When the westerly winds and wet came storming

How come they said "It's global warming"?

On high ground in the snow and sleeting

Why so quick with "global heating"?

In January sixteen sixty one

Samuel Pepys (yes, that's the one)

Wrote of dusty lanes and flies

That seemed to fill the winter skies

No peep from Sam why flies were swarming

No word from him of global warming

In Victorian days the smoke and soot

Seemed to cover every foot

No one thought to be excused

And global warming wasn't accused

Anyone with many memories

Will recall with ease those CeeEffCees

A threat they said to Earthly airs

From untold piles of Frigidaires

Then there was that ozone hole

Away down south above the Pole

Far from man's industrial throes

But close to active volcanoes

How long has the modern view been forming

That it's down to Man - this global warming?

By all means let us be clean and wary

While Mother Nature makes life scary

But little that's big occurs overnight

And Pepys and Victoria are out of sight

Dusty lanes...then incessant pollution

Were they pointing to today's solution

Keep it controlled and keep it clean

And help Mother Nature stay serene.

But beware of those who make much of it

Be wary of those in search of profit

Science seeks its subsidising

Industry its income rising

Mankind has the gift of foreseeing

But let's guard the guards......

For the time being.

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