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Al Gore: The Poet Laureate of Climate Change

What, now he’s a friggin’ poet?

Excerpt: In his almost 30 years of crusading against global warming, Al Gore has worn a variety of hats. In roughly chronological order these include: congressman, senator, author, vice president, traveling evangelist, filmmaker, investment adviser, and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Now, with the publication of his new book, Our Choice, Gore has unveiled a fresh and most unexpected talent: the book’s opening chapter of concludes with a poem he wrote—21 lines of verse that are equal parts beautiful, evocative, and disturbing.

Here is how the poem begins:

One thin September soon
A floating continent disappears
In midnight sun
Vapors rise as
Fever settles on an acid sea

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One Response to “Al Gore: The Poet Laureate of Climate Change”

1. ADE says:

   February 8, 2010 at 12:29 am

   Our Al he was a warmer
   Folks came from near and far
   to hear our Al pontificate
   on climate change and Hell
   He always brought his Hockeystick
   to emphasise his case
   but the darned thing disintegrated
   right in our poor Als face.

   Now some folk say the’re sorry at Al’s awful fate
   but we all know it won’t be, ST.Peter at the gate
   When Al trancends this mortal life
   care worn and and totally disgraced
   He’ll go to Hell and abide in fire or CO2
   Or some even Warmer Place

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