A Glacial Retreat

In Canada a study found,

How glaciers melt in the West.

The shrinkage is beyond profound,

With seventy per cent at best;

If we ignore the Earth’s request

Then ninety-five per cent will go.

New barren lands will not be dressed,

With climate change too warm for snow,

The alpine streams and sapphire lakes they too will go.

A Spenserian stanza about the research that found that Western Canada’s glaciers could shrink by as much as 95% by 2100.