Comments on: An Inconvenient Comic

By: guy

guy — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 09:10:49 +0000

“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.

By: josh

josh — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:50:48 +0000

Global Warming is like the color of a unicorn. It’s whatever you want it to be.

By: Carl Donath

Carl Donath — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:53:42 +0000

“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).

By: Brian Leahy

Brian Leahy — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:03:55 +0000

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.

By: Todd

Todd — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:07:24 +0000

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.

By: LostInTarnation

LostInTarnation — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:18:08 +0000

Whaddya mean the days are getting longer? It’s dark right now! Yeah, that logic always baffled me.

By: Dan V

Dan V — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:38:56 +0000

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.

By: Count Shrimpula

Count Shrimpula — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:22:01 +0000

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.

By: Francois Tremblay

Francois Tremblay — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:15:12 +0000

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.

By: Cidu Bill

Cidu Bill — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:56:43 +0000

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