News at Eleven: The untitled poem paints a grim picture

of the future, imagining an "acid sea" and land where "the dirt is parched".

It has attracted both praise and derision from bloggers.

William Petrocelli, writing for the Huffington Post, said the poem was "one that Yeats might have been proud of" but rush Limbaugh said it was "stupid".

Here is the poem in full:

from Telegraph: Al Gore pens bleak climate change poem

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