With the Wind

[Intro]
The leaves are rustling
(With the wind)
The wings are hustling
(With the wind)

Soaring
(High throughout sky)
Alluring
(For both you and I)

[Refrain]
As the wind blows through
(Realize anew)
The impacts grew…
(More than we ever knew)

The leaves are rustling
(With the wind)
The wings are hustling
(With the wind)

[Bridge]
Soaring
(High throughout sky)
Enduring
(Long after you and I)

Oh (Oh, too)
What have we done to you
Oh (O2)
Our dues come due
(Now see the scene)
Of our lost dream
(As our reality)
… turns to destiny

[Instrumental]

Oh (Oh, too)
What have we done to you
Oh (O2)
Our dues come due
(Oh, oh, oh)
Oh, too
(Oh, too)

[Refrain]
As the wind blows through
(Realize anew)
The impacts grew…
(More than we ever knew)

The leaves are rustling
(With the wind)
The wings are hustling
(With the wind)

[Outro]
Oh (Oh, too)
What have we done to you
Oh (O2)
Our dues come due
(Oh, oh, oh)
Oh, too
(Oh, too)

Soaring
(High throughout sky)
Enduring
(Long after you and I)

About the Song

When fossil fuels are burned, carbon combines with atmospheric oxygen:

C + O₂ → CO₂

The process consumes O₂ and produces CO₂. Because the additional atmospheric CO₂ is accompanied by a measurable decline in atmospheric O₂, the observations are consistent with large-scale combustion of carbon rather than simply a redistribution of carbon through the natural carbon cycle.

This is especially important because the ocean, vegetation, and atmosphere continuously exchange carbon and oxygen. Natural processes can move carbon between reservoirs, but they do not explain the simultaneous long-term pattern of rising CO₂, falling O₂, declining ¹³C/¹²C, and declining radiocarbon.

The four observations reinforce one another:

Rising atmospheric CO₂
↓
Declining ¹³C/¹²C
↓
Declining ¹⁴C
↓
Declining atmospheric O₂

Together, these measurements provide a chemical and isotopic fingerprint of fossil-carbon combustion.

Volcanoes do not produce the observed isotopic pattern, and the natural carbon cycle cannot account for the simultaneous changes in the required direction and magnitude.

The molecules carry their own fingerprint—and the atmosphere is preserving the evidence in both carbon and oxygen.

Anthropogenic Global Warming 101

From the album “Feedback Coupling“
and
Underground Wound