{"id":34540,"date":"2024-05-25T11:30:59","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T11:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=34540"},"modified":"2024-05-25T11:30:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T11:30:59","slug":"10-degrees-above-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2024\/05\/25\/10-degrees-above-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Degrees Above Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/Ten-Degrees-Above-Normal-I.mp3\"> Ten-Degrees-Above-Normal-I.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/Ten-Degrees-Above-Normal-I.mp4\"> Ten-Degrees-Above-Normal-I.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/Ten-Degrees-Above-Normal-II.mp3\"> Ten-Degrees-Above-Normal-II.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/Ten-Degrees-Above-Normal-II.mp4\"> Ten-Degrees-Above-Normal-II.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be a hot one<br \/>\nAnd we ain&#8217;t done<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nJeez,<br \/>\nToday is ten degrees<br \/>\nAbove normal<br \/>\nHard to keep pace<br \/>\nWith the human race<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nRapidly rising rate<br \/>\nAcceleration<br \/>\nRapidly declining fate<br \/>\nDeterioration<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar Solo, Drum Fills]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nDoes the temperature rise<br \/>\nSurprise?<br \/>\nArise!<br \/>\nHard to keep pace<br \/>\nWith the human race<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nRapidly rising rate<br \/>\nAcceleration<br \/>\nRapidly declining fate<br \/>\nDeterioration<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Saxophone Solo, Bass]<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nNormal no more<br \/>\nWoe, no more normal<br \/>\nAt all<br \/>\nIncreases day-by-day<br \/>\nwhat else can I say?<br \/>\nPray?<br \/>\nWon&#8217;t help<br \/>\nCry? Why?<br \/>\nNo yelp will help<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nRapidly rising rate<br \/>\nAcceleration<br \/>\nRapidly declining fate<br \/>\nDeterioration<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar Solo, Drum Fills]<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nNormal no more<br \/>\nWoe, no more normal<br \/>\nAt all<\/p>\n<p>A SCIENCE NOTE<br \/>\nSome areas of the world are now warming so rapidly that it is becoming increasingly challenging to measure changes against historical &#8220;normal&#8221; or average temperatures. Jeff Boyne, a National Weather Service meteorologist and climatologist, explains, &#8220;There are climate normals that are updated every 10 to 15 years, because the planet is warming so fast. The ENSO (El Ni\u00f1o-Southern Oscillation) regions are warming so fast that those normals are being updated every 5 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The unprecedented rate of global warming is challenging the traditional methods of measuring and using climate normals. To keep pace with these changes, we must adapt our monitoring, forecasting, and planning approaches, ensuring that they are as dynamic as the climate itself.<\/p>\n<p>How fast are humans causing the climate to change? When we started our experiments in the 1990&#8217;s, we thought the time scale was in millenniums. If climate change were happening on a linear basis, we would have been correct; however, by the late 90&#8217;s we were convinced climate change was non-linear.<\/p>\n<p><b>Doubling time<\/b> refers to the duration needed for a quantity to double in size, a characteristic of exponential growth. By 2020, substantial data revealed that the doubling time for certain anthropogenic climate impacts had decreased significantly, shifting from 100 years to merely 10 years. For instance, the rate of sea level rise has surged from approximately 1.5 millimeters per year to over 3 millimeters. This trend suggests that the doubling period is likely to further contract, heightening the prospect of sea levels ascending at a rate of one foot per year by 2050.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/Tipping-Points.html\">Tipping points<\/a> are Critical Milestones that directly impact the rate of <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/Climate-Change-Acceleration-Rate.html\">acceleration in climate change<\/a> by multiplying the number and intensity of <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/notes\/feedback-loops.html\">feedback loops<\/a>. Identifying and understanding these tipping points is crucial for climate science and policymaking. Crossing multiple tipping points could lead to a <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/Domino-Effect-Tipping-Points-Toppled.html\"><strong>domino effect<\/strong><\/a>, resulting in a much more rapid and severe climate change than currently projected.<\/p>\n<h3>From the album &#8220;Days&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/Daniel\/\">Daniel<\/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>Ten-Degrees-Above-Normal-I.mp3 Ten-Degrees-Above-Normal-I.mp4 Ten-Degrees-Above-Normal-II.mp3 Ten-Degrees-Above-Normal-II.mp4 It&#8217;s going to be a hot one And we ain&#8217;t done [Verse 1] Jeez, Today is ten degrees Above normal Hard to keep pace With the human race [Chorus] Rapidly rising rate Acceleration Rapidly declining fate Deterioration [Instrumental, Guitar Solo, Drum Fills] [Verse 2] Does the temperature rise Surprise? Arise! 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