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Climate Skeptic

I don't think I've met a climate septic. I've met a few climate apathetics though. Surprising I've not met more really, because Scotland could do with a bit of global warming - especially this morning (brrrrrr). But wait, that's covered in this great website "How to talk to a climate septic"; point 4a "Climate change is not bad, a warmer world will be better". The response slaps that argument down. How selfish of me.

So, read this website, find a sceptic (preferably one in a high level of American government) and engage in friendly banter. Let me know the results.

Praise

I praise you because
you are artist and scientist
in one. When I am somewhat
fearful of your power,
your ability to work miracles
with a set-square, I hear
you murmuring to yourself
in a notation Beethoven
dreamed of but never achieved.
You run off your scales of
rain water and sea water, play
the chords of the morning
and evening light, sculpture
with shadow, join together leaf
by leaf, when spring
comes, the stanzas of
an immense poem. You speak
all languages and none,
answering our most complex
prayers with the simplicity
of a flower, confronting
us, when we would domesticate you
to our uses, with the rioting
viruses under our lens.

R.S. Thomas