- Doubling-Times-I.mp3
- Doubling-Times-I.mp4
- Doubling-Times-II.mp3
- Doubling-Times-II.mp4
- Doubling-Times-intro.mp3
[Intro]
There is no time
For doubling time
So, troubling times
Lie ahead
(Go to bed)
[Bridge]
Halving the doubling
(Glaciers bubbling)
[Verse 1]
Participating
In accelerating
The human race
At a faster pace
[Chorus]
There is no time
[Instrumental, Drum Fills]
For doubling time
So, troubling times
Lie ahead
(Go to bed)
[Bridge]
Halving the doubling
(Glaciers bubbling)
[Verse 2]
Busy preaching
Overreaching
The human’s pace
Leaves no place
[Chorus]
There is no time
For doubling time
So, troubling times
Lie ahead
(Go to bed)
[Bridge]
Halving the doubling
(Glaciers bubbling)
[Chorus]
There is no time
For doubling time
So, troubling times
Lie ahead
(Go to bed)
[Outro]
‘nough said
(Went to bed)
A SCIENCE NOTE
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.
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.
2024 Update
Global average sea level rose by about 0.3 inches (0.76 centimeters) from 2022 to 2023, according to a NASA-led analysis. When we authored this paper in 2023, we could not have foreseen the swift acceleration of this trend. Initially projected to double over a span of 100 years, the rate of sea level rise dramatically escalated, shortening the doubling period to a mere 10 years by 2020. Shockingly, recent observations suggest that this doubling period has further compressed to just 2 years. It is imperative to acknowledge and address this concerning trend, hoping it is not a foreboding indication of a new norm but rather an anomaly.