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[Intro]
Hectare!
(Not another acre)
Mock not
(The A moc)
[Verse 1]
What the heck
(What did you expect)
In retrospect
(What the heck?!?!)
[Chorus]
Hectare!
(Not another acre)
Mock not
(The A moc)
[Bridge]
Hectare!
(Raising the specter)
Mock not
(The A moc)
[Verse 2]
(Oh, brother…)
As for Mother
(Can’t neglect her)
Talk about lack of respect
(What the heck?!?!)
[Chorus]
Hectare!
(Not another acre)
Mock not
(The A moc)
[Bridge]
Hectare!
(Raising the specter)
Mock not
(The A moc)
[Chorus]
Hectare!
(Not another acre)
Mock not
(The A moc)
[Outro]
Hectare!
(Raising the specter)
Shouldn’t neglect her
(Don’t disrespect her)
Have you forgot?
(Mock not)
After all…
(The A moc)
Is in free-fall
A SCIENCE NOTE
Yes, sadly it really is global warming — every region is being reshaped, though not equally. You’re right to be concerned if you live in northern countries that rely on the stability of the AMOC for temperate weather. The Arctic is now warming about 4 times faster than the global average (some regions within the Arctic warm at rates 10x). Northern Europe is warming roughly twice the global average, while southern Europe, Korea, and Japan are experiencing their hottest year on record.
The impacts are staggering: Europe has already endured more wildfire destruction in 2025 than in any year since records began. A hectare (ha) equals 2.47 acres, and by late August more than 1 million hectares had been scorched — an area larger than the entire country of Cyprus. According to the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), this marks the highest total since tracking began in 2006. Spain and Portugal have been hit hardest, with the Iberian Peninsula accounting for over two-thirds of the burned area.
These wildfires are not isolated disasters — they are part of a web of tipping points and feedback loops that extend far beyond southern Europe. Brown carbon deposition, loss of albedo from ice and snow melt, degradation of boreal forests, and thawing permafrost — some of which is now burning year-round — all feed into northern climate systems and directly affect the AMOC.
These regional extremes are connected symptoms of a planetary system in breakdown. The AMOC–jet stream feedback loop is destabilizing so quickly that the call to “wait for more data” no longer applies; the evidence is already unfolding before us. And this is only one piece of a much larger picture: at least nine major tipping points are now observable, interacting with one another in a cascading domino effect. Rather than acting independently, they are reinforcing each other and driving acceleration at an exponential pace.
Our climate model, integrating complex social-ecological factors, shows that global temperatures could rise by up to 9°C within this century — far beyond previous predictions of a 4°C rise over the next thousand years. This kind of warming could bring us dangerously close to the “wet-bulb” threshold, where heat and humidity exceed the human body’s ability to cool itself, leading to fatal consequences.
Tipping points and feedback loops drive the acceleration of climate change. When one tipping point is toppled and triggers others, the cascading collapse is known as the Domino Effect.
The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment
From the album “Sting“
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Hectare-intro.mp3
[Intro]
Hectare!
(Not another acre)
Mock not
(The A moc)
[Verse 1]
What the heck
(What did you expect)
In retrospect
(What the heck?!?!)
[Chorus]
Hectare!
(Not another acre)
Mock not
(The A moc)
[Bridge]
Hectare!
(Raising the specter)
Mock not
(The A moc)
[Verse 2]
(Oh, brother…)
As for Mother
(Can’t neglect her)
Talk about lack of respect
(What the heck?!?!)
[Chorus]
Hectare!
(Not another acre)
Mock not
(The A moc)
[Bridge]
Hectare!
(Raising the specter)
Mock not
(The A moc)
[Chorus]
Hectare!
(Not another acre)
Mock not
(The A moc)
[Outro]
Hectare!
(Raising the specter)
Shouldn’t neglect her
(Don’t disrespect her)
Have you forgot?
(Mock not)
After all…
(The A moc)
Is in free-fall
A SCIENCE NOTE
Yes, sadly it really is global warming — every region is being reshaped, though not equally. You’re right to be concerned if you live in northern countries that rely on the stability of the AMOC for temperate weather. The Arctic is now warming about 4 times faster than the global average (some regions within the Arctic warm at rates 10x). Northern Europe is warming roughly twice the global average, while southern Europe, Korea, and Japan are experiencing their hottest year on record.
The impacts are staggering: Europe has already endured more wildfire destruction in 2025 than in any year since records began. A hectare (ha) equals 2.47 acres, and by late August more than 1 million hectares had been scorched — an area larger than the entire country of Cyprus. According to the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), this marks the highest total since tracking began in 2006. Spain and Portugal have been hit hardest, with the Iberian Peninsula accounting for over two-thirds of the burned area.
These wildfires are not isolated disasters — they are part of a web of tipping points and feedback loops that extend far beyond southern Europe. Brown carbon deposition, loss of albedo from ice and snow melt, degradation of boreal forests, and thawing permafrost — some of which is now burning year-round — all feed into northern climate systems and directly affect the AMOC.
These regional extremes are connected symptoms of a planetary system in breakdown. The AMOC–jet stream feedback loop is destabilizing so quickly that the call to “wait for more data” no longer applies; the evidence is already unfolding before us. And this is only one piece of a much larger picture: at least nine major tipping points are now observable, interacting with one another in a cascading domino effect. Rather than acting independently, they are reinforcing each other and driving acceleration at an exponential pace.
Our climate model, integrating complex social-ecological factors, shows that global temperatures could rise by up to 9°C within this century — far beyond previous predictions of a 4°C rise over the next thousand years. This kind of warming could bring us dangerously close to the “wet-bulb” threshold, where heat and humidity exceed the human body’s ability to cool itself, leading to fatal consequences.
Tipping points and feedback loops drive the acceleration of climate change. When one tipping point is toppled and triggers others, the cascading collapse is known as the Domino Effect.
The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment
From the album “Sting“