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bookmark_borderThe Gravity

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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

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?

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

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderDomino and the Proverbial Snowball

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LYRICS
All it takes
Is a few snowflakes
As man makes
The proverbial snowball
(Snowball ball)
You know “Domino”
Watch ’em fall
Go, go, go
Take your chance
In an avalanche
Woah, woe, ohhh
Get to know
The force of flow
Domino, oh, Domino, oh, oh

The more man makes
The less it takes
For goodness sake
The proverbial snowball
(Snowball ball)
You know “Domino”
Watch ’em fall
Go, go, go
Take your chance
In an avalanche
Woah, woe, ohhh
Get to know
The force of flow
Domino, oh, Domino, oh, oh

Chords: C# slide to D# F# / F# slide to C# F# / B F#; Part II 110 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

What Are Tipping Points?
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 are Critical Milestones that directly impact the rate of acceleration in climate change by multiplying the number and intensity of feedback loops. 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.

Triggering these tipping points results in the CO2 stored in nature to be released without the assistance of humans. 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 cannot thrive above a rise of 1.5 degrees. Humans cannot survive if the temperature rises 6 degrees. For the first time in human history, global warming is going to continue no matter what humans do. Even if humans stopped their greenhouse gas emissions today, humans have invoked nature’s greenhouse gas emissions. However, the sooner humans stop their emissions, the slower and less severe the onset of extinction will be. In addition, humans must adapt their habitat to remove, reduce, and hinder nature’s greenhouse gas emissions if they hope to avoid extinction.
— from Toppled Tipping Points: The Domino Effect / Brouse and Mukherjee (2023)

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_borderThe $ Hit Show

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LYRICS
What do you know
Here we go
The same $ hit show
Here we go
Please tell me no
No, no, no
Can you say who’s in charge
By the way those indulge
Enlarge their gorge
Through hoard

Bring on the woe
Here we go
The same $ hit show
Here we go
Please tell me no
No, no, no
Can you say who’s in charge
By the way those indulge
Enlarge their gorge
Through hoard

Where friend is foe
Blow by blow
The same $ hit show
Here we go
Please tell me no
No, no, no
Can you say who’s in charge
By the way those indulge
Enlarge their gorge
Through hoard

We do not know
Still we go
The same $ hit show
Here we go
Please tell me no
No, no, no
Can you say who’s in charge
By the way those indulge
Enlarge their gorge
Through hoard

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

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

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 are the points in time when a process becomes self-sustaining without further human activity. Climate change tipping points are positions in an evolving system that lead to a new and irreversible development in global warming.

Crossing one tipping point would be alarming. For instance, crossing the tipping point for ‘mountain glacier loss’ has immediate consequences: millions of people in Europe will be impacted by the lack of fresh water. Billions of people that live along coasts will be impacted by the saline infiltration and eventually by the submerging of their property. In September of 2022, UNESCO reported accelerated melting of glaciers in World Heritage sites, with glaciers in a third of sites set to disappear by 2050. In September of 2023, the GLAMOS glacier monitoring center found 10% of Swiss glaciers had disappeared in the last 2 years. They do not expect any Swiss glaciers will be left by 2050 no matter what actions are taken. If extreme measures are taken, they anticipate we may be able to save some polar glaciers.

This in and of itself should be alarming; however, it gets worse. Tipping points are parts of feedback loop systems.
— from Toppled Tipping Points: The Domino Effect / Brouse and Mukherjee (2023)

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_borderThe DangeroUS

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LYRICS
The sun’s going down but we’ve miles to go
Nothing’s going to hinder our flow
Someone’s going to get in the know
And save us
From the dangerous
In all of us

Fossil fuel fools
Love burning stuff
Stubborn as mules
Preferring the fluff
Enough!

The sun’s gone down… lost sight of The End
Never know what’s around the bend
S.O.S. is the message to send
Please save us
From the dangerous
In all of us

Fossil fuel fools
Love burning stuff
Stubborn as mules
Preferring the fluff
Enough!

Our sons and daughters pay the price
For how we ruined all that’s nice
Addicted to pollution’s vice
Can’t save us
From the dangerous
In all of us

Fossil fuel fools
Love burning stuff
Stubborn as mules
Preferring the fluff
Enough!

Chords: C G D G / D C G / D C / G; Part II 104 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, 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_borderCarry on and on

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LYRICS
In ivory towers
They babble on
Watching peasants
Carry on
Their overlords
Self-absorbed
Missing presence
Carry on
… and on
… and on

The higher powers
For hours and hours
Watching minions
Carry on
With false opinions
Our ours is ours
My dominion
Carry on
… and on
… and on

Wait! Is it too late?
After our days fade away
After I have my last say
Hey! That’s not O.K.
Wait! Is it too late?

231110_0159-Carry-On-and-On.mp3

Chords: G# C# F# / C# E G# / G# E E G#
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania

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_borderThe Error Era

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LYRICS
No matter persuasion
We got to head there
Nor mass confusion
There’s no time to spare
Social delusion
In the Error Era
Life of illusion
To human is err

The clock’s been running
But we’re not aware
Exploitation shunning
There’s no time to spare
Social delusion
In the Error Era
Life of illusion
To human is err

Late to procrastinate
Let buyer beware
Laid out prostrate
It’s hard to prepare
Social delusion
In the Error Era
Life of illusion
To human is err

Missed starting gun
Better run
The more we wait
The more we’re late
Not close to done
Not nearly won/one
Pick up the pace
Or lose the race
We hold our fate
Participate

231110_0158-The-Error-Era.mp3

Chords: E A E / B7 A E / A C A C B7 A E
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania

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_borderCry Me a River

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LYRICS
While bringing on another storm
Keep bragging “do no harm”
The closer it gets
The darker regrets
She’s going to cry me a river
Overflow deliver
She’s going to cry me a river
(Oh, no) One less liver
She’s going to cry me a river
(From) taker to giver

Underneath the raging storm
Lesson is — we’ll never learn
The wetter we get
The darker regret
She’s going to cry me a river
Overflow deliver
She’s going to cry me a river
(Oh, no) One less liver
She’s going to cry me a river
(From) taker to giver

Still bringing on another storm
Is this what you call the new norm
The darker regret
Takes death to forget
She’s going to cry me a river
Overflow deliver
She’s going to cry me a river
One less liver
She’s going to cry me a river
Taker to giver

Chords: E7 hammer on E / A C E / A C A C A C A C E; Part II 120 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, 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_borderEffects of Thugs and no Control

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LYRICS
Narrate:
Stardate: Captain’s log
Dig deep
Edge steep
Rare Earth bog
Dive down
Into the rabbit hole
The depth of what we stole
Effects of thugs and no control

Irate “man”date
Humans flog
Pig-sheep
Ledge leap
Dare Earth’s bog
Dive down
Into the rabbit hole
The depth of what we stole
Effects of thugs and no control

Postdate primate
Funeral fog
Bo-peep lost sheep
Wear Earth’s bog
Rare Earth bog
Dive down
Into the rabbit hole
The depth of what we stole
Effects of thugs and no control
Lack of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll
Oh, well…
Wrong way
You’re on the highway
To hell
Effects of thugs and no control
Lack of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll

Chords: A5 E5 / Em E / C A E; Part II 112 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, 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_borderMeaning’s Found

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LYRICS
Finally some sun is punching through
Tired of all day being gray
Totally know what we should do
Let the music play
Enjoy the view

Spin your partner round and round
See the whole world upside down
Win your patrons another round
Hear the whole word
Meaning found
Getting down

Finally dancing the whole way through
No more all day being gray
Totally know what we should do
Let the music play
Enjoy the view

Spin your partner round and round
See the whole world upside down
Win your patrons another round
Hear the whole word
Meaning found
Getting down

Dance all night into the morning dew/do
Found our way to the new day
Totally know what we should do
Let the music play
Enjoy the view

Spin your partner round and round
See the whole world upside down
Win your patrons another round
Hear the whole word
Meaning found
Getting down

Meaning’s Found.mp3

Chords: Em G Am C / Em G Am Em / Em G Am C B7 Em / G D A7 Em
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar

bookmark_borderFill ‘er Up

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LYRICS
Pull right up and pump the petrol
Loaded gun
Loaded gun with a bigger trigger
Fire higher
Nowhere to run
Fire higher
We’ve come undone

Fuel God to thank for a full tank
Lit the match
With an aim to through the flame
Wildfires catch
Fire higher
Nowhere to run
Fire higher
We’ve come undone

Never pass “forever” gas
Set alight
In a phase of smokey haze
Not alright
Fire higher
Nowhere to run
Fire higher
We’ve come undone

An ill spill never get my fill
Need for greed
So obscene with gasoline
Won’t concede
Fire higher
Nowhere to run
Fire higher
We’ve come undone

Chords: F#/7 E B F# / B D F#; Part II 124 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, 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_borderBad Aftertaste

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LYRICS
What do you think you’re doing?
With all our hate we devastate
Where do you think you’re going?
With all our waste… bad aftertaste
Pile mile high
Defile my
Seeing well-being

Was it worth pursuing?
With all our hate we devastate
You spew without knowing
Cause of our waste… bad aftertaste
Pile mile high
Defile my
Seeing well-being
Being, well, being

What’s with the coo coo-ing?
With all our hate we devastate
Left our ignorance showing
Waste made in haste… bad aftertaste
Pile mile high
Defile my
Seeing well-being
Being, well, being
Being well-being

Chords: G/6 G/7 / Db Bb G / Eb F G; Part II 108 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, 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_borderOle Blues Song

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LYRICS
Singing the same…
The same old song
Absolutely nothing
Can go wrong
Now, move along
Walk the plank
Whole world sank
Off the cliff
Ole blues riff

Singing the same…
The same old song
Absolutely nothing
Can go wrong
Now, move along
Blind lead blind
Land in ruin
Ole blues tune

Singing the same…
The same old song
Absolutely nothing
Can go wrong
Now, move along
Overboard
With the herd
All along
Same blues song

Chords: F#/7/7(11) / B C# F# / A B F# / B A F# / C#7 F#; Part II 130 Beats Per Minute Blues 4/4
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, 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_borderOne Point Five and Still Alive

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LYRICS
Faster and faster
Life is going past Her
1.5 and still alive
Make it to two
… how about you?
Burn, baby, burn
Higher and higher
Burn, baby, burn
Mired in dire
Expire

Faster and faster
Heading to disaster
2 in view
It’s hard to thrive
Make it to 3
… hardly
Burn, baby, burn
Higher and higher
Burn, baby, burn
Mired in dire
Expire

Faster and faster
Reaper is our master
Destiny passing three
Can’t arrive…
We can’t be
Burn, baby, burn
Higher and higher
Burn, baby, burn
Mired in dire
Expire

Faster and faster
We couldn’t outlast Her
Explore 4
There’ll be no more
I’s… to testify
Burn, baby, burn
Higher and higher
Burn, baby, burn
Mired in dire
Expire

Chords: Dm Am Em Am / G A / C E C E / E Am / C Dm; Part II 80 to 92 to 104 to 116 to 30 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

Currently, we have crossed the tipping point when human induced climate change triggers a chain reaction of feedback loops. In 2022, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) insisted there is “no credible pathway to 1.5℃ in place.”

The Earth will exceed 1.5℃ (average global surface temperature over the surface of the earth for ten years) by the 2040’s and a societal collapse will ensue. For the most part, the Earth will be uninhabitable for humans by 2070 UNLESS immediate action is taken. UPDATE: Since writing this in 2021, there is enough data to conclude 1.5℃ will be breached a decade earlier. In October 2023, the Imperial College of London published a study that concludes 1.5℃ will be reached by 2030 at our current rate of emissions. The average temperature for 2023 was +1.4℃ with September’s average +1.7℃ and parts of July at +3℃

— from The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment / Mukerhjee and Brouse (2021/2023)

Q: Is it possible for humans to push the temperature 3℃ above pre-industrial levels?
A: Yes. Humans have pushed global temperatures up more than 3℃.

Q: Is it possible for humans to survive at temperatures greater than 3℃?
A: Probably not long. Humans have never done it before.

Extreme weather will become more frequent and intense. Sea levels will rapidly rise as the coasts disappear. However, the most concerning development will be feedback loops and tipping points. 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.
— from Climate Change: How Long Is “Ever”? / Brouse (2023)

bookmark_borderMake It Last

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Make-It-Last.mp3

LYRICS
Glad to be alive
Now that I found
It’s better above ground
… just look around
Since all our days are numbered
Let’s not make this our last
Since all our days are numbered
Let’s make this one last

Glad to be alive
Enjoy the strive
Beauty to be found
… just look around
Since all our days are numbered
Let’s not make this our last
Since all our days are numbered
Let’s make this one last

Glad to be alive
Gives me the drive
Nature astounds
… just look around
Since all our days are numbered
Let’s not make this our last
Since all our days are numbered
Let’s make this one last

Chords: A C D / A C E A
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar

bookmark_borderWater Vapor Savior

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LYRICS
Going on days and days
Living in a haze
Down with a bog
Living in a fog
Simply some sun sheen
Or a dripping of moonbeam
Would save me
Surely some bright light
A cool breeze through trees
Water vapor savior

It’s not just the heat
To make it complete
The humidity is killing me
Simply some sun sheen
Or a dripping of moonbeam
Would save me
Surely some bright light
A cool breeze through trees
Water vapor savior

Tired of jumping through hoops
When the air’s thick as soup
Please let it rain
I won’t complain
Simply some sun sheen
Or a dripping of moonbeam
Would save me
Surely some bright light
A cool breeze through trees
Water vapor savior

Chords: Am Em Bm Em / C Am E / E C E C E Am; Part II 121 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

For every degree Celsius in warming, the water-holding capacity of the atmosphere increases by about 7%. Record-high sea temperatures ensure there is more moisture (in the form of water vapor) in the atmosphere, by an estimated 5-15% compared to before the 1970s, when global temperature rise began in earnest.

Water vapor is a powerful greenhouse gas. Since the 1970s, its rise likely increased global heating by an amount comparable to that from rising carbon dioxide. We are now seeing the consequences. In the current climate, for average all-sky conditions, water vapour is estimated to account for 50% of the total greenhouse effect, carbon dioxide 19%, ozone 4% and other gases 3%. Clouds make up about a quarter of the greenhouse effect.

The main greenhouse gases – carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone – don’t condense and precipitate. Water vapor does, which means its lifetime in the atmosphere is much shorter, by orders of magnitude, compared to other greenhouse gases. On average, water vapor only lasts nine days,

Sidd said, “The biggest feedback loop is water vapor. Humans put CO2 in the air. CO2 is a greenhouse gas, so the earth gets warmer. Warmer air can hold more water vapor soaking up more water vapor from the oceans. Water vapor is a greenhouse gas, so it gets even warmer… rinse (sorry!) and repeat. Another interesting thing is that the precipitation (rain, snow, sleet) intensity is increasing.”

The most common measure of water vapor in the atmosphere is relative humidity. Deadly humid heat is affecting billions of people today. “It’s very disturbing,” study co-author Matthew Huber of Purdue University. “It’s going to send a lot of people to emergency medical care.”

The study Greatly enhanced risk to humans as a consequence of empirically determined lower moist heat stress tolerance was conducted by Purdue and George Mason University and published August 15, 2023. These results indicate that a significant portion of the world’s population will experience — for the first time in human history — prolonged exposures to uncompensable extreme moist heat. Humans will struggle to adapt to these conditions in a warmer world as they will present widespread challenges across many aspects of food-energy-water security, human health, and economic development including in the world’s most populous and most vulnerable regions. At 3C (5.4F) of yearly average warming, more than 1.5 billion people will suffer. Both 2022 and 2023 saw a record number of heat related deaths. More than 61,000 Europeans died from extreme heat in the summer of 2022.

— From Sea Level Rise: Then and Now / Mukherjee and Brouse (2023)

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