Sunday Funnies

This week's cartoon from Marc Roberts (click on the panel to view the full strip) proves that the truth is stranger than fiction. The cartoon was posted on the Throbgoblins website a few days before a news item appeared on the BBC website about a man who wants to build 60 million giant artificial trees to soak up all the world's carbon. He thinks this is quite possible because:

we make 55 million cars a year, so if we really wanted to we could.

I loved this bit:

The towers would be about 50ft high and 8ft in diameter, and use a special type of plastic to absorb the CO2.

And plastic is made of.....?

And this is the best bit of all:

The gas would then be either liquefied under pressure and pumped underground or turned into a mineral.

So he wants to turn it back into oil, basically. And what do we do with oil? I guess we could dig it up again and burn it again. That woudl be OK, right? Because we could use the 60 million giant artificial trees to just catch it and put it back underground again. There couldn't be any problem with that, could there?

It reminds me of the Homer Simpson quote:

Lisa! In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

I'd like to leave him alone in a room with Cantankerous Frank for a while. He sounds like he needs a lesson from the clue-stick.

Marc has been producing cartoons prolifically lately and it will take me a little while to catch up with him. Visit his website, Throbgoblins, to read all the latest strips.