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bookmark_borderOphelia

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LYRICS
Ophelia
I’ll feel ya
Coming at the coast
Ophelia
I’ll feel ya
Live up to the boast
Wind strengthens its blow
Limb lengthens its bow
How much bend to take
Before the break?

Ophelia
I’ll feel ya
Coming at the coast
Ophelia
I’ll feel ya
Live up to the boast
Rain strengthens its flow
Flows begin to grow
How much force to make
Before damns break?

Ophelia
I’ll feel ya
Coming at the coast
Ophelia
I’ll feel ya
Live up to the boast
Too soon covered in gloom
Sky so dark might be night
How to make a lake
Before daybreak

Ophelia
I’ll feel ya
Coming at the coast
Ophelia
I’ll feel ya
Live up to the boast
Your fingers linger
Your remnants a testament to what you meant

Chords: F Bb Bb F / Db Eb F / Db G F / E/F; Part II 118 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

The Weather Channel reported:
O​phelia became the 16th storm of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season early on September 23. Ophelia developed from an area of energy and spin in the mid-levels of the atmosphere that began over the Deep South and swung southeastward across Florida and into the western Atlantic.

T​he system developed strong winds and increasing surf while sitting over the warm Gulf Stream current on Sept. 21, and attained winds of 40+ mph by late evening. It took on subtropical, then tropical characteristics as it neared the North Carolina coast.

O​phelia may have been a hurricane for a very short time either late on Sept. 22 or early on Sept. 23. Surface winds measured by the Hurricane Hunters temporarily briefly fluttered around 75 mph and an eye feature was briefly seen on radar and satellite data.

The storm lingered over Pennsylvania from Friday night through Monday.

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_borderHorrid Id Did

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LYRICS
Want a particular flavor
When you ask a favor
Same as before
Demanding more
More and more
Nature’s whore / horror
Horrid id did
Squid
Game
Insane
In game

What a peculiar behavior
Blame it on your savior
Same as before
Demanding more
More and more
Nature’s whore / horror
Horrid id did
Squid
Game
Insane
In game

Took more than we gave Her
A little too late to savor
Same as before
Demanding more
More and more
Nature’s whore / horror
Nevermore

Horrid-Id-Did.mp3

Chords: E6 E / D6 A7 / Em Em add Bb / E
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania

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_borderDrag Force

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LYRICS
The forces of nature
Continue to grow
Divorce from mature
What’s in you will show

The choices we made
Continue to blow
Voices that throw shade
Miss what’s in the know

Now that we’ve dared
The velocity squared
Tossed to and fro
The undertow
Of the overflow
The drag force… of course!

Intensity density
Continues to grow
Sensitivity of humanity
Is still a no-show

The choices we made
Continue to blow
Voices that throw shade
Miss what’s in the know

Now that we’ve dared
The velocity squared
Tossed to and fro
The undertow
Of the overflow
The drag force… of course!

The destiny of energy
Is quid pro quo
As humanity gets angry
At the ill we show

The choices we made
Continue to blow
Voices that throw shade
Miss what’s in the know

Now that we’ve dared
The velocity squared
Tossed to and fro
The undertow
Of the overflow
The drag force… of course!

Drag-Force.mp3

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)

 

 

The Drag Equation

 

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)

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_borderScales of Justice

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LYRICS
Scales balancing
Justice served
Tales and dancing
Rounded curve
Fetch the home stretch
Could it be downhill?
Coast for the most
May my heart be still

Hold accountable
those past due
Amount capable
Make anew
Fetch the home stretch
Could it be downhill?
Coast for the most
May my heart be still

In The End, my friend
You get served
Love you send, again
Love deserved
Fetch the home stretch
Could it be downhill?
Coast for the most
May my heart be still

Chords: C A D D A E / E D A E / E B A E; Part II @ 122 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

A song of hope about stopping climate change. I had asked:
What will create the change needed?
Litigation against oil companies and governments: 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.) At the same time, children are litigating with their governments for their basic human rights. In Montana, children won the case of Held v. Montana over the “right to a clean and healthful environment.”

California v. Exxon, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and BP
In September of 2023, the State of California filed the lawsuit for:

  • DECADES OF DECEPTION
    • Oil and gas executives have known for decades about the dangers of the fossil fuels they produce.
    • Industry-funded reports directly linked fossil fuel consumption to rising global temperatures and damage to our air, land, and water.
    • Oil companies intentionally suppressed that information from the public and policymakers to protect their profits, and spent billions of dollars to spread disinformation on climate change and delay our transition away from fossil fuels.
    • Oil companies used this information for their own profits, developing new technology to explore the Arctic for oil production because they knew Arctic sea ice was melting.
    • The deception continues today: Oil companies promote fossil fuel products as “clean” or “green” or “low-emissions” that still produce carbon pollution, and they tout their renewable fuel products that actually make up a fraction of a percent of their earnings.
  • DAMAGING OUR STATE
    • Big Oil’s lies and cover ups have caused ongoing climate disasters that have imposed billions of dollars of costs on Californians. We should not have to foot the bill alone while oil companies profit.
    • The suit demands that oil companies pay their fair share for:
      Recovery efforts from climate change-induced superstorms and wildfires;
      Protecting people from the health impacts of extreme heat;
      Managing dwindling water supplies in extreme drought;
      Fortifying infrastructure and homes against sea level rise and coastal and inland flooding.

What we’re asking the court to do:

  • Order the oil companies to pay for the costs of their impacts to the environment, human health, and Californians’ livelihoods, and to help protect the state against the harms that climate change will cause in years to come;
  • Prohibit oil companies from engaging in further pollution and destruction of California communities and natural resources;
  • Levy financial penalties on Big Oil for lying to the public, and order the industry to immediately stop its ongoing efforts to deceive or misinform about their catastrophic impacts;
  • Award punitive damages to the state to punish these companies for their misconduct.

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_borderEnough Enough

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LYRICS
The way things are going to go
Some things you ought to know
Can’t go that much longer
When we act like that
Death comes on slow
As maladies grow
Are we strong enough
to hang tough
Are we tough enough
To say “Enough!”
Enough enough

Now you see where we’re going to be
Are you sure we were honest… honestly?
Can’t go that much longer
When we act like that
Death comes on slow
As maladies grow
Are we strong enough
to hang tough
Are we tough enough
To say “Enough!”
Enough enough

Procrastinate to hesitate
To wait too late
Too late to wait
Can’t go that much longer
When we act like that
Death comes on slow
As maladies grow
Are we strong enough
to hang tough
Are we tough enough
To say “Enough!”
Enough enough

Chords: E C G E7 / C D7 D7 C / C D7 G / G A E E A G / G E; Part II @ 126 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, 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_borderWorld Stopped Turning

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LYRICS
If the world stopped turning
Would the oil stop burning
What will it take
To make up the mistake
If Earth stopped spinning ’round
Could humanity be found
What will it take
To make up the mistake

The ants go marching 3-by-3
“if you don’t know where you’re going…
Don’t ask me!”

The ants go marching 2-by-2
“Don’t know where I’m going…
How ’bout you?”

The ants go marching 1-by-1
’till the last one asks,
“Is the first on dumb?”

Chords: C Am Dm / Dm / Am C E Am / Am G Am; Part III 132 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, 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_borderExtreme Ecstasy

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LYRICS
The energy building up in me
Combined with the synergy
Extreme ecstasy
You know it was bound to show
Rooted in the ground you know
Re-dream is the scene
You know it
I’ve come to show it
Get to know
What I mean
You blow it
I show it
Grow
The extreme dream

You wanna talk insane hurricane?
Geranimo tornado!
Sustain rain dripping on the brain
Floods and mud
Up to my ears in ankles
Still the water sparkles
Up to my ears
It’s hard to hear
Still the water sparkles

A song about how Mother Nature feels after being supercharged by human’s self-indulgent preoccupations.

Chords: E C D / D C E / E A7 B7 E; Part II at 126 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, 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_borderHold Your Breath

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LYRICS
Blue sky
Wonder why
Why not now
PM2.5
Winds do blow
Try to stay alive
No know how
To hold your breath
For all the rest
’cause all that’s left
… is… death
The bridge…
On edge
Bleeding
Leading
Edge

Dreams weave air to breath
Sow seems of heavenly scenes
As birth on Earth

Blue sky
Wonder why
Why not now
PM2.5
Winds do blow
Try to stay alive
PM2.5
No know how
That’s why not now

To hold your breath
For all the rest
’cause all that’s left
… is… death
The bridge…
On edge
Bleeding
Leading
Edge

Dreams weave air to breath
Sow seems of heavenly scenes
As birth on Earth

Chords: A Bb A / A C Bb A / Em / Esus4 FM7 / A7 Esus4; Part II at 94 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

From the Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC):
The Air Quality Life Index, or AQLI, converts air pollution concentrations into their impact on life expectancy.
Particulate air pollution is the greatest risk to human health.
Pollution and pollen, etc. PM2.5 microns thick.
Reduces quality of life.
Reduces the average human life by 10 years.

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_borderRTZ (Return to Zero)

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LYRICS
Super startrooper
Slow burn as hero
Her Zeus let us loose
Return to zero
Given all we’ve lived to regret
If Mother Nature could just reset
3, 2, 1
We’re almost done
Too much fun
Lit-up everyone
3, 2, 1
Return to zero
You’re the one
Be my hero

Super startrooper
Rule the universe
Should us mere mortals
Shift in to reverse
Given all we’ve lived to regret
If Mother Nature could just reset
3, 2, 1
We’re almost done
Too much fun
Lit-up everyone
3, 2, 1
Return to zero
You’re the one
Be my hero

Super startrooper
Mend our mistake
Humane humans make
Mere mortals wake
Given all we’ve lived to regret
If Mother Nature could just reset
3, 2, 1
We’re almost done
Too much fun
Lit-up everyone
3, 2, 1
Return to zero
You’re the one
Be my hero

Wake

Wake

Chords: E C D E / D C E / D A E; Part II and III 140 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, 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_borderYour Detriment

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LYRICS
You said it before
You said it once more
Like before
It gets you no more
Take my advice
Try n’ be nice
Remove all doubt
Lettin’ it out
I meant
Experiment
With what is meant
By your detriment
It’s time well spent

You’ve done it before
It’s the same mistake
Done it twice
That’s bit irate
Take my advice
Try n’ be nice
Remove all doubt
Lettin’ it out
I meant
Experiment
With what is meant
By your detriment
It’s time well spent

When it come to love
Look above
Suggest your test
Tells the rest
Took my advice
Tried to be nice
Removed all doubt
Lettin’ it out
We meant
Experiment
With what is meant
By our detriment
It’s time well spent

Your-Detriment.mp3

Chords: F# B E A F# / E B F# C# F#
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania

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_borderThem Children

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LYRICS
Can’t deny the changing wind
You nor I
No humans win
Looking out
There is no doubt
Changing wind blows out our bin/been
Human rights crime
We stole their time
Now they’ll never know
How to grow
Instead we fill
With kill, kill, kill
Still we steal their freewill
All along
We should have been
Saving the children
The children
Saving them

Can’t deny raging currents
You and I
Lack endurance
Looking out
There is no doubt
Flood of blood
Turns inside out
Human rights crime
We stole their time
Now they’ll never know
How to grow
Instead we fill
With kill, kill, kill
Still we steal their freewill
All along
We should have been
Saving the children
The children
Saving them

Can’t deny the searing sun
You nor I
No, no one won
Looking out
There is no doubt
Can’t beat heat
When in defeat
Human rights crime
We stole their time
Now they’ll never know
How to grow
Instead we fill
With kill, kill, kill
Still we steal their freewill
All along
We should have been
Saving the children
The children
Saving them

hem-Children.mp3

Chords: A G C A / G A / C G A / G G# A
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania

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_borderRunning Out

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LYRICS
Running out of water
Running out of air
To my son and daughter
Is this fair?
Indeed our greed impedes
For them my heart bleeds
It’s time that Man concedes
And feeds

Getting ever hotter
Getting way too warm
My poor son and daughter
Your first born?
Indeed our greed impedes
For them my heart bleeds
It’s time that Man concedes
And feeds

No one left won
So much for our fun
Poor daughter and son
World’s undone
Indeed our greed impedes
For them my heart bleeds
It’s time that Man concedes
And feeds

Running-Out.mp3

Chords: A C / D / D G C / D C A
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania

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_borderTo Be Show

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LYRICS
Oh, so here we go
Off to be show
I mean… you know…
Dazed, confused… we lit the fuse
(Bomb go BOOM!)
While you scoff
You’re aloof
You laugh
You jack-off
You scoff
Jack-off
Aloof
You laugh
’cause right now…
You are not only
Lewd and crude
With a piss-poor attitude
You’re screwed
You are…
Lewd and crude
With a piss-poor attitude
And screwed

To-Be-Show.mp3

Chords: C Am / Am Em Em Am / C B7 Em
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar

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_borderAt the End

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LYRICS
Start again?
No option
… to… start again
We got to begin
But then went afoul
Religion is sin
The ironic fool

Almost there
Unaware
… we’re… almost there

We got to begin
But then went afoul
Religion is sin
The iconic fool

At The End
Recommend
… to… start again
Start again?
No option
… to… start again

We got to begin
But then went afoul
Religion is sin
The ironic fool

Chords: D A E / E A D G E; Part II 107 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, 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_borderA-bun-DANCE (Love Large)

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LYRICS
Is it hot enough
Humid, too?
Make conditions tough/rough
Humans do
Is it really…
… really that hard
Hard to recharge
Is it really…
… really that hard
Hard to love large
With our over abundance
Of energy
A-bun-DANCE
Give away your wealth
A-bun-DANCE
Live for better health
A-bun-DANCE
Open up your mouth
A-bun-DANCE
Stand in the light
Fight for the children…
… the children’s rights

Is it hot enough
Humid, too?
Make conditions tough/rough
Humans do
Is it really…
… really that hard
Hard to recharge
Is it really…
… really that hard
Hard to love large
With our over abundance
Of energy
A-bun-DANCE
Forget about the money
A-bun-DANCE
Forge for times more sunny
A-bun-DANCE
Get to the land of honey
A-bun-DANCE
Stand in the light
Fight for the children…
… the children’s rights

Is it hot enough
Humid, too?
Make conditions tough/rough
Humans do
Is it really…
… really that hard
Hard to recharge
Is it really…
… really that hard
Hard to love large
With our over abundance
Of energy
A-bun-DANCE
Given the perfect chance
A-bun-DANCE
A natural romance
A-bun-DANCE
Dance, dance
A-bun-DANCE
Stand in the light
Fight for the children…
… the children’s rights

Chords: Em F G / G F Em / E C C E / E C B7 E; Part II from 109 to 122 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

A song about children suing governments over their right to live.
Litigating for Children’s Right to a Stable and Healthy Climate
Children have filed lawsuits worldwide against their governments over their basic human rights. Our Children’s Trust reported:

In November 2013, hundreds of Dutch citizens, along with the Dutch Urgenda Foundation, sued their government to hold the state liable for failing to take measures to prevent dangerous climate change. The plaintiffs argued that under Dutch tort law, the State could be held liable for negligence due to its failure to adequately reduce greenhouse (GHG) emissions in line with its previous international commitments to reduce emissions by 25-40% by 2020. They also argued that the government’s failure to achieve its GHG emission reduction commitments violated their fundamental rights to life, privacy and health under the European Code of Human Rights. The plaintiffs sought a declaration that the Netherlands was acting unlawfully towards the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs also sought injunctions ordering the Netherlands to limit its GHG emissions to a level of 40%, or at least 25% below 1990 levels before 2020 and to present to Parliament within 6 months a program of measures with corresponding budgets that would ensure such GHG emissions reductions. In June 2015, the Hague District Court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, imposing a 25% reduction of GHG emissions by 2020. The District Court’s decision was upheld by both the Court of Appeals in October 2018 and the Netherlands Supreme Court in December 2019.

In August 2023, the Journal Nature reported:

Advocates for action on climate change won a major court victory in the United States this week. A district court judge ruled in Held v. Montana that Montana’s Environmental Policy Act, which prohibits the state from considering the climate impact of proposed energy projects, violates the “right to a clean and healthful environment” promised by the state’s constitution. Montana’s attorney-general has vowed to appeal. The case was brought in 2020 on behalf of a group of 16 young people, now between 5 and 22 years old, and was litigated by Julia Olson at the non-profit law firm Our Children’s Trust. Olson has been involved with dozens of climate cases since around 2010.

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