{"id":34340,"date":"2024-05-18T18:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=34340"},"modified":"2024-05-18T18:00:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T18:00:29","slug":"reef-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2024\/05\/18\/reef-grief\/","title":{"rendered":"Reef Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/Reef-Grief.mp3\"> Reef Grief.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/Reef-Grief.mp4\"> Reef Grief.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No, no, no NOAA<br \/>\nSay it ain&#8217;t so<br \/>\nWoe, I dunno<br \/>\nHow much longer can we go?<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nGood grief, coral reef<br \/>\nA distress test<br \/>\nThe heat stress<br \/>\nCausing a mess<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar Solo, Drum Fills]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nBringing bleach<br \/>\nTo the beech<br \/>\nThis is alarming<br \/>\nAnd disarming<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nGood grief, coral reef<br \/>\nA distress test<br \/>\nThe heat stress<br \/>\nCausing a mess<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Saxophone Solo, Drum Fills]<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nThe Atlantic Ocean<br \/>\nHeat in motion<br \/>\nToo hot (hot, hot, hot)<br \/>\nWhy not<br \/>\nRaise the alarm<br \/>\nDue to the harm?<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nGood grief, coral reef<br \/>\nA distress test<br \/>\nThe heat stress<br \/>\nCausing a mess<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nThe heat stress<br \/>\nCausing a mess<\/p>\n<p>A SCIENCE NOTE<br \/>\nIn 2023, coral biologists described the temperatures as &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; because they started early and remained at bleaching levels for an extended period. NOAA\u2019s Coral Reef Watch Program Coordinator, Derek Manzello, noted that reefs in the Caribbean and Florida are already experiencing a repeat of last year\u2019s conditions. As of April 2024, heat stress is accumulating in Caribbean reefs, occurring weeks earlier than in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is alarming because this has never happened so early in the year before,&#8221; Manzello said. &#8220;And to say that is alarming because last year we experienced the same thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic Ocean bleaching event last summer was so severe that NOAA&#8217;s Coral Reef Watch added three new alert levels to their scale, which previously maxed out at alert level 2, to better categorize the heat stress occurring.<\/p>\n<p>Coral reefs confront unprecedented challenges arising from various stressors, many of which are directly tied to human activities. Some of these stressors possess critical tipping points, surpassing which can lead to the collapse of coral ecosystems. According to the European Geosciences Union&#8217;s statement on January 2, 2024, specific tipping points include a temperature increase of 1.2\u2103 above pre-industrial levels and atmospheric CO2 concentrations exceeding 350 parts per million. Disturbingly, as of February 2024, the Earth&#8217;s yearly average temperature has already risen to +1.5\u2103 and CO2 to 425 ppm, underscoring the urgency of addressing climate-related threats to coral reefs.<\/p>\n<p>In a significant update from May 2024, scientists determined through tree ring analysis that the average temperature increase in 2023 reached 2.07 degrees Celsius, further underscoring the escalating pace of climate change and its profound impact on global ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/Coral-Reefs-Tipping-Point.html\"><b>Coral Reefs&#8217; Tipping Point<\/b><\/a> Brouse (2024)<\/p>\n<h3>From the album &#8220;Right Now&#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>Reef Grief.mp3 Reef Grief.mp4 No, no, no NOAA Say it ain&#8217;t so Woe, I dunno How much longer can we go? [Chorus] Good grief, coral reef A distress test The heat stress Causing a mess [Instrumental, Guitar Solo, Drum Fills] [Verse 2] Bringing bleach To the beech This is alarming And disarming [Chorus] Good grief, [&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":[3,9,14,17,24],"tags":[163,546,563,3968],"class_list":["post-34340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4d-music","category-daniel","category-lyrics","category-narley-marley-reggae","category-the-beatless-sense-mongers","tag-climate-change","tag-mp4","tag-music-videos","tag-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34340","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=34340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34348,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34340\/revisions\/34348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}