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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Our civilization is regressing. Accordingly, our ancestors would have easily solved this warming problem by sacrificing a virgin. The odds of success are questionable, but in today’s society could we even get started.
The problem with sacrificing virgins now…How do you find one?
I notice a sudden flux of Björk posts on facebook when we have a cold snap in the UK.
Gosh!
These guys really may be on to something here: No doubt, most of us prefer sunny days to cloudy ones, but no harm in spending a little (read: lots) of our cash to prove an obvious point, or is it a startling breakthrough?
Also noteworthy: Our moods are strongly swayed by music. Breathtaking stuff here, and the CAGW bandwagon rolls on, its crepe paper constantly changing colors to reflect the changing goalposts, and hey! That ain’t crepe paper, it’s our money.
Track 11 on Abbey Road, John Lennon & Paul McCartney.
(2nd verse, much worse than the first…gibberish, in fact)
Bottom line question: does our taste in music, or lack thereof, affect our belief, or skepticism, about CAGW?
Inquiring minds would like to know what affect Rap, Hip Hop, and other such noise parading as music has on young, impressionable minds.
What effect? They act as if they have been drugged and de-brained.
Yes, and to pursue a perhaps trivial point, you may have noted that I used the word affect as both verb and noun in my comment.
While it is true that the general rule is to use effect as a noun, and affect as a verb, the latter also has good standing as a noun, whereas effects are objective, while affects are subjective:
(my bold)
I take this to mean that effects are measurable, where affects, being subjective, are not. This is the same divide that separates science from psychology.
My interest is a possible link between heavy, bass-laden music and aggressive or violent behavior, hence the psychological slant and the use of the noun affect, but perhaps one or more of the erudite wordsmiths who haunt this hallowed blog will weigh in on the matter.
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Rain or shine we still have the beatles.
“And the banker never wears a mac.
In the pouring rain.
very strange.
Meanwhile back in Penny Lane…..”
So the Beatles were secretly warning us about climate change even in even songs about roads.
In fact why should we all live in a Yellow Submarine? Well, quite clearly because the sea level has risen so much there is no dry land to live on. Their album covers make it clear that Paul is dead. He died of climate change, Help! I need someone not just anyone, Help me if can . Only someone like Michael Mann would understand.
It is worse than I thought even “let it be” is about climate change.
” And when the night is cloudy
There is still a light that shines on me
Shine on until tomorrow, let it be”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fdyFe01NVU0
Somehow, the phrase “jumped the shark” comes to mind when I read this piece.
When I think of Climate change, I think of The Who and “Won’t get fooled again”
Baba O’riley (aka Teenage Wasteland) is about a couple leaving the city for the country, I guess they have to leave because of climate change.
33 Degrees (Fahrenheit or Celsius … take your pick …)
The premise that weather affects our moods and possibly our taste in music has a ring of truth to it. For instance, while I was shovelling the snow off my driveway, every other day, all winter long, I kept humming, “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…”; long after Christmas came and went.
Probably true but in reverse.
There’s nothing on the planet happier than miserable english people ……because they know that’s the proper condition of humanity_ ______cold, fog-bound and suffering from flu.
If they are enjoying themselves they are unhappy because they know it won’t last.
I suspect plenty of Californians, Floridians and certainly Australians enjoy… “Here Comes the Sun”.
The first indication that winter is ending in Australia is hearing “Good Vibrations” on the radio.
Could the Beach Boys have been English? Hardly !
Karen Aplin needs to get out more and enjoy what little summer is available in Oxford
Boiling heat, summer stench
‘Neath the black the sky looks dead
Call my name through the cream
And I’ll hear you scream again
Black hole sun
Won’t you come
And wash away the rain
Black hole sun
Won’t you come
Won’t you come (Won’t you come)
-Soundgarden
C’mon baby light my fire.
Yawn!
By the time global warming or climate change arrives we will all be dead!
Is there anything climate change cannot do?
Obviously coolth is good. Bring back Beethoven, Bach, Telemann, Haydn, Rameau, Purcell and Tallis. The question is: is good music the result of cool times or are cool times the result of good music? Perhaps heading for another ice age may be A GOOD THING!
Lovely to see the highly esteemed Mr J. Benny again, but I never saw “The Twilight Zone”. What was a shock was seeing the cigarette ad at the end! Horror!!!!!
https://youtu.be/UiQLtMaJLvs
Theme song for all AGW true believers: Fire – Aurthur Brown
https://youtu.be/pCU5hTCynkQ
You’re as cold as ice!
You’re willing to sacrifice our love.
You never take advice…
1:44 of magic
Obviously. With my fully coupled anthropogenic music model I calculate that by 2100, Chris Rea’s “On The Beach” will be played by 12 trillion people a day.
Little Lies by Fleetwood Mac could encompass the whole AGW hypothesis
Global Warming – is there anything it can’t do?
None of the above. Perhaps the best of all:
Hide the Decline
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dul_hYde0nk
Somehow or other Matt Briggs contrived to manufacture the perfect parody of this research.
In advance!!!!
Another example of skeptic prescience:
http://wmbriggs.com/post/4423/