Anthropogenic climate change is one of the most challenging problems humanity faces, but public opinion surveys show that many people are skeptical about global warming. In this seminar, Dan Crawford, Scott St. George and Todd Reubold will share their experiences with using music to help climate science reach out to new audiences. Their first collaboration — a music video that reconfigures global temperature data as a cello composition — has been described as “amazing, and eerie” and “an effective tool to show people that our planet is changing.” Join us to learn what global warming sounds like!

1. LARGE CLASS

3. HTTP://WWW.NRMSC.USGS.GOV/REPEATPHOTO/OVERVIEW.HTM
USGS REPEAT PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT

4. In September 2012, Arctic sea ice reached the smallest extent ever recorded
in more than three decades of satellite measurements.

5. How have average annual temperatures changed across the planet?
1
°F
0.5
0
-0.5
1880
1900
Source: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
1920
1940
1960
1980
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10. “
This is simply outstanding! I'm really excited
about this.
Jon Foley, Institute on the Environment
March 12, 2013
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24. NOT ALL
OUR REVIEWS
WERE POSITIVE.

26. “
I don’t quite know what to feel about [this video];
pleased that a passion for artistic creation lurks
in the soul of a dendrochronologist, or
astonished that a research intern would spend
time on something so frivolous.
Ivan Hewi , Music critic
August 30, 2013
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27. 133K
VIEWS

30. “
However, sometimes converting a simple graph
into some different form of information can
deliver the message far be er, and more
effectively, than dots on a page.
Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy
July 18, 2013
”