Garth Dutton

In Australia
climate change
is alive and well.

In the north
the tropical wet season
has moved further south
than usual
and has deluged
outback Queensland,
most of the Northern Territory
and the northern half of NSW.

In South Australia,
the desert climate
seems to have moved south,
causing repeated heatwaves.

But in the northern hemisphere
heavy winter snow set in
at about the time
of the Copenhagen Conference
in early December
and it is still snowing now
on the 9th January.
The nightly news
said Britain can expect no relief
for at least another week,
It is also now heavily snowing
in China.

We’ve got the extreme heat
and they’ve got the extreme cold.
In the boxing ring of the world,
the heat and cold
have retreated to their corners.