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Climate Exhaustion or Climate Denial

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A heat dome has settled over a good chunk of the United States, including New England, where it’s already 95°F/35°C, and expected to pass 100°F/38°C tomorrow. This has resulted in the usual media frenzy of informing people about the signs of heat exhaustion and heat stroke, all while undermining the seriousness of the threat with B-roll of people having fun at the beach or something similar.

Thousands have died in Europe’s most recent heat wave, since everything there was built for mild summers, before record heat became the new normal. Many Americans have been pretty smug about it, like their window units aren’t costing them hundreds of dollars a month with our antiquated electric grid. Before anyone gloats about their heat pumps and solar, please remember that I rent and my apartment’s currently too hot for your homeowning bullshit.

Stay cool, and be cool this weekend. Don’t let the climate deniers take all of us out with them.

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More Identified Aerial Phenomena

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Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon released more “UAP” files and like every time before, they’ve proved nothing but the existence of blurry videos. No need for extraterrestrials while this administration is terrorizing the planet with bombs, embargoes, and a daily torrent of the stupidest stuff the galaxy has ever seen.

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Stickers Shock

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Trump’s adventure in Iran is predictably leading to soaring oil and gas prices, something that was very important for the media right up until Election Day in 2024. “I Did That!” stickers blaming Biden for inflation were all the rage, so I figured I’d take a shot at elevating the genre for this regime.

I might actually make these if there’s enough interest to cover production costs up front. But until then, I can tweak a few of the designs for My Threadless Shop, which needs some more designs to take advantage of the $13 t-shirt sale that’s currently going on. Let me know if there’s any you’d like to see!

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Congress’s Climate Quack

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Marjorie Taylor Greene is saying more stupid, hateful shit, and it’s arguably not even the worst of the lies going around about the recent hurricanes and relief efforts. It’s especially demented to scapegoat innocent people when there are real humans to blame in the fossil fuel industry who’ve been denying what their own scientists have been saying about climate change for over forty years.

The climate crisis is here and now that denial won’t work, the conspiracy theories are going to do even more of the heavy lifting to stop what’s necessary to mitigate any of it; not to mention what they’ll do to otherize people forced to flee the next disaster or the countless ones that will follow.

Progress is being made though! The poorly named Inflation Reduction Act has done a lot to boost the already booming renewable energy industry. We just have to find a way to stop all those gains from going to A.I. so it can give dweebs a picture of Smurfette with big boobs.

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2024’s Climate Records

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We’re about to have a heat wave here in the Northeast, which will be minor compared to the heat waves happening elsewhere around the globe so far this summer. Ocean temps are already shattering records held since … last year, and hurricane season is only officially two weeks old.

Locally, ocean temps are still too chilly for people who didn’t grow up in New England (AKA my spouse), but the swimming season here is already a month longer than when I was a kid forty years ago.

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COP28 Agenda Items

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The 28th UN climate conference started today and they’re finally gonna start taking climate change seriously. Or not. I did a cartoon about the 26th conference, and the 27th passed me by without even noticing. So my hopes aren’t high for this one.

Last week while willingly subjecting myself to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, I was unwillingly subjected to this ad showing how oil makes hospitals possible. It’s been out for a while, but it was the first time for me. Hopefully they’ll brainstorm a less craven message for their Super Bowl ad.

But don’t worry. Tomorrow I’m going to ride a bike to pick up groceries. That should offset our leaders’ climate inaction.

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Climate Crisis Comix

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The climate catastrophes keep coming this summer, and the super-heated oceans have yet to super-charge a hurricane.

Besides a couple days of poor air quality due to wildfires in Canada, the worst to happen here so far is unrelenting humidity. Whoever put a “dehumidify” setting on air conditioners saved our furniture from becoming soaked with my ass sweat.

If the term “wet bulb” is new to you, you’re not the only one. I first heard it this year and it’s basically a way to describe relative humidity and dew points to children and stupid people in a more scientific way than a “feels like” temperature.

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Future IPCC Reports

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This week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released yet another report that says we’re fucked if we don’t stop pumping CO2 into the atmosphere right now. As with the COP conferences, it’ll be ignored and more drilling projects will keep getting approved as long as they’re politically expedient.

Unfortunately, as we saw with the gas prices freak out last year, the cost of oil is the most important thing in the world, even as climate disasters are constantly in the news.

Don’t worry, though. I’m picking up groceries with a bike and using tote bags. I’m sure that’ll help.

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