What Does 53 Years Of Climate Change Sound Like?

[Elyse]

Like this:

 

Perl said he decided that a lower albedo ratio would be represented with lower frequencies and an increased melting rate would be represented by an increased clicking sound.

 

As the albedo ratio lowers and the melt rate increases, the listener can hear lower bass frequencies and increased clicking sounds.

 

Perl said he wanted to create an experience similar to the Gieger Radiation counter – a detector that makes increased noise as higher levels of radiation are detected.

“People can immediately hear that there’s more or there’s less. It’s very obvious, you can’t escape it,†he said. “It’s emotionally jarring, it’s unpleasant.â€

 

Perl said the melt rate records from 2012 were so extreme that he was forced to recreate all of his sonifications.

 

“It completely threw off the scale of the data,†he said.

 

To learn more about Perl’s research and hear more of his sonifications visit his website at http://www.polarseeds.org/ .

Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/what-does-54-years-of-melting-glaciers-sound-like-1.1184362#ixzz2MnWP42Ia

 

Decided this didn't belong in the Jokes/Fun section...because there's nothing funny about your world slowly dying. The end of the video is scary, and it gives me bad goosebumps!

 

 

EDIT: Here's a version without all the clicking sounds:

[Andy]

Darn it, can't get video at work