[Monologue: Tanya Tagaq]
If you take a gram of water and apply one calorie of heat to it, you will raise its temperature by one degree Celsius. But you need to apply eighty one calories to ice, simply to change it to water at zero degrees Celsius. The latent heat of change of state of ice to water uses eighty one times more available heat than rising the temperature of water one degree. Once all the ice is melted, the once covered ice area will heat up eighty one times faster. There will be no stopping it. A new steady state of high heat tolerant life may hopefully, rapidly evolve, but human civilisation as we know it will no longer exist
[Refrain: Tanya Tagaq]
'Cause Gaia likes it cold
'Cause Gaia likes it cold
'Cause Gaia likes it cold
[Inuit Throat Singing: Tanya Tagaq]
[Tuvan Throat Singing: Radik Tulush]
[Outro: Tanya Tagaq]
The loss of ice cover will catapult our climate into an uncharted, apocalyptic era of rapid heating. There will be no stopping it
Cold was written by Tanya Tagaq & Radik Tyulyush & Jesse Zubot & Jean Martin.
Tanya Tagaq released Cold on Fri Oct 21 2016.