LYRICS
The way things are going
Can’t keep pretending
We don’t know
The way things are warming
Makes us far less charming
As if we don’t know
It’s time to go
Just look outside your window
The weather outside is frightful
Insightful blow
The increasing forces
With the power of horses
Start to flow
The way things are warming
Makes us far less charming
As if we don’t know
It’s time to go
Just look outside your window
The weather outside is frightful
Insightful blow
Volatile violent rain
In and out of my brain
Movements slow
The way things are warming
Makes us far less charming
As if we don’t know
It’s time to go
Just look outside your window
The weather outside is frightful
Insightful blow
Increasing strange
In the Age of Damage
Rearrange
What you know
The way things are warming
Makes us far less charming
As if we don’t know
It’s time to go
Just look outside your window
The weather outside is frightful
Insightful blow
- Just-Look-Part-I.mp3 (unplugged to save energy)
- Just-Look-Part-II.mp3
- Just-Look-Part-II-Instrumental.mp3
- Just-Look-Casio-WK-3500.MID
- Just-Look-Yamaha-PSR-740.MID
Chords: F# DEM7 F# / B D C#7 F#; Part II @ 112 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals (TC-Helicon VOICELIVE and MiniNova Vocorder), Ibanez Acoustic Guitar, Ibanez RG Series Electric Guitar (Boss Digital Delay), Fender Jazz Bass (Boss Digital Delay), Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
ABOUT THE SONG
When I asked Sidd for advice in combating climate change deniers, he said, “Just tell them to look out their window.”
The way things are warming
September 6, 2023: “Climate breakdown has begun,” the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the world after the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported the world endure its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer in human history. “The dog days of summer are not just barking, they are biting,” the UN chief said in a statement after the report’s release.
The increasing forces
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. Look at drag physics and you will see that force is proportional to density times square of velocity (v^2).
Volatile violent rain
Multiple factors figure into the physics of violent rain. The starting point is the moisture content of air. The Earth is warming. Warm air can physically hold more water than cool air. The warmer the air the more water vapor the air can hold (i.e. relative humidity). The capacity doubles for every ten degree Celsius warming.
One physical result is more massive raindrops. The Momentum of Rain is p = mv (p = momentum, m = mass, v = velocity.) Part of the increasing momentum is transferred to the sides and upward increasing wind turbulence, as well as updrafts. Most of the momentum is transferred upon impact. You may notice the rain bouncing higher off the streets and sidewalks. Flowing rainwater will have both increased mass and velocity.
On the ground, concrete, asphalt, solar panels, roofs, plants, animals, houses, and infrastructure will be hit with greater momentum. In the air, the increasing mass of the rain will intensify wind turbulence. Professor Paul D. Williams of the University of Reading, UK, said, “Turbulence is chaotic (chaos theory). Turbulence is known famously as the hardest problem in physics.” In their study Evidence for Large Increases in Clear-Air Turbulence Over the Past Four Decades, Prof. Williams and his team found “Climate change has caused turbulence to double in the last 40 years” and is expected to double or triple again in the next decades.
In the Age of Damage
“For people, for other species, for the ecosystems, for the world we live in, we’ve entered the Age of Loss and Damage, but we’re just at the start. What we are seeing already just makes you want to cry,” said Dr. Christopher Trisos (BBC Interview / MP3 Format) from the University of Cape Town. “We can’t eliminate loss and damage. It is here. That said, there is a lot we can do to limit it.”
What Can I Do?
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.