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[Silence]
[Instrumental Intro: Driving psychedelic groove, pulsing bass, swirling synth, chiming electric guitar]

[Intro]
Something’s moving
(Feel it now)
Something’s growing
(Oh, and how)

Hold on tight
(To the ride)
Acceleration
(On every side)

[Verse 1]
More energy
(Coming in)
Less escaping
(That’s the thing)

Inertia
(There’s your clue)
What was started
(Coming on through)

[Refrain]
Acceleration
(Accelerating)
There’s no debating
(Need education)

Inertia’s momentum
(Nature’s agendum)

[Verse 2]
See the risk
(Up it goes)
Tisk, tisk, tisk
(And danger grows)

Feedback calls
(One by one)
Then they couple
(Here they come!)

[Refrain]
Acceleration
(Accelerating)
There’s no debating
(Need education)

Inertia’s momentum
(Nature’s agendum)

[Psychedelic Jam I]
[Wah-wah guitar / pulsing bass / swirling synth]

Accelerate!
(At a rapid rate)
[Bridge]
Acceleration
(In the change)
Coupling
(Rearrange)

Inertia
(Holds the past)
Momentum
(Makes it last)

[Refrain]
Acceleration
(Accelerating)
There’s no debating
(Need education)

Inertia’s momentum
(Nature’s agendum)

[Psychedelic Jam II]
[Drums drop out / bass pulse / guitar feedback]

Accelerating…
(Exacerbating…)

Coupling…
(Doubling…)

[Final Refrain]
Acceleration
(Accelerating)
There’s no debating
(Need education)

Inertia’s momentum
(Nature’s agendum)

[Outro]
Acceleration
(Accelerating)
Coupling’s generating
(Feedback’s activating)

Inertia’s momentum
(Nature’s agendum)

[Instrumental Fade]

[Silence]
[End]

About the Song
Climate Change, Acceleration, and Inertia: 4–7°C of Warming

Climate change is not simply a matter of temperatures gradually rising.

It is an energy problem.

More energy is entering the climate system than leaving it—and most of that excess energy is being absorbed by the oceans.

That creates INERTIA.

But something else is happening.

As warming crosses critical thresholds, self-reinforcing feedbacks become increasingly active:

🔥 Warming → 💧 More Water Vapor → 🔥 More Warming ↺

☁️ Fewer Low Clouds → ☀️ More Energy Absorbed → 🔥 More Warming

🟠 More Tropospheric Ozone → 🌎 Stronger Greenhouse Effect → Faster Carbon-Cycle Response

These feedbacks don’t operate independently. They interact, couple, and reinforce one another.

That changes the mathematics of climate change.

The 1.5°C threshold is not simply a number on a thermometer. It is a tripwire for a climate system increasingly dominated by feedbacks and nonlinear responses.

The result is a new climate reality:
ACCELERATION + COUPLING + INERTIA

The question is no longer simply how much greenhouse gas humans emit. It is how quickly the climate system begins amplifying the warming we have already created.

Having tripped the 1.5°C tripwire, both the acceleration and inertia of climate change have created a new reality. The most likely scenario is global warming of approximately 4°C this century. If humanity does not reach net zero by 2035, approximately 4–7°C of warming by 2150 becomes the most likely scenario.

The Times They Are a-Changing: Climate Change, Acceleration, and Inertia 4–7°C

From the album “Present Tense“

[Silence]
[Instrumental Intro: dark psychedelic groove, pulsing bass, distant siren-like synth]

[Intro]
Denial…
(It’s not real)
Obfuscation…
(It’s no big deal)

Suppression…
(Don’t show the proof)
Normalization…
(What’s the use?)

[Verse 1]
First you say
(It’s going away)
Nothing to see
(Nothing to say)

Just another cycle
(Just another phase)
Nothing to worry
(Nothing to raise)

Turn down the warning
(Turn down the sound)
Turn down the evidence
(Bury it underground)

If nobody sees it
(Did it happen?)
If nobody says it
(Keep it hidden)

[Refrain]
Obfuscation
(Suppression)
Normalization
(Regression)
Devolution

There’s no denying
(Your denying is lying)
Causing harm
(Turning off the alarm)

The situation’s dire
(Fire! Fire! Fire!)
Temperatures going higher
(Fire! Fire! Fire!)

[Verse 2]
Obfuscation
(Make it complicated)
Fragment the pieces
(Keep ’em separated)

Is the signal clear?
(Well… maybe not)
Is the danger near?
(We forgot!)

Move the goalpost
(Move it again)
Call it uncertainty
(Call it a trend)

When the pieces don’t connect
(Nothing seems wrong)
When the warning gets diluted
(It doesn’t belong)

[Refrain]
Obfuscation
(Suppression)
Normalization
(Regression)
Devolution

There’s no denying
(Your denying is lying)
Causing harm
(Turning off the alarm)

The situation’s dire
(Fire! Fire! Fire!)
Temperatures going higher
(Fire! Fire! Fire!)

[Verse 3]
Suppression
(Don’t show the evidence)
Cut the connection
(Between cause and consequence)

Climate shock
(Food disruption)
Food disruption
(Economic destruction)

Economic shock
(Migration)
Migration
(Political instability)

Political instability
(Conflict)
Conflict
(Adaptive capacity… gone!)

[Break]
One domino
(Falls)
Then another
(Calls)

Climate shock!
(All fall)

[Verse 4]
Normalization
(The new abnormal)
Every record
(Becomes ordinary)

Another flood
(That’s just weather)
Another fire
(That’s just summer)

Another storm
(That’s just the season)
Another warning
(That’s just a reason)

Yesterday’s extreme
(Becomes today’s baseline)
Today’s emergency
(Becomes tomorrow’s headline)

Until the extraordinary
(Feels ordinary)
And the impossible
(Feels necessary)

[Bridge]
That’s the trick
(You see?)

Not making the danger disappear
Just making the danger
(Disappear from here)

Out of sight
(Out of mind)
Out of time
(Out of line)

The future…
(Keeps calling)
And the dominoes…
(Keep falling)

[Instrumental: escalating drums, distorted guitar, pulsing synth]

[Refrain]
Obfuscation
(Suppression)
Normalization
(Regression)
Devolution

There’s no denying
(Your denying is lying)
Causing harm
(Turning off the alarm)

[Outro]
The situation’s dire
(Fire! Fire! Fire!)
Temperatures going higher
(Fire! Fire! Fire!)

Domino…
(After domino)
Down we go
(Down below)

[Silence]
[End]

About the Song
UK Climate Security: From Suppression to the Domino Effect

Climate change is increasingly moving from the category of environmental problem into the category of systemic risk.

A recently reported UK national-security assessment warned that climate and ecological disruption can cascade across borders—affecting food security, economies, migration, and political stability.

The problem is not simply the initial climate shock.

It is what happens afterward:

Climate shock → food disruption → economic shock → migration → political instability → conflict → reduced adaptive capacity

That is the Domino Effect. Denialism has become part of the feedback loop—delaying recognition, obstructing action, weakening resilience, and ultimately amplifying the consequences and accelerating the climate crisis.

The four stages of climate information failure are also important:

Denial — “The risk isn’t real.”
Obfuscation — “The risk isn’t clear.”
Suppression — “The evidence isn’t shown.”
Normalization — “The risk is real, but nothing fundamentally changes.”

When systemic risks are fragmented, delayed, or hidden from public discussion, society loses valuable time to prepare.

Climate risk is no longer just about what happens to the climate.
It is about what climate disruption does to everything connected to it.

🌎 Climate change → systemic risk → cascading consequences

Climate Denialism, Obfuscation, Suppression and Normalization

“Present Tense“

[Silence]
[Instrumental Intro: Bright ’60s surf-rock guitar, spring reverb, driving bass, snappy drums]

[Spoken]
Down at the Jersey Shore…
(For sure!)

The waves are rockin’…
(Rollin’!)

The wind is blowin’…
(Howlin’!)

[Big Yell]
SURF’S UP!

[Instrumental Hit]
[Instrumental, Driving psychedelic surf-rock guitar, pounding drums, rolling bass, distant wave sounds]

[Verse 1]
Down the shore
(The water roars)
Barrier island
(Takes the score)

Sand gets thin
(The tide comes in)
Hold that line
(One more time)

[Refrain]
Dangerous surf
(Down the shore)
That’s for sure

Changing Earth
(Man’s demand)
Mother be dammed!

Surf’s up!

[Verse 2]
Nor’easter’s coming
(Here tonight)
Winds will be humming
(What a fright)

Flood warning
(Coast to coast)
High tide rising
(That’s no boast)

[Pre-Chorus]
Full moon
(Coming soon)
Pulling on
(The and on and on)

[Refrain]
Dangerous surf
(Down the shore)
That’s for sure

Changing Earth
(Man’s demand)
Mother be dammed!

Surf’s up!
(Down to earth)
Surf, surf, surf!
(Yup…)
Surf’s up!

[Instrumental Jam I]
[Surf guitar / crashing drums / bass rumble]
Wave!
(Wave!)
Wave!
(Crash!)
Sand!
(Gone!)
Shore!
(More!)

[Verse 3]
Federal money
(Going down)
Who’s gonna pay
(For this town?)

[Refrain]
Dangerous surf
(Down the shore)
That’s for sure

Changing Earth
(Man’s demand)
Mother be dammed!

Surf’s up!
(Down to earth)
Surf, surf, surf!
(Yup…)
Surf’s up!

[Bridge]
How much
(Can we spend?)
How long
(Can we pretend?)

How high
(Can we build?)
How far
(Will we yield?)

The question changes
(Year by year)
From saving beaches
(To staying here)

[Psychedelic Surf Jam]
[Extended guitar feedback / ocean sounds / tom-tom rolls]
Keep pumping!
(Pump! Pump!)
Keep building!
(Pump! Pump!)
Keep fighting!
(Lump upon lump)

But the ocean
(She doesn’t care)
Comin’ in again
(To lay your beach bare)

[Verse 4]
You can improve
(A mountain of sand)
But you can’t move
(The sinking land)

You can build
(Another wall)
But the waves
(Still bring on the fall)

[Refrain]
Dangerous surf
(Down the shore)
That’s for sure

Changing Earth
(Man’s demand)
Mother be dammed!

[Outro]
Surf’s up!
(Down to earth)
Surf, surf, surf!
(Yup…)
Surf’s up!

[Silence]
[End]

About the Song
Climate change and coastal impacts are becoming a big problem along the Southern Jersey Shore, with the barrier-island towns taking the brunt of the punishment. Federal funding for beach nourishment has also become much more limited, and sand itself is becoming a finite commodity.

The next couple of days should be an interesting experiment. A powerful, rare September nor’easter is hitting the Jersey Shore tonight, bringing widespread coastal flood warnings, dangerous surf, and wind gusts up to 50 mph. The National Weather Service has issued a Coastal Flood Warning for Atlantic, Cape May, Ocean, and southeastern Burlington counties from Wednesday afternoon through early Saturday morning. The system is also coinciding with an approaching full moon, which can significantly exacerbate tidal flooding across vulnerable shorelines, coastal roadways, and back bays.

At some point, we’re going to reach a hard physical and economic limit. You can keep pumping sand onto a beach, but you can’t manufacture an unlimited supply of sediment or indefinitely out-engineer rising seas and increasingly energetic storms.

The question may eventually stop being, “How much will it cost to save the beach?” and become, “How long can we realistically keep trying?”

“Present Tense“

[Silence]

[Instrumental Intro: Psychedelic bass groove, wah-wah guitar, swirling organ]

[Verse 1]
Who commands man
(What a fuss, hey!)
A holy man
(Or so they say)

Into the court
(He made his way)
With mystic eyes
(And things to say)

[Refrain]
Hey! We’re disputin’
(Grigori Rasputin)
He’s no friend of the family
(No, no friend to humanity)

Is the ill
(Hard to kill)
Is that it
(He just won’t quit)

[Psychedelic Jam I]
[Wah-wah guitar spirals]
Rasputin…
(Rasputin…)
Who let him in?
(Who let him in?)
Holy man…
(Holy mess!)
Confess…
(Toxic pest!)

[Verse 2]
He had a gift
(Or so it seemed)
To calm the boy
(Or so they dreamed)

[Refrain]
Hey! We’re disputin’
(Grigori Rasputin)
He’s no friend of the family
(No, no friend to humanity)

Is the ill
(Hard to kill)
Is that it
(He just won’t quit)

[Break]
Poison!
(Still alive!)
Bullets!
(He’ll survive!)
Thrown in the water!
(But won’t dive!)

Is he dead?
(Not quite yet!)
Is he dead?
(You can bet!)

[Psychedelic Jam II]
[Organ swells / bass drops / guitar feedback]
Dead?
(Alive?)
Dead?
(Alive?)

[Final Refrain]
Hey! We’re disputin’
(Grigori Rasputin)
He’s no friend to reality
(No, no friend to humanity)

Is the ill
(Hard to kill)
Is that it
(He just won’t quit)

[Psychedelic Jam III]
[Extended freak-out]
Hey!
(Who?)
Hey!
(What?)
Rasputin!
(What a spin!)

[Outro]
Hard to kill…
(Hard to tell…)
No saint, all sinner…
(Time does tell…)
… on the way to hell

Can’t you see
(You don’t wanna be)
Grigori…
(Rasputin…)
There’s no disputin’…
(Rasputin…)

[Silence]
[End]

About the Song
This anti-science ideology is a growing problem in the US. One distinction that is particularly important is the difference between scientific knowledge and scientific power. The current administration is undermining scientific knowledge by promoting a false narrative about scientific power and expertise. That is particularly damaging and dangerous when it comes to dismissing climate change as a hoax and undermining confidence in vaccines and medical science.

Calling someone a “Rasputin” means they have a hidden, corrupting, or powerful influence over a leader or ruling group—usually through personal access, charm, manipulation, or secrecy.

What is particularly disturbing today is the overlap between greed and eliminationist logic. The greed component is partly reflected in the effort to portray climate change as a hoax, because acknowledging the full implications of climate science threatens enormous amounts of existing capital and economic interests.

The eliminationist component is even more disturbing. It appears in the way both climate change and public health can be viewed through a “survival of the fittest” framework—where the consequences are not treated as problems to solve, but as mechanisms for eliminating people considered weak, old, sick, or otherwise expendable.

The Epstein files provide some extraordinary evidence of this mindset. Epstein wrote:

“Maybe climate change is a good way of dealing with overpopulation—the earth’s forest fire. Potentially a good thing for the species.”

He also wrote that “executions of the elderly and infirm make sense.”

And his statement that “more CO₂ is good for plants” echoes an argument long promoted by the CO₂ Coalition: that increasing atmospheric CO₂ should be viewed primarily as beneficial because plants use it.

Taken together with the explicitly eugenic statements in the files, this goes far beyond an ordinary disagreement over climate policy. It represents what eliminationist logic: where traditional denial protects existing capital, while ecofascist or eugenic reasoning can rationalize unequal human survival.

That is why the Rasputin comparison is worth exploring. The question isn’t simply who holds power. It is also what ideas are circulating among the people who have access to that power—and what happens when enormous wealth, political influence, scientific denial, eugenics, and eliminationist thinking begin to overlap.

Ecofascism and Denialism 101

“Present Tense“

[Silence]
[Instrumental Intro: Deep Piano, Acoustic Guitar, Organ, Deep Sub-Bass, Electric Guitar Swells, Drums, Percussion, Saxophone]

[Intro]
Incoming…
(Incoming!)
Outgoing…
(Outgoing!)

What’s the difference?

(The imbalance!)

You’re getting warmer
(When we take in more)
… But can’t get out the door…
(Energy intensity)

[Verse 1]
Sunlight coming down
(Every single day)
Soaking it in…
(Can’t get away)

[Refrain]
Do we stand a chance?
(The energy imbalance)
Change in the exchange

Oh, my, my
(EEI)
Are you gonna cry
(Or will you die)

[Verse 2]
Back in the earlier days
(The balance held the line)
Then something started shifting
(A change in time)

Two thousand five
(Acceleration!)
Two thousand nineteen
(Accumulation!)

[Refrain]
Do we stand a chance?
(The energy imbalance)
Change in the exchange

Oh, my, my
(EEI)
Are you gonna cry
(Or will you die)

[Bridge]
And then…

Ice sheet
(Retreat)

Clouds thin
(An energy win)
The energy pours in
(Feedbacks begin)

[Break]
[Deep Bass Pulse — Sparse Piano]

Zero…
(Balance…)

Then…

A little more.

[Kick Drum]

A little more.
(Than before)

[Snare]

A little more!
(Starts to pour)

[Full Band Hit]

EEI!

[Instrumental]
[Extended Electric Guitar and Saxophone Duel Over Driving Piano, Organ and Deep Bass — Drums Build Into a Relentless Groove]

[Bridge 2]
Do we balance?
(Or imbalance?)

Do we adapt?
(Or collapse?)

Do we watch?
(Or act?)

Do we learn?
(Or burn?)

Oh, my, my…

[Final Refrain]
Do we stand a chance?
(The energy imbalance)
Change in the exchange

Oh, my, my
(EEI)
Are you gonna cry
(Or will we try)

[Outro]
Do we stand a chance?
(The energy imbalance)
Change in the exchange

Oh, my, my
(EEI)
Are you gonna cry
(Oh, we better try)
EEI
(EEI!)

[Whispered]
The energy imbalance…
(Don’t take the chance)
[Deep Bass Hit]

EEI!

[Silence]

About the Song: The Energy Imbalance (EEI)

A simple way to understand climate change and global warming is through Earth’s energy balance—or, more precisely, the growing lack of balance known as Earth’s Energy Imbalance (EEI).

Earth’s climate is governed by a fundamental exchange: energy arrives primarily from the Sun, while Earth returns energy to space as reflected sunlight and outgoing infrared radiation. When incoming and outgoing energy are equal over the long term, the planet is approximately in energy balance. When more energy enters the Earth system than leaves it, the difference is stored within the climate system, producing warming.

2005–2019 (The First Acceleration)
The long-term EEI average effectively doubles compared to prior decades. Ocean heat content spikes dramatically as the oceans absorb roughly 90% of this excess energy.

2020–2023 (The Post-2020 Surge)
Slashed marine shipping pollution (IMO 2020 regulations) rapidly clears atmospheric haze over the oceans, forcing a massive, sudden spike in absorbed solar energy.

2024–Present (Nonlinear Feedback Phase)
EEI hits unprecedented, record-breaking territory. Strong climate feedbacks—such as collapsing Antarctic sea ice and thinning cloud decks—darken the planet, causing it to absorb immense amounts of solar radiation.

From ~0.0 to ~1.4 W/m²+

Read the full report Earth’s Energy Imbalance: The Climate System Out of Balance

“Present Tense“