Jorge Raedó

@jorgeraedo.bsky.social

Osa Menor, arts education for children and youth Nacido en Zaragoza, España, en 1969. Vive en Bogotá. http://osamenor10.blogspot.com/

Breaking News! Code: Bonkers! El Nino continues to spike towards an all-time record high anomaly, with the Nino 3.4 sea surface temperature more than 2.6°C above the 1991-2020 baseline as of August 4th, and more than 1.0C° above the previous August 4th record set in 1997.

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Here's another graphic demonstrating that the planet has already passed 1.5°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline, this time using monthly averages, with a prediction to pass 2.0°C by late 2036.

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And then there’s Maud! F.B. Opper's "And Her Name Was Maud" first appeared on July 24, 1904. It was a Sunday-only strip and eventually became the topper strip accompanying Opper's "Happy Hooligan." (Maud was also popular enough to star in some of her own animated shorts.)

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I was noting elsewhere that Chip Dunham’s “Overboard” first appeared on July 23, 1990. Here’s the first week of what was then a very funny strip, one of my favorites of the early ‘90s:

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🚨The most important graph in the world has another year of data, and it doesn't look good!🚨 NASA CERES satellites measure how much sunlight Earth absorbs and how much heat is radiated back to space. The difference is heat accumulation, which has more than tripled!

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