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bookmark_borderNew Year’s Spectacular

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LYRICS
Just another year
Doesn’t apply here
It’s clear
If you catch my drift
Know what I mean
The scene
Obscene
Tipping points tipped
Futures ripped
Glaciers dripped
Feedback tripped
Dominoes fall
Maybe all?
Taking it higher
Fire, fire, fire
Deniers and liars
Fire, fire, fire
(There goes my plan, Man
Duh! Canada)

Spectacular year
Is what we have right here
I fear
If you catch my drift
Know what I mean
The scene
Obscene
Tipping points tipped
Futures ripped
Glaciers dripped
Feedback tripped
Dominoes fall
Maybe all?
Taking it higher
Fire, fire, fire
Deniers and liars
Fire, fire, fire
(There goes my plan, Man
Duh! Canada)

Oh what a year
Let’s hope we hear
Right here
And clear
If you catch my drift
Know what I mean
The scene
Obscene
Tipping points tipped
Futures ripped
Glaciers dripped
Feedback tripped
Dominoes fall
Maybe all?
Taking it higher
Fire, fire, fire
Deniers and liars
Fire, fire, fire
Taking it higher
Deniers and liars
Fire, fire, fire
(There goes my plan, Man
Choke… up in smoke
Duh! Canada)

Chords: E/7 D A G E / D C / D / A G E; Part II 132 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Ibanez Acoustic Guitar, Fender Electric Guitar, Fender Jazz Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

Climate Change Review 2023

Sidd said, “Do you remember back in the early 2000’s when we thought we wouldn’t live to see the extreme changes due to global warming?”

Daniel replied, “I think 2023 is the most significant year so far. We saw confirmation of tipping points being crossed for Mountain Glacier Loss, Greenland Ice Sheet Collapse, Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse, and potentially the Collapse of AMOC.”

Sidd continued, “We already knew that. It was Canada catching on fire that I could not believe. I never thought I’d live to see the day.”

Daniel asked, “Do you think the permafrost and peatlands will have zombie fires and cause the permafrost tipping point?”

Sidd responded, “Yes. They are gone, too. We already know from the permafrost peatland fires in Siberia.”

Daniel ponders, “Hmmmm… I guess that means my plan went up in smoke? My worst case scenario / last resort emergency plan was to escape to Canada.”

NASA reported: Wildland fire experts have described Canada’s 2023 fire season as record-breaking and shocking. Over the course of a fire season that started early and ended late, blazes have burned an estimated 18.4 million hectares. Hundreds of fires exceeded 10,000 hectares (39 square miles), large enough to be considered “megafires.” These megafires were also unusually widespread this season, charring forests from British Columbia and Alberta in the west to Quebec and the Atlantic provinces in the east to the Northwest Territories and the Yukon in the north.

Forest fires cause a carbon feedback loop. The carbon emissions of Canada’s fires outweighed the combined emissions from its oil and gas, transport and agriculture sectors. The fires also cause the melting of the permafrost and zombie fires to burn in the permafrost. The permafrost collapse is a self-sustaining feedback loop/tipping point. As the permafrost melts, the peatlands emit CO2 and methane. The increase in CO2 and methane results in more warming that results in more peatland emissions. A third feedback loop is created with lightning strikes. The study Forests at Risk Due to Lightning Fires found a sensitivity of extratropical intact forests to potential increases in lightning fires, which would have far-reaching consequences for terrestrial carbon storage and biodiversity. The results show that, on a global scale, lightning is the primary ignition source of fires in temperate and boreal forests. Global warming causes more extreme weather events and conditions for lightning creating more forest fires that create more warming and more lightning strikes.

The study Wildfire as a major driver of recent permafrost thaw in boreal peatlands published in the Journal Nature Communications found wildfires have caused a quarter of permafrost thaw (2,000 square kilometres) in Western Canada’s boreal peatlands over the past 30 years. “Historically, permafrost in this area underwent a natural cycle of thawing and reforming, but given current climate conditions and projections for the future, this fire-induced thaw appears to be irreversible,” said Carolyn Gibson, who conducted the research.

Climate Change: The End of Times

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

Climate Change: How Long Is “Ever”?

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

From the Christmas album of music Merry Christmas!

bookmark_borderSlaughter a Dragon

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LYRICS
Now that we’ve heard your bandwagon
How do we get onboard
We’d like to get on with a sing-along
And finally cut the cord
That was us on the bus
Is it any wonder
We got thrown under?

Why bother to slaughter a dragon
When it’s the bragging to abhor
We’d like to get on with a sing-along
And finally cut the cord
That was us on the bus
Is it any wonder
We got thrown under?

Hard to speak with a gag on
Why bother screaming “Oh, Lord!”
We’d like to get on with a sing-along
And finally cut the cord
That was us on the bus
Is it any wonder
We got thrown under?

Slaughter a Dragon.mp3

Chords: F# E B F# / F# B D C#7 F#
Instrumentation: Vocals, Ibanez Acoustic Guitar

Climate Change: How Long Is “Ever”?

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderMore, More, More

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LYRICS
Keep on pouring
Poor, poor, poor
Keep imploring
More, more, more
The more we ignore
“Same as before”
The less we’ll endure
Forevermore
Just like before?

Find it boring
Keep on snoring
Bore, bore, bore
All the whoring
More, more, more-ing
More, more, more
The more we ignore
“Same as before”
The less we’ll endure
Forevermore
Just like before?
Forever more
Rotten to the core?

News that’s flooring
Sound off roaring
Roar, roar, roar
Find it luring
Reassuring
Sure, sure, sure
The less we ignore
“Same as before”
The more we’ll endure
Forevermore
Open the door!

Chords: A C D A / G D A / A E E A; Part II 86 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Ibanez Acoustic Guitar, Fender Squire Mini Electric Guitar, Fender Jazz Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

September 6, 2023: “Climate breakdown has begun,” the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the world after the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported the world endure its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer in human history. “The dog days of summer are not just barking, they are biting,” the UN chief said in a statement after the report’s release.

“What we are observing, are not only new extremes but the persistence of these record-breaking conditions, and the impacts these have on both people and planet, are a clear consequence of the warming of the climate system,” C3S’s Climate Change Service Director Carlo Buontempo said.

Climate Breakdown is the most concerning development. Climate breakdown happens when feedback loops are created and tipping points are crossed. Plants will become extinct and many carbon sinks will vanish. The Earth’s temperature will continue to accelerate at an exponential rate no matter what humans do. Food, fresh water, and breathable air will cease to exist. Humans will likely follow in short order.

In October of 2023, 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)

Global heat is now “gobsmackingly bananas,” said climate scientist Zeke Hausfather. “It’s hard to overstate just how exceptionally high global temperatures are at the moment.”

On November 20, 2023, the UN’s Emission Gap Report found even if countries carried out their current emissions-reduction pledges, the world would likely continuously exceed +3C degrees of warming this century. Later that day, the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative released State of the Cryosphere Report 2023 saying, “Two degrees is too high. Our message — the message of the Cryosphere — is that this insanity cannot and must not continue. The melting point of ice pays no attention to rhetoric, only to our actions.”
— from The Age of Loss and Damage / Brouse (2023)

Climate Change: How Long Is “Ever”?

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderLet Go of Me!

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LYRICS
Maybe it’s time we let go
Of our stubborn ways
If we hope to know
More newborn days
We’re here to report
We’ve numbered them short
Might be time to begin
Taking them in
The air up there
Is plain to see
And it shouldn’t be
The earth’s on fire
The pain is dire
Makes it hard to be
It’s not surprising
The tide is rising
All because of “we”
And me, me, me!

Maybe it’s time we let go
Of our selfish ways
Better get to know
How to share our days
We’re here to report
We’ve numbered them short
Might be time to begin
Taking them in
The air up there
Is plain to see
And it shouldn’t be
The earth’s on fire
The pain is dire
Makes it hard to be
It’s not surprising
The tide is rising
All because of “we”
And me, me, me!

Maybe it’s time we let go
Of our fuelish ways
Rather get to know
How to prolong days
We’re here to report
We’ve numbered them short
Might be time to begin
Taking them in
The air up there
Is plain to see
And it shouldn’t be
The earth’s on fire
The pain is dire
Makes it hard to be
It’s not surprising
The tide is rising
All because of “we”
And me, me, me!

Chords: A D C A / A E A / C D A / B Bb A; Part II 172 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Ibanez Acoustic Guitar, Fender Electric Guitar, Fender Jazz Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

Global warming has caused irreparable damage to our environment. Almost all scientists agree that IN FACT climate change is a problem. Our planet is becoming unfit for human life. Now the question is can we adapt in time? (1999)

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. From 1992 through 2023, we presented evidence and suggested remedies to mitigate climate change. By 2023, the data was undeniable that human induced climate change is destroying our habitat at a rapidly increasing rate.

Climate Change Review 2023

Sidd said, “Do you remember back in the early 2000’s when we thought we wouldn’t live to see the extreme changes due to global warming?”

Daniel replied, “I think 2023 is the most significant year so far. We saw confirmation of tipping points being crossed for Mountain Glacier Loss, Greenland Ice Sheet Collapse, Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse, and potentially the Collapse of AMOC.”

Sidd continued, “We already knew that. It was Canada catching on fire that I could not believe. I never thought I’d live to see the day.”

Daniel asked, “Do you think the permafrost and peatlands will have zombie fires and cause the permafrost tipping point?”

Sidd responded, “Yes. They are gone, too. We already know from the permafrost peatland fires in Siberia.”

NASA reported: Wildland fire experts have described Canada’s 2023 fire season as record-breaking and shocking. Over the course of a fire season that started early and ended late, blazes have burned an estimated 18.4 million hectares. Hundreds of fires exceeded 10,000 hectares (39 square miles), large enough to be considered “megafires.” These megafires were also unusually widespread this season, charring forests from British Columbia and Alberta in the west to Quebec and the Atlantic provinces in the east to the Northwest Territories and the Yukon in the north.

Forest fires cause a carbon feedback loop. The carbon emissions of Canada’s fires outweighed the combined emissions from its oil and gas, transport and agriculture sectors. The fires also cause the melting of the permafrost and zombie fires to burn in the permafrost. The permafrost collapse is a self-sustaining feedback loop/tipping point. As the permafrost melts, the peatlands emit CO2 and methane. The increase in CO2 and methane results in more warming that results in more peatland emissions. A third feedback loop is created with lightning strikes. The study Forests at Risk Due to Lightning Fires found a sensitivity of extratropical intact forests to potential increases in lightning fires, which would have far-reaching consequences for terrestrial carbon storage and biodiversity. The results show that, on a global scale, lightning is the primary ignition source of fires in temperate and boreal forests. Global warming causes more extreme weather events and conditions for lightning creating more forest fires that create more warming and more lightning strikes.

The study Wildfire as a major driver of recent permafrost thaw in boreal peatlands published in the Journal Nature Communications found wildfires have caused a quarter of permafrost thaw (2,000 square kilometres) in Western Canada’s boreal peatlands over the past 30 years. “Historically, permafrost in this area underwent a natural cycle of thawing and reforming, but given current climate conditions and projections for the future, this fire-induced thaw appears to be irreversible,” said Carolyn Gibson, who conducted the research.

Climate Change: How Long Is “Ever”?

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

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LYRICS
Pushing a snowflake
Down a mountain
Turned biggest mistake
That’s for certain
Turned into a ball
And started to roll
Watching the ball fall
… roll… out-of-control

Trying to stop a snowball
Divertin’
Hoping this doesn’t happen
Often
Turned into a ball
And started to roll
Watching the ball fall
… roll… out-of-control

Vacate the downside
Or it’s curtains
The biggest balls fall
And you’ll be hurtin’
Turned into a ball
And started to roll
Watching the ball fall
… roll… out-of-control

Can’t concede to gaining speed
I pray we’re not askin’
For divine intervention
… is that your intention?

Chords: Em CM7 / C E A / A slide up one octave Em side down one octave; Part II 100 to 115 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Ibanez Acoustic Guitar, Fender Electric Guitar, Fender Jazz Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

Could a White Christmas be a thing of the past?

Global warming is causing warmer and shorter winters. Not only are White Christmases less frequent, so are icebergs, sea ice, and glaciers. An analysis and maps from NOAA found snowfall is declining globally as temperatures warm due to anthropological climate change.

Decline in Annual Snowfall
As the atmosphere’s heat and humidity increase, precipitation is more likely to fall as rain or hail than snow. “Eventually the laws of thermodynamics mean that as you keep warming you’re just going to transition more and more of that snow over to rain. You can get away with things for a little bit, and it can hide some trends, but overall the laws of thermodynamics will win out,” said Brian Brettschneider, a climate scientist with the National Weather Service in Alaska.

Justin Mankin, a climate scientist and associate professor of geography at Dartmouth College, said with rising temperatures snowfall will not decline linearly (at a 1-to-1 rate.) Rather, there is a tipping point. Once a certain temperature threshold is reached, “we should expect the losses to accelerate. It means we can expect a lot of the places that haven’t exhibited massive snowfall declines to maybe start to exhibit them with just a little bit more warming.”

Albedo is the reflective nature of snow and measures how much light is reflected without being absorbed when hitting an object (e.g. the fraction of incoming solar radiation that gets reflected back into space). Snow has a very high albedo that reflects most of the light and absorbs very little heat. The snow-albedo feedback loop occurs when the atmosphere gets warmer due to human induced climate change resulting in less snowfall. The less snow reflecting heat back into space, the warmer the earth becomes. The warmer the earth, the less snowfall. The less snowfall, the warmer the earth.

— from The Snow-Albedo Feedback Loop / Brouse (2023)

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.

Tipping points, when crossed, trigger self-sustaining feedback loops that are no longer dependent on human activity. Similar to when a domino topples over hitting two more dominoes that in turn fall hitting more dominoes. Thus, the name The Domino Effect. It can also be visualized as The Snowball Effect. A tipping point is like a snowball rolling down a hill growing in mass and velocity (momentum). When a tipping point is crossed, it results in cumulative and reinforced global warming.

Tipping points are Critical Milestones that directly impact the rate of acceleration in climate change by multiplying the number and intensity of feedback loops (chaos theory).

We’ve been snowballed.

— from Toppled Tipping Points: The Domino Effect / Brouse and Mukherjee (2023)

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

Climate Change: How Long Is “Ever”?

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

From the Christmas album of music Merry Christmas!

bookmark_borderMind Mind

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LYRICS
Need to figure about
Just how to get out
Of this world
Seems I’m trapped in
The lunatic bin
Logic unfurled
What have you done
You cursed brat
Whole world’s undone
Imagine that
Melting, melting
Reign keeps pelting
Mind’s fine line

Time for all to begin
Just how to dig in
To this world
About trying to get out
There is much doubt
Thoughts whorl
What have you done
You cursed brat
Whole world’s undone
Imagine that
Melting, melting
Reign keeps pelting
Mind’s fine line
Mine a fine mind
Find mind mines
Mind our mines
Mind our minds
Mind your mind

Chords: F#/7 E / B D F# B / B Bb / F# / B C#7 F#; Part II 152 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

Climate change is causing significant challenges for mental health. The Commonwealth Fund found,
“Climate change is having an impact on the mental health of people who haven’t personally experienced climate-related disasters: more than two-thirds of U.S. adults (68%) have reported having at least some anxiety about climate change.”

As the global population is causing the world to melt down, extreme weather events such as Violent Rain will literally impact your state of mind. There is no escaping climate change. So, mind your mind.

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

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderIn Search of Dreams

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In search of the sweet spot
Because believe it or not
I completely forgot
We were already there
While blindly unaware
That cause we didn’t care
We turned our scene obscene

Was there heaven on Earth
After my birth?
Can’t remember, for what it’s worth
Were we already there
Though blindly unaware
That cause we didn’t care
We turned our scene obscene

In search of dreams come true
Because if they do
Would it be something new?
Were we already there
Though blindly unaware
That cause we didn’t care
We turned our scene obscene

Chords: E G#m7b5 E / C D G / G D G / D C E G#m7b5 E; Part II 130 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

Is it getting harder to remember when there was time without human induced climate change?

How long is “ever”… as in “the hottest it’s ever been in recorded history”?

During the first week of July 2023, the Earth had the hottest days ever.

Humans are about 200,000 years old with our closest variety being dated to about 140,000 years ago. The earliest “recording of history” is approximately 100,000 years old. It is the story of The Seven Sisters of The Pleiades. The Seven Sister are a cluster of stars in the Taurus constellation. There are six stars visible to the naked eye. The story is about seven stars. The seventh star has not been visible to the naked eye for over 100,000 years.

The 20th-century surface temperature average for Earth was 13.9℃.
In the first weeks of July of 2023, the average temperature was 17℃.

Q: Is it possible for humans to push the temperature 3℃ above pre-industrial levels?
A: Yes. Humans have pushed global temperatures up more than 3℃.

Q: Is it possible for humans to survive at temperatures greater than 3℃?
A: Probably not long. Humans have never done it before.

Extreme weather will become more frequent and intense. Sea levels will rapidly rise as the coasts disappear. However, the most concerning development will be feedback loops and tipping points. Plants will become extinct and many carbon sinks will vanish. The Earth’s temperature will continue to accelerate at an exponential rate no matter what humans do. Food, fresh water, and breathable air will cease to exist. Humans will likely follow in short order.

These “tipping points” were preventable; however, now they are becoming inevitable. Climate scientists had thought we would not cross tipping points for centuries at the earliest. Tipping points are part of feedback loop systems. A tipping point occurs when a human influenced global warming activity becomes self-sustaining without the human activity. For instance, the mountain glacier loss tipping point has triggered a feedback loop. 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. When a tipping point causes another tipping point to be toppled it is called the The Domino Effect. Mountain glacier loss, the collapse of AMOC, and the dieback of the Amazon rainforest is an example of The Domino Effect.

— from Climate Change: How Long Is “Ever”? Brouse (2023)

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

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderChinese Water Torture

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LYRICS
If you open the door
And take a step out
You might find some more
Of what I’m talking about
The Reign of Rain
Is pounding my head
It’ll drive you insane
’till you wish you were dead
Chinese water torture
That’s for sure
The dripping of the rain
Is getting to my brain

If you open the door
And take a step out
You might find some more
Of what I’m talking about
The Reign of Rain
Is pounding my head
It’ll drive you insane
’till you wish you were dead
Never a moment dull
Dripping on my skull
Get it through my head
The climate change dread

If you open the door
And take a step out
You might find some more
Of what I’m talking about
The Reign of Rain
Is pounding my head
It’ll drive you insane
’till you wish you were dead
Wind whistling through my ear
Makes it hard to hear
What’s becoming clear
Easy isn’t near

Chinese Water Torture.mp3

Chords: G C A D / D A E A / Bridge A Ab G G Ab A
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar

The song was written during an extreme weather event.

Violent Rain
Multiple factors figure into the physics of violent rain. The Momentum of Rain is p = mv (p = momentum, m = mass, v = velocity.) Part of the increasing momentum is transferred to the sides and upward increasing wind turbulence, as well as updrafts. Most of the momentum is transferred upon impact. You may notice the rain bouncing higher off the streets and sidewalks. As rain becomes more massive, it will have greater momentum when it hits the ground causing more damage.

Mass is not the only factor in violent rain. The greater the mass of the rain the more the wind turbulence is intensified. Professor Paul D. Williams of the University of Reading, UK, said, “They are chaotic (chaos theory). Turbulence is known famously as the hardest problem in physics.” In their study Evidence for Large Increases in Clear-Air Turbulence Over the Past Four Decades, Prof. Williams and his team found “Climate change has caused turbulence to double in the last 40 years” and is expected to double or triple again in the next decades.

The momentum of rain and the turbulence of wind are part of a larger equation that includes not only the mass and velocity of precipitation but also the density. The combination of these variables results in an increased intensity of the flow dynamics. Increased updrafts will result in an increase in the frequency of hail. When violent rain becomes denser and turns into hail, it can be deadly. Ground without groundcover will be hit harder causing more damage. The groundcover will also be hit harder causing more damage. Concrete, asphalt, solar panels, roofs, and plants will sustain more damage. Hail may also impact your skull. Infants and young children are at highest risk. Several infants have been killed by hail in the past year.

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. Look at drag physics and you will see that force is proportional to density times square of velocity (v^2).

— from The Reign of Violent Rain / Brouse and Mukherjee (2023)

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

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderGot That Right

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LYRICS
Hey! What’s next
Getting complex
Do you feel perplexed?
Yes, just that
Fat Cat habit
How ’bout habitat?
Sooner or later
We’ll see the light
Sooner the better
Before “good night.”
Got that right!

Hey! What’s next
Getting complex
Do you feel perplexed?
Say, what’s that
Fat Cat habitat
Full fledged heart attack
Sooner or later
We’ll see the light
Sooner the better
Before “good night.”
Got that right!

Hey! What’s next
Getting complex
Do you feel perplexed?
Prey? Big rat
Bet on the Fat Cat
Lost our habitat
Sooner or later
We’ll see the light
Sooner the better
Before “good night.”
Got that right!

Chords: E G E / G G6 / C A D G / G B E; Part II 85 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

“For people, for other species, for the ecosystems, for the world we live in, we’ve entered the Age of Loss and Damage, but we’re just at the start. What we are seeing already just makes you want to cry,” said Dr. Christopher Trisos (BBC Interview / MP3 Format) from the University of Cape Town. “We can’t eliminate loss and damage. It is here. That said, there is a lot we can do to limit it.”

Health and Wellness
Humans will experience greater loss and damage to life and quality of life from air pollution, decreasing supply of potable water, extreme weather events, and disease. The greatest short term climate change risk to human health is deadly humid heat (wet-bulb temperature).

Real Estate and Infrastructure
A warmer world will present widespread challenges across many aspects of food-energy-water security and economic development. Infrastructure including roads, bridges, sewer and water plants will become unsustainable. Personal property will suffer loss and damage as homeowners and flood insurance become increasingly difficult to obtain.

Conclusion
Triggering tipping points results in the CO2 stored in nature to be released without the assistance of humans. 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 Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Humans cannot thrive above a rise of 1.5 degrees. Much of the Earth will be uninhabitable if the temperature rises an additional 6 degrees Celsius. If humans also add 3 degrees Celsius, the temperature and humidity will approach a wet-bulb temperature that will not sustain human life. In any event, there will be exponential loss and damage.

For the first time in human history, global warming is going to continue no matter what humans do. Even if humans stopped their greenhouse gas emissions today, humans have invoked nature’s greenhouse gas emissions. Nevertheless, the sooner humans stop their emissions, the better. In addition, humans must adapt their habitat to remove, reduce, and hinder nature’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Welcome to the Age of Loss and Damage.

What Can I Do?
There are plenty of things you can do to help save the planet. Stop using fossil fuels. Consume less. Love more.

— from The Age of Loss and Damage Brouse (2023)

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

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderSlow Motion Fast

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LYRICS
Once upon a time
The gravest crime
Shivered my spine
Slow motion fast
Before my eyes life passed
How long can we last
Before all hope’s dashed?

Almost all the time
The gravest crime
Man-made grime
Slow motion fast
Before my eyes life passed
How long can we last
Before all hope’s dashed?

Feels like every time
Not a reason, not a rhyme
For the gravest crime
Slow motion fast
Before my eyes life passed
How long can we last
Before all hope’s dashed?

Chords: Db f Bb / Ab Eb Bb / Db Ab Bb; Part II 125 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

Global warming has caused irreparable damage to our environment. Almost all scientists agree that IN FACT climate change is a problem. Our planet is becoming unfit for human life. Now the question is can we adapt in time? (1999)

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. From 1992 through 2023, we presented evidence and suggested remedies to mitigate climate change. By 2023, the data was undeniable that human induced climate change is destroying our habitat at a rapidly increasing rate.

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 at an exponential growth rate. How extreme the acceleration will be depends on tipping points toppling other tipping points in what is known as The Domino Effect. Toppled tipping points will continue to shrink the doubling time and exponentially increase the rate of global warming. 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.

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

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderThe Gravity

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LYRICS
I had to ask Her
If the faster disaster
Wouldn’t be long?
I mean the extreme
Weather scene
Moving along
This is not a dream
Steeped in reality
A recurring theme
Reaped in brevity
The gravity

Here comes another
Starting to smother
Under a throng
Better get thinking
’cause we’re sinking
Coming on strong
This is not a dream
Steeped in reality
A recurring theme
Reaped in brevity
The gravity

Wave upon wave
Harder to save
Won’t be long
Air so think
$hitting bricks
We don’t belong
This is not a dream
Steeped in reality
A recurring theme
Reaped in brevity
The gravity

Chords: Em/7 C Am / F G Am / Bm Em; Part II 140 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

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. Feedback loops and tipping points are parts of an equation that determine the rate of acceleration in climate change.

Doubling time is the amount of time it takes for a quantity to double in size (exponential growth). By 2020, there was enough data to see the doubling time 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.

By the Autumn of 2023, it had become evident the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets will completely melt. The process is irreversible and inevitable. The cool water from the melting ice at the poles is being drawn toward the center of the Earth and getting warmed to record high temperatures. The warm, moist air is circulating and moving over land. These changes in climate systems will cause other areas to experience unprecedented drought. We expect sea level rise will total about 270 feet over the next several millennia. It is episodic, and in the fast bits it can go up 3 feet every twenty years for five hundred years. The melting Arctic and Antarctic have multiple feedback loops including: enhanced oceanic heating and ice-albedo, Planck feedback, lapse-rate feedback, and cloud feedback.

As the ice sheets grow smaller, they will exert less gravity on the surrounding sea. 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 and gravitational forces, as well as, glacial isostatic adjustment. 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.

Can you grasp the gravity our situation?

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

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderFree Up

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LYRICS
A minute or two to state your view
Once I ask what to do?
1 Mississippi
Let me see
2 Mississippi
Best to be
3 Mississippi
Let set free
Free you mind to be kind
We can start free at heart
Free up more love
The love of love
Free up more love

No more need to think it through
Now that I have thought of you
3 Mississippi
Let me see
2 Mississippi
Best to be
1 Mississippi
Let set free
Free you mind to be kind
We can start free at heart
Free up more love
The love of love
Free up more love

The time of year
To spread some cheer
Let’s bring it here
Throughout the year
1 Mississippi
Let me see
2 Mississippi
Best to be
3 Mississippi
Let set free
Free you mind to be kind
We can start free at heart
Free up more love
The love of love
Free up more love

Chords: D C G E / E/7 B A E / E G D E / E G C D; Part II 104 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

What Can I Do?
There are plenty of things you can do to help save the planet. Stop using fossil fuels. Consume less. Love more. Free up more love — the love of love — free up more love! Here is a list of additional actions you can take.

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

Climate Change: How Long Is “Ever”?

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

From the Christmas album of music Merry Christmas!

bookmark_borderDomino and the Proverbial Snowball

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LYRICS
All it takes
Is a few snowflakes
As man makes
The proverbial snowball
(Snowball ball)
You know “Domino”
Watch ’em fall
Go, go, go
Take your chance
In an avalanche
Woah, woe, ohhh
Get to know
The force of flow
Domino, oh, Domino, oh, oh

The more man makes
The less it takes
For goodness sake
The proverbial snowball
(Snowball ball)
You know “Domino”
Watch ’em fall
Go, go, go
Take your chance
In an avalanche
Woah, woe, ohhh
Get to know
The force of flow
Domino, oh, Domino, oh, oh

Chords: C# slide to D# F# / F# slide to C# F# / B F#; Part II 110 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

What Are 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.

Tipping points are Critical Milestones that directly impact the rate of acceleration in climate change by multiplying the number and intensity of feedback loops. Tipping points, when crossed, trigger self-sustaining feedback loops that are no longer dependent on human activity. Similar to when a domino topples over hitting two more dominoes that in turn fall hitting more dominoes. Thus, the name The Domino Effect. It can also be visualized as The Snowball Effect. A tipping point is like a snowball rolling down a hill growing in mass and velocity (momentum). When a tipping point is crossed, it results in cumulative and reinforced global warming.

Triggering these tipping points results in the CO2 stored in nature to be released without the assistance of humans. 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. For the first time in human history, global warming is going to continue no matter what humans do. Even if humans stopped their greenhouse gas emissions today, humans have invoked nature’s greenhouse gas emissions. However, the sooner humans stop their emissions, the slower and less severe the onset of extinction will be. In addition, humans must adapt their habitat to remove, reduce, and hinder nature’s greenhouse gas emissions if they hope to avoid extinction.
— from Toppled Tipping Points: The Domino Effect / Brouse and Mukherjee (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

bookmark_borderThe DangeroUS

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LYRICS
The sun’s going down but we’ve miles to go
Nothing’s going to hinder our flow
Someone’s going to get in the know
And save us
From the dangerous
In all of us

Fossil fuel fools
Love burning stuff
Stubborn as mules
Preferring the fluff
Enough!

The sun’s gone down… lost sight of The End
Never know what’s around the bend
S.O.S. is the message to send
Please save us
From the dangerous
In all of us

Fossil fuel fools
Love burning stuff
Stubborn as mules
Preferring the fluff
Enough!

Our sons and daughters pay the price
For how we ruined all that’s nice
Addicted to pollution’s vice
Can’t save us
From the dangerous
In all of us

Fossil fuel fools
Love burning stuff
Stubborn as mules
Preferring the fluff
Enough!

Chords: C G D G / D C G / D C / G; Part II 104 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

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

bookmark_borderThe Sacred Cow (Put It Back)

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LYRICS
Tried to take it all somehow
Better, better put it back now
Hope one knows how it goes?
Better, better put it back now
The sacred cow
Sacrificed twice
Take my advice
Can’t pay the price
To paradise

Lack the tact of know-how
Better, better put it back now
Turned our prose into foes
Better, better put it back now
The sacred cow
Sacrificed twice
Take my advice
Can’t pay the price
To paradise

Time to take the final bow
Better, better put it back now
For all those selfish woes
Better, better give it back now
We lack
To give it back

The sacred cow
Sacrificed twice
Take my advice
Can’t pay the price
To paradise

Chords: G/G6 slide to Bb / Bb A G G6 / G C D G; Part II 128 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

A song about humans’ impact on other creatures. What if God treated us like we treat nature? Do we think we can continue raping the land by just asking for forgiveness? How many times can we “sacrifice the sacred cow” for our same digressions? After taking, taking, and more taking… exploiting the natural resources, do we think we can put it back the way it was?

How long is “ever”… as in “the hottest it’s ever been in recorded history”?

During the first week of July 2023, the Earth had the hottest days ever.

Humans are about 200,000 years old with our closest variety being dated to about 140,000 years ago. The earliest “recording of history” is approximately 100,000 years old. It is the story of The Seven Sisters of The Pleiades. The Seven Sister are a cluster of stars in the Taurus constellation. There are six stars visible to the naked eye. The story is about seven stars. The seventh star has not been visible to the naked eye for over 100,000 years.

The 20th-century surface temperature average for Earth was 13.9℃.
In July of 2023 we are seeing average temperatures of 17℃.

Q: Is it possible for humans to push the temperature 3℃ above pre-industrial levels?
A: Yes. Humans have pushed global temperatures up more than 3℃.

Q: Is it possible for humans to survive at temperatures greater than 3℃?
A: Probably not long. Humans have never done it before.
— from Climate Change: How Long Is “Ever”?

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

From the Christmas album of music Merry Christmas!