It is real.
Yes!
global warming,
yes!
And it’s caused by man
atmospheric carbon dioxide
In honor of “pi day” (3/14) my wife conceived the idea of a “pi-ku” poem, in which the number of syllables in each line is the digits of pi.
Enjoy!
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Well done!
Poems are beyond me.
Clever!
False “sceptic”!
Who?
Fear, uncertain, doubt!
Where?
The web of deceit
Anthony Watts, he disseminates
Please, keep going. You must finish it! ;-)
It is dumb
Quite
Denialism
No!
And it’s caused by Watts
Blogospheric carbon monoxide
Never
Stops and never relents
But quite unlike Pi
It repeats
(Unfortunately)
+1
Twenty two
o’er
seven is close,
but
three fifty five o’er
one hundred thirteen is much better
Three points, one for one fine pine tree ring, ahh shoot.
I’m sure if I were SERIESous enough, I could TAYLOR my prose closer to pi, but even I have LIMITS. One might question the point of clearly DERIVATIVE jokes, though.
Indiana
Pi bill
Kudos to your wife for such a brilliant idea. This is a keeper.
Also fantastic Pi-Ku entries all around. Really creative people here.
Bible pi
Deny-ku
Sea ice recovers
Up in the arctic ocean
It’s stabilizing
Good stuff. I did laugh at Horatio and “Bible pi”
Climate change?
Yes,
it’s happening.
Now!
A global warming.
Human emissions are causing it.
These are
CO2 emissions,
and methane as well.
This must stop,
or at least slow down,
else consequences will follow –
undesirable consequences:
heatwaves, floods, sea level rise.
Some would have you believe otherwise.
Their tactics?
Deceit,
denial,
and of course cherry-picking facts,
are often used.
Hence many have been fooled
by this
through no fault of their own.
Who do you trust?
scientists?
politics?
the fossil fuels industry?
It’s science,
for me –
that’s wherein I put my trust.
The evidence is overwhelming,
believe it or not.
One could replace “politics” with “senators” or “government”, for example.
Arctic loses ice
We lose crops
Oceans get warm
We get wet
Kochs gets rich
Somalia starves
Oops. A typo on top. It should read Kochs get rich.
C-O-2
how?
I will tell you,
Yes,
Carbon Dioxide
No, not nitrogen, not oxygen
takes light
the thermal light that is,
and gobbles it up
takes a bite
reduce the outflow
What to do, except heat Earth up?
But wait, there is even more to tell
Feedbacks enter the picture
On the Earth, oceans evaporate
And then what?
Just wait,
Here we go,
Then even more greenhouse effect
come to get you,
There are no fake skeptics
no no,
that will change the physics
Look at Venus,
ninety bars
of C-O-2
hot enough to melt denial
Yes it is,
no doubt
the greenhouse effect is here
and the planet will keep heating up
unless we act now
Climate blogs
What?
It’s personal
Who?
Identities thrive
The tribes gather under truth banners
Data
The playthings of wizards
Are either assessed
Or molded
To glean or to fit
True arbiters know the difference
Bye goodbye
Miss
American
Pi
Disinter
the
Pennsylvanian
and
the sky
will become a caul
W.C. Fields, a Pennsylvanian,
liked to
warm himself, his back pressed
against sun-warmed brick
famously
his tombstone reads I’d
rather be in Philadelphia.
*******
Note: I don’t know how you pronounce it, but I say: Penn-sill-VAIN-yan. NOT Penn-sill-VAIN-ee-an.
Shakespeare would have no problem with either. Poets have license. :-)
“Poetic License”
— by Horatio Algeranon
Poets have license
For obvious nonsense
That never expires
And never retires
It’s unending season
On rhyming and reason
That no one admires
Or even desires
He’d ever alter words to fit the beat
Whene’er required to make the meter sweet,
And banished the suffix of past tense
When banished suffix gave the rhythm sense.
The friend of Hamlet, as you may well know,
Was called Horatio, then Horatio.
If words thus different spake breaks reasons bounds,
Horatio has none for he different sounds!
Jeffrey Davis,
“I don’t know how you pronounce it, but I say: Penn-sill-VAIN-yan. NOT Penn-sill-VAIN-ee-an.”
You can find the pronunciation here http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=pennsylvanian&submit=Submit
The word is in pink font.
butterflies
and
bees and mayflies
start
their flight in april
‘that is normal’, you maybe saying
but this
ain’t tropic of cancer
but arctic circle
And now for something completely different and off topic:
Recently, the rather silly idea that a physical effect must be of 5 sigma or greater significance came up–again a misunderstanding based on the common practices in experimental particle physics.
I pointed out that the 5 sigma threshold is a compensation for the methodology of particle physics bump hunting–where researchers make many, many plots of mass reconstructions under various physically motivated criteria (cuts) designed to reduce background and bring out the signal. Even in my grad school days when I was doing it, this seemed a rather arbitrary compensation. However, I am not sure what the correct way would be.
Any thoughts?
Anybody want to try e-ku, based on the digits in the base of napierian logarithms–seems to me that the repetition in digits (up to the 1st 10) might lead to some interesting structures:
e~2.7182818284…
You can also use the number of letters in each word.
Now I have a noble objective:
* my fossil fuels use – limit
* increase awareness
* correct falsities
In 1963 Jacques Bens of the literary group OuLiPo had a similar inspiration: the “sonnet irrationnel”, arranged in strophes of 3, 1, 4, 1, 5 lines each, with a rather complicated rhyme scheme. http://www.oulipo.net/contraintes/document19532.html
I’m not sure that there are any instances other than the one on the page just cited. In that respect the pi-ku has already surpassed its predecessor.
And tonight in Phoenix at midnight
thirty
the birds are having a conference
unheard except once before
are they packing up
north, young man
go north
The rate
at which the exponential
rises
is the same as function value
that’s e.