6 degrees of warming (cont.)

3 degrees

A three degree change marks a shift

With temperatures hot, not warm.

Summer heat waves could engulf Britain

And quickly become the norm.

The tourist trail may start to shift;

Britons won’t go overseas.

Instead, Europe may come to join us

In the hope of a cooling sea breeze.

For the Mediterranean may become

Parched, scorched and bare

‘Stay away!’ will be the message

No tourist hot spot there.

Jobs may be aplenty

As tourist Britain grows

Inland at cultured Cambridge

Or on the Costa Del Felixstowe.

Yet this comes with a warning

For with a rise of three degrees

We only need to cast our minds back

To summer 2003.

Paris was in turmoil

It simmered and it fried

Thousands of the old and infirm

Could not cope and died.

Britain would need to respond and adapt

As these changes are unfurled

For perhaps we saw a window

Into our future world.

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