Frazz by Jef Mallett for August 09, 2021

Easy. Those aren’t clouds, that’s pollution.

We think we can change the climate, yet somehow we are at the mercy of the weather.

Weather IS NOT EQUAL TO climate!

We’re past the talk-about-it part.

Given the combined areas of wildfires and the smoke coasting in the westerly winds, wonder if the Miss Valley and eastward will see new species of birds come fall? Will Monarchs and others that use the western flyways find new places to rest and feed on their seasonal migrations?

Prayers for all those who have lost their homes, their livelihoods, and maybe a loved one to the fires.

In light of today’s report on climate change, the timing of this strip is eerie. And yes, weather isn’t climate, but the old saw referred to doesn’t use it he word “climate.”

There’s a book, Justinian’s Flea, which sights how the erupting of Krakatoa and the resulting smoke and ash in the atmosphere affected the Roman wheat fields in Egypt causing an increase in fleas on rats which in turn were carried on ships with the wheat throughout the Roman Empire spreading bubonic plague. If we can see this in history, why can’t we see it in front of our faces now?

Bravo!

Ground the planes, start the trains!

governments have been trying to control the weather for years… maybe hundreds of years!

The climate issue we need to work on, but we’ll really be doomed if we start tinkering with the daily weather. That would go so wrong controlled by the wrong hands. (Think Jeff Bezos etc.)

Nothing.

NNNOOOoooo!

Chinese hoax, remember?

Oh, for goodness sake. I can’t believe that, this deep into the 21st Century, we still have people who apparently don’t understand the difference between weather and climate. Here’s the deal:

 • Weather is short-term; climate is long-term.

 • Weather is individual measurements; climate is average measurements.

 • Weather is what you get; climate is what you expect.

 • Weather is umbrellas; climate is ice ages.

 • Weather is the city council; climate is the United Nations.

 • Weather is 3 minutes on TV; climate is doctoral dissertations.

 • Weather comes and goes; climate just keeps on coming.

 • Weather change kills off individual plants and animals; climate change kills off entire species.

 • Weather is Angry Birds; climate is The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Any American adult who doesn’t understand this by now must be:

1) a social promotion from a special-ed class.

2) working for a fossil-fuel company and whose salary depends on the public not wising up during her or his lifetime.

3) deliberately disingenuous.

4) a religious fanatic who buys into the 2000-year-old lie that their favorite dead guy is due back tomoro, having disappointed a hundred previous generations of True Believers because he’s been waiting especially for YOU to be around when it happens, because that’s how important YOU are!

These categories are not mutually exclusive.

How do these kids know all these old phrases that no one uses anymore?

Never forget this!

https://xkcd.com/386/

I think the time for talk is past. We need to take action, like YESTERDAY!!!

And the obligatory xkcd about rate of change…

https://xkcd.com/1732/

Only solution to control CO2 pollution is to bomb China back to the stone age. Anything else is like putting a bandage on a melanoma.