LYRICS
Going to fetch
An open stretch
Of imagination
Making a plan to understand
Man’s stagnation
We should be flying cars
Using fusion
Instead of dying hard
In confusion
Going to fetch
An open stretch
Of imagination
Making a plan to understand
Man’s stagnation
We should be living long
Useful years
Instead of dying wrong
Full of fear
Going to fetch
An open stretch
Of imagination
Making a plan to understand
Man’s stagnation
We should be breathing fresh
Refreshing air
Instead of dying pressed
Into despair
Chords: Dm G Dm / C G Dm; Part II and III at 104 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
LYRICS
My, oh, my
Was the hottest July
Why, oh, why
On trust rely
Can you remember
A hotter September
Recording breaking record
Sets the new accord
Chord
Turns minor
Can’t insure
Word turns dire
Who’ll endure?
Cry, woe, cry
We’re all going to fry
Why, oh, why
On trust rely
Can you remember
A hotter September
Recording breaking record
Sets the new accord
Chord
Turns minor
Can’t insure
Word turns dire
Who’ll endure?
No, no, no
We don’t want to die
Why, oh, why
On trust rely
Can you remember
A hotter September
Recording breaking record
Sets the new accord
Chord
Turns minor
Can’t insure
Word turns dire
Who’ll endure?
Chords: Bb Db F Bb / Bb Db Ab Eb / Bb Bbm7; Part II at 112 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
A song about the hottest temperatures on Earth ever. During the first week of July 2023, the Earth had the hottest days ever. The European Space Agency’s Copernicus Climate Change Service calculated that the average temperature for September was 16.38 degrees Celsius (61.48 degrees Fahrenheit) breaking the previous record set in September 2020 by a half-degree Celsius (0.9 degrees Fahrenheit). This is the largest increase in a monthly record high ever.
“It’s just mind-blowing really,” said Copernicus Director Carlo Buontempo. “Never seen anything like that in any month in our records.”
“This is not a fancy weather statistic. It’s a death sentence for people and ecosystems. It destroys assets, infrastructure, harvest,” Imperial College of London climate scientist Friederike Otto said.
— from Climate Change: How Long Is “Ever”? / Brouse (2023)
As extreme weather events intensify, insurance will become more and more difficult to obtain. The oil industry is going to be like the tobacco industry. The consumers claim they were misled about the dangers of burning fossil fuels and file lawsuits against the oil companies. As litigation drags on, you will not be able to buy oil or get insurance at a reasonable price (similar to what happened to cigarette smokers.)
— from Climate Change and Cigarette Litigation / Brouse (2016 and 2023)
Who’ll endure? This research reveals more evidence that humans will have difficulty adapting to climate change, especially those in developing countries, Mora said. “The magnitude of the vulnerability when you think about one or two diseases — okay, sure, we can deal with that,” he said. “But when you’re talking about 58% of the diseases, and 58% of those diseases can be affected or triggered in 1,000 different ways. So that, to me, was also revealing of the fact that we’re not going to be able to adapt to climate change.”
In 2023, we wrote about having crossed tipping points in the paper, “Climate Change: How Long Is ‘Ever’?“. When we wrote the Tunnel Under Thesis in 1995, we forecast crossing these tipping points would not happen for centuries. We underestimated Man’s ignorance and arrogance. Fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions have continued to set record highs. Humans have caused chain-reactions resulting in toppled tipping points, feedback loops, and The Domino Effect.
— from Climate Change: The End of Times / Brouse and Mukherjee (2023)
LYRICS
Go ahead
Scratch at the surface
Go ahead
Mind needs fed
2+2, 4+4
Go for more
8+8
No debate
Double the score
Go ahead
Scratch at the surface
Go ahead
Mind needs fed
16+16
Know what I mean?
32+32
Yes, I do
Go ahead
Scratch at the surface
Go ahead
Mind needs fed
64+64
Go for more
128+128
Celebrate
Go for more
Double the score
This time
It’s time
For double time
Chords: E A D G / E A D E / E A G F# E
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania
=
doubling time
=
time
=
growth rate
Doubling time is the amount of time it takes for a quantity to double in size (exponential growth). For instance, if you invest your money at 10%, it will take about 7 years to double your money. For every $1,000 invested today, you will accumulate $128,000 in 49 years.
The same principle holds true with the accumulated impact of climate change. By 2020, there was enough data to see the “doubling period” of some anthropogenic climate affects had gone from 100 years to 10 years. For instance, the rate of sea level rise has gone from about 1.5 millimeters per year to over 3 millimeters. We expect to see the doubling period to continue to shrink raising the possibility of sea levels rising a foot/year by 2050.
Though the rate of change in climate disasters’ intensity, duration, and likelihood vary according to the type of extreme weather, a “rule-of-thumb” can be derived from the Canada wildfires of 2023. The World Weather Attribution Organization found, “Climate change made the cumulative severity of Quebec’s 2023 fire season to the end of July around 50% more intense, and seasons of this severity at least seven times more likely to occur.”
50% more intense
7 x more likely
These numbers may be similar in other catastrophes like hurricanes, heat waves, droughts, floods, tornadoes, and sea level rise.
If the doubling time remains at 10 years, we could see extreme events 100% more intense and/or longer in duration, as well as, 14 times more likely to occur. As mentioned above, we expect the doubling time to be reduced. If the doubling time is 5 years, in ten years we could see 200% more intense and longer extreme weather events being 28 times more likely to occur.
LYRICS There’s a drought in the rainforest There’s no doubt what that’s about You’ll find out about opinion Versus the definition Of desertification Reached a tipping point Fell over the edge Who’s running this joint? Need a new world pledge Let’s get right to the point Pledge to walk back… … from the ledge (Please step back from the ledge)
As a matter of fact, AMOC is whack There’s no doubt what that’s about You’ll find out about opinion Versus the definition Of overturning circulation
Alas, mountain glacier loss There’s no doubt what that’s about You’ll find out about opinion Versus the definition Of coastal saturation
Reached a tipping point Fell over the edge Who’s running this joint? Need a new world pledge Let’s get right to the point Pledge to walk back… … from the ledge (Please step back from the ledge) Reached a tipping point? Reached tipping points Breached tipping points Multiple tipping points Who’s running this joint? Need a new world pledge Let’s get right to the point Pledge to walk back… … from the ledge (Please step back from the ledge)
Chords: B C E / A G E / G A E / G A A G E; Part II @ 110 Beats Per Minute Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
The song is about tipping points we appear to have breached. Push a glass toward the edge of a table and eventually it will fall off on its own. No matter how slowly or meticulously you push… no matter how you weight or fill the glass, it will reach a tipping point and fall off before being pushed completely off the table. No matter whether you believe the glass is half-empty or half-full, when the tipping point is reached it will plummet out-of-control to its end. This is science not fate, faith, nor belief. Human induced climate change has resulted in environmental tipping points being breached.
Crossing one tipping point would be alarming. For instance, crossing the tipping point for ‘mountain glacier loss‘ has immediate consequences: millions of people in Europe will be impacted by the lack of fresh water. Billions of people that live along coasts will be impacted by the saline infiltration and eventually by the submerging of their property. This in and of itself should be alarming; however, it gets worse. Tipping points are parts of feedback loop systems. The ice–albedo feedback loop is an expression of the ability of surfaces to reflect sunlight (heat from the sun). Any loss of ice over a darker surface means the surface will absorb more heat and reflect less heat. This process makes the Earth warmer causing more loss of ice… which in turn causes more warming of the Earth. So, yes, the mountain ice tipping point is quite alarming for both its immediate impact as well as its self-sustaining growth to global warming; but wait, it gets more alarming. The increasing temperatures due to crossing a tipping point causes other tipping points to be breached.
The tipping point for the collapse of AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) was thought to be centuries away, at the earliest. In July of 2023, the study Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation was published in the journal Nature Communications. “Here we provide statistical significance and data-driven estimators for the time of tipping. We estimate a collapse of the AMOC to occur around mid-century (2025-2095) under the current scenario of future emissions.” The collapse is likely to cause faster sea level rise on the east coast of the US, more severe storms in Europe, and increasing drought in the Sahel in Africa. “From the study of past climate, we know changes in the AMOC have been some of the most abrupt and impactful events in the history of climate,” said Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf, at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany and world leading oceanographer. During the last Ice Age, winter temperatures changed by up to 10C within three years in some places. “We are dealing with a system that in some aspects is highly non-linear, so fiddling with it is very dangerous, because you may well trigger some surprises,” he said. “I wish I knew where this critical tipping point is, but that is unfortunately just what we don’t know. We should avoid disrupting the AMOC at all costs. It is one more reason why we should stop global warming as soon as possible.” A feedback loop created by the AMOC tipping point is disruption in weather systems and circulation that cause loss of naturally occurring carbon sinks. One scenario is desertification of the Amazon rainforest.
The tipping point / feedback loop problem is very complex (chaos theory) and exponentially alarming. A third tipping point appears to have been triggered by the summer of 2023 — Amazon Rainforest Dieback. The Amazon is often referred to as ‘the lungs of our planet’. Not only does the Amazon suck in huge quantities of CO2 and breath out O2, but the Amazon soils also store huge amounts of CO2. The desertification of the Amazon would result in a release of the carbon as the soils disappeared.
1) much of July was spent at record temperatures +3C 2) the collapse of the Amazon rainforest is likely to happen between +2 – 4C. The collapse of the Amazon is expected to occur because of changing weather patterns and circulation that result in drought. 3) Brazil set up a task force for “unprecedented drought in the Amazon”
Low river levels and hotter waters have killed masses of fish seen floating on river surfaces, contaminating the drinking water, Environment Minister Marina Silva said. “We have a very worrying situation. This record drought has disrupted river transport routes (dropping 30 cm / day) threatening food and water shortages, and a large fish mortality is already beginning.” This was the effect of a periodic El Niño mixing with changes in weather patterns brought by global warming. “We are seeing a collision of two phenomena, one natural which is El Niño and the other a phenomenon produced by humans, which is the change in the Earth’s temperature.” Worsened by climate change, this combination has caused drought not seen before in the Amazon and “is incomparably stronger and could happen more frequently.”
Scientists concur that a rise of 2 degrees will trigger feedback loops and tipping points. Triggering these tipping points results in the CO2 stored in nature to be released. Though we do not know how much carbon is stored in nature, it would be reasonable to assume that the temperature could be pushed from 3 degrees to 6 degrees above pre-industrial levels. Humans cannot thrive above a rise of 1.5 degrees. Humans cannot survive if the temperature rises 6 degrees.
LYRICS
Tune in
The frequency
Turn up
The volume
The magic is in the science
It’s music to our ears
Raise the chance your atoms
Dance
Until the smoke clears
Tune in
The frequency
Tune in
Frequently
Turn up
The volume
Turn up
And than some
The way the waves behave
Is music to our ears
Raise the chance our atoms
Dance
When everyone hears
Tune in
The frequency
Tune in
Frequently
Turn up
The volume
Turn up
And than some
The ear drums vibrate
At a certain rate
They stimulate
And move
Until we dance and groove
A song about the science of sound and the magic of music. The line “The magic is in the science” was inspired by Merlin from King Arthur. Many think his acts of magic where actually science experiments. The line “Dance until the smoke clears” is about science protecting scientists in dark times (such as Galileo and the Inquisition or modern scientists and climate change deniers.) Most of the song is about the magic of music being heard.
Johns Hopkins says: The ear collects sound waves and channels them into the ear canal, where the sound is amplified. The sound waves then travel toward a flexible, oval membrane at the end of the ear canal called the eardrum, or tympanic membrane. Sound waves cause the eardrum to vibrate. The cochlea is filled with a fluid that (when stimulated) moves in response to the vibrations from the oval window. As the fluid moves, 25,000 nerve endings are set into motion. These nerve endings transform the vibrations into electrical impulses that then travel along the eighth cranial nerve (auditory nerve) to the brain.
Chords: G A C D A / D A / G A C D A G A C E A; Part II @ 112 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
Density.MID Casio WK-3500 with Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
LYRICS
Dense
I see density
Hits me
Like reality
In sane
Wind whipped rain
When gas turns to liquid
As it just did
You come to know
The force of flow
In that space
Where it hits your face
You’ll make sense
Of what is dense
Literally, I can see density
It disfigures me
Density
Times the squared velocity
The irony
In my eye
I see
Density
Yeah… it hits me
What a drag
Hit a snag
Came to know
The forces flow
Technically Speaking, It’s Not the Momentum That Kills You
It’s not the fall that kills you; it’s the sudden stop at the end.
Technically speaking it is the impact from the momentum that causes damage and deaths. Global warming causes an increase in mass and/or velocity (momentum) of things that are mass flow driven by heat, like wind and flood.
The burning of fossil fuels and other human released emissions have impacted momentum’s impact. A warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture. Warmer air allows for the creation of more massive raindrops. Warmer ocean temperatures create stronger hurricanes. Hail and tornadoes form in strong thunderstorm clouds with intense updrafts, high liquid-water content, and large water droplets.
Sidd added: It’s worse than that. Wind and water flow forces scale as the square of velocity, so as flow speeds increase (say due to more intense heating or heavier rain) the damage scales as the square of the velocity.
About “square of the velocity”, I asked Sidd: is this Bernoulli’s Equation?
Sidd replied:
look at Wikipedia: Drag (Physics)
you will see that force is proportional to density times square of velocity (v^2)
So a twenty mile an hour wind exerts four times as much force as a ten mile an hour wind. And a forty mile an hour wind exerts sixteen times as much force as a ten mile an hour wind. A wind of fifty miles an hour exerts twenty five times and a wind of sixty miles an hour exerts thirty six times as much force as one of ten miles an hour. Then you have the density term. Water is about eight hundred times denser than air, So the force exerted by a ten mile an hour flow of water is eight hundred times that of a ten mile an hour wind. So as flow velocities go up due to climate change, force and damage scale as square of the velocities. What is not clear is how much these velocities increase with climate change. But in a sense we are seeing this already as, for example, flood and sewage systems succumb and hillsides fall down, and so on. — from “Climate Change: The Equation” / Brouse and Mukherjee (2023)
Chords: F#m A / E6 B7 F#m / D E6 F#m / F#m Am G#m F#m Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania
Technically Speaking, It’s Not the Momentum That Kills You
It’s not the fall that kills you; it’s the sudden stop at the end.
Technically speaking it is the impact from the momentum that causes damage and deaths. Global warming causes an increase in mass and/or velocity (momentum) of things that are mass flow driven by heat, like wind and flood.
The burning of fossil fuels and other human released emissions have impacted momentum’s impact. A warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture. Warmer air allows for the creation of more massive raindrops. Warmer ocean temperatures create stronger hurricanes. Hail and tornadoes form in strong thunderstorm clouds with intense updrafts, high liquid-water content, and large water droplets.
Sidd added: It’s worse than that. Wind and water flow forces scale as the square of velocity, so as flow speeds increase (say due to more intense heating or heavier rain) the damage scales as the square of the velocity.
About “square of the velocity”, I asked Sidd: is this Bernoulli’s Equation?
Sidd replied:
look at Wikipedia: Drag (Physics) you will see that force is proportional to density times square of velocity (v^2)
So a twenty mile an hour wind exerts four times as much force as a ten mile an hour wind. And a forty mile an hour wind exerts sixteen times as much force as a ten mile an hour wind. A wind of fifty miles an hour exerts twenty five times and a wind of sixty miles an hour exerts thirty six times as much force as one of ten miles an hour. Then you have the density term. Water is about eight hundred times denser than air, So the force exerted by a ten mile an hour flow of water is eight hundred times that of a ten mile an hour wind. So as flow velocities go up due to climate change, force and damage scale as square of the velocities. What is not clear is how much these velocities increase with climate change. But in a sense we are seeing this already as, for example, flood and sewage systems succumb and hillsides fall down, and so on. — from “Climate Change: The Equation” / Brouse and Mukherjee (2023)
At what rate is climate change accelerating?
A: Rapidly
As described above, we do not know the rate of acceleration other than to say it is more rapid than previously thought. In the summer of 2023, the extreme temperatures left most climate scientists shocked. The average earth surface temperature recorded record highs for months reaching over 3 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The Paris Agreement calls for keeping temperatures below 1.5 degrees. Scientists concur that a rise of 2 degrees will trigger feedback loops and tipping points. Triggering these tipping points results in the CO2 stored in nature to be released. Though we do not know how much carbon is stored in nature, it would be reasonable to assume that the temperature could be pushed from 3 degrees to 6 degrees above pre-industrial levels. Humans can not thrive above a rise of 1.5 degrees. Humans can not survive if the temperature rises 6 degrees.
About the 2023 wildfires in Hawaii, Governor Josh Green said, “For perspective, we’ve had six fire emergencies this August, we had six fire emergencies between 1953 and 2003. That’s how- how fast things are changing. I know that there is debate out there whether we should be talking about climate change or not. Well, let’s be real world, climate change is here we are in the midst of it with a hotter planet, and fiercer storms.”
About the catastrophic die-off of 10,000 emperor penguin chicks in the Antarctic, Dr. Caroline Holmes of the British Antarctic Survey (an expert on Antarctic sea-ice) said, “What we’re seeing right now is so far outside what we’ve observed previously. We expected change but I don’t think we expected so much change so rapidly.” — from “Climate Change: Rate of Acceleration” / Brouse and Mukherjee (2023)
Chords: Am G#m Gm F#m / D# F#m / F F#; Part II at 122 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
LYRICS
As I reflect
The light bounces back
We all neglect
The sight… nonsense hack
Got to do the dishes
Got to take out the trash
Forget children’s wishes
While their dreams we dash
Our best
The light bouncing
Gives my color hue
The might pouncing
Paints my point-of-view
Got to do the dishes
Got to take out the trash
Forget children’s wishes
While their dreams we dash
Our best
The light absorbing
Photosynthesis
The dark that’s coming
Will relinquish this
Got to do the dishes
Got to take out the trash
Forget children’s wishes
While their dreams we dash
Our best
This song is about the literal and the figurative meanings of “reflect”. What do you reflect upon when you see the reflection of climate change?
re·flect
/rəˈflek(t)/
verb
verb: reflect; 3rd person present: reflects; past tense: reflected; past participle: reflected; gerund or present participle: reflecting
1. (of a surface or body) throw back (heat, light, or sound) without absorbing it.
“Objects appear colored because of the way they reflect light. Sunlight is a mixture of all colors of light, which combine to form brilliant white light. Some surfaces reflect all of this light, while others absorb some of the colors.
2. think deeply or carefully about.
“he reflected with sadness on human induced climate change”
Chords: G C G / C G / G D
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
LYRICS
Can you bare it?
Rare entertainment!
Can you share it
The wormhole to your soul?
Sing your song
People, sing a long
La, la, la, la, la
Can you bare it?
Rare entertainment!
Art of the part
Dare to bare the soul
Sing your song
People, sing a long
La, la, la, la, la
Can you bare it?
Rare entertainment!
At any age
On stage
Soul’s goal
Sole goal
Goal — soul
Sing your song
People, sing a long
La, la, la, la, la
Ohmmmm
Ohh, ohh, ohh
La, la, la, la, la
“A wormhole is like a tunnel between two distant points in our universe that cuts the travel time from one point to the other. Instead of traveling for many millions of years from one galaxy to another, under the right conditions one could theoretically use a wormhole to cut the travel time down to hours or minutes.” — Astronomy
“A wormhole is a hypothetical structure connecting disparate points in spacetime, and is based on a special solution of the Einstein field equations. A wormhole can be visualized as a tunnel with two ends at separate points in spacetime (i.e., different locations, different points in time, or both).” — Wikipedia
Writing and singing a song lets others see through a window to your soul… or if the listener wants to participate, a wormhole between our souls.
Chords: E / G A D E / D E
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
LYRICS
Keep it simple?
It’s a complex world
Solve the riddle
Before growing old
If you dream big enough
And your heart’s not too tough
Begun the unsung young
Human induced climate change is an exponential component of an unordered system (chaos theory). That means global warming is accelerating at a rapid rate in a complex way — a climate crisis. A simple way to try to explain it can be found in the explanation of tipping points:
Push a glass toward the edge of a table and eventually it will fall off on its own. No matter how slowly or meticulously you push… no matter how you weight or fill the glass, it will reach a tipping point and fall off before being pushed completely off the table. No matter whether you believe the glass is half-empty or half-full, when the tipping point is reached it will plummet out-of-control to its end. This is science not fate, faith, nor belief. Human induced climate change has resulted in environmental tipping points being breached.
The youth offer us our best hope. Keep your heart and mind young. Save the world.
Chords: Em F#M7 / G D C C D G
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
LYRICS
I spy something warmer
Comes with a disclaimer
Everything within sight
Could soon ignite
Is running down the street
Burning your feet
Is everyone you meet
Jumping in too deep
Gone dire
On fire
I spy something warmer
Comes with a disclaimer
Everything within sight
Could soon ignite
An apocalyptic view
Coming to you
As every one you meet
Is burning on the street
Gone dire
On fire
I spy something warmer
Comes with a disclaimer
Everything within sight
Could soon ignite
All your hopes and dreams
Like a World War movie scene
No more news flashes
The world lay in ashes
Gone dire
On fire
In the Hawaii wildfires of August 2023, both wind and water flow forces contributed to the devastation. Hurricane Dora was at least 500 miles from Hawaii yet the wind forces impacted the fire in Maui. The winds were so strong that before the fire reached Lahaina extremely hot air blew over the town. The streets were so hot they burnt people’s feet trying to flee. The surface of everything became hot. Even after people jumped into the ocean, they said the debris in the water was too hot to float on.
The blast of hot air over Lahaina created the conditions for a flashpoint. A flashpoint is the temperature at which a particular organic compound gives off sufficient vapor to ignite in air. The entire town ignited so quickly that warning sirens could not be activated and people did not have time to escape.
In an unexpected twist, water flow forces also contributed to the chaos. How could water flow add to the fire emergency conditions? When people fled the heat and fire, they jumped into the sea. ABC news reported: Shawn Dougherty, of Lahaina, was among the hundreds of residents forced to flee the resort city when the wildfire began engulfing their homes.
Like others, Dougherty said his only means of survival was to jump into the ocean with his girlfriend, but while some found safety in nearby jetties, the rocks and coral tore up Dougherty’s body.
“At one point, it seemed like I might drown,” he told ABC News. “I’m a good swimmer, but the water was just really rough because of the wind and the turbulence.”
Chords: Em G A A G Em / Em C D Em / Em B7 B7 Em; Part II @ 120 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
The hall of historic Waiola Church in Lahaina and nearby Lahaina Hongwanji Mission are engulfed in flames along Wainee Street on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. (Matthew Thayer/The Maui News via AP)
LYRICS
No, it’s not the fall
No, it’s not the fall at all
Yes, as I recall
Recall it’s not the fall at all
That will kill you
It’s the stop
Not the drop
But the… stop!
[sudden stop]
The same holds true
How the climate crisis
Will be killing you
Do you know
Wind and floods flow?
As man fails (and flails)
Damage scales
Can you see
Exponentially?
@ V ^2
We phased, too
Velocity squared impaired
Some sum momentum
The act of impact
Velocity squared impaired
It’s not the fall that kills you; it’s the sudden stop at the end.
I said: Technically speaking it is the impact from the momentum that causes damage and deaths. Global warming causes an increase in mass and/or velocity (momentum) of things that are mass flow driven by heat, like wind and flood. The burning of fossil fuels and other human released emissions have impacted momentum’s impact. A warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture. Warmer air allows for the creation of more massive raindrops. Warmer ocean temperatures create stronger hurricanes. Hail and tornadoes form in strong thunderstorm clouds with intense updrafts, high liquid-water content, and large water droplets.
Sidd added: It’s worse than that. Wind and water flow forces scale as the square of velocity, so as flow speeds increase (say due to more intense heating or heavier rain) the damage scales as the square of the velocity.
you will see that force is proportional to density times square of velocity (v^2)
So a twenty mile an hour wind exerts four times as much force as a ten mile an hour wind. And a forty mile an hour wind exerts sixteen times as much force as a ten mile an hour wind. A wind of fifty miles an hour exerts twenty five times and a wind of sixty miles an hour exerts thirty six times as much force as one of ten miles an hour.
Then you have the density term. Water is about eight hundred times denser than air, So the force exerted by a ten mile an hour flow of water is eight hundred times that of a ten mile an hour wind. So as flow velocities go up due to climate change, force and damage scale as square of the velocities. What is not clear is how much these velocities increase with climate change. But in a sense we are seeing this already as, for example, flood and sewage systems succumb and hillsides fall down, and so on. — from “Climate Change: The Equation” Brouse and Mukherjee (2023)
LYRICS
First one fell
Oh, well
This is hell?
Fare thee…
Scarcity
Forget about variety
Pales in comparison
Stale’s new companion
The dream of thrive
Is barely alive
Now we strive
Just to stay alive
First one fell
Oh, well?
What the heck
Knocked the next
Second fell
Just as well?
This is hell
Fare thee…
Another down
Come sing around
Another down
Come sing around
Another down
Come sing around
Pales in comparison
Stale’s new companion
The dream of thrive
Is barely alive
Now we strive
Just to stay alive
Human induced climate change is an exponential component of an unordered system (chaos theory). That means global warming is accelerating at a rapid rate in a complex way. Humans have caused chain-reactions resulting in domino-effects, snowball effects, and feedback loops. This song is about the first domino falling… starting the chain-reaction of falling dominoes. Tipping points are similar to falling dominoes, and feedback loops are similar to a snowball rolling down a hill. So part of the climate change formula might look something like this:
the domino effect * the snowball effect:
Chords: Dm D#m Em / G D C / C Em Em C
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, PA
LYRICS
Minimum damage
Or maximum pain
“I Need Some” — Damn Age
Think you’re insane
In the eye of the storm
Everything’s calm
Feel the norm
Forget the bomb?
The other eye of the hurricane
Still remains
Shame the human brain
Can’t refrain
In the eye of the storm
Everything’s calm
Feel the norm
Forget the bomb?
As the eye moves on from I
I soon realize
That wind and rain bring on pain
Should come as no surprise
Left the eye of the storm
All has gone wrong
Deal with a new norm
Cry your same old song
A song about the speed of climate change and the illusion of “calm” when you are in the eye-of-a-hurricane. Tipping points and feedback loops are parts of an equation that determine the rate of acceleration in climate change. Just like coming out of the eye back into the hurricane, the rapid rise in global warming should come as no surprise. A hurricane is a chaotic system, as is climate change. Human induced climate change is an exponential component of an unordered system (chaos theory). That means global warming is accelerating at a rapid rate in a complex way.
Chords: A C G D / E A D / D C / C E / E A/m7; Part II @ 126 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
