{"id":40168,"date":"2025-01-12T13:35:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T13:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=40168"},"modified":"2025-01-16T14:34:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T14:34:42","slug":"inverted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2025\/01\/12\/inverted\/","title":{"rendered":"Inverted"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/IX\/Inverted-0.mp3\"> Inverted-0.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/IX\/Inverted-0.mp4\"> Inverted-0.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/IX\/Inverted-I.mp3\"> Inverted-I.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/IX\/Inverted-I.mp4\"> Inverted-I.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/IX\/Inverted-II.mp3\"> Inverted-II.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/IX\/Inverted-II.mp4\"> Inverted-II.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/IX\/Inverted-Interlude.mp3\"> Inverted-Interlude.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/IX\/Inverted-intro.mp3\"> Inverted-intro.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\nIs your yield curve<br \/>\n(Inverted)<br \/>\nPower wield nerve<br \/>\n(Perverted)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nLong term, too much risk<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t earn, power fist<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nUpside down (down, down)<br \/>\nTurned around (round, round)<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s all wrong&#8230;<br \/>\n(And, it won&#8217;t be long)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nIs your yield curve<br \/>\n(Inverted)<br \/>\nPower wield nerve<br \/>\n(Perverted)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nLong term, too much risk<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t earn, power fist<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t learn, mistake whisk<br \/>\n(You bet&#8230; under the carpet)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nInside out (shout: out!)<br \/>\nTurned about (inside out)<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the same old song&#8230;<br \/>\n(And, it won&#8217;t be long)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nIs your yield curve<br \/>\n(Inverted)<br \/>\nPower wield nerve<br \/>\n(Perverted)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nLong term, too much risk<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t earn, power fist<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t learn, mistake whisk<br \/>\n(You bet&#8230; under the carpet)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nIs your yield curve<br \/>\n(Inverted)<br \/>\nPower wield nerve<br \/>\n(Perverted)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nToday&#8217;s phenomenon (and on and on)<br \/>\nSignificant risk implication (complication, situation)<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE SONG<br \/>\nAn inverted yield curve, where short-term interest rates exceed long-term rates, is a rare phenomenon with significant risk implications. It is often seen as a strong predictor of economic downturns. In the song, it is used as a metaphor about climate change deniers.<\/p>\n<p><b> Our <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/Chaos-Theory-and-Climate-Change.html\">updated climate model<\/a>, now integrating complex social-ecological factors, shows that global temperatures could rise by up to 9\u00b0C within this century &#8212; far beyond previous predictions of a 4\u00b0C rise over the next thousand years.<\/b> This kind of warming could bring us dangerously close to the &#8220;wet-bulb&#8221; threshold, where heat and humidity exceed the human body&#8217;s ability to cool itself, leading to fatal consequences.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1990s, we first hypothesized the non-linear acceleration of climate change. By the early 2000s, this hypothesis had evolved into established climate theory, now widely recognized as scientific fact. My lab partner, a Doctor of Physics from Ohio State, and I collaborated to provide key evidence supporting this theory. Over the years, we have observed a dramatic reduction in the doubling time of climate change impacts &#8212; the rate at which these effects intensify. Initially, the doubling time was approximately 100 years, but it has since decreased to 10 years and, more recently, to just 2 years.<\/p>\n<p>This trend implies that the damage caused by climate change today is double what it was two years ago. In two years, it could be four times worse; in four years, eight times worse; and within a decade, potentially 64 times worse. These projections are conservative, assuming the doubling period does not continue to shrink further. Alarmingly, this rapid acceleration does not appear to be an anomaly. If this trajectory persists, the consequences will likely be far more catastrophic than previously anticipated.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/Climate-Crisis-Management.html\">How Risk Management Turns to Crisis Management<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/tag\/the-ice-age\/\">The Ice Age<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/Daniel\/\">Daniel<\/a><\/h3>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/\">The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/IX\/\">MegaEpix Enormous<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inverted-0.mp3 Inverted-0.mp4 Inverted-I.mp3 Inverted-I.mp4 Inverted-II.mp3 Inverted-II.mp4 Inverted-Interlude.mp3 Inverted-intro.mp3 [Intro] Is your yield curve (Inverted) Power wield nerve (Perverted) [Bridge] Long term, too much risk Can&#8217;t earn, power fist [Verse 1] Upside down (down, down) Turned around (round, round) It&#8217;s all wrong&#8230; (And, it won&#8217;t be long) [Chorus] Is your yield curve (Inverted) Power wield nerve [&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":[3,5,9,14,3955],"tags":[163,546,563,4080],"class_list":["post-40168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4d-music","category-chaos-theory","category-daniel","category-lyrics","category-megaepix-enormous","tag-climate-change","tag-mp4","tag-music-videos","tag-the-ice-age"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40168","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=40168"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40410,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40168\/revisions\/40410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}