bookmark_borderThe First Thing

LYRICS
Is the first thing that comes to you
Necessarily the best thing to do?
Maybe I’d better think it through
In our presence
Time’s of the essence
To ensure future
As time increases pressure
Are we sure?

Is the next thing tat comes to view
Necessarily the best way for you?
Maybe I’d better think it through
In our presence
Time’s of the essence
To ensure future
As time increases pressure
Are we sure?
Think it through
What I’ll do

Is the first thing that comes to mind
How to find beings being kind
Maybe we’d better think it through
In our presence
Time’s of the essence
To ensure future
As time increases pressure
Are we sure?
Think it through
What to do

Chords: E G A B7 / B7 C D E / C A / C D E; Part II and III 148 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Ibanez Acoustic Guitar, Fender Squire Mini Electric Guitar, Fender Jazz Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

At what rate is climate change accelerating?
A: Rapidly
As described above, we do not know the rate of acceleration other than to say it is more rapid than previously thought. In the summer of 2023, the extreme temperatures left most climate scientists shocked. The average earth surface temperature recorded record highs for months reaching over 3 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The Paris Agreement calls for keeping temperatures below 1.5 degrees. Scientists concur that a rise of 2 degrees will trigger feedback loops and tipping points. Triggering these tipping points results in the CO2 stored in nature to be released at an exponential growth rate. How extreme the acceleration will be depends on tipping points toppling other tipping points in what is known as The Domino Effect. Toppled tipping points will continue to shrink the doubling time and exponentially increase the rate of global warming. Though we do not know how much carbon is stored in nature, it would be reasonable to assume that the temperature could be pushed from 3 degrees to 6 degrees above pre-industrial levels. Humans can not thrive above a rise of 1.5 degrees. Humans can not survive if the temperature rises 6 degrees.

About the 2023 wildfires in Hawaii, Governor Josh Green said, “For perspective, we’ve had six fire emergencies this August, we had six fire emergencies between 1953 and 2003. That’s how- how fast things are changing. I know that there is debate out there whether we should be talking about climate change or not. Well, let’s be real world, climate change is here we are in the midst of it with a hotter planet, and fiercer storms.”

About the catastrophic die-off of 10,000 emperor penguin chicks in the Antarctic, Dr. Caroline Holmes of the British Antarctic Survey (an expert on Antarctic sea-ice) said, “What we’re seeing right now is so far outside what we’ve observed previously. We expected change but I don’t think we expected so much change so rapidly.”

Some areas of the world are now warming so fast, it is becoming more difficult to measure the change from “normal” or average. Jeff Boyne, National Weather Service meteorologist and climatologist, said, “There are climate normals that are updated every 10 to 15 years, because the planet is warming so fast. The ENSO (El Nino-Southern Oscillation) regions are warming so fast that those normals are being updated every 5 years.”

“It’s so far outside anything we’ve seen, it’s almost mind-blowing,” says Walter Meier, who monitors sea-ice with the National Snow and Ice Data Center. “September was, in my professional opinion as a climate scientist, absolutely gobsmackingly bananas,” said Zeke Hausfather, at the Berkeley Earth climate data project.”

What’s the First Thing I Can Do?
There are plenty of things you can do to help save the planet. Stop using fossil fuels. Consume less. Love more. Here is a list of additional actions you can take.

Climate Change: How Long Is “Ever”?

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

From the Christmas album of music Merry Christmas!

bookmark_borderDon’t Go With the Flow

LYRICS
Can’t go with the flow
When flow won’t let go
We will come to know
The force that flows
Will grow and grow
Now how to let go
Might start with a drip
Then a drop just won’t stop

So woah with the flow
Oh woe slow the flow
Forego overflow
The force that flows
Will grow and grow
Now how to let go
Might start with a drip
Then a drop just won’t stop

Oh no with the flow
Won’t go with the flow
I know undertow
The force that flows
Will grow and grow
Now how to let go
Might start with a drip
Then a drop just won’t stop

Chords: A C G A / A Bb A / D A / A D C A / A D C G A; Part II @ 85 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals (TC-Helicon VOICELIVE and MiniNova Vocorder), Ibanez Acoustic Guitar, Fender Squire Mini Electric Guitar (Vox Sound Lab and Boss Digital Delay), Fender Jazz Bass (Korg Toneworks Bass Multi Effects and Boss Digital Delay), 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.

Violent Rain
Multiple factors figure into the physics of violent rain. The Momentum of Rain is p = mv (p = momentum, m = mass, v = velocity.) Part of the increasing momentum is transferred to the sides and upward increasing wind turbulence, as well as updrafts. Most of the momentum is transferred upon impact. You may notice the rain bouncing higher off the streets and sidewalks. As rain becomes more massive, it will have greater momentum when it hits the ground causing more damage.

Mass is not the only factor in violent rain. The greater the mass of the rain the more the wind turbulence is intensified. Professor Paul D. Williams of the University of Reading, UK, said, “They are chaotic (chaos theory). Turbulence is known famously as the hardest problem in physics.” In their study Evidence for Large Increases in Clear-Air Turbulence Over the Past Four Decades, Prof. Williams and his team found “Climate change has caused turbulence to double in the last 40 years” and is expected to double or triple again in the next decades.

The momentum of rain and the turbulence of wind are part of a larger equation that includes not only the mass and velocity of precipitation but also the density. The combination of these variables results in an increased intensity of the flow dynamics. Increased updrafts will result in an increase in the frequency of hail. When violent rain becomes denser and turns into hail, it can be deadly. Ground without groundcover will be hit harder causing more damage. The groundcover will also be hit harder causing more damage. Concrete, asphalt, solar panels, roofs, and plants will sustain more damage. Hail may also impact your skull. Infants and young children are at highest risk. Several infants have been killed by hail in the past year.

Wind and water flow forces scale as the square of velocity, so as flow speeds increase (say due to more intense heating or heavier rain) the damage scales as the square of the velocity. Look at drag physics and you will see that force is proportional to density times square of velocity (v^2).

The Drag Equation
So a twenty mile an hour wind exerts four times as much force as a ten mile an hour wind. And a forty mile an hour wind exerts sixteen times as much force as a ten mile an hour wind. A wind of fifty miles an hour exerts twenty five times and a wind of sixty miles an hour exerts thirty six times as much force as one of ten miles an hour. Then you have the density term. Water is about eight hundred times denser than air, So the force exerted by a ten mile an hour flow of water is eight hundred times that of a ten mile an hour wind. So as flow velocities go up due to climate change, force and damage scale as square of the velocities. What is not clear is how much these velocities increase with climate change. But in a sense we are seeing this already as, for example, flood and sewage systems succumb and hillsides fall down, and so on.

— from The Reign of Violent Rain Brouse and Mukherjee (2023)

Climate Change: How Long Is “Ever”?

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderLoving Style

LYRICS
Hope and love
Are you really that far?
Hope for love
Does it matter where you are?
Have you ever thought
To look within
It’s something
You’ve been carryin’
Now you know what it’s about
Do you care to let it out?
And you could smile
All the while
Loving style

Piece of peace
Are you really that far?
Life’s on lease
Doesn’t matter who you are
Have you ever thought
To look within
It’s something
You’ve been carryin’
Now you know what it’s about
Do you care to let it out?
And you could smile
All the while
Loving style

Clarity on charity
Is coming into view
Having a clue
What shall I do
I’ll start
I’ll begin
By digging in
I’ll live to give
And care to share
I’ll dare to love
And shout it out
I’ll love to smile
All the while
In loving style

Chords: C Em C Em E / E C / E C D C E / E Em C; Part II @ 84 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals (TC-Helicon VOICELIVE and MiniNova Vocorder), Ibanez Acoustic Guitar, Fender Squire Mini Electric Guitar (Vox Sound Lab and Boss Digital Delay), Fender Jazz Bass (Korg Toneworks Bass Multi Effects and Boss Digital Delay), Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

From the Christmas album of music Merry Christmas!

bookmark_borderYour Present (What’s Inside the Box?)

LYRICS
So close
Getting warmer
Almost
Getting warmer
Think inside the box
What unlocks the locks?
The key to our success
Is the key to nothing — less
What’s inside the box
Shocks
… with its presence
In our hands, the present

Oh, no
Getting hotter
You know
Getting hotter
Think inside the box
What unlocks the locks?
The key to our success
Is the key to nothing — less
What’s inside the box
Shocks
… with its presence
In our hands, the present

See the climate change
Right before your eyes
The primates rearrange
Comes as no surprise

Unlocks Pandora’s box
And there’s no going back
Unlocks Pandora’s box
Turned status to whack

Chords: E E7 E / B7 A E / A E A C B7 E / C D E / E/7; Part II 128 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Ibanez Acoustic Guitar, Fender Squire Mini Electric Guitar, Fender Jazz Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

Can you guess what’s inside the box? What is under the wrapping? Is it your present?

We know exactly what is our present — human induced climate change.

Global heat is now “gobsmackingly bananas,” said climate scientist Zeke Hausfather. “It’s hard to overstate just how exceptionally high global temperatures are at the moment.”

Climate Change Review 2023

Sidd said, “Do you remember back in the early 2000’s when we thought we wouldn’t live to see the extreme changes due to global warming?”

Daniel replied, “I think 2023 is the most significant year so far. We saw confirmation of tipping points being crossed for Mountain Glacier Loss, Greenland Ice Sheet Collapse, Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse, and potentially the Collapse of AMOC.”

Sidd continued, “We already knew that. It was Canada catching on fire that I could not believe. I never thought I’d live to see the day.”

Daniel asked, “Do you think the permafrost and peatlands will have zombie fires and cause the permafrost tipping point?”

Sidd responded, “Yes. They are gone, too. We already know from the permafrost peatland fires in Siberia.”

Daniel ponders, “Hmmmm… I guess that means my plan went up in smoke? My worst case scenario / last resort emergency plan was to escape to Canada.”

What Can I Do?
There are plenty of things you can do to help save the planet. Stop using fossil fuels. Consume less. Love more. Here is a list of additional actions you can take.

— from Toppled Tipping Points: The Domino Effect / Brouse and Mukherjee (2023)

Climate Change: How Long Is “Ever”?

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

From the Christmas album of music Merry Christmas!

bookmark_borderWhat’s at Stake (Ankles and Wrists)

LYRICS
5, 6
The days are flying by
I’ve tricks
The ways our trying can buy
I try to learn from each mistake
And try to never the same one make
I try my best not to be a fake
And always remember what’s at stake

7, 8
Fast approaching date
9, 10
I’ll try to be good till then
I try to learn from each mistake
And try to never the same one make
I try my best not to be a fake
And always remember what’s at stake

24
Don’t know if I can try any more?
25
What a great day to be alive
I try to give more than I take
And see how much love we will make
While we feast on birthday cake
Trying to give thanks
For Christ’s sake

For Christ’s sake
Always remember what’s at stake
(Wrists and ankles
Ankles and wrists)

When you countdown to Jesus’ birthday, do you remember what’s at stake when you are nailed to a cross?

Chords: Ab F / Bb Db F / Bb Db / Bb Db Ab F; Part II 126 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Ibanez Acoustic Guitar, Fender Squire Mini Electric Guitar, Fender Jazz Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

From the Christmas album of music Merry Christmas!

bookmark_borderHeed the Call

LYRICS
Well, shall we go?
Hmmm, I don’t know
My gut says not
My heart says start

Well, to the show
Hmmm, maybe no?
My gut says not
My heart says start

Well, final blow?
Ohhh, here we go
My gut says not
My heart says start

Puts a strain on the brain
Keeping sane
And here’s the thing
I broke a string
In spite of it all
Heed the call
And keep it coming
In spite of it all
Heed the call
And keep on jamming

Chords: A G C A / A C D A / A E / E D C A; Part II 112 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Ibanez Acoustic Guitar, Fender Squire Mini Electric Guitar, Fender Jazz Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

When things get tough, keep the faith! Set-backs are part of the life-cycle. In spite of it all, heed the call and keep on jamming!

From the Christmas album of music Merry Christmas!

bookmark_borderCrude

LYRICS
You say the big one got away
So the little ones are your prey
So you say
Pull the lever
Step on the gas
Run them over
And make it fast

Boy’s too clever
He’ll never last

You say the big ones got in your way
So little ones will do for today
So you say
Pull the lever
Step on the gas
Run them over
And make it fast

Boy’s too clever
He’ll never last

You say the big ones exploit you for pay
Yet you would have it no other way
So you say
Pull the lever
Step on the gas
Run them over
And make it fast

Boy’s too clever
He’ll never last

When the crude in their attitude
Protrudes into your latitude
Do you find…
Find it strange
When the lewd use of all crude
Extrudes into all pursued
Is it time…
Time for change

Chords: E F# / F# F E / G Bm E / E G A A G E; Part II 123 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Ibanez Acoustic Guitar, Fender Squire Mini Electric Guitar, Fender Jazz Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

“It’s just mind-blowing really,” said Copernicus Director Carlo Buontempo. “Never seen anything like that in any month in our records.”

“This is not a fancy weather statistic. It’s a death sentence for people and ecosystems. It destroys assets, infrastructure, harvest,” Imperial College of London climate scientist Friederike Otto said.

Global heat is now “gobsmackingly bananas,” said climate scientist Zeke Hausfather. “It’s hard to overstate just how exceptionally high global temperatures are at the moment.”

On November 20, 2023, the UN’s Emission Gap Report found even if countries carried out their current emissions-reduction pledges, the world would likely continuously exceed +3C degrees of warming this century. Later that day, the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative released State of the Cryosphere Report 2023 saying, “Two degrees is too high. Our message — the message of the Cryosphere — is that this insanity cannot and must not continue. The melting point of ice pays no attention to rhetoric, only to our actions.”

What Can I Do?
There are plenty of things you can do to help save the planet. Stop using crude oil! Consume less. Love more. Here is a list of additional actions you can take.

Climate Change: How Long Is “Ever”?

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderReach Out

LYRICS
Hiccup in the make-up
Of our precious galaxy
Break-up in the make-up
Of Man versus monkey
Well…
It’s getting hard to tell
Revolve into shadow
With our backs to the light
Devolve ever shallow
Digging deep into night
Well… it’s getting harder to tell
Parting between heaven and hell
Breakout of the shackles
You’ve placed on your life
Shout out
The Word tackles
Replaces love for your strife
When it’s getting harder to tell
Which direction’s heaven… which is hell
Reach out
And seek out
Your touch within range
No doubt
You’ll find out
Really not that strange
You’ll see
Destiny
Is up to you and me
We choose
Win or lose
Life’s the name
Of our game

Chords: C E E7 / C D E / C A / E / C D E C B7 E; Part II 93 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Ibanez Acoustic Guitar, Fender Electric Guitar, Fender Jazz Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

Climate Change: The End of Times

From the Christmas album of music Merry Christmas!

bookmark_borderHellbent on the Movement

LYRICS
You’re looking at me
Looking at you
It’s plain to see
What we’re to do
Hellbent
On the movement
Of the movement

You hearing me
Hearing you
Clear to the ear
We both can hear
From ear to ear
What to do here
Hellbent
On the movement
Of the movement

Your taste for me
The taste in you
Point-of-view
Come to savor
A knew flavor
Favor to do
Hellbent
On the movement
Of the movement

Lack of movement
Under statement
Could use improvement
Wonder abatement
Find what groove meant
Onward movement

Chords: E D A E / G A E / D C / E; Part II 135 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Ibanez Acoustic Guitar, Fender Squire Mini Electric Guitar, Fender Jazz Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

September 6, 2023: “Climate breakdown has begun,” the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the world after the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported the world endure its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer in human history. “The dog days of summer are not just barking, they are biting,” the UN chief said in a statement after the report’s release.

“What we are observing, are not only new extremes but the persistence of these record-breaking conditions, and the impacts these have on both people and planet, are a clear consequence of the warming of the climate system,” C3S’s Climate Change Service Director Carlo Buontempo said.

Climate Breakdown is the most concerning development. Climate breakdown happens when feedback loops are created and tipping points are crossed. Plants will become extinct and many carbon sinks will vanish. The Earth’s temperature will continue to accelerate at an exponential rate no matter what humans do. Food, fresh water, and breathable air will cease to exist. Humans will likely follow in short order.

In October of 2023, the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Climate Change Service calculated that the average temperature for September was 16.38 degrees Celsius (61.48 degrees Fahrenheit) breaking the previous record set in September 2020 by a half-degree Celsius (0.9 degrees Fahrenheit). This is the largest increase in a monthly record high ever.

“It’s just mind-blowing really,” said Copernicus Director Carlo Buontempo. “Never seen anything like that in any month in our records.”

“This is not a fancy weather statistic. It’s a death sentence for people and ecosystems. It destroys assets, infrastructure, harvest,” Imperial College of London climate scientist Friederike Otto said.

— from Climate Change: How Long Is “Ever”? / Brouse (2023)

Global heat is now “gobsmackingly bananas,” said climate scientist Zeke Hausfather. “It’s hard to overstate just how exceptionally high global temperatures are at the moment.”

On November 20, 2023, the UN’s Emission Gap Report found even if countries carried out their current emissions-reduction pledges, the world would likely continuously exceed +3C degrees of warming this century. Later that day, the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative released State of the Cryosphere Report 2023 saying, “Two degrees is too high. Our message — the message of the Cryosphere — is that this insanity cannot and must not continue. The melting point of ice pays no attention to rhetoric, only to our actions.”
— from The Age of Loss and Damage / Brouse (2023)

Climate Change: How Long Is “Ever”?

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderPass Gas

LYRICS
Smells like you’re leaking some kind of gas
Might want to check on the gas you pass
’cause if you ask me
I think
You stink
You’ve left me
Without a drop to drink
Will life leave
When there’s no air to breathe?
And it’s so hot
Believe it or not
Deniers are criers
And it’s so hot
Believe it or not
Deniers are liars

Smells like you’re leaking some real bad gas
Sounds like it’s starting to leak real fast
’cause if you ask me
I think
You stink
You’ve left me
Without a drop to drink
Will life leave
When there’s no air to breathe?
And it’s so hot
Believe it or not
Deniers are criers
And it’s so hot
Believe it or not
Deniers are liars

Smells like you’re leaking some reeking gas
How much longer can we freaking last?
’cause if you ask me
I think
You stink
You’ve left me
Without a drop to drink
Will life leave
When there’s no air to breathe?
And it’s so hot
Believe it or not
Deniers are criers
And it’s so hot
Believe it or not
Deniers are liars

Chords: F F# / F Eb Bb F / F Db Eb F; Part II 108 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Ibanez Acoustic Guitar, Fender Electric Guitar, Fender Jazz Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

Global warming has caused irreparable damage to our environment. Almost all scientists agree that IN FACT climate change is a problem. Our planet is becoming unfit for human life. Now the question is can we adapt in time? (1999) We’ve known this for decades. DON’T BE A DENIER! Deniers are part of the problem. Be part of the solution. There are plenty of things you can do to help save the planet. Stop using fossil fuels. Consume less. Love more. Here is a list of additional actions you can take.

Climate Change: The End of Times

What you can do today. How to save the planet.

Climate Change: How Long Is “Ever”?

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderNew Year’s Spectacular

LYRICS
Just another year
Doesn’t apply here
It’s clear
If you catch my drift
Know what I mean
The scene
Obscene
Tipping points tipped
Futures ripped
Glaciers dripped
Feedback tripped
Dominoes fall
Maybe all?
Taking it higher
Fire, fire, fire
Deniers and liars
Fire, fire, fire
(There goes my plan, Man
Duh! Canada)

Spectacular year
Is what we have right here
I fear
If you catch my drift
Know what I mean
The scene
Obscene
Tipping points tipped
Futures ripped
Glaciers dripped
Feedback tripped
Dominoes fall
Maybe all?
Taking it higher
Fire, fire, fire
Deniers and liars
Fire, fire, fire
(There goes my plan, Man
Duh! Canada)

Oh what a year
Let’s hope we hear
Right here
And clear
If you catch my drift
Know what I mean
The scene
Obscene
Tipping points tipped
Futures ripped
Glaciers dripped
Feedback tripped
Dominoes fall
Maybe all?
Taking it higher
Fire, fire, fire
Deniers and liars
Fire, fire, fire
Taking it higher
Deniers and liars
Fire, fire, fire
(There goes my plan, Man
Choke… up in smoke
Duh! Canada)

Chords: E/7 D A G E / D C / D / A G E; Part II 132 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Ibanez Acoustic Guitar, Fender Electric Guitar, Fender Jazz Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

Climate Change Review 2023

Sidd said, “Do you remember back in the early 2000’s when we thought we wouldn’t live to see the extreme changes due to global warming?”

Daniel replied, “I think 2023 is the most significant year so far. We saw confirmation of tipping points being crossed for Mountain Glacier Loss, Greenland Ice Sheet Collapse, Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse, and potentially the Collapse of AMOC.”

Sidd continued, “We already knew that. It was Canada catching on fire that I could not believe. I never thought I’d live to see the day.”

Daniel asked, “Do you think the permafrost and peatlands will have zombie fires and cause the permafrost tipping point?”

Sidd responded, “Yes. They are gone, too. We already know from the permafrost peatland fires in Siberia.”

Daniel ponders, “Hmmmm… I guess that means my plan went up in smoke? My worst case scenario / last resort emergency plan was to escape to Canada.”

NASA reported: Wildland fire experts have described Canada’s 2023 fire season as record-breaking and shocking. Over the course of a fire season that started early and ended late, blazes have burned an estimated 18.4 million hectares. Hundreds of fires exceeded 10,000 hectares (39 square miles), large enough to be considered “megafires.” These megafires were also unusually widespread this season, charring forests from British Columbia and Alberta in the west to Quebec and the Atlantic provinces in the east to the Northwest Territories and the Yukon in the north.

Forest fires cause a carbon feedback loop. The carbon emissions of Canada’s fires outweighed the combined emissions from its oil and gas, transport and agriculture sectors. The fires also cause the melting of the permafrost and zombie fires to burn in the permafrost. The permafrost collapse is a self-sustaining feedback loop/tipping point. As the permafrost melts, the peatlands emit CO2 and methane. The increase in CO2 and methane results in more warming that results in more peatland emissions. A third feedback loop is created with lightning strikes. The study Forests at Risk Due to Lightning Fires found a sensitivity of extratropical intact forests to potential increases in lightning fires, which would have far-reaching consequences for terrestrial carbon storage and biodiversity. The results show that, on a global scale, lightning is the primary ignition source of fires in temperate and boreal forests. Global warming causes more extreme weather events and conditions for lightning creating more forest fires that create more warming and more lightning strikes.

The study Wildfire as a major driver of recent permafrost thaw in boreal peatlands published in the Journal Nature Communications found wildfires have caused a quarter of permafrost thaw (2,000 square kilometres) in Western Canada’s boreal peatlands over the past 30 years. “Historically, permafrost in this area underwent a natural cycle of thawing and reforming, but given current climate conditions and projections for the future, this fire-induced thaw appears to be irreversible,” said Carolyn Gibson, who conducted the research.

Climate Change: The End of Times

What you can do today. How to save the planet.

Climate Change: How Long Is “Ever”?

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

From the Christmas album of music Merry Christmas!

bookmark_borderSlaughter a Dragon

LYRICS
Now that we’ve heard your bandwagon
How do we get onboard
We’d like to get on with a sing-along
And finally cut the cord
That was us on the bus
Is it any wonder
We got thrown under?

Why bother to slaughter a dragon
When it’s the bragging to abhor
We’d like to get on with a sing-along
And finally cut the cord
That was us on the bus
Is it any wonder
We got thrown under?

Hard to speak with a gag on
Why bother screaming “Oh, Lord!”
We’d like to get on with a sing-along
And finally cut the cord
That was us on the bus
Is it any wonder
We got thrown under?

Slaughter a Dragon.mp3

Chords: F# E B F# / F# B D C#7 F#
Instrumentation: Vocals, Ibanez Acoustic Guitar

Climate Change: How Long Is “Ever”?

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderMore, More, More

LYRICS
Keep on pouring
Poor, poor, poor
Keep imploring
More, more, more
The more we ignore
“Same as before”
The less we’ll endure
Forevermore
Just like before?

Find it boring
Keep on snoring
Bore, bore, bore
All the whoring
More, more, more-ing
More, more, more
The more we ignore
“Same as before”
The less we’ll endure
Forevermore
Just like before?
Forever more
Rotten to the core?

News that’s flooring
Sound off roaring
Roar, roar, roar
Find it luring
Reassuring
Sure, sure, sure
The less we ignore
“Same as before”
The more we’ll endure
Forevermore
Open the door!

Chords: A C D A / G D A / A E E A; Part II 86 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Ibanez Acoustic Guitar, Fender Squire Mini Electric Guitar, Fender Jazz Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

September 6, 2023: “Climate breakdown has begun,” the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the world after the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported the world endure its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer in human history. “The dog days of summer are not just barking, they are biting,” the UN chief said in a statement after the report’s release.

“What we are observing, are not only new extremes but the persistence of these record-breaking conditions, and the impacts these have on both people and planet, are a clear consequence of the warming of the climate system,” C3S’s Climate Change Service Director Carlo Buontempo said.

Climate Breakdown is the most concerning development. Climate breakdown happens when feedback loops are created and tipping points are crossed. Plants will become extinct and many carbon sinks will vanish. The Earth’s temperature will continue to accelerate at an exponential rate no matter what humans do. Food, fresh water, and breathable air will cease to exist. Humans will likely follow in short order.

In October of 2023, the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Climate Change Service calculated that the average temperature for September was 16.38 degrees Celsius (61.48 degrees Fahrenheit) breaking the previous record set in September 2020 by a half-degree Celsius (0.9 degrees Fahrenheit). This is the largest increase in a monthly record high ever.

“It’s just mind-blowing really,” said Copernicus Director Carlo Buontempo. “Never seen anything like that in any month in our records.”

“This is not a fancy weather statistic. It’s a death sentence for people and ecosystems. It destroys assets, infrastructure, harvest,” Imperial College of London climate scientist Friederike Otto said.

— from Climate Change: How Long Is “Ever”? / Brouse (2023)

Global heat is now “gobsmackingly bananas,” said climate scientist Zeke Hausfather. “It’s hard to overstate just how exceptionally high global temperatures are at the moment.”

On November 20, 2023, the UN’s Emission Gap Report found even if countries carried out their current emissions-reduction pledges, the world would likely continuously exceed +3C degrees of warming this century. Later that day, the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative released State of the Cryosphere Report 2023 saying, “Two degrees is too high. Our message — the message of the Cryosphere — is that this insanity cannot and must not continue. The melting point of ice pays no attention to rhetoric, only to our actions.”
— from The Age of Loss and Damage / Brouse (2023)

Climate Change: How Long Is “Ever”?

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderLet Go of Me!

LYRICS
Maybe it’s time we let go
Of our stubborn ways
If we hope to know
More newborn days
We’re here to report
We’ve numbered them short
Might be time to begin
Taking them in
The air up there
Is plain to see
And it shouldn’t be
The earth’s on fire
The pain is dire
Makes it hard to be
It’s not surprising
The tide is rising
All because of “we”
And me, me, me!

Maybe it’s time we let go
Of our selfish ways
Better get to know
How to share our days
We’re here to report
We’ve numbered them short
Might be time to begin
Taking them in
The air up there
Is plain to see
And it shouldn’t be
The earth’s on fire
The pain is dire
Makes it hard to be
It’s not surprising
The tide is rising
All because of “we”
And me, me, me!

Maybe it’s time we let go
Of our fuelish ways
Rather get to know
How to prolong days
We’re here to report
We’ve numbered them short
Might be time to begin
Taking them in
The air up there
Is plain to see
And it shouldn’t be
The earth’s on fire
The pain is dire
Makes it hard to be
It’s not surprising
The tide is rising
All because of “we”
And me, me, me!

Chords: A D C A / A E A / C D A / B Bb A; Part II 172 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Ibanez Acoustic Guitar, Fender Electric Guitar, Fender Jazz Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

Global warming has caused irreparable damage to our environment. Almost all scientists agree that IN FACT climate change is a problem. Our planet is becoming unfit for human life. Now the question is can we adapt in time? (1999)

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. From 1992 through 2023, we presented evidence and suggested remedies to mitigate climate change. By 2023, the data was undeniable that human induced climate change is destroying our habitat at a rapidly increasing rate.

Climate Change Review 2023

Sidd said, “Do you remember back in the early 2000’s when we thought we wouldn’t live to see the extreme changes due to global warming?”

Daniel replied, “I think 2023 is the most significant year so far. We saw confirmation of tipping points being crossed for Mountain Glacier Loss, Greenland Ice Sheet Collapse, Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse, and potentially the Collapse of AMOC.”

Sidd continued, “We already knew that. It was Canada catching on fire that I could not believe. I never thought I’d live to see the day.”

Daniel asked, “Do you think the permafrost and peatlands will have zombie fires and cause the permafrost tipping point?”

Sidd responded, “Yes. They are gone, too. We already know from the permafrost peatland fires in Siberia.”

NASA reported: Wildland fire experts have described Canada’s 2023 fire season as record-breaking and shocking. Over the course of a fire season that started early and ended late, blazes have burned an estimated 18.4 million hectares. Hundreds of fires exceeded 10,000 hectares (39 square miles), large enough to be considered “megafires.” These megafires were also unusually widespread this season, charring forests from British Columbia and Alberta in the west to Quebec and the Atlantic provinces in the east to the Northwest Territories and the Yukon in the north.

Forest fires cause a carbon feedback loop. The carbon emissions of Canada’s fires outweighed the combined emissions from its oil and gas, transport and agriculture sectors. The fires also cause the melting of the permafrost and zombie fires to burn in the permafrost. The permafrost collapse is a self-sustaining feedback loop/tipping point. As the permafrost melts, the peatlands emit CO2 and methane. The increase in CO2 and methane results in more warming that results in more peatland emissions. A third feedback loop is created with lightning strikes. The study Forests at Risk Due to Lightning Fires found a sensitivity of extratropical intact forests to potential increases in lightning fires, which would have far-reaching consequences for terrestrial carbon storage and biodiversity. The results show that, on a global scale, lightning is the primary ignition source of fires in temperate and boreal forests. Global warming causes more extreme weather events and conditions for lightning creating more forest fires that create more warming and more lightning strikes.

The study Wildfire as a major driver of recent permafrost thaw in boreal peatlands published in the Journal Nature Communications found wildfires have caused a quarter of permafrost thaw (2,000 square kilometres) in Western Canada’s boreal peatlands over the past 30 years. “Historically, permafrost in this area underwent a natural cycle of thawing and reforming, but given current climate conditions and projections for the future, this fire-induced thaw appears to be irreversible,” said Carolyn Gibson, who conducted the research.

Climate Change: How Long Is “Ever”?

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderSnowballed

LYRICS
Pushing a snowflake
Down a mountain
Turned biggest mistake
That’s for certain
Turned into a ball
And started to roll
Watching the ball fall
… roll… out-of-control

Trying to stop a snowball
Divertin’
Hoping this doesn’t happen
Often
Turned into a ball
And started to roll
Watching the ball fall
… roll… out-of-control

Vacate the downside
Or it’s curtains
The biggest balls fall
And you’ll be hurtin’
Turned into a ball
And started to roll
Watching the ball fall
… roll… out-of-control

Can’t concede to gaining speed
I pray we’re not askin’
For divine intervention
… is that your intention?

Chords: Em CM7 / C E A / A slide up one octave Em side down one octave; Part II 100 to 115 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Ibanez Acoustic Guitar, Fender Electric Guitar, Fender Jazz Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

Could a White Christmas be a thing of the past?

Global warming is causing warmer and shorter winters. Not only are White Christmases less frequent, so are icebergs, sea ice, and glaciers. An analysis and maps from NOAA found snowfall is declining globally as temperatures warm due to anthropological climate change.

Decline in Annual Snowfall
As the atmosphere’s heat and humidity increase, precipitation is more likely to fall as rain or hail than snow. “Eventually the laws of thermodynamics mean that as you keep warming you’re just going to transition more and more of that snow over to rain. You can get away with things for a little bit, and it can hide some trends, but overall the laws of thermodynamics will win out,” said Brian Brettschneider, a climate scientist with the National Weather Service in Alaska.

Justin Mankin, a climate scientist and associate professor of geography at Dartmouth College, said with rising temperatures snowfall will not decline linearly (at a 1-to-1 rate.) Rather, there is a tipping point. Once a certain temperature threshold is reached, “we should expect the losses to accelerate. It means we can expect a lot of the places that haven’t exhibited massive snowfall declines to maybe start to exhibit them with just a little bit more warming.”

Albedo is the reflective nature of snow and measures how much light is reflected without being absorbed when hitting an object (e.g. the fraction of incoming solar radiation that gets reflected back into space). Snow has a very high albedo that reflects most of the light and absorbs very little heat. The snow-albedo feedback loop occurs when the atmosphere gets warmer due to human induced climate change resulting in less snowfall. The less snow reflecting heat back into space, the warmer the earth becomes. The warmer the earth, the less snowfall. The less snowfall, the warmer the earth.

— from The Snow-Albedo Feedback Loop / Brouse (2023)

Push a glass toward the edge of a table and eventually it will fall off on its own. No matter how slowly or meticulously you push… no matter how you weight or fill the glass, it will reach a tipping point and fall off before being pushed completely off the table. No matter whether you believe the glass is half-empty or half-full, when the tipping point is reached it will plummet out-of-control to its end. This is science not fate, faith, nor belief. Human induced climate change has resulted in environmental tipping points being breached.

Tipping points, when crossed, trigger self-sustaining feedback loops that are no longer dependent on human activity. Similar to when a domino topples over hitting two more dominoes that in turn fall hitting more dominoes. Thus, the name The Domino Effect. It can also be visualized as The Snowball Effect. A tipping point is like a snowball rolling down a hill growing in mass and velocity (momentum). When a tipping point is crossed, it results in cumulative and reinforced global warming.

Tipping points are Critical Milestones that directly impact the rate of acceleration in climate change by multiplying the number and intensity of feedback loops (chaos theory).

We’ve been snowballed.

— from Toppled Tipping Points: The Domino Effect / Brouse and Mukherjee (2023)

What you can do today. How to save the planet.

Climate Change: How Long Is “Ever”?

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

From the Christmas album of music Merry Christmas!