© 2016
1) Have you heard of, Bill McKibben / not trying to be funny and I ain’t kidding.
This fellow got steamed, under the collar / when he noticed the planet getting hotter and hotter
He noticed some problems, heard solutions / Many scientists said it was carbon pollution
It wasn’t just about, how a few people felt / Al Gore showed films of glacier melt
The Antarctic loses ice, and the Arctic, forsooth / An inconvenient pointer to the scientists truth.
Hurricane Sandy, with a rising sea / flooded New York, and New Jersey.
Chorus) The folks at Businessweek Saw, the damage was horrid
/They put on their cover, It’s Climate Change Stupid
Wake up, my friends, cataclysms are forming
/ Our world is threatened by Global Warming!
2) McKibben likes to quiz, eany meany miney moe/What do you think are the numbers to know
Three hundred and fifty, and four hundred/ these are the numbers the scientists thundered.
I asked a young man, selling solar panels / he looks blank, smiles like a camel
We need to know, these numbers says McKibben / or we’ll be faced with Armageddon.
Parts per million, is the technical print / Greenhouse gases is another hint.
All around the world, the oceans are rising / while the coral reefs are slowly dying. (from acidification)
Chorus) The folks at Businessweek Saw, the damage was horrid
/They put on their cover, It’s Climate Change Stupid
Wake up, my friends, cataclysms are forming
/ Our world is threatened by Global Warming!
3) Remember when Katrina, hit New Orleans? / People died, many drowned, the hoods all cleaned.
We thought it was big, then Sandy and Haiyun (Haiyan) / bigger droughts and fires, hurricanes and taifun
Hurricane Sandi, in New York City / the water hit the subway and it wasn’t pretty.
My friends lost their house, the neighbors too / 60 billion dollars went up the flue.
But we ain’t see nothing, like Tacloban / a Philippine city blown down to the ground, and then drowned.
For New Orleans, our military froze, / for Tacloban, our military rose.
Their Heroes. — Al-le-lue Ya-hoo / Forty nations came to their rescue.
Chorus) The folks at Businessweek Saw, the damage was horrid
/They put on their cover, It’s Climate Change Stupid
Wake up, my friends, cataclysms are forming
/ Our world is threatened by Global Warming!
4) We’re hoping James Lovelock, got it all wrong / and we’ll be here centuries with dance & song.
Three hundred and fifty, parts per mill, / The Scientists think is sustainable
Who are these scientists, sounding so strange /just the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Two hundred seventy-five, normal for long time, /Till we burned coal and oil, and spewed out the grime.
Four hundred parts per mil now, we are courting disaster, /Today, tomorrow, and in the hereafter.
Doomsday approaches, but you can relax, /if you work real hard and pass a carbon tax.
And a methane tax, and sell it to the Chinese. / Oh yeah, the Chinese!
In Beijing the air is, thick as molasses /While the kids are getting sick from the greenhouse gases
So start walking, or riding your bike, /cut your carbon footprint, and we’ll be all right,
Hopefully, If it’s not too late./ And all the greenhouse gases we deflate.
And reduce our numbers, duck and roll / With a Marshall Plan for population control. If not,
The lucky ones, will make to the morgue / It is time to check out Three Fifty dot org.
Chorus) The folks at Businessweek Saw, the damage was horrid
/They put on their cover, It’s Climate Change Stupid
Wake up, my friends, cataclysms are forming
/ Our world is threatened by Global Warming!
Talking Climate Change Blues © 2016 can be found at David’s blog #1, InconvenientNews.wordpress.com, and with guitar on Youtube.
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