The Idiocy of Animal Prognostications

Every February 2nd we must indulge those who believe that a groundhog (a North American Woodchuck to be perfectly accurate) has the power to tell them how much longer winter is going to last. Every February 2nd it seems we get the same answer anyway so why do we continue the masquerade as if the rodent is going to accurately tell us when we should begin to plan our gardens.

This morning Punxsutawney Phil, the nation’s foremost 4-legged prognosticator, again saw his shadow indicating, according to tradition, that there will be 6 more weeks of winter. Well a quick scan of my wall calender also tells me that there will be 6 more weeks of winter as the Vernal Equinox is in 6 weeks and 4 days. There’s a shock! How could the people who made my wall calender know before the beginning of the year when I received my calender from our Cable provider what Phil and Company would predict? Could it be, that the seasons are determined by the Earth’s orbit? Nah, that would be too easy an explanation.

But every year at day break in the tiny Pennsylvania burg of Punxsutawney hundreds of morons gather and the town’s officials dressed in silly outfits, rap 3 times on poor Phil’s little hut in the town square and drag him out into the cold Western Pennsylvania weather and claim that he saw his shadow. And every year it makes all the newspapers and all of the news broadcasts as if, like some idiots believe about Al Gore, he can accurately predict changes in the climate.

Speaking of the High Priest of the Church of Global Warming of Modern Day Idiots*, I would trust Punxsutawney Phil’s forecast over Al Gore’s predictions any day and any year. And that goes for all the other MDI* minions who are perpetuating the myth of Anthropological Global Warming as well.

It is time we got back to hard evidence not blind faith in computer models, which can be manipulated, and rodents. It’s time we have some sanity in weather predictions.

Al Gore’s computer models failed to predict this past year’s drastic drop in average temperatures. In the US alone that average dropped 1.5 degrees. Where was Gore on that little bit of info? Well the day that he braved the weather to attend Senate hearings, the school where the President’s daughters attend was closed due to weather. But Gore continues to argue that rises in global temperatures will doom the ability for man to continue to survive.

In short, I believe that those who maintain that “global warming” or “climate change”, which ever is the phrase of choice at this moment,is a crisis for which man is responsible and should take action to slow or reverse are no different that the morons who believe that if Phil doesn’t see his shadow that means winter is over on February 2nd. Idiots one and all.

On a side note…

New York City’s version of Punxsutawney Phil, a critter named Staten Island Chuck, bit New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on the hand drawing blood. The Mayor’s doctor stated that there is no danger of rabies because the animal was born in captivity and has no contact with other animals. Perhaps someone ought to test Chuck because the same cannot be said of Bloomberg.

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