Posts Tagged ‘Climate Change’
Trump v. The Climate
Wednesday, June 19th, 2019
Puerto Ricans Are Citizens Too (Limerick)
Thursday, September 28th, 2017Puerto Ricans are citizens too.
Yet their suff’ring’s ignored. What to do?
Send donations and grouse;
Inform Trump, Senate, House
Their help’s WAY overdue. Please come through!
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Trump on delivering aid to Puerto Rico: “This is an island sitting in the middle of an ocean. It’s a big ocean, it’s a very big ocean.”
Wow! I had NO idea!
Trump’s Novel Approach To Global Warming (Limerick)
Wednesday, March 29th, 2017Headline of the Day: “Energy Department climate office bans use of phrase ‘climate change.’”
How does Donald hold danger at bay?
By deeming some terms not okay
To include in a writing,
Like “climate change” — fighting
Big problems the censorship way!
Scott Pruitt Scoffs At Carbon (Limerick)
Saturday, March 11th, 2017EPA chief Scott Pruitt has stopped pretending to have a semi-open mind about climate science:
Climate scientists widely proclaim
Human action re carbon’s to blame
For our crisis, but Scott
(Although expert he’s not)
Disagrees. EPA chief? For SHAME!
Who Needs to Breathe? (Limerick)
Wednesday, December 7th, 2016Scott Pruitt is Trump’s nominee
For EPA head, cuz you see
A climate denier
And “regs are bad” crier
Can wreck air and water with glee.
Misplaced Progressive Outrage (3-Verse Limerick)
Monday, December 5th, 2016Some progressives are savaging Gore
And giving the guy a what for.
What drum are they beating?
Al’s climate change meeting
With Donald is making them sore.
His attempting to give Trump a clue
And guide him on what he should do
Is wrong, so they say;
He should wish Trump away–
Not legitimize prez you-know-who.
To progressives who take this position,
There’s no reason to fault Al Gore’s mission;
Yes, the Donald is vile!
But it STILL is worth while
To attempt to improve Trump’s cognition.
Open Limerick To Lindsey Graham
Wednesday, March 25th, 2015You’re just not gonna believe who’s to blame for GOP inaction on climate change.
According to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), it’s Al Gore’s fault.
Here’s Graham: “the problem is Al Gore’s turned this thing into religion. You know, climate change is not a religious problem for me, it’s an economic, it is an environmental problem.”
Open Limerick To Lindsey Graham
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Dear Lindsey, you’re loony — full-bore;
Only nuts would lay blame on Al Gore
For the GOP’s ’tude
About climate change, dude.
Who’s at fault? It’s your Dem-hating corps.
Limerick Ode to Science Disbelievers plus Sundry Haiku
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015Limerick Ode To Science Disbelievers
By Madeleine Begun Kane
The Republican problem with science
Is their members respond with defiance
To facts that are proved.
(Have their brains been removed?)
They spread lies to excuse non-compliance.
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Refusing vaccines,
Don’t-Tell-Me-What-To-Doers
now infect us all.
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Exodus of thought–
an exodus of science–
the GOP way.
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Misinformation
delib’rately spread by Fox–
blindly accepted.
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Republican pols–
implacable enemy
of fairness and facts.
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The truth-challenged pols
have taken over Congress–
therein LIES the rub.
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Limerick Ode To World Environment Day
Thursday, June 5th, 2014Limerick Ode To World Environment Day (June 5)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
World Environment Day has arrived,
Though “Deniers” insist it’s contrived:
This science contention
That sans intervention,
Global warming will leave us short-lived.
Limerick Ode To John Boehner
Saturday, May 31st, 2014My 2-verse limerick “celebrates” John Boehner, who certainly knows how to be cowardly, evasive, and stupid all at once. Here’s Boehner responding to a question about climate change:
Asked by reporters yesterday if he accepts the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions contribute to global warming, John Boehner demurred on the curious but increasingly familiar grounds that he is not a scientist. “Listen, I’m not qualified to debate the science over climate change,” the House Speaker said. Boehner immediately turned the question to the killing of jobs that would result from any proposal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which he asserts with unwavering certainty. (On this question, Boehner is not held back by the fact that he is also not an economist.)
Limerick Ode To John Boehner
By Madeleine Begun Kane
John Boehner, it seems, knows the score;
He’ll be kicked by his “team” out the door
Should he ever concede
What folks know (if they read)
That our climate is changing full-bore.
So Boehner will simply rebuff
Any queries re climate change stuff.
“Can’t debate it he claims;
His “not qualified” aims
To dodge facts, cuz his pals prefer guff.
Seasoned Limerick
Monday, December 3rd, 2012Seasoned Limerick
By Madeleine Begun Kane
It’s spring and the weather is mild.
Now it’s summer. The heat has me riled.
Autumn leaf-peaking thrills me,
And winter’s cold chills me.
All once true — now the weather’s just wild.
(My verse about global warming and climate change was prompted by “Time Counts” at We Write Poems.)
Huntsman Changes His Climate Change Tune (Limerick)
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011Once upon a time, way back in August 2011, Jon Huntsman was a voice of sanity on climate change. He even tweeted, “To be clear, I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.”
But I suppose desperate poll numbers make for pathetic pandering.
In a move that’s sure to endear him to the conservatives who are starting to warm up to the former Utah governor, Huntsman said Tuesday under questioning from TPM that he now believes there’s “more debate yet to play out” before we can be sure climate change is really happening.
Huntsman Changes His Climate Change Tune (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Huntsman’s climate-change views once were sane.
But no more — he’s tossed truth down the drain.
Now he wants “more debate.”
Yes he’s flip-flopped to rate.
He’s debased — deep in Romney terrain.
