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Friday, February 07, 2014

Cartoons: Extreme weather and El Niño

Believe it or not November 2013 was the warmest year on record globally, according to a TIME magazine article (subscription needed to read the full item), "El Niño Is On Its Way:"
For many Americans, 2013 ended with an unusually bitter cold snap. Late November and December saw early snow and bone-chilling temperatures in much of the country, part of a year when--for the first time in two decades--record-cold days will likely turn out to have outnumbered record-warm ones. But the U.S. was the exception: November was the warmest ever globally, and the provisional data indicates that 2013 is likely to have been the fourth-hottest year on record.

Enjoy the snow now, because chances are good that 2014 will be even hotter--perhaps the hottest year since records have been kept. That's because, scientists are predicting, 2014 will be an El Niño year.
With the coming heat in mind, here are a few cartoon celebrating (sort of) cold and snow.
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image: cartoon by Dave Granlund, "Hard Winter"
Dave Granlund, Cagle
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image: cartoon by Jimmy Margulies, "2014 Winter Olympics"
Jimmy Margulies, Cagle
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image: cartoon by Randy Bish, "In the Grip of Winter"
Randy Bish, Cagle
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Had enough?

-- Marge


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