A song inspired by the picture and NASA article below...
The drums beat out a more industrial feel to represent the cars and factories belching out exhaust and heat as the piano builds the theme and tension of the ice melting and cracking. Finally, the tb303 shows the actual break in the shelf that was about 75 miles long around 12/16 and has now resulted in the full collapse of Larsen B. Finally the piano resolves with the piano "cracking" onward in a somewhat realistic optimistic view (hopeful) that this will finally be (global warming) seriously--although with the election of Trump, that seems kinda misguided and unlikely... but why have a negative resolve in the song ;)
The Larsen Ice Shelf is situated along the northeastern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, one of the fastest-warming places on the planet. In the past three decades, two large sections of the ice shelf (Larsen A and B) have collapsed. A third section (Larsen C) seems like it may be on a similar trajectory, with a new iceberg poised to break away soon.
The mosaic above, centered on the northern part of Larsen Ice Shelf, is comprised of four natural-color satellite images captured by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 on Jan. 6 and 8, 2016. It shows the remnant of Larsen B, along with the Larsen A and smaller embayments to the north covered by a much thinner layer of sea ice. The remaining shelf appears white with some deep rifts within it.
Areas with sea ice anchored to the coastline or ice shelf—fast ice—are light blue where covered with melt water and white where covered by wind-blown snow. The ocean is dark, nearly black, where it is not covered by sea ice. The white areas near where glaciers meet the sea have multitudes of small icebergs called bergy bits that broke off from land ice.
