Posted on 02/03/2010 1:34:36 AM PST by SvenWaring
Handlers for Punxsutawney Phil are scrambling to explain a group of emails that indicate the forecasting rodent has faked his climate change predictions.
"If I wrote it in steel. If I wrote it in cement," said Dunston Leeds, spokesperson for Phil. "The answer would be the same. No comment."
Phil, who reportedly saw his shadow yesterday, is forecasting six more weeks of winter and a spiraling budget deficit. However, in one email Phil tells a shrew in East Anglia University that recent evidence contradicted his six-week slide in temperature.
"Data, schmata," Phil wrote. "I have grant checks I gotta cash."
(Excerpt) Read more at dotpenn.com ...
Maybe Michael E. Mann should hire Punxsutawney Phil to get some expert help for a change.
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