Lots of stuff on global warming this week. But first, for more news on the sorts of dastardly organizations that Global Gus represents (including the ExxonMobil-funded Friends of Science, check out the Desmog Blog, which does an excellent job of digging up the dirt behind global warming deniers' misinformation campaign.

The poster in the background in the third panel is an illustration I did for the environmental magazine, Alternatives Journal (no, I didn't go through all that work just for this cartoon). A larger version is below.

Global Gus has been around since 2001, when he urged readers to stop worrying and learn to love the CO2. He introduced the Climate Changers club to promote family-expanding, emissions-spewing values -- complete with a Toast the Earth logo. Since then, he's appeared periodically in Weltschmerz. Click here to see all cartoons starring Global Gus -- and check out a few excerpts below.

In a 2002 cartoon, Global Gus introduces us to his hot-tubbing buddy Happy Frog, and takes us a brief tour of the future (complete with 10-gig turtlenecks, fridges with eating disorders and nanotechnology that takes out garbage one molecule at a time). But Happy Frog is getting hotter. And hotter. What to do? Find out here.

10 Years Ago This Week: February 13, 1997
I must have had the flu or something -- nothing until February 20. Sorry. (Has anyone been reading these blasts from the past?)

Retailers for Attack of the Same-Sex Sleeper Cells:

Toronto:
Pages, 256 Queen Street West (at John).
The Beguiling, 601 Markham Street (near Bloor and Bathurst)
Book City, three locations - 501 Bloor St. West, 348 Danforth Ave., 663 Yonge St.
Hairy Tarantula, 354 Yonge Street (near Dundas).

Guelph:
The Bookshelf, 41 Quebec Street.
Macondo Books, 18 Wilson Street

Waterloo: Words Worth Books, 100 King Street South

Kitchener: KW Bookstore, 308 King Street West

Hamilton: Bryan Prince Bookseller, 1060 King Street West