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
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Fahrenheit
