What Climate Change Is About

The farm dams low and the creeks are long dry And no clouds of rain in the blue sunny sky From the sun the cattle are sheltering in the shade of the trees On a day in late Summer of thirty degrees A four hours drive from here bushfires have left hundreds of people dead And killed at least one million animals or so it is said Have burnt a few thousand homes to the ground And blackened the landscape for hundreds of kilometres around And further north it has rained as never before And many towns have been flooded for a month or more In a Land that is ravaged by fire flooding and drought We have come to know what climate change is about And this just the start of it some of the well informed say For carbon emissions the price huge to pay.