Did you know that climate change can be captured in music? This video, ‘Fiddling a Warming Tune,” does it using a violin playing a musical composition meant to represent the last 600 years or so of average Earth temperatures. For the first 20 or so seconds of this 23 second video, the tone doesn’t change much. Translation: until the early 1900s, the Earth wasn’t significantly warming. Then, the musical notes rapidly rise, just like the Earth’s temperature has since the introduction of fossil fuel power plants, gasoline-fueled vehicles, etc. The engineers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who created this video told the New York Times’ Andy Revkin that they hope it will give everyone a better appreciation of what climate change is and how rapidly it is occurring. To find out more, read this.
