climate
Original: climate on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man in a suit holding a sheet of paper speaks to an unseen audience.
Man in suit: "These climate 'scientists' aren't after the truth. They want power. POWER so they can control your lives."
Panel 2:
Caption (top): ELSEWHERE...
A wild-eyed person with messy hair and glasses, arms raised, gleeful.
Person: "Now to become an assistant professor of environmental science statistics for POWER! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (oh shit when is that grant proposal due?)"
Votey:
A close-up of the same wild-eyed, grinning person.
Person: "Now to seize the commanding heights by teaching bored pre-meds AHAHAHAHAHAHA"
A man in a suit holding a sheet of paper speaks to an unseen audience.
Man in suit: "These climate 'scientists' aren't after the truth. They want power. POWER so they can control your lives."
Panel 2:
Caption (top): ELSEWHERE...
A wild-eyed person with messy hair and glasses, arms raised, gleeful.
Person: "Now to become an assistant professor of environmental science statistics for POWER! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (oh shit when is that grant proposal due?)"
Votey:
A close-up of the same wild-eyed, grinning person.
Person: "Now to seize the commanding heights by teaching bored pre-meds AHAHAHAHAHAHA"
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic mocking the claim that climate scientists are power-hungry. Panel 1: A smug man in a suit holds a sheet of paper and tells an audience, "These climate 'scientists' aren't after the truth. They want power. POWER so they can control your lives." Panel 2, captioned "ELSEWHERE...": A wild-eyed, frazzled academic with messy hair and glasses throws their arms up and cackles, "Now to become an assistant professor of environmental science statistics for POWER! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA," with a parenthetical aside in tiny text, "(oh shit when is that grant proposal due?)." The joke is that the supposed sinister power grab is actually an underpaid, overworked academic job. Votey aftercomic: A close-up of the same grinning academic continuing the mock-villainous monologue, "Now to seize the commanding heights by teaching bored pre-meds AHAHAHAHAHAHA."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.