[Silence]
[Instrumental: Low Organ Drone, Distant Kick Like a Heartbeat, Sub Bass Rumble]
[Intro – Sworn In]
[Single Piano Notes, Wide Reverb]
Raise your right hand
(State your name)
Do you swear
(To tell the truth)
The whole truth
(Nothing but the truth)
[Snare — dry, like a gavel]
Let the record show.
[Verse 1 – Establishing Facts]
Atmospheric carbon concentration
(Pre-industrial baseline)
Two-eight-zero parts per million
Current observation
(Four-two-zero and climbing)
Entered into evidence
(Ice core record)
Isotopic signature
(Declining ¹³C ratio)
Fossil origin confirmed
(¹⁴C absent)
Let the record show.
[Chorus – Filed Exhibit]
Exhibit A
(Radiative forcing)
Five point three five
Logarithmic law
Per doubling
(Three point seven watts per meter squared)
Energy imbalance
(Entered into cause)
No speculation
(Measured change)
No ideology
(Just the range)
Let the record show.
[Bridge – Cross Examination]
[Percussion Drops, Sub Bass Pulses]
Counsel argues
(Natural cycle)
Volcanic flux
(Oceanic release)
Objection — relevance
(Isotopes disagree)
Sustained by physics
(Line-by-line spectroscopy)
[Organ swell rises]
Who benefits
(From delay)
Who profits
(From doubt)
Follow the funding
(Follow the memo)
Follow the blackout.
[Verse 2 – Duty of Care]
Risk assessment filed
(Known externality)
Internal communications
(Foreseeability)
Projected loss
(Coastal exposure)
Thermal expansion
(Glacial closure)
Agricultural yield
(Declining variance)
Heat mortality
(Excess occurrence)
When knowledge exists
(And action withheld)
Negligence forms
(In the space unfilled)
Let the record show.
[Chorus – Liability]
Exhibit B
(Policy decision)
Contrary to
(Scientific provision)
Standard of care
(Breached in plain sight)
Public trust
(Ignored for might)
No confusion
(No mistake)
When harm was known
Before the break
Let the record show.
[Break – Expert Witness]
[Instrumental Minimal — Bass + Metronome Click]
In my expert opinion
(To a reasonable certainty)
The causal chain
(Meets threshold clarity)
Anthropogenic forcing
Primary driver
Feedback loops
(Amplifier)
Time compression
(Tipping behavior)
System response
(Nonlinear failure)
This is not conjecture.
It is convergence.
[Final Chorus – Verdict Approaches]
Exhibit C
(Human cost)
Displaced millions
(Livelihoods lost)
Future damages
(Intergenerational)
Scope and scale
(Transnational)
When warnings stand
And choices fall
Responsibility
(Belongs to all)
But accountability
(To those who knew)
[Outro – Court Adjourned]
[Snare — slow, echoing like footsteps in a courthouse]
The data rests.
The models rest.
The oceans do not.
[Organ fades into low drone]
Let the record show.
Adjourned.
[Silence — like a gavel strike]
From the album “Account“