Regarding this week's strip, a reader writes:

since the usa didn't do anything about the other global climate changes such as 12 ice ages 12 warming periods over the last huh 100 millions years they happened as well it's shear arrogance that people like you think man has so much influence that they can stop or start any climate change

So that explains it. NASA's top climatologist -- the one being censored by the Bushies -- is just being "arrogant."

Actually, I'd say thinking you know more about this issue than the entire scientific community smacks just a bit of arrogance.

I find it remarkable that anyone could possibly get pissed off at this week's cartoon, but I suppose anything is possible in this era of gross disinformation.

I sketched most of this strip on the flight back from LA. I can only imagine that the woman sitting next to me saw the Yellow-Bellied Skullpecker and wondered what the hell I was doing. Then again, I was flying from LA, where such wackiness is the norm. Of course the person in front of me insisted on reclining as far as her seat would possibly allow -- about an inch from my nose -- thus slightly crowding the drawing process. My advice to all of you is to recline only halfway, because you never know when the person behind you is trying to draw a cartoon.