Category: The End

LYRICS
Going on days and days
Living in a haze
Down with a bog
Living in a fog
Simply some sun sheen
Or a dripping of moonbeam
Would save me
Surely some bright light
A cool breeze through trees
Water vapor savior

It’s not just the heat
To make it complete
The humidity is killing me
Simply some sun sheen
Or a dripping of moonbeam
Would save me
Surely some bright light
A cool breeze through trees
Water vapor savior

Tired of jumping through hoops
When the air’s thick as soup
Please let it rain
I won’t complain
Simply some sun sheen
Or a dripping of moonbeam
Would save me
Surely some bright light
A cool breeze through trees
Water vapor savior

• Water-Vapor-Savior-Part-I.mp3 (unplugged)
• Water-Vapor-Savior-Part-II.mp3
• Water-Vapor-Savior-Part-II-Instrumental.mp3
• Water-Vapor-Savior-Part-II.MID (Casio WK-3500 with DSP)

Chords: Am Em Bm Em / C Am E / E C E C E Am; Part II 121 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

For every degree Celsius in warming, the water-holding capacity of the atmosphere increases by about 7%. Record-high sea temperatures ensure there is more moisture (in the form of water vapor) in the atmosphere, by an estimated 5-15% compared to before the 1970s, when global temperature rise began in earnest.

Water vapor is a powerful greenhouse gas. Since the 1970s, its rise likely increased global heating by an amount comparable to that from rising carbon dioxide. We are now seeing the consequences. In the current climate, for average all-sky conditions, water vapour is estimated to account for 50% of the total greenhouse effect, carbon dioxide 19%, ozone 4% and other gases 3%. Clouds make up about a quarter of the greenhouse effect.

The main greenhouse gases – carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone – don’t condense and precipitate. Water vapor does, which means its lifetime in the atmosphere is much shorter, by orders of magnitude, compared to other greenhouse gases. On average, water vapor only lasts nine days,

Sidd said, “The biggest feedback loop is water vapor. Humans put CO2 in the air. CO2 is a greenhouse gas, so the earth gets warmer. Warmer air can hold more water vapor soaking up more water vapor from the oceans. Water vapor is a greenhouse gas, so it gets even warmer… rinse (sorry!) and repeat. Another interesting thing is that the precipitation (rain, snow, sleet) intensity is increasing.”

The most common measure of water vapor in the atmosphere is relative humidity. Deadly humid heat is affecting billions of people today. “It’s very disturbing,” study co-author Matthew Huber of Purdue University. “It’s going to send a lot of people to emergency medical care.”

The study Greatly enhanced risk to humans as a consequence of empirically determined lower moist heat stress tolerance was conducted by Purdue and George Mason University and published August 15, 2023. These results indicate that a significant portion of the world’s population will experience — for the first time in human history — prolonged exposures to uncompensable extreme moist heat. Humans will struggle to adapt to these conditions in a warmer world as they will present widespread challenges across many aspects of food-energy-water security, human health, and economic development including in the world’s most populous and most vulnerable regions. At 3C (5.4F) of yearly average warming, more than 1.5 billion people will suffer. Both 2022 and 2023 saw a record number of heat related deaths. More than 61,000 Europeans died from extreme heat in the summer of 2022.

— From Sea Level Rise: Then and Now / Mukherjee and Brouse (2023)

What you can do today. How to save the planet.

Climate Change: The End of Times

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

LYRICS
As the flow force intensifies
It’s hard to open up my eyes
Spin me round
Blow me down
As the wind speed increases
Harder, harder never ceases
Spin me round
Blow me down

Often found on the ground
Flat on my back
A big black cloud following
Foreshadowing
Shadowing
Foreshadowing shadowing
Here’s the thing:
The dark days grow darker
There’s no days to grow
The leading edge grows sharper
Bleeding we’ll come to know
As the flow force intensifies
It’s hard to open up my eyes
Spin me round
Blow me down

• Spin-Me-Round-Part-II.mp3
• Spin-Me-Round-Part-I.mp3 (unplugged)
• Spin-Me-Round-Part-II-Instrumental.mp3
• Spin-Me-Round-Part-II.MID

Chords: Bb/7 / Eb Db Bb / Ab Bb / Eb Db Bb / Fm Bb; Part II 166 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

A song about The Reign of Violent Rain and flow forces. 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. 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.

There is a very complex set of climate systems impacted by sea level rise. The shape of the Earth is changing and speeding up as ice from the poles melts and is drawn toward the equator through centrifugal force. A study published in Geophysical Research Letters of the American Geophysical Union suggests that global warming has led to significant melting of glaciers due to which our planet’s axis of rotation has been moving faster since the 1990s. All of this has a great impact on our weather. The rain intensity is increasing faster today than ever known.
— from Sea Level Rise: Then and Now / Mukherjee and Brouse (2023)

What you can do today. How to save the planet.

Climate Change: The End of Times

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment