e is the base of the natural logarithm,
rr is the growth rate,
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[Intro]
What is the acceleration rate
Of the prime primate’s fate
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Rabidly rapid
[Instrumental, Piano]
The prime primate’s acceleration rate
[Break]
[Verse 1]
You would have thought
He would have thought
To slow down
‘stead the farm he bought
Overwrought
Hit the wall, like a clown
Fall down
[Bridge]
Past Her faster
Natural disaster
Under the command
Of Man
Understand?
[Chorus]
The prime primates doubling rate
Rapid, no debate
The prime primates doubling rate
Rabid, waste ate
Irate
[Instrumental]
[Verse 2]
Would have thought would have thought know
No, no, no
Oh, nooo
Would have thought, obvious to us
Stop!
After all, I mean… obscene
Why not?
Why not stop?
[Break]
Stop
[Break]
Stop
Why not?
[Break]
What is the acceleration rate
Of the prime primate’s fate
[Break]
Rabidly rapid
[Instrumental, Piano]
The prime primate’s acceleration rate
[Break]
so much change so rapidly
[Break]
Can’t we see?
[Break]
It’s so far outside anything we’ve seen, it’s almost mind-blowing,
absolutely gobsmackingly bananas
[Break]
gobsmackingly
[Instrumental]
[Chorus]
The prime primates doubling rate
Rapid, no debate
The prime primates doubling rate
Rabid, waste ate
Irate
[Instrumental]
[Outo]
* Our climate model uses chaos theory in an attempt to adequately account for humans and forecasts a global average temperature increase of 9 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Everybody has the responsibility not to pollute. There are plenty of things you can do to help save the planet. Stop using fossil fuels.
[End]
[Silence]
How fast are humans causing the climate to change? When we started our experiments in the 1990’s, we thought the time scale was in millenniums. If climate change were happening on a linear basis, we would have been correct; however, by the late 90’s we were convinced climate change was non-linear.
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.”
Some areas of the world are now warming so fast, it is becoming more difficult to measure the change from “normal” or average. Jeff Boyne, National Weather Service meteorologist and climatologist, said, “There are climate normals that are updated every 10 to 15 years, because the planet is warming so fast. The ENSO (El Nino-Southern Oscillation) regions are warming so fast that those normals are being updated every 5 years.”
“It’s so far outside anything we’ve seen, it’s almost mind-blowing,” says Walter Meier, who monitors sea-ice with the National Snow and Ice Data Center. “September was, in my professional opinion as a climate scientist, absolutely gobsmackingly bananas,” said Zeke Hausfather, at the Berkeley Earth climate data project.”
* Our climate model uses chaos theory in an attempt to adequately account for humans and forecasts a global average temperature increase of 9 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Everybody has the responsibility not to pollute. There are plenty of things you can do to help save the planet. Stop using fossil fuels. Consume less. Love more. Here is a list of additional actions you can take.
Doubling time refers to the duration needed for a quantity to double in size, a characteristic of exponential growth. By 2020, substantial data revealed that the doubling time for certain anthropogenic climate impacts had decreased significantly, shifting from 100 years to merely 10 years. For instance, the rate of sea level rise has surged from approximately 1.5 millimeters per year to over 3 millimeters. This trend suggests that the doubling period is likely to further contract, heightening the prospect of sea levels ascending at a rate of one foot per year by 2050.
