Comments for Arctic Circle Cartoons

Comment on Elwood Book Group by arcticcartoons

arcticcartoons — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:02:13 +0000

If you live in Elwood, check out the posters that are up in Tennyson St shops or the Elwood General Store on Ormond and Glenhuntly Roads.

Comment on Elwood Book Group by leigh morgan

leigh morgan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:08:13 +0000

How does my daughter or I join the book club?

Comment on The Climate Change “Debate” by euandus2

euandus2 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:58:20 +0000

Even letting the debate continue, when our species may hang in the balance, says something about us. I argue that there is a certain presumptuousness surrounding our approach to how we are addressing global warming that goes well beyond simply having a short-term perspective. What if the cockroach has a more sustainable position? I recommend the following post: http://euandus3.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/climatic-presumption-what-is-the-forecast/

Comment on Eco Monday Cartoon by No_limits27

No_limits27 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:33:46 +0000

Let us not settle for the status quo, but instead be visionary, creative and bold. ,

Comment on Do Climate Change Sceptics Act Like Muppets? by Peter

Peter — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:13:50 +0000

John: A climate change skeptic is not a climate change denier!!! It simple means you are yet to be convinced!
And saying ‘caring for the environment…Henson…’ implies (rather smugly) that skeptics DON’T care for the environment. Says who?!
In truth, like global change ‘accepters’, some do, some don’t…

Comment on The Climate Change “Debate” by Catiline

Catiline — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:43:02 +0000

I think you’re far too unfair to the numpties. The average person has virtually no access to credible information about climate change.

The Bush administration destroyed the credibility of any scientific reports produced by the executive branch of the government.

The science reporting in what are generously termed modern journalistic publications is almost always compromisingly distorted in an effort to be entertaining, interesting, conclusive, or worse, “fair and balanced”.

The scientific literature itself is dry and nearly incomprehensible to most college graduates. And that’s in the best case, when it is produced by academia; the conflict-of-interest problems raised by industry-funded and lobby-funded research are obvious enough, I hope.

Why not call them “frightened and confused people lacking competent leadership”? It’s not as zippy and elitist, but at least it gives a nod to the epistemological problems facing a citizenry burdened by poor job security, inadequate healthcare, and heavy taxation.

Comment on Redesigning by arcticcartoons

arcticcartoons — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:26:25 +0000

Thanks – that was a lucky break (though it didn’t feel like one cycling back from Burwood East today – brutal headwind!).

Comment on Redesigning by naturallydotty

naturallydotty — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:32:36 +0000

Alex, today’s (Wed) cartoon is brilliant! Spot on for Melbourne this week *grin*

Comment on Home Brew Series by Joshua Nelson

Joshua Nelson — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:29:46 +0000

I love the homebrew series! Being a brewer myself, I can relate to all of it (though contaminated beers are very rare, I have never been lucky enough to get a gnome beer).

Comment on The Climate Change “Debate” by Joshua Nelson

Joshua Nelson — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:06:53 +0000

Calling them skeptics implies that they have some ground on which to be skeptical – as though perhaps they have a point. It gives them too much credit. This is what they want, because if they are “skeptics” they are implicitly viewed as cautious, which is very far from the truth.

They should be deniers, they are ignoring something that IS happening and threatens all of us.

Great work!