Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t DailyCaller – British researchers have claimed that global warming strongly influences our taste in music.
According to FirstPost;
Fancy listening to the Beatles’ ‘Here Comes The Sun’ when you are grinding out yet another long, sweaty heatwave? “These assumptions we have about certain weather being good and certain weather being bad, like sun being good — that might change,” researcher Karen Aplin of the University of Oxford said at a European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna.
Aplin and five other scientists combed through databases of more than 15,000 pop songs, finding statistical backing for the assumption that our moods are strongly swayed by the weather. These emotions, in turn, are expressed in the music artists compose and what the public likes to hear.
I guess its not difficult to find a better proxy than tree rings.
My question, if we apply this principle to films as well as songs, what can we infer from recent films which express fear of ice and snow, like The Day after Tomorrow, or even the children’s film Frozen? Might scientists in the future, consider popular culture to be a better proxy for global temperature, than massively “adjusted” and probably defective official temperature records?
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I guess I will just become a fan of “Slightly Less Coldplay” then…
Dark Side of the Loons.
Help!
Dead Flowers.
Don’t let the Sun go Down on Me.
Midnight at the Oasis.
Fox on the Run.
Panama Red.
…..and so on.
Good day sunshine,
Good day sunshine,
Good day sunshine.
I need to laugh, and when the sun is out
I’ve got something I can laugh about,
I feel good, in a special way.
I’m in love and it’s a sunny day.
Hey, hey, hey, snowflake
My pretty little snowflake
Ooh, ooh, the change in the weather
Has made it better for me
Hey, hey, hey, snowflake
My pretty little snowflake
You’ve got me warm as a fire
With the burning desire for you
…
Read more: Jim Reeves – Snowflake Lyrics | MetroLyrics
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are grey
You never know, dear, how much I love you
Please don’t take my sunshine away
Bad Company
Sychonicity? I just left this comment on FB around 40 minutes ago…”Goldminor Sanchez Funny you should mention “Here comes the Sun”. That is a great song. When I got married in the early 1970s, my wife insisted that this should be played as we walked out of the ceremony. Strangely, it seems that I have now become the herald for here comes the Sun in regards to the changes that are now occurring in our solar system. It is almost as if it was a premonition on her part. I have found what I believe is a link between the Sun and the oceans which is the main cause/driver of what causes warm and cold trends on our planet. I have linked the combination of the two to changes in ENSO, which is the Pacific Ocean phase switch between El Nino and La Nina. Over the course of the last 14 months, I have successfully forecast the movement from peak to valley on the main graph that describes the changes, known as the Multivariate ENSO Index MEI. This may turn out to be nothing more than a lucky guess. It will take a bit more time to see if I can continue making successful connections. So far though my method still has legs.The next several months are important in this regard. As it stands now though, I am the only person to have ever done this. Hence, “Here comes the Sun”…”.
So let’s all listen to The Clash:
The ice age is coming, the sun’s zooming in
Engines stop running, the wheat is growing thin
A nuclear error, but I have no fear
‘Cause London is drowning, and I live by the river
That doesn’t even scan. Then, I always didn’t like the Clash.
It’s a song. The lyrics fit the music. That’s all that matters.
Sweatin’ to the oldies!
Forgive me in advance 🙂
Is this claim a joke?
Is this claim a joke?
Yes, but the jokes on us.
No, it’s a very serious cry for more research funding.
Three little birds by Bob Marley. Play that at the next ipcc meeting. Too much rage against the machine for those guys.
My God is the Sun
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
Hmm, if we go back to an earlier era, they seem to have gotten it right:
Songwriters: Mills, Irving / Cole, Nat King
Straighten Up And Fly Right lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
People dressed better back then too.
Nat King Cole gets my vote. People did dress better! You know what? Way back then grammar schools were teaching the we were emerging from an ice age and that great cold winters with lots of ice were not all that distant in the past. Great droughts and Buffalo from horizon to horizon were still living memories. Many kids had grandparents and great grandparents who witnessed them. The greater San Jose area in California was rural mostly planted in fruit before the resources used by IBM and Standford University spilled out to become “the silicon valley” in support of NASA and the Defense Department contracts. The “bay area” became the brains and Los Angeles the brawn of the cold war and space race.
The resulting explosion in technology and innovation has made it possible for humanity to live not so precariously as we have had to in the past. So let’s remember how far we’ve come so fast and get that congressional buzzard to straighten up and fly right!
“Oh those hazy, lazy, crazy days of Summer
Don’t you wish that Summer was always here?”
What a bunch of freaking idiots! I’m sure that was taxpayer funded “research ” as well. This kind of thing is why Climate Science is the plaid suit white shoes and belt of science. Maybe even a hair piece as well.
Music has been going down hill ever since the Beatles broke up.
The day the music died…..
“American Pie” is probably a real favorite among alarmists. It seems to fit their mood:
So bye, bye, Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey ‘n rye
Singin’ this’ll be the day that I die
This’ll be the day that I die
“So bye, bye, cause the temps gunna rise
Drove Chevy to the levee but the batt’ry caught fire
Them turbine things are swattin’ birds from the sky
Cause tomorrow’ll be the day that we die!
Tomorrow’ll be the day that we die!”
“(Somewhere) Over the Rainbow”
A magnificent example of girly science
Perhaps psychedelic rock band Cold Sun might do a comeback tour. They disappeared virtually without trace after releasing Dark Shadows back in 1970.
http://therisingstorm.net/cold-sun-dark-shadows/
In the meantime we can still look back fondly at the Quo’s ‘Ice in the Sun’ and wonder to ourselves, well, did they get it right after all?
Oh boy, maybe if it warms another whole 0.1 degrees on average then I can listen to the music that I only like in the summer during the winter. It will be summer music all year long and kids won’t know what jingle bells is.
So “Bye, bye,”White Christmas” goodbye”?
Presenting David Byrne…
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Next play John Mellencamp – Hot Night In A Cold Town
I still think “instant warmin” every time I hear “Instant Karma”. The song’s more up to date that way.
I can only assume that the prevalence of Gangsta Rap is due to The Pause
Is “the pause” the moment before the pants almost fall to the ground?
The weather has had a effect on art through out the years. At times during the little ice age paintings of winter scenes became common.