{"id":35061,"date":"2024-06-09T17:16:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T17:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=35061"},"modified":"2024-06-09T17:16:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T17:16:10","slug":"ominous-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2024\/06\/09\/ominous-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ominous Signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/Ominous-Signs.mp3\"> Ominous-Signs.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/Ominous-Signs.mp4\"> Ominous-Signs.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\nBreakdown!<br \/>\nLook around<br \/>\nAt the primate<br \/>\nClimate<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nIs the CO2<br \/>\nChoking your<br \/>\nIf not yet<br \/>\nIt will, you bet<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nOminous signs<br \/>\nJust look outside<br \/>\nClimate crimes<br \/>\nYou cannot hide<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nNo place to run<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve come undone<br \/>\nBreakdown<br \/>\nShakedown<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar Solo, Drum Fills]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nBrave<br \/>\nThe heatwave<br \/>\nDrought<br \/>\nNo doubt<br \/>\nWildfire<br \/>\nEver higher<br \/>\nFlood<br \/>\nWith our blood<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nOminous signs<br \/>\nJust look outside<br \/>\nClimate crimes<br \/>\nYou cannot hide<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nNo place to run<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve come undone<br \/>\nBreakdown<br \/>\nShakedown<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Saxophone Solo, Bass]<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nNo place to run<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve come undone<br \/>\nBreakdown<br \/>\nShakedown<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nOminous signs<br \/>\nJust look outside<br \/>\nClimate crimes<br \/>\nYou cannot hide<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Piano, Bass]<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nNo place to run<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve come undone<br \/>\nBreakdown<br \/>\nShakedown<\/p>\n<p>A SCIENCE NOTE<br \/>\nNOAA reports: <span class=\"introductory-text-text\">Carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere faster than ever \u2014 accelerating on a steep rise to levels far above any experienced during human existence, scientists from NOAA and the <a class=\" ext-link-after\" href=\"https:\/\/scripps.ucsd.edu\/programs\/keelingcurve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scripps Institution of Oceanography<span class=\"visually-hidden\"> offsite link<\/span><\/a> at the University of California San Diego announced today.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>CO<sub>2<\/sub> measurements sending ominous signs<\/h5>\n<p>Scientists at Scripps, the organization that initiated CO<sub>2<\/sub> monitoring at Mauna Loa in 1958 and maintains an independent record, calculated a May monthly average of 426.7 ppm for 2024, an increase of 2.92 ppm over May 2023\u2019s measurement of 423.78 ppm. For Scripps, the two-year jump tied a previous record set in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>From January through April, NOAA and Scripps scientists said CO<sub>2 <\/sub>concentrations increased more rapidly than they have in the first four months of any other year. The surge has come even as one<a class=\" ext-link-after\" href=\"https:\/\/essd.copernicus.org\/articles\/15\/5301\/2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> highly regarded international report<span class=\"visually-hidden\"> offsite link<\/span><\/a> has found that fossil fuel emissions, the main driver of climate change, have plateaued in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past year, we\u2019ve experienced the hottest year on record, the hottest ocean temperatures on record and a seemingly endless string of heat waves, droughts, floods, wildfires and storms,\u201d said NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad, Ph.D. \u201cNow we are finding that atmospheric CO<sub>2<\/sub> levels are increasing faster than ever. We must recognize that these are clear signals of the damage carbon dioxide pollution is doing to the climate system, and take rapid action to cut fossil fuel use as quickly as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We report: <strong>Climate breakdown<\/strong>, the most alarming development, occurs when <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/notes\/feedback-loops.html\">feedback loops<\/a> are triggered, and <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/Tipping-Points.html\">tipping points<\/a> are crossed. This leads to the extinction of plants, the disappearance of carbon sinks, and an exponential acceleration of Earth&#8217;s temperature. The consequences are dire, with the potential disappearance of vital resources like food, fresh water, and breathable air, likely followed by catastrophic impacts on human survival.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/index.html\">Our climate model<\/a> uses <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/Chaos-Theory-and-Climate-Change.html\">chaos theory<\/a> in an attempt to adequately account for humans and forecasts a global average temperature increase of 9 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Everybody has the responsibility not to pollute. There are plenty of things you can do to help save the planet. <strong>Stop using fossil fuels. Consume less. Love more.<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/go-net-zero.html\">Here is a list of additional actions you can take.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>From the album &#8220;Solid State&#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>Ominous-Signs.mp3 Ominous-Signs.mp4 [Intro] Breakdown! Look around At the primate Climate [Verse 1] Is the CO2 Choking your If not yet It will, you bet [Chorus] Ominous signs Just look outside Climate crimes You cannot hide [Bridge] No place to run We&#8217;ve come undone Breakdown Shakedown [Instrumental, Guitar Solo, Drum Fills] [Verse 2] Brave The heatwave [&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],"tags":[163,546,563,3981],"class_list":["post-35061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4d-music","category-daniel","category-lyrics","category-megaepix-enormous","tag-climate-change","tag-mp4","tag-music-videos","tag-solid-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35061","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=35061"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35073,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35061\/revisions\/35073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}