Report from the North Pole



Report From the North Pole is a Schoolhouse Rock! song from Schoolhouse Rock! Earth sung by the polar bears.

Song Lyrics
Polar Bears: Good morning from the Arctic Circle

We've got your weather news today

We're reporting live from our North Pole station

Overlooking Hudson Bay

You can call us your bear-ometers

'Cause we don't need thermometers

To bring you this early warning

So we can all fight global warming.

Jack: Global warming is caused by gasses. Mostly one called CO2.

Lou: It comes from that technology that makes life so good for you.

Bob: Oil that heats your home and power plants and industry help build a greenhouse dome.

Jack: This dome of gas is trapping heat that used to head for space. And that heat is melting ice. Ice that used to be our base!

Polar Bears: From up here, we can see so clearly

We see that Earth's good health is at stake

Now its wondrous creatures do depend

On the actions everyone can take

We've all got to work together

In this fight to save the weather

'Cause what's happening up where we are

Just might happen down where you are

Lou: And now, on location with our cub reporter.

Polar Bear Cub: Hey, whale, you never ate plankton here before.

Whale: Well, global warming's changing currents. Now my meals are further offshore.

Polar Bear Cub: Hey, grizzly, how come you're having dinner in trashy dumps like these?

Grizzly Bear: Berries in the mountains are starting to run out. Those bushes don't grow near us because they're in a drought.

Polar Bear Cub: Mr. Panda, you look all bamboozled.

Panda: Sure, I'm all bamboozled. All I eat this bamboo. And these leaves are very good at helping cut down CO2. But even though earth scientists know all about that fact, man keeps chopping, cutting down our habitat.

Polar Bears: We've all got to work together

In this fight to save the weather

'Cause what's happening up where we are

Just might happen down where you are

Our planet is a wondrous place

Of limitless diversity

And we've got to work to save it

From this climate change adversity

The more our air is fouled up

By this noxious gaseous overcast

The harder it'll be to find the balance

Of our planet's recent past

Lou: If we all just shortened our hot showers by 30 seconds--

Jack: Power plants would make less of that smoke that dirties up the air for both you (in unison) and us bears.

Polar Bears: We've all got to work together

In this fight to save the weather

'Cause what's happening up where we are

Just might happen down where you are