Car Paint That Packs a Charge. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report.

Headlines:

David and Goliath—small island nations sue large developed countries for damages.

Climate records were broken last year because a certain type of cloud has gone missing.

Last week’s tsunami warning on the west coast was canceled, and although the chance of one occurring is low—it's far from impossible.

Solar paint by Mercedes-Benz could make plugging in an EV a thing of the past.

This Week in Water for December 8, 2024

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CPM DS2 JAM #1

Dubreque Stylophone CPM DS-2 into Boss RE 20 . Arturia Microfreak into Korg NTS-1 mk1 with Sinevibes Albedo. All into Zoom L6 onto SD Card.

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Créditos:

Letra: Ton ( ‪@PapyrusDaBatata‬ )
Instrumental: ‪@ironmasterprod‬
Mix/Master: ‪@ALBKMUSIC‬
Guitarras: Rick ( Intervalo Pro Café )
Thumb: Zerado
Ilustração: ‪@toomas-play‬ - @k.art_sz - @yayaxk_d

Vozes:

Albedo: ‪@ironmasterprod‬ 
Zs' Skayr: ‪@hayatomusicas‬ 
Vilgax: ‪@henriquemendonca‬

Me Entregue Esse Relógio | Albedo, Zs'Skayr e Vilgax | Iron Master

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IMAGE: Winter ski mountaineering in the WALLOWAS, Northeast OREGON

Text pdf http://www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/the-amplified-cryosphere.pdf 
A key aspect of the CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Reports is both learning and 

developing ‘on the fly’, so to speak, a new DESCRIPTIVE LANGUAGE of climate change. This is a language that is at once general and qualitative and relative when we ZOOM OUT for a landscape point of view; AND, it is a language that is specific and quantitative and absolute when we wish to ZOOM IN for macro measurement detail. Both aspects are seen as scientifically vital and complementary.

Another aspect of CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Reports is that the language we develop becomes essential to the wider circle of what we might call a new living Earth awareness. This is awareness as we undertake the joyous, life-long work of becoming native to a place. This is an awareness that always looks two ways, both OUTWARDLY into the relevant features of the natural world like snowpack or temperature or elevation, and INWARDLY, looking at the coherence of questions and theories conditioning the eye that perceives. I see this two-ways style of seeing as part of my daily philosophical / yoga practice. A key part of this practice is learning to learn, is becoming spiritually independent, and is healing the loss of natural sensitivity caused by hydrocarbon man culture that has caused the climate crisis in the first place.

This edition of the report addresses the fascinating theme of reflectivity or ALBEDO, or how WHITE surfaces reflect energy back out to space, and BLACK surfaces absorb the energy. Or why skiers wear black in winter, and hikers wear white in summer.

Specifically we explore the implication of Dr. James Hansen’s recent proposal that Earth, when seen from space, has become a very much darker place.

Here’s a quick summary of his work. Don’t worry if you don’t yet understand all the concepts and details. That will come with time. 


• 0.5% albedo reduction: 

Since the early 2000s, precise satellite data shows Earth's albedo has decreased by about 0.5%. This has "staggering implications" for the climate system.
• 1.7 watts per square meter (WimP): The 0.5% albedo decrease corresponds to a 1.7 Wn increase in the amount of solar energy absorbed by Earth, averaged over its entire surface.
• Equivalent to 138 ppm of CO2: Hansen notes that this 1.7 Wm7 of absorbed energy is so huge that if it were a direct climate forcing, it would be equivalent to increasing atmospheric CO2 by 138 pm. However, he clarifies that most of this change is a climate feedback rather than a forcing.
• Over 100 ppm CO2 equivalent: In a January 2024 paper, Hansen and his colleagues wrote that the albedo decrease since 2015 is equivalent to a sudden CO2 increase of "more than 100 ppm". 

Now, let’s leap into our DEEP DIVE and see what these numbers mean locally, in both the CENTRAL ALPS of SWITZERLAND, and the WALLOWAS of Northeast OREGON:

500X Baseline: How Black Carbon and Wildfires Flip the Switch on Mountain Snow Melt

Composer. Writer. Photographer. Former conductor & founder of the ASKO ensemble.

On a bike/ski/hike trek of the Pacific Northwest studying native plants & climate breakdown 🌲 from sagebrush sea to whitebark pine. Composing off-grid the whole way.

#Sun2Sound 🌕 on Bluesky

THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto https://vimeo.com/844665859

“LOVE & WATER, three thought poems w/ coda, PHAROS for small orchestra, “Nightwind”” https://vimeo.com/847079690 

CURRENTLY on mt bike/ski/climbing trek through Pacific Northwest, working on a photobook about WHITEBARK PINE COLLAPSE and CLIMATE CRISIS. BASES in the WALLOWAS | AMSTERDAM | ALPS. 

WEEKLY photo/poetry updates at www.picture-poems.com & THE CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE new music, poetry & dance performance project at www.cs-music.com

ALWAYS ON THE LOOKOUT for progressive, tech-savy, instrumental virtuosi interested in dialogue & collaborative undertakings.

CONTACT cliff@picture-opoems.com
Or on SKYPE or FACETIME @cliffcrego

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H2O Radio is journalism about water. We follow water wherever it leads us and report on what we find. We interview experts— from engineers and scientists to legislators and politicians in order to get the facts. But we also talk to ordinary folks to ask how water issues affect their lives. Why? Because we're all in this together. This is a conversation about water and our collective water future.

Coming from drums and percussion I fell in love with Synthesizers, soon after I came across Apple's Garageband in 2004. Programming and playing Synths became a serious interest for me.
I am inspired by Sounds. Tracks are evolving out of Sounds , rhythms construct themselves through delays, modulated Filters and gated Pads.
Listening to these looping figures repeatedly, I begin to hear the missing Music between the existing patterns, notes and rhythms...

Comments welcome!

New tracks tagged #ALBEDO