Tag: climate change

bookmark_borderWhat Comes With It (. or ?)

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[Intro]
Baggage
Found in the cabbage (patches)
Fell off the bandwagon
(If the saying matches)

[Verse 1]
No (No)
Don’t cry
(No don’t cry)
The time has come
(To come undone)

[Bridge]
Baggage
Found in the cabbage (patches)
Fell off the bandwagon
(If the saying matches)

[Chorus]
If it’s us agin’ them
(Agin’ and agin’)
Where do we begin
(To win? Win-win)

[Bridge]
Bring on the love
(Pour more)
Love

[Verse 2]
Yes (Oh, yes)
Progress
(All of us)
The time has come
(For one undone)

[Chorus]
If it’s us agin’ them
(Agin’ and agin’)
Where do we begin
(To win? Win-win)

[Bridge]
Bring on the love
(Pour more)
Love
[Outro]
Bring on the love
(Pour more)
Love

A SCIENCE NOTE
As an economist, I have spent my career studying risk management, and in the process, I have also become a climate scientist — because climate change is the greatest risk to humanity. Climate science is closely tied to our emotions, particularly hate and love. The hatred of scientists and intelligence is one of the most significant factors contributing to the potential demise of modern civilization. If you’re over 8 years old, you should NOT be reposting memes. Most memes are generated by foreign actors (e.g., Russia) attempting to sow division through hate. Memes that promote class warfare, advocate taxing the rich, reference corporate greed or the economy, criticize philanthropy, demonize immigrants, undermine climate science, or promote “drill, baby, drill” are prime examples. If you’re under 8 years old, you shouldn’t be on social media at all. STOP REPOSTING HATEFUL MEMES.

The solution lies in increased education and LOVE.

From a paper I coauthored: The government’s actions, or lack thereof, represent their constituents’ hate and ignorance, leading to a situation where “worst-case” predictions for climate change have become the “best-case” expectations. The ramifications of these decisions are dire, prompting a revision of climate models to reflect a much grimmer outlook. The new projections indicate a potential maximum global temperature increase of 9°C within this century, a stark rise from the previously estimated 4°C over the next millennium.

What Can I Do? There are plenty of things you can do to help save the planet: stop using fossil fuels, consume less, and love more.

— from Climate Science: The Influence of Love and Hate Brouse (2024)

From the album “With It” by The Beatless Sense Mongers and the album “Dreadnots” by Narley Marley

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

MegaEpix Enormous

bookmark_borderFanning Flames

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[Intro}
What kind of desire…
To promote wildfire
Fanning flames higher
All the while dire

[Verse 1]
Tender the tinder
Too dry to try
Careless care less
Embark the spark

[Chorus]
What desire…
To promote wildfire
Fanning flames higher
All the while dire

[Bridge]
Unnatural to aspire
Set ablaze
A fire
Amaze

[Verse 2]
Wind won’t rescind
You know she’ll blow
Stoke the smoke
’till all is aglow

[Chorus]
What desire…
To promote wildfire
Fanning flames higher
All the while dire

[Bridge]
Unnatural to aspire
Set ablaze
A fire
Amaze

[Chorus]
What desire…
To promote wildfire
Fanning flames higher
All the while dire

[Outro]
Unnatural to aspire
Set ablaze
A fire
Amaze

 

A SCIENCE NOTE

Several feedback loops involve brown carbon, lightning, wildfires, arctic warming, ice melt, and permafrost collapse. Brown carbon, with a low albedo, absorbs more heat, releasing sequestered carbon and methane into the atmosphere, creating a self-reinforcing cycle.

Studies have identified a feedback loop between lightning and forest fires. Global warming increases extreme weather events, conducive to lightning. More lightning ignites trees and soil, releasing warming CO2, creating more storms and lightning. The Forests at Risk Due to Lightning Fires study reveals the sensitivity of intact forests to potential increases in lightning fires, impacting terrestrial carbon storage and biodiversity.

“What many people may not be aware of is that lightning is the most common ignition source for fires in remote temperate and boreal forests,” says Thomas Janssen, research associate at VU Amsterdam. These forests store large amounts of carbon, which is released in the form of greenhouse gases during the fire. The research reveals that 77% of the burned area in intact forest regions outside the tropics is due to lightning fires, and the number of strikes is expected to increase by 11 to 3 % per degree warming with ongoing climate change.

“When a thunderstorm passes through this landscape, there are thousands of lightning strikes, and some hundreds of them start little fires,” said Prof Sander Veraverbeke from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, one of the authors on the research paper. “And these can grow together into mega-fire complexes that become the size of small countries. Once these fires are so big, it becomes very difficult to do anything about them.”

More wildfires create more CO2 and more brown carbon that result in more global warming that results in more lightning strikes creating more wildfires resulting in more global warming thawing more permafrost allowing more emissions of CO2 and methane resulting in more warming, creating many more feedback loops.

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

From the album “With It” by The Beatless Sense Mongers

MegaEpix Enormous

bookmark_borderAnomaly Proximity

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[Intro]
In the proximity
Of an anomaly
Normally
Is now to be

[Verse 1]
Is this your destiny
What you’re meant to be
Do you prescribe
Dead or alive

[Bridge]
In the proximity
Of an anomaly
Normally
Is now to be

[Chorus]
The chorus
(In reverse)
The verse
(a vice of us)

[Verse 2]
Is this your misery
What you’re meant to be
Thrive or survive
Dead or alive

[Bridge]
In the proximity
Of an anomaly
[Turnaround, Breakdown]
Normally
Is now to be

[Chorus]
The chorus
(In reverse)
The verse
(a vice of us)

[Bridge]
In the proximity
Of an anomaly
Normally
Is now to be

[Outro]
The chorus
(In reverse)
The verse
(a vice of us)

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

From the album “With It” by The Beatless Sense Mongers and the album “Dreadnots” by Narley Marley

MegaEpix Enormous

bookmark_borderWith It

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[Intro]
What do you say
We give up dismay
New habit
Get with it

[Verse 1]
Up to this day
Lost our way
Throughout decay
Forgot to play

[Bridge]
What do you say
We give up dismay
New habit
Get with it

[Chorus]
All about
(Get with it!)
Shout it out
(Without doubt)
Get with it!
(Our benefit)

[Verse 2]
After this day
There’s no way
We’ll decay
Come on let’s play

[Bridge]
What do you say
We give up dismay
New habit
Get with it

[Chorus]
All about
(Get with it!)
Shout it out
(Without doubt)
Get with it!
(Our benefit)

[Bridge]
What do you say
We give up dismay
New habit
Get with it

[Outro]
All about
(Get with it!)
Shout it out
(Get with it!)

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

From the album “With It” by The Beatless Sense Mongers

MegaEpix Enormous

bookmark_borderMissed Misfortune

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[Intro]
You might call it missed misfortune
All’s right once again

[Verse 1]
The sky didn’t fall
(After all)
Life goes on
(Move along)

[Bridge]
You might call it missed misfortune
All’s right once again

[Chorus]
Take a chance
On balance
As justice
Just is

[Verse 2]
A near missed
(Missed death’s kiss)
Still alive
(And ready to thrive)

[Bridge]
You might call it missed misfortune
All’s right once again

[Chorus]
Take a chance
On balance
As justice
Just is

[Bridge]
You might call it missed misfortune
All’s right once again

[Outro]
Take a chance
On balance
As justice
Just is

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

From the album “A-Okay” by Daniel

MegaEpix Enormous

bookmark_borderTo Die, or….

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[Intro]
Those on the brink of starvation
Start out on a migration
Their situation dire
… choice to die, or….

[Verse 1]
As you look out on our sunset
Have you yet to regret
What could, now would, still should

[Bridge]
Watching the sun go down
(Down, down, down)
All around
(Down, down, down)

[Chorus]
The ants go marching
(Gave up searching)
Their ducks in a row
(But, do they really know)
Lurching
(They go marching)
(Submerging)

[Verse 2]
As you see our days fade away
Have you anything to say
What could, now would, still should

[Bridge]
Watching the sun go down
(Down, down, down)
All around
(Down, down, down)

[Chorus]
The ants go marching
(Gave up searching)
Their ducks in a row
(But, do they really know)
Lurching
(Submerging)
(They go marching)

[Bridge]
Watching the sun go down
(Down, down, down)
All around
(Down, down, down)

[Chorus]
The ants go marching
(Gave up searching)
Lurching
(Submerging)

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

From the album “A-Okay” by Daniel

MegaEpix Enormous

bookmark_borderI’m Really Going to Miss You

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[Intro]
You know I’m really going to miss you
(It’s true)
But, there’s not a lot I can do
(So blue)
No, there’s not a lot I can do

[Verse 1]
It seems the time has come
To say good-bye (you know why)
Watch it all come undone
No good reason why (startin’ to cry)

[Chorus]
You know I’m really going to miss you
(It’s true)
But, there’s not a lot I can do
(So blue)
No, there’s not a lot I can do

[Bridge]
Oh, well
(Bye-bye)
Farewell
(Big sigh)

[Verse 2]
Time has come undone
Say your good-byes (you know why)
Like to say it was fun
But, wouldn’t want to lie (forego the cry)

[Chorus]
You know I’m really going to miss you
(It’s true)
But, there’s not a lot I can do
(So blue)
No, there’s not a lot I can do

[Bridge]
Oh, well
(Bye-bye)
Farewell
(Big sigh)

[Chorus]
You know I’m really going to miss you
(It’s true)
But, there’s not a lot I can do
(So blue)
No, there’s not a lot I can do

[Outro]
Oh, well
(Bye-bye)
Farewell
(Big sigh)

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

From the album “A-Okay” by Daniel and the album “Dreadnots” by Narley Marley

MegaEpix Enormous

bookmark_borderInto the I of Disaster

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[Intro]
Comin’ at ya
Fasta n’ fasta
Into the I
Of disaster

[Verse 1]
The situation
Of humiliation
At the cost (and the loss)
Of humanity’s sanity
(All over vanity)

[Bridge]
Comin’ at ya
Fasta n’ fasta
Into the I
Of disaster

[Chorus]
Coming eye-to-eye
With the devil (in the detail)
The I that’s I
Find the evil (in all you entail)
[Bridge]
Let love escape (me)
Into the landscape (free)

[Verse 2]
The humiliation
Of contamination
At a loss (quite a cost)
Of humanity’s sanity
(All over vanity)

[Bridge]
Comin’ at ya
Fasta n’ fasta
Into the I
Of disaster

[Chorus]
Coming eye-to-eye
With the devil (in the detail)
The I that’s I
Find the evil (in all you entail)
[Bridge]
Let love escape (me)
Into the landscape (free)

[Chorus]
Coming eye-to-eye
With the devil (in the detail)
The I that’s I
Find the evil (in all you entail)
[Outro]
Let love escape (me)
Into the landscape (free)

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

From the album “A-Okay” by Daniel

MegaEpix Enormous

bookmark_borderThrough and Through

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[Intro]
Can’t really say
Given the way
Exactly what day
You’ll come to pay
(Through and through)
(Do’s come due)

[Verse 1]
If I were you
I’d think it through
More than once
Maybe a few

[Bridge]
Because what you do
(Through and through)
Comes back to you
(Do’s come due)

[Chorus]
Can’t really say
Given the way
Exactly what day
You’ve gotta pay
[Bridge]
Though through and through
(Do’s come due)
Through what you do
(Defines you)

[Verse 2]
Have you thought it though
Really wish you do
As your point-of-view
Is a twisted skew

[Bridge]
Because what you do
(Through and through)
Comes back to you
(Do’s come due)

[Chorus]
Can’t really say
Given the way
Exactly what day
You’ve gotta pay
[Bridge]
Though through and through
(Do’s come due)
Through what you do
(Defines you)

[Bridge]
Because what you do
(Through and through)
Comes back to you
(Do’s come due)

[Chorus]
Can’t really say
Given the way
Exactly what day
You’ve gotta pay
[Outro]
So through and through
(Do’s come due)

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

From the album “A-Okay” by Daniel

MegaEpix Enormous

bookmark_borderFrom the Get-Go

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[Intro]
We knew it was a bad idea
… from the get-go
Panacea
For those that don’t know

[Verse 1]
How can you spew
And not have it catch up to you
Both far and wide
Environmental suicide

[Chorus]
We knew it was a bad idea
… from the get-go
Panacea
For those that don’t know

[Bridge]
Fact is fact
(Clean up the act)
Can’t go back
(Brought on the attack)
Fade away
(Like the bed you made)

[Verse 2]
How can you spew
And not have it catch up to you
Both far and wide
Environmental suicide

[Chorus]
We knew it was a bad idea
… from the get-go
Panacea
For those that don’t know

[Bridge]
Fact is fact
(Clean up the act)
Can’t go back
(Brought on the attack)
Fade away
(Like the bed you made)

[Chorus]
We knew it was a bad idea
… from the get-go
Panacea
For those that don’t know

[Outro]
Fact is fact
Can’t go back
Fade away
(Into yesterday)

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

From the album “A-Okay” by Daniel

MegaEpix Enormous

bookmark_borderThink Again

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[Intro]
If your if is in your when
Then…
Consider if your insides
Need let out
(Your besides
Tout)

[Verse 1]
Is the center of the universe
Your belly-button
Or in reverse…
Is your smitten rewritten

[Bridge]
If your if is in your when
Then…
Consider if your insides
Need let out
(Your besides
Tout)

[Chorus]
About
To let it out
About (to)
Come (about)
Too
Let me out
(You, too?)

[Verse 2]
Does the sun
Revolve around you
Call it fun…
But, is your point-of-view
Askew
(You, ask you)

[Bridge]
If your if is in your when
Then…
Consider if your insides
Need let out
(Your besides
Tout)

[Chorus]
About
To let it out
About (to)
Come (about)
Too
Let me out
(You, too?)

[Bridge]
Bring out your love
(Bring out our love)
Let it rise above
(From within my skin)
To get out
(And move about about)

[Outro]
If your if is in your when
Then…
Think again

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

From the album “A-Okay” by Daniel

MegaEpix Enormous

bookmark_borderWhat Do You Make of It?

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[Intro]
What do you make of it?
Neglect or a bad habit?

[Verse 1]
Left it in shambles (what went wrong?)
While the leader rambles (on and on and on)
Garbage piling high (reaching for the sky)
Lack of will won’t even try (make ya wanna cry)

[Chorus]
What do you make of it?
Neglect or a bad habit?
There really is no excuse
Hanging in our own noose

[Bridge]
Fixin’ to die
No reason why

[Verse 2]
Created a mess (yet won’t confess)
While the sheep sleep (knowing less and less)
No pollution solution (prefer desolation)
Population lacks imagination (no restitution)

[Chorus]
What do you make of it?
Neglect or a bad habit?
There really is no excuse
Hanging in our own noose

[Bridge]
Fixin’ to die
No reason why

[Chorus]
What do you make of it?
Neglect or a bad habit?
There really is no excuse
Hanging in our own noose

[Bridge]
Fixin’ to die
No reason why
Rather cry
Than to try

[Outro]
What do you make of it…
Neglect or a bad habit?

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

From the album “A-Okay” by Daniel

MegaEpix Enormous

bookmark_borderMake Way

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[Intro]
Excuse me
(Pardon me)
Let’s make way
(For a new day)
A-okay

[Verse 1]
Congestion
Manifestation
Of Man’s gestation
Mass ingestion

[Bridge]
Not sure what to do
Lookin’ for something to pull us through
Excuse me
(Pardon me)
Let’s make way
(For a new day)
A-okay

[Chorus]
The dawn of “all’s O.K.”
Can’t be far away
Going to elevate
(Participate)
We just can’t wait
(Alleviate)
[Bridge]
The pain of the insane

[Verse 2]
Mass consumption
Pollution (Over-saturation)
As Man concedes
To greed (Sad day, indeed)

[Bridge]
Not sure what to do
Lookin’ for something to pull us through
Excuse me
(Pardon me)
Let’s make way
(For a new day)
A-okay

[Chorus]
The dawn of “all’s O.K.”
Can’t be far away
Going to elevate
(Participate)
We just can’t wait
(Alleviate)

[Bridge]
Not sure what to do
Lookin’ for something to pull us through
Excuse me
(Pardon me)
Let’s make way
(For a new day)
A-okay

[Chorus]
The dawn of “all’s O.K.”
Is here today
[Outro]
(Participation)
Elevation
(Alleviation)

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

From the album “A-Okay” by Daniel

MegaEpix Enormous

bookmark_borderShelter From the Storm

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[Intro]
Seeking shelter from the storm
Should have listened… been forewarned

[Verse 1]
Gone from calm to quick panic
Big black clouds thunder out-loud
Winds whip, growl, and howl
The pain of rain upon my brow

[Bridge]
Seeking shelter from the storm
Should have listened… been forewarned

[Chorus]
Best try to keep dry
(No question why)
Better run for the sun
(The sky’s comin’ undone)
Water flow (on the go)
Hope you know (how to row)

[Verse 2]
Rain came quick and thick
Just in time… by the nick
Get a roof overhead
Before lightning strikes ya dead

[Bridge]
Seeking shelter from the storm
Should have listened… been forewarned

[Chorus]
Best try to keep dry
(No question why)
Better run for the sun
(The sky’s comin’ undone)
Water flow (on the go)
Hope you know (how to row)

[Bridge]
Seeking shelter from the storm
Quite a lesson to learn
Heed the alarm (avoid harm)
Move up higher (avoid the dire)

[Chorus]
Best try to keep dry
(No question why)
Better run for the sun
(The sky’s comin’ undone)
Water flow (on the go)
Hope you know (how to row)

[Outro]
Seeking shelter from the storm
Quite a lesson to learn

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

From the album “A-Okay” by Daniel

MegaEpix Enormous

bookmark_borderBut, You’ve Got Some?

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[Intro]
You say you want some
But, you’ve got some
How will that work out
You want some (more, more)
More to hoard (more, more)
What’s that all about?

[Verse 1]
Pile it high
Don’t ask why
High, high, high
(Till it hits the sky)

[Chorus]
You say you want some
But, you’ve got some
How will that work out
You want some (more, more)
More to hoard (more, more)
What’s that all about?

[Verse 2]
High, wide, and deep
Pile n’ file as sheep
No, don’t understand why
(Just pile ’till I die)

[Chorus]
You say you want some
But, you’ve got some
How will that work out
You want some (more, more)
More to hoard (more, more)
What’s that all about?

[Bridge]
How much more can we endure
Are you really sure
Sure you’ll share a future
Or no more (more?)

[Chorus]
You say you want some
But, you’ve got some
How will that work out
You want some (more, more)
More to hoard (more, more)
What’s that all about?

[Outro]
How much more can we endure
Are you really sure
Sure you’ll share a future
Or no more (more?)

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

From the album “Half-Baked” by The Beatless Sense Mongers

MegaEpix Enormous