Climate Change
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On the First Earth Day (1970),
after a bell-ripple blew
off Santa Barbara,
and the Cuyahoga river
burned like the Phlegethon,
Gaylord warned that
"The world is on the verge
Of mass starvation,
due to corporate greed
and over-population."
And the boomers dreamed
of Utopian revolution,
as Lake Erie passed away,
asphyxiated by pollution.
"We have five more years
at the outside," declared
Ecologist Professor Watts,
"to find a viable solution
before we're overcome by drought
and the sunlight is filtered out."
Whilst Harvard Biologists
declared Watts was wrong
"and if we don't act
to reverse the trend,
in less than a decade,
a new Ice-Age will descend!"
But as the seasons
came to pass,
each crystal-ball prediction
was proven a farce.
As plastic rode currents
to the bottom of the seas,
and heavy metal particulates
multiplied on the breeze,
and the rivers ran parlous
with sewerage and disease,
that accumulated each year
in unprecedented degrees.
Then peer-reviewed embraced
a "selective harvesting" of facts
and the arrogance of a caste,
and the halls of the Academy
ran with milk and honey,
and science fell into the entanglements
of politics and money.
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Then up popped Senator Gore
to devise a brand new plot,
and with dollar signs in his eyes
reversed "cooling" to "hot,"
and between his support
for Globalism and the Gulf War,
said the sky would fall,
seas would rise, and within
a decade, ice-caps would thaw.
Then he and Tippy took off
with a caddy of cash
and a Nobel Prize,
soaring into the blue
with stars in their eyes,
their carbon footprints trailing
across California skies.
And the happy couple settled
in a Chateau by the shore,
with an airfield outback
and the Pacific at their door.
As plastic rode currents
to the bottom of the seas,
and heavy metal particulates
multiplied on the breeze,
and the rivers ran parlous
with sewerage and disease,
that accumulated each year
in unprecedented degrees.
But Gore's Inconvenient Truths
were soon proved phoney
as a plastic floral bloom,
when along came the debonair
Mister Ban Ki-Moon, the latest
UN Marxist prophet of doom,
who, from "warming" to "change"
composed yet another
weather-beaten tune.
"We must act now!"
he said with urgency,
“or the Kiribati Islands
will sink beneath the sea!"
Yet decades later these islands
still stand above, and are blessed
with a booming economy.
But there were too many
shovels in the plot,
for the cherry-pickers to stop.
So to save the earth
from God knows what,
they deemed it their duty
to deceive and exaggerate,
until East Anglia's centre
for Weather Research,
morphed like Frankenstein
into Climate-gate.
Where truth became lies
and lies became truth,
and the Greens
and Trots took it all
to the polling-booth.
Then back on stage
skipped Senator Gore,
to rev up the gullible
like he rev'd them before,
telling tales of gloom
that would chill their bones,
with more plot-holes
than Game of Thrones.
As plastic rode currents
to the bottom of the seas,
and heavy metal particulates
multiplied on the breeze,
and the rivers ran parlous
with sewerage and disease,
that accumulated each year
in unprecedented degrees.
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From wet to warm,
from cold to hot,
nobody knew
what stewed in the pot.
Until along came
Occasio-Cortez, a spawn
of slave-owning Conquistadors,
to convert the deniers
and lay down the laws:
"Ten years!" she exclaimed,
"no more", or our children
will suffer the curse,
because we failed
to do the impossible
and put the weather in reverse!"
But few acknowledged
what science had found,
permeating the atmosphere,
the waters and ground,
that CO2 would ebb
in half a century
(with or without a "Global" Green Deal) -
by one-hundredth of a degree!
So don't let the facts
Influence how you feel,
because we should
all believe, higher than truth,
that Climate Change
is our fate, and all
we need to cure it
is a Green New Deal
and a totalitarian state,
and to witness in every
anomalous weather event,
another instance of our doom's portent.
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As plastic rode currents
to the bottom of the seas,
and heavy metal particulates
multiplied on the breeze,
and the rivers ran parlous
with sewerage and disease,
that accumulated each year
in unprecedented degrees.
© 2021. Eugene Alexander Donnini
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