Do you believe what you want to believe,

Encouraged by others who do?

Could you consider...can you even conceive

A differing point of view?

Once "they" said the World was flat,

And folk must have imagined a ledge

When thinking to themselves, if that was that,

They'd better not fall off the edge.

But then "they" said the World was round,

And folk must have tried to keep pace,

Wondering just where (not on Earth!) they'd be found

After shooting off into space.

Then "they" declared it's neither round nor flat,

But sort of oblong and set at an angle

So maybe - just maybe - that is that,

No more need for scientists to wrangle.

Now "they" say life's heating up by degrees,

And began by blaming Frigidaires -

With all those creepy unseen CFCs

Added to the Armageddon scares.

"They" said these were causing an ozone hole

Ten thousand miles away

From any major messes of Mankind's role,

In truth, rather a strange thing to say.

But gases from volcanoes bubbling under ice

Can help it to melt and unravel,

And in descriptive terms concise -

Can cause hot and cold stuff to travel.

But NASA (no less) now reports that more

Of that glistening glacial creation

Has been formed than had been found before

At that base of the Earth location.

If the North that embraces the midnight sun

Has ice that's dissipating

And the South Pole down where the sun don't run

Is gaining ice - that's fascinating!

Let Man act firmly to limit his pollution

And when all's scientifically said and done

Will the situation be adjusted with the solution

Of what's seen to occur on the sun?

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