Frontiers in Decadal Climate Variability: Proceedings of a Workshop (2016)
Chapter: Appendix F: Song Lyrics
Appendix F
Song Lyrics1
To the tune of “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off” by George and Ira Gershwin:
Things have come to a slight impasse,
Global warming has been flat,
Some blame it on sampling
Others say “no, it’s not that.”
Goodness knows what the truth will be
But it’s only temporary
Meanwhile the skeptics global warming shun
Something must be done,
Don’t say hiatus and don’t say hi-ah-tus!
That’s what we called it, and look what it got us,
Hiatus, hi-ah-tus, the skeptics, they got us,
Let’s call the whole thing off.
He says Pacific and she says Atlantic
Where did the heat go, it’s making us frantic
Atlantic, Pacific, the heat stores terrific
Let’s call the whole thing off.
But oh, even where the data’s sparse, we’ll find a little hint
We’ll use stats and modeling to parse a fingerprint
IPO, AMV, or PDV do you favor?
Could be the ENSO, in one or more flavor,
The AMOC, the tropics, there’s so many topics,
Let’s call the whole thing off.
But Oh, if we call the whole thing off, then we must part
And oh! If we have to part,
Then that might break my heart.
So you take the paleo, you take the poles
You look at forcings to fill in the holes
For we know we need each other,
So we better call the calling off off!
Let’s call the whole thing off!
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1 These lyrics were written by rapporteur Nancy Huddleston and performed at the working dinner on September 3, 2015. Lyrics do not represent the views of all workshop participants, the planning committee, or the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
