Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for July 27, 2012

I am sure that this strip will illicit some warm commentary from those folks who live in De Nile.

Look up “Midwestern United States”. It’s one of the Census Bureau’s geographic regions, and it does include Minnesota.

Actually, everything is in the Midwest now that Maryland is under water.

I’m in Missouri. Missouri is the heart of the Midwest. Minnesota is directly north of me. Minnesota must also be a Midwest state. But then again, would you describe Florida as South, or East?

It was reported the other day that massive amounts of surface ice have melted in Greenland — but I’m sure climate-change deniers will claim that Greenland is a myth.

Well, I live in Anchorage, so that means the Washington State is in the Southeast, cuz it’s south-east of me.

Surely you are joking?

Over 4000 heat records broken in the last couple of months. What’s it gonna take to convince you?

Well, it’s clearly getting warmer but what can be done about carbon emissions? Most Americans think he or she is entitled to drive a giant gas guzzling pickup or suv and when you fly over cities at night you have to wonder if all those street lights and parking lot lights need to be on. Then there are are the emerging economies that are building power plants like crazy, buying cars, etc. Well, why not, they’ve earned it after years of privation. For these reasons, I don’t think there will be significant reductions in carbon emissions. Nobody wants to bite the bullet. And Americans least of all.

So here’s my solution: embrace it. Embrace global warming. Adapt to it. Harness it. Grow food in the newly warmed areas. And most important of all, start making plans now to flee from coastal cities!

But wait, there’s more! I just thought of another solution: encourage the caldera in Yellowstone to blow out ASAP. A little nuclear winter might turn this thing around for us.

That’s just what the Venusians said!

Most animals know better than to soil their nests,caves, burrows, + more.We as a species are fouling our only home. Jimjammer, this is not a hoax! WHo would do that, what makes you thin that someone would make up something like this? did you People who doubts wii very soon find it harder and harder to ignore. Sad but true.

How come when really cold weather occurs we are told that you can’t extrapolate from local or short term temps, but when we have HOT weather, it is taken as proof that the sky is burning?

That zombie don’t look like no kitty.

Greenland’s naming was an attempt to try to attract more settlers, not because it was toasty and tropical in historic times.

I was enjoying reading your posts (for entertainment purposes only), until I got to the phrase, “..designed and built by a very intelligent Being.” I know that Slartibartfast designed the fjords, but can you fill me in on the rest?

While I agree with most energy saving processes, I acknowledge that it is tough to give up old habits and dependencies. I do try to reduce. How about this… no new cars? How much energy does it take to produce a vehicle which is designed to use even more energy? For my part, I still drive a very old car that still gets 25mpg. Not electric, at least not yet. It all takes time. I just hope we don’t run out of time first.

Love the corroborating ‘evidence’… one doesn’t hide something unless there’s something to hide…

The Dummies(with apologies to The Monkeys)

Here we comeTurning up the heatWe’re the stupidest peopleYou’d ever want to meet

Hey, hey we’re the dummiesBy our noses we’re led aroundWe’re too busy burningTo ever let the earth cool down

We’re just trying to end lifeCome and watch us hope and prayWe’re the dumb generationWe like to watch the ice melt away

Hey, hey we’re the dummiesWe don’t like the facts as they’re foundSo you’d better just face itOne day we’re gonna probably drown…

jimjammer: stamp your feet and holler all you want, the consensus among the scientific community is that mankind, and mankind’s burning of fossil fuels, is the leading contributer to the warming of the planet, something that is measurable and irrefutable by serious people. Shake your fist and sit at the Flat Earth table! As for the abstraction known as god: what sort of god are you suggesting exists, with no proof? A transcendent deity? Immanent? Gnostic? Abrahamic? Personal? Vedic? Wishing something existed is not the same thing as it existing—and insisting the unprovable is fact is just sad—faith is not form.

Belief is like a jailer who offers you a key to free you from a prison the jailer built for thee…

except that it is no random act of chance, nearly everything has been explained in the form of known processes that have been proven to exist including evolution. Including of course human evolution that we came from the processes of our universe and planet.

Oh, jimjammer, you have a mighty blindspot. I pray you see it: for climate change caused by man, change that has quantifiable evidence, you cry “false” and that which has zero evidence (“god”) you cry “truth!” This is ironic, but you can’t get out of your own rhetorical trap—put your ego in the basket, dear lad, you won’t fall off the planet if you listen to reason. In courtrooms it is said that if the facts are in your favor you argue the facts, and if they aren’t in your favor you argue the law. What exactly do you argue? You insist your points, which is not an argument, it’s just declamation. Your real challenge is your own fear, not some rival commenter in the Interwebulon. Be not afraid, good pilgrim. Tom the Dancing Bug has room for all…

The lack of basic education in the sciences being portrayed here is somewhere between laughable and pitiable. Education must be improved to stop religious nuts from having adverse influence upon the world.

Major hoax. Did you see this?http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/opinion/the-conversion-of-a-climate-change-skeptic.html?hp

I shudder to think what kinds of dark threats were made against Dr. Muller and his family by those nefarious hoaxsters. To turn a poor, honest skeptic like that… dear, dear me.

Then again, maybe he just took a look at the evidence without ideological predispositions. In other words, the opposite of assuming that the whole theory, advanced by thousands of scientists worldwide for over a century is just “an excuse to tax you some more!”

LOL. I can see that in your case, the term “predisposition” doesn’t quite cut it. You’re aware that Muller is funded by the Koch brothers, and that his last batch of findings (confirming temperature trends) was first published in the Wall Street Journal, right? So according to your way of thinking, at least that part must have been true. :)

second law only applies if there is no energy source bringing in energy, basically for your claim to be true you have to claim that the sun doesnt shine.

The infernal combustion engine has turned out to be a curse .. what to do about it?

Don’t worry….everything East of the San Andreas Fault will eventually slide into the Atlantic Ocean!

Everything west of it, too.

Global warming is a hoax! Deal with it!

Richard Muller used to say that. Not any more, though.