Riiiight, Odin… as compared to, say, Loki? The professional wrench-in-the-works-of-the-universe, just because he felt crotchety?
Or compared to other gods? Like maybe Zeus, the deific equivalent of Bill Clinton and Dick Nixon rolled together?
Yeah, sure. Odin’s a jerk. Until you compare him to most other gods.
I agree with you! My mom is from Norway and went to California.
Her brother went to CANADA! They had to tunnel through the damn snow!
Where is there global warming??
*minor weather nerd pipes up*
If I may hazard a guess, we’ll be having a bit of both. The Gulf Stream flows from the Gulf of Mexico with its warm currents up towards Europe. If the caps melt, the cold water will cause the flow to stop, because if the water is all relatively the same temperature, the movement of hot to cold/cold to hot shall cease. (put milk in your hot coffee, and watch as the cold milk and hot coffee battle it out, the process is similar with polar ice and the Gulfstream) As the heat will not be well-conducted from the Gulf, it increases. As the warm currents and warm air do not reach Europe, it chills. USA gets the warming, and Europe a 2nd ice age.
Meanwhile the Jet Stream gets weaker and more chaotic, instead of moving mostly straight (generally one bend) over the US bringing water to the Great Plains and keeping weather mostly reasonable, it now pops north and south like a jumprope, moving cold air south, warm air north, and dumping far more of it’s water on the Rockies instead of the Plains.
If it keeps up, Iowa and Kansas will have the rainfall of New Mexico.
OTOH, central Canada should be OK, and the warming will turn it into a breadbasket to replace the agricultural output we will lose as the US breadbasket fails.
And, in their defense, when the Nordics settled there, where they settled, were grassy areas, hence green.
Oh, and a story told in certain Northern Climes:
It seems that some centuries ago, many Norwegians came to Ireland to escape the bitterness of the Norwegian winter. Ireland was having a famine at the time, and food was scarce. The Norwegians were eating almost all the fish caught in the area, leaving the Irish with nothing to eat but potatoes. St. Patrick, taking matters into his own hands, as most Irishmen do, decided the Norwegians had to go. Secretly, he organized the Irish IRATRION (Irish Republican Army to Rid Ireland of Norwegians) Irish members ofIRATRION passed a law in Ireland that prohibited merchants from selling ice boxes or ice to the Norwegians, in hopes that their fish would spoil. This would force the Norwegians to flee to a colder climate where their fish would keep.
Well, the fish spoiled, all right, but the Norwegians, as everyone knows today, thrive on spoiled fish. So, faced with failure, the desperate Irishmen sneaked into the Norwegian fish storage caves in the dead of night and sprinkled the rotten fish with lye, hoping to poison the Norwegian invaders. But, as everyone knows, the Norwegians thought this only added to the flavor of the fish, and they liked it so much they decided to call it “lutefisk”, which is Norwegian for “luscious fish”.
Matters became even worse for the Irishmen when the Norwegians started taking over the Irish potato crop and making something called “lefse”.
Poor St. Patrick was at his wit’s end, and finally he blew his top and told all the Norwegians to “GO TO HELL!”
So they all got in their boats and emigrated to Minnesota, the only other place on earth where smelly fish, old potatoes and plenty of cold weather can be found in abundance.
The End.
Sure, blame the Nordic’s.
Okay I will. But mainly because Odin is an asshole
Riiiight, Odin… as compared to, say, Loki? The professional wrench-in-the-works-of-the-universe, just because he felt crotchety?
Or compared to other gods? Like maybe Zeus, the deific equivalent of Bill Clinton and Dick Nixon rolled together?
Yeah, sure. Odin’s a jerk. Until you compare him to most other gods.
Hades was nice. He mostly kept to himself and out of everyone’s hair and only performed ONE kidnapping.
Because people appreciate what they know.
I agree with you! My mom is from Norway and went to California.
Her brother went to CANADA! They had to tunnel through the damn snow!
Where is there global warming??
they can’t decide if it’s going to freeze over or boil over so i think the proper term is climate change…
*minor weather nerd pipes up*
If I may hazard a guess, we’ll be having a bit of both. The Gulf Stream flows from the Gulf of Mexico with its warm currents up towards Europe. If the caps melt, the cold water will cause the flow to stop, because if the water is all relatively the same temperature, the movement of hot to cold/cold to hot shall cease. (put milk in your hot coffee, and watch as the cold milk and hot coffee battle it out, the process is similar with polar ice and the Gulfstream) As the heat will not be well-conducted from the Gulf, it increases. As the warm currents and warm air do not reach Europe, it chills. USA gets the warming, and Europe a 2nd ice age.
Meanwhile the Jet Stream gets weaker and more chaotic, instead of moving mostly straight (generally one bend) over the US bringing water to the Great Plains and keeping weather mostly reasonable, it now pops north and south like a jumprope, moving cold air south, warm air north, and dumping far more of it’s water on the Rockies instead of the Plains.
If it keeps up, Iowa and Kansas will have the rainfall of New Mexico.
OTOH, central Canada should be OK, and the warming will turn it into a breadbasket to replace the agricultural output we will lose as the US breadbasket fails.
…Looking at the date on this strip, there is NO WAY that’s a Homestuck reference. It would be awesome if it were, though.
Oh hey, yeah.
… Jin would probably be the Witch of Doom.
And then we have one of the first recorded PR flacks, naming the newly discovered “Greenland”..
Well, “Iceland” was already taken.
And, in their defense, when the Nordics settled there, where they settled, were grassy areas, hence green.
Oh, and a story told in certain Northern Climes:
It seems that some centuries ago, many Norwegians came to Ireland to escape the bitterness of the Norwegian winter. Ireland was having a famine at the time, and food was scarce. The Norwegians were eating almost all the fish caught in the area, leaving the Irish with nothing to eat but potatoes. St. Patrick, taking matters into his own hands, as most Irishmen do, decided the Norwegians had to go. Secretly, he organized the Irish IRATRION (Irish Republican Army to Rid Ireland of Norwegians) Irish members ofIRATRION passed a law in Ireland that prohibited merchants from selling ice boxes or ice to the Norwegians, in hopes that their fish would spoil. This would force the Norwegians to flee to a colder climate where their fish would keep.
Well, the fish spoiled, all right, but the Norwegians, as everyone knows today, thrive on spoiled fish. So, faced with failure, the desperate Irishmen sneaked into the Norwegian fish storage caves in the dead of night and sprinkled the rotten fish with lye, hoping to poison the Norwegian invaders. But, as everyone knows, the Norwegians thought this only added to the flavor of the fish, and they liked it so much they decided to call it “lutefisk”, which is Norwegian for “luscious fish”.
Matters became even worse for the Irishmen when the Norwegians started taking over the Irish potato crop and making something called “lefse”.
Poor St. Patrick was at his wit’s end, and finally he blew his top and told all the Norwegians to “GO TO HELL!”
So they all got in their boats and emigrated to Minnesota, the only other place on earth where smelly fish, old potatoes and plenty of cold weather can be found in abundance.
The End.