[BwanaNdege]

That is one of the main points of the cartoon.

Invent an emotional Theory.
Create computer models
Cherry-pick data
Pronounce the issue “Settled Science” and canonize the High Priests of your Religion - Gore, Paul Ehrlich, etc.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H. L. Mencken

[Seaplaner]

Yes, I realized that not long after my post (posting while multi-tasking? Not always sensible.)

The cartoon was, indeed, quite clever.