Groundhog Day

[BigOrangeOne]

It's official. Punxsutawney Phil didn't see his shadow this morning. Promises early spring.

[grndma1]

I heard the wind blew him away before he could see his shadow.

[dazed&confused]

Did Bill Murray get the girl yet?

[kantuckyII]

He should have been a used car salesman instead of a Ground Hog. But..here he is..all the same! ..and the reason it's so cold is because it's so warm..what?

It's the global warming denier's favorite "gotcha": If the planet is heating up, then why are we getting so much snow?

(Remember the snickers when the 2009 Copenhagen climate-change summit was interrupted by snowfall?)

But Al Gore, patron saint of global warming believers, isn't brooking any of that nonsense.

Last week, Bill O'Reilly asked on his Fox News show, "Why has southern New York turned into the tundra?" He also quipped that he had a call out to Gore.

Gore has now responded via his blog Al's Journal. "I appreciate the question," he writes. "As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some time now, and they say that increased heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with what they have been predicting as a consequence of man-made global warming."

[Space Cowboy]

It's official. Punxsutawney Phil didn't see his shadow this morning. Promises early spring.

If Phil is wrong, I have a great receipe for groundhog.