Songs about the climate science of climate change.
[Intro]
Right now…
(Right here!)
Somehow…
(Raises fear?)
Not yesterday…
(Not tomorrow…)
Today
(Hence:)
Present tense!
[Verse 1]
Yesterday’s gone
Tomorrow’s not here
All the while tomorrow
Draws near
[Refrain]
Is the present tense
(Tense)
Is the state of the state
(Irate)
Are you presently tense
(In the present tense?)
[Instrumental, Psychedelic Jam Interlude, Percussion Solo]
[Verse 2]
The present is tense
When the pressure is high
Everybody’s watchin’
The numbers fry
[Chorus]
Present tense!
(Tense!)
What’s the state of the state?
(Irate!)
Present tense!
(Tense!)
What’s the state of the state?
Are we presently tense?
(Presently tense!)
Or just pretending
(Everything’s fine?)
Forever defending
(Me, my, mine)
[Bridge]
Is it a grammar lesson?
(Is it?)
Is it a state of mind?
(Bad habit?)
Is it the state of the state?
(Irate!)
Or all of the above?
(Have we forgot love?)
[Break]
Right now!
(Not later!)
Not before!
(Once more!)
Right now!
(Hence:)
Present!
(Tense!)
[Final Refrain]
Is the present tense
(Tense)
Is the state of the state
(Irate)
Are you presently tense
(In the present tense?)
Is the present tense
(Tense)
Or is it just the debate
(We communicate?)
Are you presently tense
(In the present tense?)
[Outro]
Is the present tense
(Tense)
Is the state of the state
(Irate)
Are you presently tense
(In the present tense?)
[Whisper]
(Hence:)
Are you presently tense?
[Intro]
Twenty-six!
(What?)
Jerk surge!
(What was that?)
Take a chance…
(Here we go!)
Dance!
[Verse 1]
Something’s coming through the circuit
Something’s moving way too fast
Feel it twitching in the system
Feel the future hit the past
First you think you’ve got it handled
Then the signal starts to switch
One little unexpected movement
And the whole thing makes you twitch
(Twitch, twitch, twitch)
[Pre-Chorus]
Ready?
(Ready!)
Steady?
(No!)
Something’s coming…
(Here we go!)
[Refrain]
Get your 26 fix
(Jerk surge)
Take a chance
(A modern dance)
Splurge
(26 jerk surge)
First
(You get completely)
Then you jerk a knee
(Real, real fast)
Like whiplash!
(Splash!)
Splurge
(26 jerk surge)
[Verse 2]
One-two-three and then you stumble
Four-five-six and lose the beat
Seven-eight and something’s jumping
Nine-ten underneath your feet
Eleven-twelve, the rhythm’s shifting
Thirteen-fourteen, don’t ask why
Fifteen-sixteen, something’s jerking
Seventeen—it’s passing by!
[Chorus]
Jerk surge!
(Jerk surge!)
Feel the jolt!
(Feel the jolt!)
Something’s moving
(Out of control!)
Take a chance!
(Modern dance!)
Move your feet
(Advance!)
Twenty-six!
(Why twenty-six?)
In the know!
(Let’s go!)
[Bridge]
Jah, jah, jah
(Jerk surge!)
Jerk!
(Urge!)
Jerk!
(Surge!)
Left!
(Right!)
Up!
(Down!)
Fast!
(Real fast!)
Whiplash!
(Splash!)
Don’t stand still…
(Use freewill!)
Until…
[Break]
First you get completely…
(Out of your mind)
Then you jerk a knee!
(The funny bone you’ll find)
Real, real fast!
(Like whiplash!)
Twenty-six!
(That’s the fix!)
Twenty-six!
(That’s the trick!)
Jah, jah, jah
(Jerk surge!)
[Final Chorus]
Jerk surge!
(Jerk surge!)
Feel it hit!
(Feel it hit!)
Take a chance
(A modern dance!)
Don’t resist!
(Don’t resist!)
Twenty-six!
(Get your fix!)
Splurge!
(26 jerk surge!)
[Final Refrain]
Get your 26 fix
(Jerk surge)
Take a chance
(A modern dance)
Splurge
(26 jerk surge)
Jah, jah, jah
(Jerk surge!)
First
(You get completely)
… hit with reality…
Then you knee-jerk
(Twerk)
Hit that funny bone
(Now take it on home!)
Future to past…
(Real, real fast)
Like whiplash!
(Splash!)
Splurge
(26 jerk surge)
Twenty-six!
(Jerk surge!)
Twenty-six!
(Jerk surge!)
[Outro]
By the year 2 aught twenty-six
(We learned the twitch)
The jerk surge
(Due to over urge)
When it jerks…
(You move!)
Feel the splurge…
(And groove!)
Twenty-six…
(Jerk surge!)
Jah, jah, jah
(Jerk surge!)
Jah, jah, jah
(Jerk surge!)
Tonight’s new release “#26 Jerk Surge” is a lil’ dance ditty inspired by tonight’s homework assignment “2022–2026 Jerk Surge”. A new dance craze influenced by all the versions of Locomotion, from Little Eva to Grand Funk to Kylie, plus Funk #49 by Joe Walsh. It attempts to explain the climate jerk experienced in 2026 as a cultural experiment experience. Everybody’s doin’ it.
About the Song
A 2026 study found that the recent change in climate-system dynamics is being expressed not simply as continued warming, but as increasing synchronization among multiple radiative and thermal feedback pathways.
Beginning most notably around 2022, an increasingly interconnected pattern emerges among six major climate-system variables: cloud cover, planetary albedo, sea ice extent, atmospheric water vapor, ocean heat content, and surface temperature.
The three largest interaction paths form a closely connected Albedo–Cloud–Ocean Heat Content triad:
Reduced aerosols + cloud variability + ocean warming + internal climate variability
→ low-cloud changes → planetary albedo decline → increased absorbed solar radiation → increased planetary heat uptake
The significance is not that a single feedback has suddenly appeared. These feedbacks are already well established. The emerging signal is that multiple feedback pathways are becoming increasingly coupled—and that the rate of this coupling is itself accelerating.
That accelerating coupling is the Climate Jerk Surge.
#26 Climate Jerk Surge: Albedo–Cloud–Ocean Heat Content Triad
[Intro]
Wake up…
(Just a little longer)
Wake up…
(Lettin’ sleep linger?)
[Verse 1]
Hit the button, roll it over
Five more minutes, maybe more
Dreaming underneath the covers
While the knocking’s at the door
[Pre-Chorus]
Tick-tock…
(Still asleep)
Tick-tock…
(Too deep)
[Refrain]
Snooze switch
(Wake to hit)
Real bitch
(Wake to it)
In way to deep
(To sleep)
[Verse 2]
Push it once and push it twice
Push it till the warning’s gone
This time we think we’ve got it
So this time we carry on
[Refrain]
Snooze switch
(Wake to hit)
Real bitch
(Wake to it)
In way to deep
(To sleep)
No more dreaming
(No more sleep)
There’s promises to keep
When the signal starts to scream
(You can’t snooze your way out of the dream)
[Bridge]
Snooze it…
(Lose it)
Can’t hide it…
(Can’t deny it)
Wait…?
(Way too late)
… weigh “too late”
[Break]
(Way too late)
… weigh “too late”
At any rate…
(Wake from your lethargic state!)
[Final Chorus]
Wake up!
(Wake up!)
As the floor shakes
(Wake up!)
Before the whole thing breaks
No more dreaming
(No more sleep)
We’re in way too deep
To keep pretending…
(We’re asleep)
[Final Refrain]
Snooze switch
(Wake to hit)
Real bitch
(Wake to it)
In way to deep
(To sleep)
Snooze switch!
(Wake up!)
Snooze switch!
(For real!)
Wake to it…
(Wake to it!)
[Outro]
Hit the switch…
(Don’t hit snooze.)
Wake up…
(Too deep to choose to lose)
Wake…
(Up.)
[Intro]
Knock, knock…
(Who’s there?)
Debt collector…
(No one’s here!)
You thought you had time
(You thought you were fine)
But time has a way
(Of collecting its pay)
[Verse 1]
We borrowed from tomorrow
And spent it all today
Took a little from the future
Then we threw the bill away
“Don’t worry ’bout the interest”
(We’ll deal with that somehow)
But the debt kept getting bigger
(And the collector’s here right now)
[Pre-Chorus]
First came the warning
(We waved it away)
Then came the interest
(It started to stay)
[Refrain]
Beyond speculation
(It’s debt collection)
What’s at stake
(A bone break)
First your fingers
(While the pain lingers)
There goes the toes
(Holy! And another knee)
[Verse 2]
You can’t put the pain
A hundred years away
When the heat is at your doorstep
And the flood is on its way
Somewhere far?
(Right where you are)
Far away?
(Not today!)
[Chorus]
Not speculation
(Not speculation!)
Not some distant fate
The consequences
(Are already at the gate)
[Refrain]
Beyond speculation
(It’s debt collection)
What’s at stake
(A bone break)
First your fingers
(While the pain lingers)
There goes the toes
(Holy! And another knee)
[Bridge]
The future moved closer
(The future moved here)
Somewhere else vanished
(It disappeared)
[Break]
Knock, knock!
(Who’s there?)
Debt!
(What debt?)
Climate debt!
(Not yet)
Your dues due
(Better come through)
How much can you take
Before you finally wake?
[Pre-Chorus]
It’s not tomorrow
(It’s today)
It’s not somewhere else
(It’s this way)
It’s not abstract
(It’s real)
It’s not a theory
(Look and feel)
[Final Refrain]
Beyond speculation
(It’s debt collection)
What’s at stake
(A bone break)
First your fingers
(While the pain lingers)
There goes the toes
(Holy! And another knee)
Beyond speculation
(It’s debt collection)
What’s at stake
(A bone break)
How much pain
(Before we wake?)
[Outro]
Knock, knock…
(Who’s there?)
Debt collection…
(Already here.)
Oh, dear!
You missed the payment…
(We know.)
You missed the warning…
(Oh, no)
Now…
Pay attention.
(Avoid termination)
The new release of the day, “Debt Collection,” is the accounting of an accounting story. No, it’s not folklore anymore. It’s a retro-futuristic, swampy blues tune about spending your future.
The situation is due to what we do. And now, the blues dues are due.
About the Song: Climate Debt Collection
What happens when we miss the 1.5°C Paris target?
Think of it like owing money to a loan shark. The debt doesn’t wait decades to be collected.
Our fingers are being broken now. Our kneecaps are next.
One of the biggest challenges in communicating climate change is proximity—both in time and location.
If the consequences seem far away, people dismiss them. If they’re happening somewhere else, people ignore them.
But climate change is moving from:
future → present
and
somewhere else → right here.
We missed the 1.5°C Paris target. The climate debt is already being collected.
How much pain do we need to feel before we pay attention?
[Intro]
Sun dried…
(Fried)
What a day…
(What a way)
Heat comin’ down
(All around)
No shade
(To be made)
[Verse 1]
Woke up this mornin’
The sun was already hot
Stepped outside
And forgot what I forgot
[Refrain]
Sun dried
(Fried)
… I tried
Shake n’ bake
(More than I can take)
Sun dried
(Fried)
[Verse 2]
Put on some sunscreen
Put on a hat
Tried to stay cool
But that was that
Fan blowin’ hot air
AC runnin’ thin
Open up the freezer
Just to stick my head in
[Chorus]
Sun dried!
(Fried!)
Baked up crispy
On the outside
Sun dried!
(Fried!)
Shake n’ bake
Till there’s nowhere left to hide
Sun dried!
(Fried!)
I tried…
(Oh, I tried!)
[Bridge]
Is it the heat?
(Could be… the humidity)
I dunno…
(But I’m startin’ to glow!)
[Break]
Shake!
(Bake!)
Shake n’ bake!
(Shake n’ bake!)
How much can you take?
[Final Refrain]
Sun dried
(Fried)
… I tried
Shake n’ bake
(More than I can take)
Sun dried
(Fried)
Sun dried!
(Fried!)
[Outro]
Sun dried…
(Sun dried…)
Fried…
(So fried…)
I tried…
(You tried…)
Shake n’ bake…
(Too much to take…)
Sun…
Dried.
(Nature cried)
[Intro]
Spring came early…
(Or was it late?)
Summer stayed longer…
(Changing our fate)
Leaves started fallin’
Before they were due
Winter came knockin’
But nobody knew
[Verse 1]
The calendar said
It was time for the change
But outside the window
Things looked kinda strange
[Refrain]
The seasons
(Are changing)
Rearranging
(For what reasons?)
Arrive early
(Alive… barely)
Stayed late
(At any rate…)
Changing
[Verse 2]
Summer said
“I’m gonna stay for a while”
Autumn was waiting
With a puzzled-up smile
Winter showed up
Then wandered away
Spring couldn’t figure
Which month was today
[Refrain]
The seasons
(Are changing)
Rearranging
(For what reasons?)
Arrive early
(Alive… barely)
Stayed late
(At any rate…)
Changing
[Bridge]
Is it the weather?
(Or is it whether)
… we can get together
Is it the climate…
(Caused by the primate?)
Is it time…
(We saw the sign?)
[Break]
Early!
(Early!)
Late!
(Late!)
Wait…
(Wait!)
Too late?
[Pre-Chorus]
The Earth keeps spinning
The seasons keep turning
The patterns keep shifting
The questions keep burning
What once arrived
At a familiar time
Is showin’ up early
Then falling behind
[Final Refrain]
The seasons
(Are changing)
Rearranging
(For what reasons?)
Arrive early
(Alive… barely)
Stayed late
(At any rate…)
Changing
The seasons…
(Are changing…)
The reasons…
(Enraging…)
[Outro]
The seasons
(Are changing)
Rearranging
(For what reasons?)
Arrive early
(Alive… barely)
Stayed late
(At any rate…)
Changing
For what reasons?
[Whisper]
Changing…
[Intro]
Hear that hiss?
(Hit or miss?)
Talkin’ smooth to you
(Sounds so true)
Careful what you do…
[Verse 1]
One tongue says
“The climate’s changin'”
The other says
“There’s nothin’ to fear”
One hand points
At the rising water
The other says
“The evidence ain’t clear”
Talkin’ out both sides
That mouth is tw0-faced
Both far and wide
Is disgraced
A promise in the daylight
A different one at night
Say whatever fits
To keep the story right
[Pre-Chorus]
A little truth
(A little lie)
Look ’em straight
(In the eye)
Say it loud
(Say it strong)
But which side
(Which side’s wrong?)
[Refrain]
That snake
(Speaks with a forked tongue)
When all is said and done…
(Careful what you make)
[Verse 2]
“Drill, baby, drill!”
(Still?)
“Nothing’s going wrong”
(… same ole song)
“Just one more flood”
(Is that what he meant?)
Meanwhile the basement
(Is filling up with mud)
[Chorus]
Forked tongue!
(Which way’s it goin’?)
Forked tongue!
(What are ya knowin’?)
Say one thing
(Do another)
Tell the voter
(Another blunder)
[Refrain]
That snake
(Speaks with a forked tongue)
When all is said and done…
(Careful what you make)
[Bridge]
One tongue says
“Believe in me”
The other says
“Your eyes deceive”
[Break]
Hiss!
(Hiss!)
Snake bite!
(Might…)
Cause fright
[Final Refrain]
That snake
(Speaks with a forked tongue)
When all is said and done…
(Careful what you take)
That snake…
(Is on the make!)
[Outro]
That snake
(Speaks with a forked tongue)
When all is said and done…
(Careful what you make)
[Intro]
Hold the phone!
(Danger zone!)
What’s the hell?
(What’s that smell?)
You thought you knew
The greenhouse crew?
Well…
(Do you?)
Known ozone!
[Verse 1]
Under the sky… down below
Where the sunlight shines
There’s non-laughing gas
Waiting in the lines
But that’s not all…
(No, in a domino fall!)
[Refrain]
Hold the phone
(You’ve reached number one)
Known ozone
(No, you can’t be outdone)
[Verse 2]
Ozone hits the fan
And the shit flies
Man’s damned demand
Open your eyes…
(Realize!)
[Refrain]
Hold the phone
(You’ve reached number one)
Known ozone
(No, you can’t be outdone)
Not just warming
(There’s more to come!)
Atmospheric!
(Ecologic!)
Can we defy logic?
Forcing agent!
(That’s the one!)
[Refrain]
Hold the phone
(You’ve reached number one)
Known ozone
(No, you can’t be outdone)
[Bridge]
Atmospheric forcing!
(Logic divorcing!)
Ecological forcing!
(Logical divorcing!)
[Refrain]
Hold the phone
(You’ve reached number one)
Known ozone
(No, you can’t be outdone)
[Break]
Hold the phone!
(You’re in the winner’s zone!)
Who’s calling?
(Ozone!)
Number?
(Number one!)
In the OH ZONE!
(Ozone)
[Final Refrain]
Hold the phone
(You’ve reached number one)
Known ozone
(No, you can’t be outdone)
Hold the phone!
(You’ve reached number one!)
It’ well known!
(Oh ozone!)
[Outro]
Ozone…
(Oh, ozone…)
Known ozone…
(You should’ve known!)
[Whisper]
Atmospheric…
(Defyin’ logic)
No, you’re illogical
(And ecological…)
Spent
(Forcing agent.)
About the Song: Ozone = #1 Climate Gas
Ozone is usually overlooked as a greenhouse gas. Actually, tropospheric ozone sits atop the climate-change pyramid.
Why? Because ozone is both an:
ATMOSPHERIC FORCING AGENT
→ traps heat
→ drives additional warming
and an:
ECOLOGICAL FORCING AGENT
→ damages plants
→ reduces photosynthesis
→ weakens carbon sinks
→ leaves more CO₂ in the atmosphere
→ drives additional warming
FOREST DECLINE: 17%–40%
GREENHOUSE GAS: #3
Ozone doesn’t just warm the atmosphere. It can damage the biological systems that remove CO₂ from it.
OZONE = ATMOSPHERIC + ECOLOGICAL FORCING AGENT
That makes ozone one of the most important—and overlooked—climate-change agents.
Read Known Ozone: The #1 Climate Gas
[Intro]
Look around…
(And around and around!)
Anybody home?
(Hello?)
… do you know?
Anybody listening?
(Suggesting…)
Anybody seein’ this?
(Seein’ what?)
Exactly…
(It’s time we see)
[Verse 1]
The warning light is flashing
But nobody looks
The pages keep on turning
But nobody reads the books
The smoke is in the distance
The sirens start to sound
Everybody keeps on asking:
“What’s that noise?”
(As it’s all around!)
[Pre-Chorus]
Eyes wide open
(Mind asleep)
Standing at the edge
(The water’s deep)
Something’s happening
Right before our eyes
But somehow everybody
Seems surprised
[Refrain]
Is it just me… or are all of us
(Oblivious)
I mean… get serious
(About the oblivious)
… they’re dangerous
(To all of us!)
Oblivious
[Verse 2]
The scientist says, “Look!”
(We look away)
The numbers say, “Now!”
(We say, “Some other day”)
All in all declining
The carbon think is weak
The trouble keeps accumulating
While nobody wants to speak
“Everything’s fine!”
(Everything?)
Meanwhile the present
Becomes the future
One day at a time
[Refrain]
Is it just me… or are all of us
(Oblivious)
I mean… get serious
(About the oblivious)
… they’re dangerous
(To all of us!)
Oblivious
[Bridge]
Oblivious…
(To the obvious)
Are we?
(We are)
… oh how bizarre
Could it be…
(Certainly)
[Refrain]
Is it just me… or are all of us
(Oblivious)
I mean… get serious
(About the oblivious)
… they’re dangerous
(To all of us!)
Oblivious
Oblivious…
(To the obvious)
[Break]
Wake up!
(WAKE UP!)
What?
(What’s up?)
What’s happening?
Right now!
(Pow and wow!)
Right here!
(It’s clear!)
Present tense!
(In intense!)
[Final Refrain]
Is it just me… or are all of us
(Oblivious)
I mean… get serious
(About the oblivious)
… they’re dangerous
(To all of us!)
Oblivious
… we’re dangerous
(To all of us!)
Oblivious
(To the obvious)
[Outro]
Oblivious
(To the obvious)
What’s that?
(What’s what?)
That…
(That what?)
Right there!
[Pause]
Unaware
[Whisper]
Oblivious
(To the obvious)