Greta Thunberg, the media's muppet,

(On anonymous strings,this well-travelled puppet),

Tells us here that the world is on fire;

Anyone got a boat for hire?

Whiie a media hack was on the box

Saying Russia and China are in the stocks

For causing the storms from off the Atlantic,

But excuse me if I appear pedantic -

The prevailing winds from off that ocean

Are westerly - not easterly, so here's a notion:

Is the cause of all that storm and surge

As usual; the mighty solar urge

To have the air and water rise

To mix in tumult in the skies?

In northern reaches where it goes

It results in blasts of winter snows

In milder parts unless winds change

The snow is rain - is that so strange ?!

Why then - no scientific mention

Of the sun at work to draw attention

To how and why it might affect

The weather that we might expect?

It's a question for any enquiring mind

But silence is "golden" - don't you find?

Let's get busy dredging river beds

Deepening their depth as watersheds,

And stop idiots building on flood plains

To let them act as natural drains.

Let's return to common sense once more

Found back in the day when folk knew the score !.

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