Chords: F#m \/ E6 B7 F#m \/ G#m Gm F#m \/ A7 F#m
\nInstrumentation: Vocals, Takamine Acoustic Guitar
\nWritten and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
Sidd reiterated, “I would be more careful about the\u00a0violent rain<\/b><\/a>\u00a0than the ice melt.” Expect to see increasing intensity and\/or frequency in a wide variety of violent rain events including: downpours, flooding, hurricanes, cyclones, monsoons, coastal flooding, storm surges,\u00a0lightning and wildfires<\/a>, hail, extreme wind, and concurrent extremes. The reign of violent rain has already begun. More hillsides and shorelines are collapsing. Atmospheric rivers are dramatically increasing flash flooding in the Northeastern USA. Worldwide, stormwater systems are becoming overwhelmed. Ironically, the streets of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, UAE, flooded days before the COP28 Climate Conference.\u00a0Nowhere is safe from violent rain, not even in the desert preparing for a UN meeting on the climate crisis.<\/b>\u00a0As a result of increasing violent rain, new drainage culverts are forming. Eventually, the culverts will transform into recurring streams, carving new canyons, creating new landscapes and islands. In addition, extreme weather events are increasing the frequency of lightning storms and wildfires. After wildfires, rain deluges cause massive landslides transforming the topography. At the same time as the violent rain makes its way to the sea, the sea is rising to meet the violent rain.<\/p>\n In the article “Violent Rain and the Substrate<\/a>,” archaeologist Greg Laden said, “With a little erosion, the Hudson, Lake Champlain, and the St. Lawrence could become contiguous, so New England becomes an Island<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n Violent Rain<\/b> One physical result is more massive raindrops.\u00a0The\u00a0Momentum<\/b>\u00a0of Rain<\/a>\u00a0is 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. Flowing rainwater will have both increased mass and velocity.<\/p>\n On the ground, concrete, asphalt, solar panels, roofs, plants, animals, houses, and infrastructure will be hit with greater momentum. In the air, the increasing mass of the rain will intensify wind turbulence. Professor Paul D. Williams of the University of Reading, UK, said, “Turbulence is chaotic<\/b>\u00a0(chaos theory<\/a>). Turbulence is known famously as the hardest problem in physics.” In their study\u00a0Evidence for Large Increases in Clear-Air Turbulence Over the Past Four Decades<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n Mass and velocity are parts of a larger equation that also includes density.The combination of these variables results in an increased intensity of the\u00a0flow forces<\/b>\u00a0(i.e. flow dynamics). Wind and water\u00a0flow forces scale as the square of velocity<\/b>, 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\u00a0drag physics<\/b>\u00a0and you will see that force is proportional to density times square of velocity (v^2).<\/p>\n 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.\u00a0As flow velocities go up due to climate change, force and damage scale as square of the velocities.<\/b>\u00a0What 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. LYRICS What you know And what you don’t know About the flow The force, the blow Change course (Well, of course) Change course Of what you know Crevice Culvert Crevices Culverts Create caves (Depends on how Man behaves) Conduits Dividing us On to “I”-lands Understand Where non one stands The damned demands of… Oh, man […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6,9,3878],"tags":[163,3938],"class_list":["post-31902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4d-music","category-chaos-theory","category-chords","category-daniel","category-rawhide","tag-climate-change","tag-rawhide-ous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31902"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31910,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31902\/revisions\/31910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMultiple factors figure into the physics of violent rain. The starting point is the moisture content of air. The Earth is warming. Warm air can physically hold more water than cool air. The warmer the air the more water vapor the air can hold (i.e. relative humidity). The capacity doubles for every ten degree Celsius warming.<\/p>\n
\n— from The Reign of Violent Rain<\/a> \/ Brouse and Mukherjee (2023)<\/p>\n![\"The](\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/pictures\/Drag-Equation.jpg\")
<\/center><\/p>\nWhat you can do today. How to save the planet.<\/a><\/h3>\n
A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"