’t know about anyone else’s grill unit, but mine has a hole in the bottom to let dripped fat out into a can so it doesn’t catch fire. If the standing water gets up to the bottom of the grill, it floods out the fire and there’s no BBQ.

Hmmm. Maybe that’s when the deniers begin to think that maybe there really is something to this climate change thing …

I know, I know … that’s another of my pipe dreams …

Pfthagh!

Hey, the BBQ and keg are dry and floating, so what’s the problem? ;-) And to think most of Trump’s properties skirt shorelines. How ironic they’ll be underwater, both figuratively and literally. Hahaha…it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.