LYRICS
I had to ask Her
If the faster disaster
Wouldn’t be long?
I mean the extreme
Weather scene
Moving along
This is not a dream
Steeped in reality
A recurring theme
Reaped in brevity
The gravity
Here comes another
Starting to smother
Under a throng
Better get thinking
’cause we’re sinking
Coming on strong
This is not a dream
Steeped in reality
A recurring theme
Reaped in brevity
The gravity
Wave upon wave
Harder to save
Won’t be long
Air so think
$hitting bricks
We don’t belong
This is not a dream
Steeped in reality
A recurring theme
Reaped in brevity
The gravity
- 231118_0198-The-Gravity-Part-I.mp3 (unplugged to save energy)
- 231118_0201-The-Gravity-Part-II.mp3
- 231118_0200-The-Gravity-Part-II-Instrumental.mp3
- The-Gravity-Part-II.MID (Casio Wk-3500 with DSP)
Chords: Em/7 C Am / F G Am / Bm Em; Part II 140 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
Human induced climate change is an exponential component of an unordered system (chaos theory). That means global warming is accelerating at a rapid rate in a complex way. Feedback loops and tipping points are parts of an equation that determine the rate of acceleration in climate change.
Doubling time is the amount of time it takes for a quantity to double in size (exponential growth). By 2020, there was enough data to see the doubling time of some anthropogenic climate affects had gone from 100 years to 10 years. For instance the rate of sea level rise has gone from about 1.5 millimeters per year to over 3 millimeters. We expect to see the doubling period to continue to shrink raising the possibility of sea levels rising a foot/year by 2050.
By the Autumn of 2023, it had become evident the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets will completely melt. The process is irreversible and inevitable. The cool water from the melting ice at the poles is being drawn toward the center of the Earth and getting warmed to record high temperatures. The warm, moist air is circulating and moving over land. These changes in climate systems will cause other areas to experience unprecedented drought. We expect sea level rise will total about 270 feet over the next several millennia. It is episodic, and in the fast bits it can go up 3 feet every twenty years for five hundred years. The melting Arctic and Antarctic have multiple feedback loops including: enhanced oceanic heating and ice-albedo, Planck feedback, lapse-rate feedback, and cloud feedback.
As the ice sheets grow smaller, they will exert less gravity on the surrounding sea. There is a very complex set of climate systems impacted by sea level rise. The shape of the Earth is changing and speeding up as ice from the poles melts and is drawn toward the equator through centrifugal and gravitational forces, as well as, glacial isostatic adjustment. A study published in Geophysical Research Letters of the American Geophysical Union suggests that global warming has led to significant melting of glaciers due to which our planet’s axis of rotation has been moving faster since the 1990s.
Can you grasp the gravity our situation?