RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GLOBAL WARMING
Climate Year in Review
The hottest January in recorded history
A drought in southern Africa
Crops and cattle die in masses
El Nino and the Warming
A March of oceanic rising
Average surface temp of 70 degrees*
The bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef
Threatening thousands of ocean species
An April heat wave in southern Asia
Too hot for schools in India
Too hot in Bangladesh
Too hot in the Philippines
From bad to worse in May
Wildfires incinerate wetlands in Brazil
The effects of warming and deforestation
In July Hurricane Beryl decimates Grenada,
Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines
August crowns the hottest summer ever
Wildfires strike the heart of Europe
September comes without relief
Floods destroy crops and displace hundreds
Of thousands in Chad and Nigeria
Hurricane Helene wreaks havoc in the
Southeast of the United States
October rain in the south of Spain
Strikes like a blast of thunder
A year’s worth of rain in a day
Killing over two hundred in Valencia
A rare November drought in the northeast
Of the USA turns leaves into tinder
And warming heat into flames
In December it’s official
The hottest year in millennia
Another year of climate change disasters
Another year of human neglect
We know what lies ahead
By observing what we left behind
Catastrophe after catastrophe
We simply put it out of mind
* Fahrenheit
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