An Alternative View
We did it ourselves with our waste and our greed
Warnings were given but no-one took heed
They said the sea level slowly would rise
as heat and pollution built up in the skies
They said that the ice caps would melt clean away
and that low lying lands would go under one day
They said that the deserts would creep 'cross the land
But the experts were wrong, they did not understand
They said global warming would slowly get worse
What actually happened was quite the reverse
The water that formed from the melting of ice
diluted the seas and the world paid the price
The great ocean currents that kept the lands warm
moved further south, or no longer did form
The winters got longer and the snow stayed around
A brilliant mirror that covered the ground
The heat from the sun was reflected to space
and the glaciers advanced all across the Earth's face
The tropics were covered in deep permafrost
and life on the land, forever, was lost
Year upon year the ice grew much thicker
and feedback ensured that the process grew quicker
Nobody thought that's the way it would go
Buried forever under five miles of snow
And even at this the freeze did not stop
The oceans froze up from the bottom to the top
The last life on Earth, in the depths of the seas
finally succumbed to the ultimate freeze
The climate, unstable, was perched on a wedge
It didn't take much to fall over the edge
The snowball that's Earth will for aeons remain
until 'nova Sol' melts the ice once again
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