LYRICS
\nWell, look on the bright side
\nAt least we won’t freeze to death
\nSpread the light far and wide
\nBefore our final breath
\nBreathe in
\nBreath out
\nCease
\nWithout doubt<\/p>\n
We’ll cook on the outside
\nHumanity’s humidity
\nThe we’ll cook on the flip-side
\nHumanity’s stupidity
\nBreathe in
\nBreath out
\nCease
\nWithout doubt
\nSeize
\nOpportunity
\nCease
\nExploiting unity<\/p>\n
Give birth from Mother Earth
\nLive more with far less
\nFar less “careless”
\n… behavior…
\nSavior
\nSave our souls
\nFrom our tolls
\nSave our souls
\nFrom our goals
\nOur do’s have come due
\nBlue, but true<\/p>\n
Chords: Eb D \/ D C D \/ C D \/ D Eb D \/ D E A \/ A C E A \/ C E A; Part II @ 130 Beats Per Minute
\nInstrumentation: Vocals (TC-Helicon VOICELIVE and MiniNova Vocorder), Ibanez Acoustic Guitar, Fender Squire Mini (Boss Digital Delay), Fender Jazz Bass (Boss Digital Delay), Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)<\/p>\n
ABOUT THE SONG<\/p>\n
Human induced climate change is an exponential component<\/a> of an unordered system (chaos theory<\/a>).<\/strong> That means global warming is accelerating at a rapid rate in a complex way<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Air pollution is: a leading cause of death worldwide, the leading cause of climate change, and the greatest threat to humankind,” The Long-term Breathing Experiment<\/a> Brouse (2023)<\/p>\n The greatest health risk from climate change to those alive today is the increased moisture content in the air (relative humidity) combined with the increased temperatures.<\/p>\n A Wet-bulb<\/b> measures the temperature read by a thermometer covered in a wet cloth. As water evaporates from the cloth, evaporation cools the thermometer. This mirrors how the human body cools itself with sweat. The higher the heat and humidity (heat index), the harder it is for sweat to evaporate. The study Adaptability Limit to Climate Change Due to Heat Stress<\/b><\/a> found that a wet-bulb temperature of 35C (95F) at 100% humidity, or 115F at 50% humidity, would be the upper limit of safety, beyond which the human body can no longer cool itself by evaporating sweat from the surface of the body to maintain a stable body core temperature.<\/p>\n The United Nations DRR says: Deadly humid heat affects billions including the US Midwest this century. “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<\/b><\/a> was conducted by Purdue and George Mason University and published August 15, 2023.<\/p>\n 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<\/b> 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.<\/p>\n At 3C (5.4F) of yearly average warming, more than 1.5 billion people will suffer. In the summer of 2023, the Earth experienced about a month of warming at 3C above pre-industrial levels<\/a>. 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. What Can I Do?<\/strong> LYRICS Well, look on the bright side At least we won’t freeze to death Spread the light far and wide Before our final breath Breathe in Breath out Cease Without doubt We’ll cook on the outside Humanity’s humidity The we’ll cook on the flip-side Humanity’s stupidity Breathe in Breath out Cease Without doubt Seize Opportunity […]<\/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":[3,5,6,9,14,3878,3810],"tags":[3937,163,3939,528,3938],"class_list":["post-32016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4d-music","category-chaos-theory","category-chords","category-daniel","category-lyrics","category-rawhide","category-speciman","tag-check-your-temperature","tag-climate-change","tag-gobsmackingly-bananas","tag-midi","tag-rawhide-ous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32016","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=32016"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32021,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32016\/revisions\/32021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFor 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.<\/p>\n
\n— from Climate Change and Deadly Humid Heat<\/a> Brouse (2023)<\/p>\n
\nThere are plenty of things you can do to help save the planet. Stop using fossil fuels. Consume less. Love more.<\/strong> Here is a list of additional actions you can take.<\/a><\/p>\nA song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"