I was going to make a crack about Punxsutawney Phil’s failure to spot his shadow today (i.e., early spring) as the fault of global warming. But the paranoiacs were already there:
While the frankly terrifying new IPCC report, published today, lays the blame for global warming firmly on human shoulders, its temperature stats are only confirming what the world’s most famous groundhog, Phil, has been trying to tell us for the last 25 years. …
For those people keeping an eye on the stats, Phil has been painting a pretty clear picture over the last century. ?In the first 75 years of the 20th century, Phil cast no shadow only four times. But in just the last 25 years of the century, Phil cast no shadow fully eight times, alerting us that winter was coming to an early end, a six fold increase!? ? Doug Inkley, wildlife biologist with the US National Wildlife Federation told Newswise.
Today, Phil saw no shadow yet again, so an early spring it is. This is becoming a habit. You know something must be going on when the wildlife sends us such clear signals ? everybody knows a woodchuck [sic] wouldn’t lie.
WHP CBS News in Pennsylvania reports:
Add Punxsutawney Phil to the camp of weather watchers who are convinced about global warming.
No surprise the Canadians were right in line:
The perils of global warming weren’t lost on Canada’s most famous four-legged weather forecaster Friday as Wiarton Willie predicted an early end to a late winter that had many Canadians wondering if it would ever come at all. … While there was no evidence the pink-eyed woodchuck has seen Al Gore’s climate-change documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” Kruger said Willie has been discussing the film’s central themes with Mayor Gwen Gilbert.
Thing is, that could be light-hearted silliness, but then again, some of the global-warming zealots are so insane they might actually believe in holding a “summit” with a woodchuck. Verily, how much of the West’s production would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck it?
