Welcome Smoke and Mirrors

The Congress’s debate about
If global warming’s natural
Or manmade (which I hardly doubt),
Is ending. Holy mackerel!
You’d think as glaciers disappear
We’d have the Hill’s collective ear.

But next to no one seems to cheer
Obama’s bill to cap exhaust
That traps heat in the atmosphere,
And lets emitters at a cost
Procure or sell (trade) rights to soil
By burning fuels like coal and oil.

What further might discourse embroil
Is, all but one Republican
Pursuing Senate seats recoil
From counterpoints to how they’ve run,
Like showing that swift climate change
From greenhouse gases isn’t strange.

So let’s for now forget root cause
And focus on results instead.
Would smoke and mirrors give you pause?
Consider what might be ahead:
Reflecting chips of lunar glass
And aerosols from sulfur gas.

The latter, which volcanoes spew
To lofty heights, cool Earth apace,
And promise work to NASA, too,
As well as scatter chips in space.
At sea, grow carbon-eating plants.
Ashore, white roadways, give a chance.

They’re geo-engineering dreams
That, put together, might offset
Misguided power-giants’ themes—
What’s foreordained is what you get.
All congressmen who buy this (bleep)
Should find their districts fathoms deep.