{"id":34101,"date":"2024-05-12T18:34:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T18:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=34101"},"modified":"2024-05-12T18:35:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T18:35:35","slug":"2-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2024\/05\/12\/2-7\/","title":{"rendered":"2.7"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/2-point-7.mp3\"> 2-point-7.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/2-point-7.mp4\"> 2-point-7.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You call this heaven?<br \/>\nNot even close to break-even<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nBlasting past 1.5<br \/>\nGets hard to stay alive<br \/>\nGetting so hot<br \/>\nTime forgot<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nOn our way to stay<br \/>\nFar away<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nWatch the temperature creep<br \/>\nAnd weep<br \/>\nWatch the mercury rise<br \/>\nRealize<br \/>\n[Break]<br \/>\nEveryone dies<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar Solo, Drum Fills]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nSurpassing 2.0<br \/>\nYou know (we don&#8217;t have long to go)<br \/>\nWildfires go wild<br \/>\nFloods never mild<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nOn our way to stay<br \/>\nFar away<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nWatch the temperature creep<br \/>\nAnd weep<br \/>\nWatch the mercury rise<br \/>\nRealize<br \/>\n[Break]<br \/>\nEveryone dies<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Saxophone Solo, Drum Fills]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 3]<br \/>\n2.7<br \/>\nThis ain&#8217;t heaven<br \/>\nDiscover<br \/>\nHell froze over<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nOn our way to stay<br \/>\nFar away<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nWatch the temperature creep<br \/>\nAnd weep<br \/>\nWatch the mercury rise<br \/>\nRealize<br \/>\n[Break]<br \/>\nEveryone dies<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nYou call this heaven?<br \/>\nNot even close to break-even<\/p>\n<p>[End]<\/p>\n<p>A SCIENCE NOTE<br \/>\nMost climate scientists are projecting a global temperature increase of over 2.5\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels by the end of this century. This escalation in temperature brings forth a cascade of devastating consequences.<\/p>\n<p>As the thermometer creeps past the 2.0\u00b0C mark, the likelihood of extreme forest fires surges by up to 200 times, while the risk of flood damage doubles. Beyond this threshold, at 2.7\u00b0C, an alarming scenario unfolds where approximately 2 billion people find themselves displaced from the &#8220;climate niche&#8221; that has sustained human civilization for the past 10,000 years.<\/p>\n<p>Should the mercury climb to 3.0\u00b0C, the outlook becomes even bleaker. Many coastal cities, including Miami, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, and The Hague, face the grim prospect of submersion under rising sea levels. This catastrophic inundation not only jeopardizes the lives and livelihoods of millions but also erases centuries of cultural heritage and economic prosperity. The consequences of failing to curb global warming are dire, with each incremental rise in temperature amplifying the severity of these impacts.<\/p>\n<h3>From the album &#8220;Nowadays&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/The_Beatless_Sense_Mongers\/\">The Beatless Sense Mongers<\/a><\/h3>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/\">MegaEpix Enormous<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/\">A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2-point-7.mp3 2-point-7.mp4 You call this heaven? Not even close to break-even [Verse 1] Blasting past 1.5 Gets hard to stay alive Getting so hot Time forgot [Bridge] On our way to stay Far away [Chorus] Watch the temperature creep And weep Watch the mercury rise Realize [Break] Everyone dies [Instrumental, Guitar Solo, Drum Fills] [Verse [&hellip;]<\/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":[3,9,14,3955,24],"tags":[163,546,563,3962],"class_list":["post-34101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4d-music","category-daniel","category-lyrics","category-megaepix-enormous","category-the-beatless-sense-mongers","tag-climate-change","tag-mp4","tag-music-videos","tag-nowadays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34101","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=34101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34108,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34101\/revisions\/34108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}