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The Climate Yo-Yo

I’m a trilobite, I took my leave
Nature had a shocker up its sleeve
In hot water
Air gets shorter
Things got heated and I couldn’t breathe


I’m a stegosaur and I’m long dead
I got a chill in my poor old head
My world cooled down
The leaves turned brown
I breathed my last in a cold cold bed


I’m a mammoth and I used to swarm
I lived in hope of a winter storm
The snow that lay
Melted away
I lost my life when it got too warm


I’m a human and I’ve had my fill
Of blame and shame for every ill 
But humans, I’m sure 
Killed no stegosaur
Our climate changes and always will

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Deb M

Date: 3/5/2023 8:09:00 AM

A great way to write about climate change Terry…cleverly done!! Debx

Linda Alice Fowler

Date: 3/3/2023 7:46:00 AM

LOL Terry. Once again you've managed to say what we all think and you do so with flair! Great limericks. Humans are so quick to blame themselves for everything, everywhere, in every century (even if not theirs). Personally, I don't think I caused anything that happened a hundred years ago.

Terry Flood
Date: 3/3/2023 11:37:00 AM

My sentiments entirely. Thanks, Linda.

Tom Cunningham

Date: 2/20/2023 11:15:00 PM

We just have to go with the flow and just accept things, this whole climate thingy is probably just a cycle. I wonder who will take over from us, the mother of all viruses will probably take us out. Tom

Terry Flood
Date: 2/21/2023 10:58:00 AM

It makes me laugh, Tom. They’ve only kept records for 100 years, so we could be in a 150 year cycle or a million year cycle and they wouldn’t know. But isn’t it strange that in any climate or environmental emergency… the answer is always “Tax, tax and more tax”? Of course, once we’ve solved ‘warming’ we’ll get ‘cooling’ and they’ll tax us all over again. Terry

David Kavanagh

Date: 2/20/2023 2:24:00 PM

Yeah Terry, it’s so easy to blame humanity on the whole world’s problems, even though we are speeding it up, but the earth has been ripping itself asunder also bombarded with asteroids since time began, look what happened only a couple of weeks ago in Turkey and Syria, ok dodgy builders played their part, but you get what I mean, so much is completely beyond our control, great Limericks, cheers David

Terry Flood
Date: 2/21/2023 11:04:00 AM

Thanks, David. Aside from playing a mean pinball, only a deaf, dumb and blind man would refute climate change. But, us being to blame is a bit of a stretch, when it’s happened a thousand times before. besides… when are they gonna ban volcanoes? ;-) Terry

Daniel Turner

Date: 2/20/2023 1:50:00 PM

"Our climate changes and always will" that is one undisputable fact! Terry. This was a very easy and good read.

Terry Flood
Date: 2/21/2023 11:07:00 AM

Thanks, Daniel. Some expert on the radio today, claimed that once we hit net zero and the climate stops warming… it could be 200 to 1000 years before we see a difference. So don’t be expecting a tax rebate any time soon. Terry