A mediocre, plump academic named Mann,
Devised a lucrative and cunning plan;
By means of a very Nature trick,
He fabricated a hockey stick;
But global cooling made him an also-ran.
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The sun came up, the sun went down,
Global warming could not be found,
Where could it be – the missing heat?
Why in the oceans – Oh so deep,
But the travesty made Trenberth frown
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Ice-ages come and ice-ages go,
And when they come the seas lie low;
“Calamity” cried Hansen in his doom-sayer guise,
“By over 20 feet the seas shall rise”,
But then came the blizzards, ice and snow.
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In the hallowed temples of the IPCC,
Carboniferous fuels the devil be,
But for 17 years have temperatures stalled
While coal combustion has not paused,
And the world now sees their idiocy.
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