{"id":55798,"date":"2026-10-01T12:05:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=55798"},"modified":"2026-10-01T12:05:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:05:30","slug":"oh-o%e2%82%83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/10\/01\/oh-o%e2%82%83\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, O\u2083"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro]<br \/>\nO&#8230;<br \/>\n(O three&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Three little atoms<br \/>\n(Holdin&#8217; the line)<br \/>\nOne little molecule<br \/>\n(Changing the time)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nUp in the atmosphere<br \/>\n(Hanging around)<br \/>\nDown near the ground<br \/>\n(Can&#8217;t make a sound)<\/p>\n<p>Invisible molecule<br \/>\n(Three atoms strong)<br \/>\nSeems so little<br \/>\n(But something&#8217;s wrong)<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nOh, I see<br \/>\n(O three)<br \/>\nProne<br \/>\n(To ozone)<\/p>\n<p>Kills a tree<br \/>\n(Killing me)<br \/>\nKilling you, too<br \/>\n(What can we do?)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nSunlight strikes<br \/>\n(Chemistry starts)<br \/>\nPollution pieces<br \/>\n(Playing their parts)<\/p>\n<p>Photochemical reaction<br \/>\n(Up in the air)<br \/>\nGround-level ozone<br \/>\n(Everywhere!)<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nOh, I see<br \/>\n(O three)<br \/>\nProne<br \/>\n(To ozone)<\/p>\n<p>No, it&#8217;s not free<br \/>\n(It&#8217;s costing me)<br \/>\nCosting you, too<br \/>\n(What can we do?)<\/p>\n<p>O\u2083&#8230;<br \/>\n(O\u2083&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Direct warming<br \/>\n(Indirect harm)<\/p>\n<p>Plant damage<br \/>\n(Carbon alarm)<\/p>\n<p>Coupling&#8230;<br \/>\n(Coupling&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Feedback&#8230;<br \/>\n(Feedback&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Ozone!<br \/>\n(Won&#8217;t leave us alone!)<\/p>\n<p>Atmosphere!<br \/>\n(Ecosphere!)<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I see<br \/>\n(O three)<br \/>\nProne<br \/>\n(To ozone)<\/p>\n<p>Kills a tree<br \/>\n(Killing me)<br \/>\nKilling you, too<br \/>\n(What can we do?)<\/p>\n<p>O\u2083 isn&#8217;t alone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Ozone!)<br \/>\n&#8230; infiltrates your home<br \/>\nCOUPLING!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I see<br \/>\n(O three)<br \/>\nProne<br \/>\n(To ozone)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nKilling me<br \/>\n(Killing us)<br \/>\nDangerous<br \/>\n(Can&#8217;t break free)<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I see<br \/>\n(O three)<br \/>\nThree<br \/>\n(Is the key)<\/p>\n<p>(Ozone&#8230;)<br \/>\n&#8230; leave us alone<\/p>\n<p>What can we do?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m asking you&#8230;<br \/>\n(O\u2083 = Direct Warming + Plant Damage + Carbon-Sink Weakening + Climate Feedback + Atmospheric Coupling)<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width:35%; float:right; margin:0 0 20px 25px; text-align:center;\">\n    <a href=\"\/global_warming\/climate-graphics\/Ozone-the-Multiplier-Feedback.jpg\"><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/global_warming\/climate-graphics\/Ozone-the-Multiplier-Feedback.jpg\"\n            alt=\"Ozone = Direct Warming + Plant Damage + Carbon-Sink Weakening + Climate Feedback + Atmospheric Coupling\"\n            style=\"display:block; width:100%; height:auto;\"\n        \/><br \/>\n    <\/a><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>About the Song<br \/>\nOzone represents a rare intersection of climate, ecological, agricultural, and public-health science.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2083 = Direct Warming + Plant Damage + Carbon-Sink Weakening + Climate Feedback + Atmospheric Coupling<\/p>\n<p>Increasing tropospheric ozone contributes to climate-system acceleration through simultaneous direct radiative forcing and indirect ecological forcing, with ozone-induced vegetation stress reducing carbon uptake, altering land-surface energy and water exchange, increasing ecosystem vulnerability, and interacting with wildfire, drought, methane, lightning, and other climate feedbacks. These coupled interactions may amplify climate-system responses beyond the effect of ozone considered as an isolated atmospheric constituent.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"\/global_warming\/Ozone-the-Multiplier-Feedback.html\">Ozone: The Atmospheric-Ecological Climate Multiplier<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From the album <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Present-Tense\/\">Present Tense<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro] O&#8230; (O three&#8230;) Three little atoms (Holdin&#8217; the line) One little molecule (Changing the time) [Verse 1] Up in the atmosphere (Hanging around) Down near the ground (Can&#8217;t make a sound) Invisible molecule (Three atoms strong) Seems so little (But something&#8217;s wrong) [Refrain] Oh, I see (O three) Prone (To ozone) Kills a tree [&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],"tags":[163],"class_list":["post-55798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4d-music","tag-climate-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55798","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=55798"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55811,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55798\/revisions\/55811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}