Claim: Global warming will affect your taste in music

Guest essay by Eric Worrall

beatles-sunh/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.

Read more: http://www.firstpost.com/living/wonder-songs-getting-worse-might-global-warming-2196750.html

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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R. de Haan
April 16, 2015 2:32 pm

British Researchers, you must be kidding me.

Dawtgtomis
April 16, 2015 2:33 pm

Oh jeez! you should see what happens when you google “climate change playlist”.

Reply to  Dawtgtomis
April 16, 2015 3:48 pm

Oh jeez! is right. Wow. If anyone sees this and thinks to try it, don’t do it!!!!!

Randy Kaasalainen
April 16, 2015 2:42 pm

It’s been said to be the magic molecule.

Admad
April 16, 2015 2:44 pm

Music be the food of GIGO

April 16, 2015 2:45 pm

So they’ve seen the clouds from both sides now?

April 16, 2015 2:59 pm

Pop music is certainly as evanescent as the weather. Whenever I feel the need to reassure my faith in the reliability of climate, I always turn to Vivaldi’s Quattro Staggione and Haydn’s Jahreszeiten.

Annie
Reply to  David Bennett Laing
April 16, 2015 6:02 pm

Hear hear!

Ian Macdonald
April 16, 2015 2:59 pm

-Well, it’s added few to my collection:
Terry the Turbine:

I’m a Denier:

Binny
April 16, 2015 3:00 pm

Clearly running out of things to spend their grant money on.

old44
Reply to  Binny
April 17, 2015 6:48 am

Clearly running out of things to get their grant money from.

Binny
April 16, 2015 3:01 pm

Apply for a grant to study something that can’t be (dis)proven, and spend the money on women and booze.

April 16, 2015 3:03 pm

Disney’s Frozen is now a sign of Climate Change?
Not everything is about science or politics.
Let it go.

April 16, 2015 3:04 pm
BFL
Reply to  Steve Case
April 16, 2015 4:49 pm

Or this one with an alternate universe……..

April 16, 2015 3:04 pm

So what came first? The music or the PR?

Reply to  Gunga Din
April 16, 2015 3:05 pm

Or is the music part of the PR?

April 16, 2015 3:09 pm

When the Levee Breaks

Hot under the collar
April 16, 2015 3:14 pm

When it comes to ‘climate change’, one piece of music comes to mind:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Mind_the_Bollocks,_Here's_the_Sex_Pistols

Hot under the collar
Reply to  Hot under the collar
April 16, 2015 3:20 pm

Apologies to our American friends, who may not be familiar with the English slang “Bollocks”.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bollocks

April 16, 2015 3:18 pm

Taxpayer funded “science” jobs I assume?

TonyL
April 16, 2015 3:22 pm

Oh Dear, they found statistical backing for an assumption. I’ll bet they also came up with a bunch of “wee p values” that Mat Briggs likes so much.
With rock-solid proof like this, it must be added to the Warmlist!
My entry: from 1967, Windy by The Association.

April 16, 2015 3:23 pm

There’s an option to read more of the study.
I actually wish i could push a button and read less of this kind of nonsense!

AB
April 16, 2015 3:29 pm

Here ya go.
😉
https://youtu.be/JJchayYlr-c

Chris B
Reply to  AB
April 16, 2015 7:31 pm

Hehe, I tried to post a version of this earlier.
Half those kids are now at NOAA, NASA, CRU, etc.
This was a pre-faked Moon landing, mind control experiment.
Off/Sarc.

PaulH
April 16, 2015 4:03 pm

According to some of my friends, my taste in music could use some “adjustment”. (Homogenization?)

Reply to  PaulH
April 16, 2015 6:04 pm

I just hate all music.

RACookPE1978
Editor
Reply to  Tom Trevor
April 16, 2015 8:17 pm

Tom Trevor

I just hate all music.

Fine.
Imagine poor ole me.
I hear it, and I analyze it as a bunch of squeaks, blats, bloots, blares, straangs, strums, strongs, schreaches and screams, blits, blats (and more strums) blares and other strange individual noises all coming out at the same time like a pile of dumped frequencies and resonances of louder and not-so-loud simultaneous noises.
Seems like they could save time and energy by just transmitting the entire concert in 10 seconds at the same time if everybody played everything as loud as they could at the start. Then they could stop, pack up the instruments, and go home.
I assume other people hear “music” somehow.

D Matteson
April 16, 2015 4:18 pm

“….researcher Karen Aplin of the University of Oxford said at a European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna.”
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth,
Blowing down the back roads headin’ south.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
You’re an idiot, babe.
It’s a wonder that you still know how to breathe.

~ Bob Dylan – Idiot Wind Lyrics – ‘Bolld On The Tracks’ album

April 16, 2015 4:28 pm

I vote for Anton Bruckner.

Annie
Reply to  nicholas tesdorf
April 16, 2015 6:06 pm

Yes….+1

April 16, 2015 4:32 pm

“scientists combed through databases of more than 15,000 pop songs . . .”
SELECT ALL FROM “PopSongs” and “SPM”
WHERE CO2 > 180 and
WHERE weather => “extreme_scary” or
WHERE pH > “freightening” or
WHERE sea_level_rise > 0.0001mm
ORDER BY “catastrophic_adjusted_temp”

E.M.Smith
Editor
April 16, 2015 4:34 pm

Yeah mahn, when it be warming I’m all into Marley and Jamaica mahn… gotta go, the ganga is getting cold 😉

graphicconception
April 16, 2015 4:38 pm

I can probably save someone some money here …
This British Researcher thinks that Climate Change is affecting the quality of science papers – and not in a good way.

Bruce Cobb
April 16, 2015 4:42 pm

Global Warming Belief will affect your brain, by turning it to mush.