Posts Tagged ‘Global Warming’

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A Powerless World

by Seraphine Khorana on April 24th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
A Powerless World

Not everything is fixable. I don’t now which is worse- knowing something can’t be fixed, or knowing it can be fixed and doing nothing about it. Either way, it translates into feelings of uselessness and inadequacy. And why is it so easy to put off important things until tomorrow, when fixing them today would be much less painless.

“Procrastination” Tales Of Mere Existence (YouTube)

Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.
Quotation from Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
Quotation from William James

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Raise the Stakes

by Seraphine Khorana on March 18th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Raise the Stakes

I hear people say we should raise the stakes in Afghanistan. Or we need to raise the stakes in the War on Drugs. But you rarely hear talk of raising the stakes in the war on poverty. Why is that? If we are going to “raise the stakes,” we should do so for jobs, women’s rights, the environment, health care, financial reform and schools.

Drug cartels exploit illegal immigrants by forcing them into economic bondage or prostitution. “Drugs are only sold once,” Rep. Loretta Sanchez, the chairwoman of the House Homeland Security border subcommittee, said in an interview. “But people can be sold over and over. And they use these people over and over until they are too broken to be used anymore.”
Quotation from Josh Meyer, Drug cartels raise the stakes on human smuggling
(The Los Angeles Times)

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Friday the 13th: End of the World Prediction

by Seraphine Khorana on November 13th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Friday the 13th: End of the World Prediction

The end of the world is getting nearer and nearer, hurling towards us at over 25,000 miles an hour. The current assumption is there is a 10% chance per century of a dangerous, life destroying space object striking the earth.

Apophis is small by asteroid standards, perhaps 300 meters across, but it could hit with about 60,000 times the force of the Hiroshima bomb– enough to destroy an area the size of France.
Quotation from The Atlantic, The Sky is Falling by Gregg Easterbrook

If Apophis is a RETROGRADE rotator on the small, less-massive end of what is possible, the measurement uncertainty region will get pushed back such that the center of the distribution encounters the Earth’s orbit. This would result in an impact probability much higher than computed with the Standard Dynamical Model.
Quotation from U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Near Earth Object Program, Predicting Apophis’ Earth Encounters in 2029 and 2036.

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Who is going to save us now?

by Seraphine Khorana on April 6th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Who is going to save us now?

It wasn’t my fault. I drive a honda.

Disintegration: Antarctic Warming Claims Another Ice Shelf (Earth Observatory NASA)
Collapse Of The Ice Bridge Supporting Wilkins Ice Shelf Appears Imminent (Science Daily)

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Vintage: Global Warming

by Seraphine Khorana on January 14th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Vintage: Global Warming

It’s difficult to talk about global warming when half of North America is under ice and snow, but it is still a problem.
I’m back from my Costa Rica holiday. While while I’ve been gone, I’ve presented vintage Encore Seraphine comic “reruns” from 2007. They’ve had some light editing on them, but they retained the atmosphere and content of the original. I hope you enjoyed them (this is the last in the series). I’m currently working on new comic adventures to share with you asap.
Happy New Year!
UPDATE: New comic tomorrow. Part 1 about Costa Rica.

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