Scientific American: ‘Climate Change Could Shred Guitars Known for Shredding’ – ‘Threatening the wood that helped build rock & roll’
Can the Green New Deal save rock and roll!?
Scientific American: "Climate change is threatening the wood that helped build rock and roll. In a piece in the February Scientific American, Andrea Thompson and Priyanka Runwal write: every winter and spring rains across the central U.S. combine with the snow melt along the Northern reaches of the Mississippi river to inundate the hardwood dominated bottom lands of the lower Mississippi. When the floodwaters recede and soils dry up in the summer, logging crews move in. One of their targets has been swamp Ash.
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Flashback 2009: Global warming has killed the finest violin music: 'A violin like a Stradivarius can now cost more than a house is largely because “global warming has changed how trees grow.†How so? Choi explains: “You can no longer create new violins of the same quality. There just aren’t the same types of wood or density.â€
Flashback 2015: Scientists: Global warming to make music worse! Wonder why our songs are getting worse? It might be because of global warming
- 'The weather has powerfully but discreetly influenced the soundtrack to our lives. And tastes in songs are likely to change as the climate shifts...Aplin and five other scientists combed through databases of more than 15,000 pop songs, finding statistical backing for the assumption that our moods are strongly swayed by the weather...Of the 500 greatest songs of all time, as listed by Rolling Stone magazine in 2011, a whole 7% were weather-related.'
https://www.climatedepot.com/2021/02/12/scientific-american-climate-change-could-shred-guitars-known-for-shredding-threatening-the-wood-that-helped-build-rock-roll/
