I Found It, But It Sucks

So I went to You Tube, searched for "Tiny Tim", and found 270 different videos, none of which seemed to be the song for which I was looking. I actually didn't know the title, so one of them might have been it, but I doubt it. Then I searched again under "Tiny Tim The Ice Caps Are Melting", on the chance that might be the title, and it was. It was, however, a different version than the one I had seen on Ed Sullivan so many years ago. Both the sound and the picture were distorted, I think it was on purpose, and Tiny appeared to be trying to scare a bunch of little kids, who seemed to be unimpressed. In the Sullivan version, he was alone on the stage and a video depicting stormy ocean scenes was projected on a large screen behind him. Both versions were surrealistic, but I thought the Sullivan version was much more effective. So now the ice caps really are melting. How about that? Too bad Tiny Tim isn't here to see his prophecy come true, but he died in 1996.

From what I have read over the years, people have been more focused on the Arctic than the Antarctic, but the Antarctic has much more potential for disrupting life as we know it. The Arctic ice is all floating on the Arctic Sea and, since ice floats quite low in the water, it has already displaced almost as much water as it ever will, even if it all melts down. Most of the Antarctic ice cap sits on solid ground, as near as anybody can tell. There has been some speculation that Antarctica, and Greenland too, might not be one solid mass of land, but rather a cluster of islands. Even so, the Antarctic ice is piled a thousand feet or so above sea level, so that's still a lot of ice to melt into the ocean. A lot of people don't know this, but Antarctica has one of the driest climates on Earth. The only reason there is so much ice and snow there is, whatever precipitation does fall, just keeps piling up and never melts, until now.