The platypus and the polar bear
though they know the climate's there
and are entirely solar-powered,
think that Al should go to bed
to cool the greenhouse in his head
and then, with facts, be scrubbed and showered.
The pigeon and the arctic tern,
who both magnetic fields discern -
polite chaps, not the type to scoff -
ask, please do tell us, Mr Gore:
Do you see the magnetic drift of the core?
and how will you turn it off?
Learned penguins say ice is brittle,
and ice-core CO2 will frittle,
or slide, off an ice-age peak.
So the fault that leaves Al's model rotten
is that faults in the ice were entirely forgotten
and along those the carbon will leak
The wisest blue whales, in despair,
say they've proved you cannot compare
an ice age with Manua Loa.
But when reading his paper, the chair of their lot,
by Japanese scientists, somehow got shot,
when they asked him to go a bit slower.
Al, whether the sky should fry or freeze,
the questions the seals will ask are these:
When next you take a sub to the pole,
will it, instead of burning uranium
be powered by a single depleted geranium?
or the leaves of the last of the cigarette trees?
Signalman Second Class Jones, Closeburn Signal Station, May, 2008.