Tag: climate change

bookmark_borderOnce in a Blue Moon

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LYRICS
Sing me a song
That it won’t be long
Coming soon
Before the Blue Moon
It’s coming along
No, we can’t go wrong
Coming soon
Before the Blue Moon
Save us from ourselves
If nobody else
Make it plain to see
Our humanity

Sing me a song
How it won’t be long
Found buffoon
Before the Blue Moon
We’re coming on strong
No, it wont’ be long
Coming soon
Before the Blue Moon
Save us from ourselves
If nobody else
Make it plain to see
Our humanity

Sing me a tune
That we will resume
Coming soon
Before the Blue Moon
We learn to love
Beyond and above
Not just once
In a Blue Moon
Save us from ourselves
If nobody else
Make it plain to see
Our humanity

A NASA Study reported, “If global temperatures keep rising and reach 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels, people worldwide could face multiple impacts of climate change simultaneously.”

I responded, “If”? … sadly no longer “If”… at current levels of emissions, we will reach an average of +3 in the 2050’s. (We already reached that average for July of 2023.) Multiple tipping points have already been breached… the dominoes are falling. According to the new IPCC chair, Jim Skea, we would need to stop all emissions immediately… and then there is a small chance that we would peek at +1.5 – 2… and then start coming back down after 2100. However, he admits chances are slim that we will stop using fossil fuels. The speed at which we will reach +3 to +6 depends mostly on how much CO2 is stored in nature. We do not know that answer. But as these tipping points take off on their own, we will find out.

Human induced climate change is an exponential component of an unordered system (chaos theory). Tipping points and feedback loops are parts of an equation that determine the rate of acceleration in climate change.

Chords: C A7 / C D A7: Part II from 98 to 108 to 118 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

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

Climate Change: The End of Times

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderGoldilocks

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LYRICS
I like it not too hot
I like it not too cold
So believe it or not
I’ve been told
I like it Goldilocks
Heard I’m in for a shock
Humans in the kitchen
Too many kooks and cooks
Same mistake again and again
Burnt and overcooked
By the looks
Beyond roasted… toasted

I like it not too wet
I like it not too dry
They say it’s a sure bet
That’ I’m in for a cry
I like it Goldilocks
Heard I’m in for a shock
Humans in the kitchen
Too many kooks and cooks
Same mistake again and again
Burnt and overcooked
By the looks
Beyond roasted… toasted

I like it not on fire
I like it not so dire
I like it above ground
While my world spins around
I like it Goldilocks
Heard I’m in for a shock
Humans in the kitchen
Too many kooks and cooks
Same mistake again and again
Burnt and overcooked
By the looks
Beyond roasted… toasted

Chords: B7 E7 / B7 A7 E7 / A G E / A G B7 E: Part II at 100 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

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

Climate Change: The End of Times

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderHairless Ape Shape

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Hairless-Ape-Shape.mp3 (unplugged)

LYRICS
Yes I am up n’ risin’
At the end of the day
What have we to say
The price that we pay
For living this way
I’ve got to separate
From this hairless ape
Yes I am up n’ risin’
Yes I am up n’ risin’
Let’s start a new day
What have you to day
With heart we will play
Living a new way
Get back into shape
All of us — the hairless ape

Yes I am up n’ risin’

Chords: C Am E E C Am / Am G G Am
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar

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

Climate Change: The End of Times

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderSave the Wild (Child)

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LYRICS
When it comes to the game
In the great outdoors
She says it’s time
To even the score

Here’s my thesis on the human species
Became untame
Gone insane
Filed under wild
Save the child

When it comes to our habitat
She says, “Enough of that!”
I’m here for more
Clear the floor

Here’s my thesis on the human species
Became untame
Gone insane
Filed under wild
Save the child

when it comes to nature
Quite sure she’ll endure
Without end
And you, my friend?

Here’s my thesis on the human species
Became untame
Gone insane
Filed under wild
Save the child

Chords: E7 E Esus4 / D A E / E G A A G E: Part II at 121 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

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

Climate Change: The End of Times

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderProstrate

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LYRICS
Prostrate
At this date
Irate
You’ve got me down
Prostrate
Degrade
I’m throwing myself to the ground
Ask me my state
Straight up, face down
Prostrate
Frustrate with debate
Yet, I hesitate to state
Face-to-face
As I wait…
Prostrate

Prostrate.mp3 (Free MP3 Stream or Download)

A song about your pollution getting me down.

Chords: E/7/4/9/m7 A7 E / D C E / B E
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar

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

Climate Change: The End of Times

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderYou’re Getting Warmer

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LYRICS
I spy something warmer
Comes with a disclaimer
Everything within sight
Could soon ignite
Is running down the street
Burning your feet
Is everyone you meet
Jumping in too deep
Gone dire
On fire

I spy something warmer
Comes with a disclaimer
Everything within sight
Could soon ignite
An apocalyptic view
Coming to you
As every one you meet
Is burning on the street
Gone dire
On fire

I spy something warmer
Comes with a disclaimer
Everything within sight
Could soon ignite
All your hopes and dreams
Like a World War movie scene
No more news flashes
The world lay in ashes
Gone dire
On fire

In the Hawaii wildfires of August 2023, both wind and water flow forces contributed to the devastation. Hurricane Dora was at least 500 miles from Hawaii yet the wind forces impacted the fire in Maui. The winds were so strong that before the fire reached Lahaina extremely hot air blew over the town. The streets were so hot they burnt people’s feet trying to flee. The surface of everything became hot. Even after people jumped into the ocean, they said the debris in the water was too hot to float on.

The blast of hot air over Lahaina created the conditions for a flashpoint. A flashpoint is the temperature at which a particular organic compound gives off sufficient vapor to ignite in air. The entire town ignited so quickly that warning sirens could not be activated and people did not have time to escape.

In an unexpected twist, water flow forces also contributed to the chaos. How could water flow add to the fire emergency conditions? When people fled the heat and fire, they jumped into the sea. ABC news reported: Shawn Dougherty, of Lahaina, was among the hundreds of residents forced to flee the resort city when the wildfire began engulfing their homes.

Like others, Dougherty said his only means of survival was to jump into the ocean with his girlfriend, but while some found safety in nearby jetties, the rocks and coral tore up Dougherty’s body.

“At one point, it seemed like I might drown,” he told ABC News. “I’m a good swimmer, but the water was just really rough because of the wind and the turbulence.”

From: Climate Change: The Equation / Brouse and Mukherjee (2023)

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

Climate Change: The End of Times

Chords: Em G A A G Em / Em C D Em / Em B7 B7 Em; Part II @ 120 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

The hall of historic Waiola Church in Lahaina and nearby Lahaina Hongwanji Mission are engulfed in flames along Wainee Street on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. (Matthew Thayer/The Maui News via AP)

bookmark_borderThe Sudden Stop

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LYRICS
No, it’s not the fall
No, it’s not the fall at all
Yes, as I recall
Recall it’s not the fall at all
That will kill you
It’s the stop
Not the drop
But the… stop!
[sudden stop]

The same holds true
How the climate crisis
Will be killing you
Do you know
Wind and floods flow?
As man fails (and flails)
Damage scales

Can you see
Exponentially?
@ V ^2
We phased, too
Velocity squared impaired
Some sum momentum
The act of impact
Velocity squared impaired

It’s not the fall that kills you; it’s the sudden stop at the end.

I said: Technically speaking it is the impact from the momentum that causes damage and deaths. Global warming causes an increase in mass and/or velocity (momentum) of things that are mass flow driven by heat, like wind and flood. The burning of fossil fuels and other human released emissions have impacted momentum’s impact. A warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture. Warmer air allows for the creation of more massive raindrops. Warmer ocean temperatures create stronger hurricanes. Hail and tornadoes form in strong thunderstorm clouds with intense updrafts, high liquid-water content, and large water droplets.

Sidd added: It’s worse than that. 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.

About “square of the velocity”, I asked Sidd:
is this Bernoulli’s Equation?
Sidd replied:
you will see that force is proportional to density times square of velocity (v^2)
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 “Climate Change: The Equation” Brouse and Mukherjee (2023)

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Climate Change: The End of Times

Chords: F# G G@ G# G F# / B D C#7 F# / F# C# C# F#; Part II @ 120 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderFirst One Fell

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LYRICS
First one fell
Oh, well
This is hell?
Fare thee…
Scarcity
Forget about variety
Pales in comparison
Stale’s new companion
The dream of thrive
Is barely alive
Now we strive
Just to stay alive

First one fell
Oh, well?
What the heck
Knocked the next
Second fell
Just as well?
This is hell
Fare thee…
Another down
Come sing around
Another down
Come sing around
Another down
Come sing around

Pales in comparison
Stale’s new companion
The dream of thrive
Is barely alive
Now we strive
Just to stay alive

First-One-Fell.mp3

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. Humans have caused chain-reactions resulting in domino-effects, snowball effects, and feedback loops. This song is about the first domino falling… starting the chain-reaction of falling dominoes.  Tipping points are similar to falling dominoes, and feedback loops are similar to a snowball rolling down a hill. So part of the climate change formula might look something like this:

the domino effect * the snowball effect:
(h cos α−(s+d)sin θi+1) * a(1 + r) x

Chords: Dm D#m Em / G D C / C Em Em C
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, PA

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderAt Your Peek

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LYRICS
At your peak
Take a peek
Into the future
And tell me
Do you like what you see
Or didn’t you know
This is your show
Let’s go!

At your peak
Do you seek
To endure
And tell me
Did you set yourself free
Or didn’t you know
This is your show
Let’s go!

Took a peak
Strong or weak
Is your future
And tell me
Did you save our family
Or didn’t you know
This is your show
Let’s go!

At-Your-Peek.mp3

Climate Change: The End of Times

Chords: B D D E / E D B / B F# F# B
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, PA

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderNext Up… Zero

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LYRICS
3, 2, 1…
Get ready to run
’cause you know
Next up…
Zero
Blast off
Post scoff
Falling domino
Rolling snowball
Societal fall
Time to go
Try to calculate the rate
Of acceleration
Take the bait
And contemplate
Civilization

1, 2, 3
Start your engines
it gets worse
Than one imagines
Blast off
Post scoff
Falling domino
Rolling snowball
Societal fall
Time to go
Try to calculate the rate
Of acceleration
Take the bait
And contemplate
Civilization

Sooooo…
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0
Blast off
Post scoff
Falling domino
Rolling snowball
Societal fall
Time to go
Try to calculate the rate
Of acceleration
Take the bait
And contemplate
Civilization

Next-Up-Zero.mp3

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. Tipping points and feedback loops are parts of an equation that determine the rate of acceleration in climate change.

Climate Change: The End of Times

Chords: Em C D / D C / C Em / Em G Em
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, PA

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderBack Together

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LYRICS
Where should I start…
It’s tearing me apart
So from the heart
Going to do my part
Begin
To put it back together
Again
See if we
Can rescue Humpty
Dumb… what dignity?
Come… see what I see

Human race race
To clean-up our place
So from the heart
Going to do my part
Begin
To put it back together
Again
See if we
Can rescue Humpty
Dumb… what dignity?
Come… see what I see

Ways way less cruel
No fossil fuel fools
So from the heart
Going to do my part
Begin
To put it back together
Again
See if we
Can rescue Humpty
Dumb… what dignity?
Come… see what I see

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

Climate Change: The End of Times

Chords: Em Am / Am G Am / C D G G Am / Em Am; Part II @ 102 > 112 > 124 > 132 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderA Bout of About

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LYRICS
Ebb and flowing
Without knowing
Said we’re going
Rushing out
A bout of about
We don’t know
So we cry and pout
Forego go
What’s that on the road…
A head?
One of the signs
I dread

Oscillating
To and fro
While we’re waiting
To find out
A bout of about
We don’t know
So we cry and pout
Forego go
What’s that on the road…
A head?
One of the signs
I dread

Back and forth
On the fence
What’s the worth
Shout some sense
A bout of about
We don’t know
So we cry and pout
Forego go
What’s that on the road…
A head?
One of the signs
I dread

A-Bout-of-About.mp3

Are you still on the fence about the climate crisis?

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Climate Change: The End of Times

Chords: E B G / G B E / E A D G E / E BM7
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderExtreme Theme (Payday)

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LYRICS
On our extreme theme
The lights went out
Can’t miss us shout
Hey! What have you to say
Say! What ever you may
Today
Is the day
Payday
Say hey
Payday

Extreme broken dream
Our sight
went out
Left us to shout
Hey! What have you to say
Say! What ever you may
Today
Is the day
Payday
Say hey
Payday

Serene broken scene
Once right, now doubt
We cry and shout
Hey! What have you to say
Say! What ever you may
Today
Is the day
Payday
Say hey
Payday

This song was written and recorded on back-up power as severe storms moved through taking out power to 100,000 homes.

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Climate Change: The End of Times

Chords: C D Bb A / A C D Bb A / D Bb A / A C C A
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderFree the Way

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LYRICS
Are you sowing wisdom’s seeds
Be bestowing random deeds
Free the way for some freedom
Lead the way through the undone
Gotta undo what we did
Who we tryin’ to kid?

Are you “so”-ing random pleads
Are you showing wisdom leads
Free the way for some freedom
Lead the way through the undone
Gotta undo what we did
Who we tryin’ to kid?
confess to our mess and redress
Refute the dispute
To refuse our refuse

Are you growing? Wisdom feeds
Be bestowing golden deeds
Free the way for some freedom
Lead the way through the undone
Gotta undo what we did
Who we tryin’ to kid?
confess to our mess and redress
Refute the dispute
To refuse our refuse
Time to claim our shame
And tame our appetite
Can’t you see
We’re barking up the wrong tree
Time to claim our shame
And tame our appetite
… we just might
See the light

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Climate Change: The End of Times

Chords: B E A / D E A / C D E A / C D A; Part II @ 98 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderRefuse Refuse

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LYRICS
When it comes to reuse
We refuse
But come to makin’ waste
We make haste
Makin’ waste
Oh what a shame
That we can’t reclaim
Oh just the same
By name
The Lame

If we could just get back
What it is we lack
Concede
Stop the bleed
Oh what a shame
That we can’t reclaim
Oh just the same
By name
The Lame

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

Climate Change: The End of Times

Chords: E D / C D7 / Em / Em G D C Em; Part II @ 110 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment