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Untangle-I.mp3
Untangle-I.mp4
Untangle-Unplugged-Underground-XVIII.mp3
Untangle-Unplugged-Underground-XVIII.mp4
Untangle-intro.mp3
[Intro]
The human angle
(Ever harder to untangle)
[Bridge]
Must confess
(Quite a mess)
[Verse 1]
Our vectors
Getting all entwined
Lost hectors
Of forest that we mined
[Chorus]
The human angle
(Ever harder to untangle)
Standing on our shoelaces
(Falling on our faces)
[Bridge]
Untangle
(Our angle)
Must confess
(Quite a mess)
[Verse 2]
Our vectors
Getting all entwined
Lost hectors
Of forest that we mined
[Chorus]
Figuring our angle
(Ever harder to untangle)
Shoelaces tied together
(Tripping now to nether)
[Bridge]
Untangle
(Our angle)
Quite a mess
(Hard to digest)
[Chorus]
Figuring our angle
(Ever harder to untangle)
Weather together
(Whether to nether)
[Outro]
Couldn’t untangle
(Our warped angle)
Quite a mess
(Failed the test)
A MATH AND SCIENCE NOTE
A vector diagram of human-induced climate change would show:
Each major human activity as a vector (an arrow).
Each vector would have:
Magnitude = how strong the effect is (how much it drives climate change).
Direction = what type of effect it causes (warming, cooling, feedback loops, etc.).
Some of the main vectors would be:
Activity
Vector Direction
Vector Magnitude
Burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas)
Strongly toward global warming
Very large
Deforestation
Toward warming (loss of carbon sinks)
Large
Industrial agriculture
Toward warming (methane, nitrous oxide)
Medium-large
Aerosol pollution (tiny particles)
Slightly toward cooling (reflect sunlight)
Small-medium
Urbanization (heat islands)
Toward local and global warming
Medium
Climate feedback loops (like melting ice reducing reflectivity)
Toward accelerated warming
Growing rapidly
How the diagram would look:
A large cluster of vectors mostly pointing in the same general warming direction.
A few smaller vectors pointing opposite (cooling, like aerosols) — but not strong enough to cancel out the warming ones.
Some vectors bending and amplifying others, showing feedback loops (ex: hotter temperatures = more wildfires = more CO₂ released = even hotter temperatures).
Conceptually:
Human-induced climate change would look like an overwhelmingly strong push (vector sum) toward global warming.
The overall resultant vector would be:
Very long
Very sharply pointed toward higher temperatures, more extreme weather, rising seas, ecosystem collapse, etc.
In simple terms:
Imagine a bunch of arrows (vectors) — the biggest and most powerful ones (like fossil fuel burning) all point toward “Warming” with huge force. A few tiny arrows (like aerosol cooling) point the other way, but they’re way too small to stop the giant surge.
From the album “Angle“
The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment
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Untangle-I.mp3
Untangle-I.mp4
Untangle-Unplugged-Underground-XVIII.mp3
Untangle-Unplugged-Underground-XVIII.mp4
Untangle-intro.mp3
[Intro]
The human angle
(Ever harder to untangle)
[Bridge]
Must confess
(Quite a mess)
[Verse 1]
Our vectors
Getting all entwined
Lost hectors
Of forest that we mined
[Chorus]
The human angle
(Ever harder to untangle)
Standing on our shoelaces
(Falling on our faces)
[Bridge]
Untangle
(Our angle)
Must confess
(Quite a mess)
[Verse 2]
Our vectors
Getting all entwined
Lost hectors
Of forest that we mined
[Chorus]
Figuring our angle
(Ever harder to untangle)
Shoelaces tied together
(Tripping now to nether)
[Bridge]
Untangle
(Our angle)
Quite a mess
(Hard to digest)
[Chorus]
Figuring our angle
(Ever harder to untangle)
Weather together
(Whether to nether)
[Outro]
Couldn’t untangle
(Our warped angle)
Quite a mess
(Failed the test)
A MATH AND SCIENCE NOTE
A vector diagram of human-induced climate change would show:
Each major human activity as a vector (an arrow).
Each vector would have:
Magnitude = how strong the effect is (how much it drives climate change).
Direction = what type of effect it causes (warming, cooling, feedback loops, etc.).
Some of the main vectors would be:
Activity
Vector Direction
Vector Magnitude
Burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas)
Strongly toward global warming
Very large
Deforestation
Toward warming (loss of carbon sinks)
Large
Industrial agriculture
Toward warming (methane, nitrous oxide)
Medium-large
Aerosol pollution (tiny particles)
Slightly toward cooling (reflect sunlight)
Small-medium
Urbanization (heat islands)
Toward local and global warming
Medium
Climate feedback loops (like melting ice reducing reflectivity)
Toward accelerated warming
Growing rapidly
How the diagram would look:
A large cluster of vectors mostly pointing in the same general warming direction.
A few smaller vectors pointing opposite (cooling, like aerosols) — but not strong enough to cancel out the warming ones.
Some vectors bending and amplifying others, showing feedback loops (ex: hotter temperatures = more wildfires = more CO₂ released = even hotter temperatures).
Conceptually:
Human-induced climate change would look like an overwhelmingly strong push (vector sum) toward global warming.
The overall resultant vector would be:
Very long
Very sharply pointed toward higher temperatures, more extreme weather, rising seas, ecosystem collapse, etc.
In simple terms:
Imagine a bunch of arrows (vectors) — the biggest and most powerful ones (like fossil fuel burning) all point toward “Warming” with huge force. A few tiny arrows (like aerosol cooling) point the other way, but they’re way too small to stop the giant surge.
From the album “Angle“
The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment