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Another brilliant climate themed editorial cartoon from The Washington Post’s Tom Toles. It’s time to put out the fire (s).

(Source: Washington Post via Go Comics) 

The Washington Post’s award winning editorial cartoonist Tom Toles hits the climate-energy-money-politics nail on the head once again. It reminds me of the Upton Sinclair quote:

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary* depends upon his not understanding it.”

(* or election)

Related:

• ‘Oil Donors Fete Romney Days Before Unveiling Energy Plan’ (Businessweek)
• ‘Romney’s Energy Plan Doubles Down On Fossil Fuels’ (NPR)
• ‘Surprise! The GOP’s climate position tracks closely with oil industry donations’ (Grist)

(Source: WaPo via Go Comics)

It’s Gettin’ Hot in Here: ‘Experts Through the Ages’

Related:

• Naomi Oreskes: ‘The verdict is in on climate change’ (Los Angeles Times)
• ‘Fear of climate change may finally be trumping ideological denial’ (Huffington Post)

‘What do you think our most powerful renewable resource is?’ 

This is one of 12 editorial cartoons being considered by the Union of Concerned Scientists in their annual calendar contest. You can check them out and vote on your favorite here.

Related:

• Naomi Oreskes: ‘The verdict is in on climate change’ (Los Angeles Times)
• ‘Fear of climate change may finally be trumping ideological denial’ (Huffington Post)

“Don’t Connect the Dots” 

Related:

• ‘The media covers Kardashians, not climate change’ (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
• ‘This summer is ‘what global warming looks like, climate scientists say’ (Detroit Free Press)

(Source: Go Comics)

Climate Cartoon: A Big (Oil) Barrier to a Clean Energy Future… 

(Source: Dayton Daily News via The Oil Drum)

Related:

• ‘The Great Carbon Bubble: Why the Fossil-Fuel Industry Fights So Hard’ (Grist)
• ‘Clean Energy Switch to Cost Fossil Industry $4 Trillion by 2020’ (Clean Technica)
• ‘Today, ALEC Hosts Legislators & Big Oil — Topic? Undermining Clean Energy’ (Clean Technica)
• Memo: Group Wants To Create Fake Grassroots Wind ‘Subversion’ Campaign That ‘Should Appear As A Groundswell’ (Climate Progress)

A big barrier to a sustainable future: ‘When scientists predict calamity, politicians plug their ears’ (LA Times)

‘Fossils from the Anthropocene’

(Source: Planet Under Pressure 2012)

Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Tom Toles highlights the increasing futility of denying the reality of human driven climate change. In this case, the “extremely early blooming of cherry trees” in Washington, D.C. is an example. More here, here, here,here, and here.  

(Cartoon source: Washington Post via Go Comics)

‘$4 Gas?’ 

(Source: Ed Stein Ink)