An Inconvenient Comic
Cidu Bill on Jan 17th 2008
It doesn’t only mean warm weather. Pass it on.
I just realized that the ubiquitous and repetitive “obviously there’s no global warming because look how cold it is” gag is actually this year’s ubiquitous and repetitive chad gag — which is kind of funny when you consider that Al Gore is connected to both of them.
(and see earlier posts)
Filed in Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, Bill Bickel, Bliss, comic strips, comics, global warming, humor, snow | 11 responses so far
Nicole Jan 17th 2008 at 01:47 pm 1
It was last year as well — I think it it just more obvious this year because Gore won the Oscar and then the Nobel Peace Prize
Cidu Bill Jan 17th 2008 at 01:56 pm 2
Yeah, I meant “this year” in a more general sense. The gag’s been irritating me for several years now.
And for that matter I shouldn’t be referring to chad humor in the past tense, since we can be pretty sure the ChadWatch 2008 file will be a large one
Francois Tremblay Jan 17th 2008 at 02:15 pm 3
Al Gore is a walking punchline, so it’s natural that we should laugh at him as much as possible. The only “Inconvenient Truth” about it is how much energy Al Gore’s house and cars waste on a daily basis.
Count Shrimpula Jan 17th 2008 at 02:22 pm 4
Very good, Francois.
In less idiotic commenting, not only doesn’t it mean “things only get warmer”, even if it did mean that, it’s only a change of a few degrees, not a few dozen degrees.
Dan V Jan 18th 2008 at 01:38 am 5
The true disagreement isn’t whether global climate change is happening, but what the underlying cause is. Is it man-made or part of a natural cycle? Zealots abound on both sides, but the answer is probably somewhere in the middle - undoubtedly man is responsible, but there is also evidence that this sort of thing happens in a macro-cycle of hundreds or thousands of years without much human input. Most of these comics focus on the zealots on one side or the other, using ridicule as a hammer to discredit the opposition. Meanwhile nothing much is done to fix the problem. So, yeah, Bill - I find it irritating, too - but not necessarily for the same reason.
LostInTarnation Jan 18th 2008 at 10:18 pm 6
Whaddya mean the days are getting longer? It’s dark right now! Yeah, that logic always baffled me.
Todd Jan 19th 2008 at 05:07 pm 7
I remember in elementary school, about fourth grade, a story in our reading book was about how by the early twenty-first century, we’d have to wear spacesuits to go outside, to protect us from the poisonous atmosphere and the lethal radiation from the sun. That was mid-seventies, by the way.
By the way, as far as I’m concerned, if you own your own house, but haven’t invested in solar power, then you’ve got no place to complain about global warmer/climate change. (I still rent; good luck getting landlords to install solar, until someone passes a law.)
Matter of fact: first, all government owned and leased buildings. Second, commercial buildings. Then rental and private.
Brian Leahy Jan 19th 2008 at 08:03 pm 8
Why is it that every time it snows, some imbecile clucks that global warming is “obviously bogus”, yet when we have 60+ degree days in Ohio in January (and oh yes, we did, just a couple week or two ago) these same fools are not heard from?
Oh yeah, because it shows what utter BS they’ve been spouting.
As for the threadbare cracks about Al Gore’s house - HE FIXED IT, BOZOS.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/13/gore.home.ap/index.html
“Short of tearing it down and staring anew, I don’t know how it could have been rated any higher,” said Kim Shinn of the U.S. Green Building Council, which gave the house its second-highest rating for sustainable design.
Carl Donath Jan 22nd 2008 at 07:53 am 9
“yet when we have 60+ degree days in Ohio in January … these same fools are not heard from?”
No, we just hear from the opposing fools who don’t realize “global warming” refers to a degree or two per _century_, and that broad fluxuations are _normal_.
“HE FIXED IT, BOZOS.”
He threw some money at it after grossly neglecting to live his own message for decades. Funny, George Bush’s ranch has been eco-friendly for a long time.
I like that Gore still has natural-gas street lamps burning in the driveway 24/7 (yes, daylight hours included).
josh Jun 16th 2009 at 08:50 am 10
Global Warming is like the color of a unicorn. It’s whatever you want it to be.
guy Aug 29th 2009 at 05:10 am 11
“I think it it just more obvious this year because Gore won the Oscar and then the Nobel Peace Prize”
Actually Nicole, Gore didn’t win an Oscar. Davis Guggenheim did.