[Intro]
Well, blow me down
Just look around
[Verse 1]
The winds of change
Are blowing
Gonna rearrange
What we’re knowing
[Bridge]
Well, blow me down
Just look around
[Chorus]
The breeze of ease
Is blowing away
The flow of no
We’ll come to know
[Instrumental, Guitar Solo, Drum Fills]
[Verse 2]
The winds of change
Knock me down
Normal’s strange
all around
[Bridge]
Well, blow me down
Just look around
[Chorus]
The breeze of ease
Is blowing away
The flow of no
We’ll come to know
[Instrumental, Saxophone Solo, Bass]
[Bridge]
Well, blow me down
Just look around
Can’t you see
Reality
[Chorus]
The breeze of ease
Is blowing away
The flow of no
We’ll come to know
[Instrumental, Piano]
[Outro]
Well, blow me down
Just look around
Can’t you see
Reality
A SCIENCE NOTE
June 6, 2024 — Carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere faster than ever — accelerating on a steep rise to levels far above any experienced during human existence, scientists from NOAA and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego announced today. “Over the past year, we’ve experienced the hottest year on record, the hottest ocean temperatures on record and a seemingly endless string of heat waves, droughts, floods, wildfires and storms,” said NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad, Ph.D. “Now we are finding that atmospheric CO2 levels are increasing faster than ever. We must recognize that these are clear signals of the damage carbon dioxide pollution is doing to the climate system, and take rapid action to cut fossil fuel use as quickly as we can.”
Our climate model / experiment employs chaos theory to comprehensively consider human impacts and projects a potential global average temperature increase of 9℃ above pre-industrial levels. Global warming is a consequence of elevated thermal energy in the climate system, which comprises various subsystems. Chaos theory underscores the intricate and nonlinear nature of dynamic systems. Previous climate models have inadequately incorporated “social-ecological systems” as human involvement was not a significant factor in past climate changes. Regrettably, the United States ranks among the least prepared countries globally, with the highest percentage of climate deniers. Politicians hinder the fight against climate change exacerbating the problem. The Republican party dismisses it as a manufactured crisis and plans to increase fossil fuel production. Political extremists asserting that the climate crisis is manufactured employ an ironic term, considering that human manufacturing activities are the primary driver of climate change. Both political parties have concurred to allocate unlimited emergency funding for climate disasters instead of proactively preventing them. Last year, the US witnessed a record number of over a billion-dollar climate disasters, totaling 28 separate weather and climate-related events. It is due to this arrogance and ignorance that “worst-case scenarios” are now “best-case scenarios” for the acceleration of climate change. These factors have altered our climate model, shifting the projected maximum temperature rise from 4 degrees Celsius over the next millennium to a probable increase of 9 degrees Celsius this century. A 9-degree Celsius increase would bring the Earth close to a wet-bulb temperature incapable of sustaining human life.