Charlene and others, so how does “twenty degrees above normal in the Arctic” as proof that global warming is real differ than the many comics that are chastised here for using cold temperatures to mock it?

Because showing that, over time, temperatures have been trending warmer than historical norms is far different from the sheer idiocy of stating that, because it still gets cold in winter, there has been no change in the climate.

The latter is like saying, when informed that during summer there is more daylight than in winter, that the fact that it is dark at midnight proves that there is no seasonal variation in daylight. “Don’t bother me with all them graphs and charts, Mr Smartypants Scientist, the days can’t be getting longer because it STILL GETS DARK AT NIGHT!”

My first thought was actually that the two people in the cartoon had driven “off set” — into another world/ecosystem/something. I like that theory. Left to my own devices, that’s what I’d assume: not only are they not coming full-circle, they’re just going on and on and on and on into sequential new Earths. Or they’ve wandered out of the known world into the uninhabitable margins.