现在您可以“听见”气候变化 [视频]

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想要直观地感受北半球的气温在多大程度上 偏离平均水平吗?不妨听一听。明尼苏达大学地理系学生和杰出的 cello 演奏家丹尼尔·克劳福德为弦乐四重奏创作了一首两分半钟的乐曲,让您听见 1880 年至 2014 年的气温变化。早期的音调感觉平静而规律,但从 1950 年开始,它们越来越偏离常态,并且从 1990 年代到 2014 年变得明显分散。

从亚马逊到北极的气候变化之声,来自 EnsiaVimeo


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在名为 行星乐队,变暖的世界 的视频中,每种乐器代表半球的一个区域。大提琴演奏来自赤道带的数据,中提琴演奏中纬度地区的数据,一把小提琴演奏高纬度地区的数据,另一把小提琴演奏北极地区的数据。每个音符的音高代表相关年份该地区的年平均气温。例如,小提琴上的高音符表示北极的温暖天气;大提琴上的低音符表示赤道沿线的寒冷天气。将四种乐器混合在一起,您就可以听到整个半球的气温如何波动以及它们上升了多少。

克劳福德与地理学教授斯科特·圣乔治合作创作了这部作品的视频,由学生朱利安·马多克斯、杰森·舒、阿拉斯泰尔·威瑟斯彭和奈杰尔·威瑟斯彭在大学音乐学院演奏。当四位艺术家从左到右面向观众坐着演奏乐曲时,年份在他们下方随着音符流逝,每个区域的温度在音乐家上方滚动显示,同时还有一个简洁的小图形上下摆动,以显示每年的相对变化。

两年前,我在一次气候会议上遇到了克劳福德,他在会上展示了他根据相同数据创作的仅为大提琴而作的独奏作品。要收听对他的简短问答,并聆听他演奏他的原创作品《献给变暖地球的歌》(他在宣布这首作品的当天私下为我演奏了这首作品),您可以 收听我的播客,播客发布于 2013 年 8 月。

鸣谢:该视频的制作得到了明尼苏达大学环境研究所和文理学院的支持。该视频由 Mighteor 制作。

Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大众科学 for 17 years and has covered sustainability issues, including climate, weather, environment, energy, food, water, biodiversity, population, and more. He assigns and edits feature articles, commentaries and news by journalists and scientists and also writes in those formats. He edits History, the magazine's department looking at science advances throughout time. He was founding managing editor of two spinoff magazines: 大众科学 Mind and 大众科学 Earth 3.0. His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, "Drowning New Orleans," predicted the widespread disaster that a storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose on the city. His video What Happens to Your Body after You Die?, has more than 12 million views on YouTube. Fischetti has written freelance articles for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Fast Company, and many others. He co-authored the book Weaving the Web with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, which tells the real story of how the Web was created. He also co-authored The New Killer Diseases with microbiologist Elinor Levy. Fischetti is a former managing editor of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and of Family Business Magazine. He has a physics degree and has twice served as the Attaway Fellow in Civic Culture at Centenary College of Louisiana, which awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2021 he received the American Geophysical Union's Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism, which celebrates a career of outstanding reporting on the Earth and space sciences. He has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, CNN, the History Channel, NPR News and many news radio stations. Follow Fischetti on X (formerly Twitter) @markfischetti

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