Groundhog Winter

Looks like Punxsutawney Phil was wrong when he stated that winter was over and Spring was here back in February. BBC News 24 actually carried this pronouncement live. Maybe Phil was confused by the extreme oscillations induced by climate change. For instance, in Britain it was twenty degrees warmer this time last year – if a one-off, a natural fluctuation but extremes are occurring far too frequently and this is repeated around this planet.


Then again, perhaps Phil’s message was just for the good folk of Pennsylvania. In that regard, he’s clearly more intelligent (and less motivated by pecuniary reasons) by those, especially in this country, who dismiss global warming because of a cold snap in their locality. Obviously, they never grew up, still thinking, as all children do, that the world revolves around them, extrapolating everything that directly touches them as to be everything in existence (also they reflect the island mentality, prevalent against the EU and immigrants as well, that the world can be shut out). So what if it is snowing in Lincolnshire or Dumfries or Northern Ireland – it’s not called regional warming – it’s called global warming for a reason.

(And just as I check on the spelling of Punxsutawney via Google, I find that The Telegraph carries a story, just 10 hours ago, about Phil being ‘indicted’ for his incompetence.  It's like when that container ship ran aground off the south coast of England and everyone thought 'Whiskey Galore!').