Climate-news poem: apocalypse edition

This here is a cinquain! My seventh-grade teacher would be so proud. Check out the growing collection of weekly climate-news poems. Report: We’re in trouble. Frost, blight, drought, pests, high seas. We should move to safer ground now! But where? NOAA chief Jane Lubchenco and Obama science adviser John Holdren unveiled the government’s new, massive […]

This here is a cinquain! My seventh-grade teacher would be so proud. Check out the growing collection of weekly climate-news poems.

Report:
We’re in trouble.
Frost, blight, drought, pests, high seas.
We should move to safer ground now!
But where?

NOAA chief Jane Lubchenco and Obama science adviser John Holdren unveiled the government’s new, massive report on climate change impacts.Kate Sheppard / Grist

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