Telling the tale of a changing climate has been done countless times with our voices, but Daniel Crawford is hoping to raise awareness on the strings of his cello.

An undergraduate student at the University of Minnesota, Crawford wrote "A Song of Our Warming Planet," which allows listeners to eschew numbers and statistics and absorb the climate change discussion like never before. Crawford was assigned the project when geography professor Scott St. George looked to turn climate data into music and asked interning Crawford for assistance.

Starting with data collection that began in 1880, Crawford said he pulled research from NASA's worldwide climate data and picked a range of three octaves on his cello. The lowest annual global temperature was assigned the lowest note, and as the globe has warmed, the pitches got higher.

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"I suppose the most shocking thing in actually going through the process was hearing it for the first time and ... being able to see how rapidly this shift in temperatures started to happen," said Crawford.

Perhaps the most telling part of the song hasn't been written yet. If climate predictions are correct over the course of the next century, global temperatures (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit). By comparison, (1.4 degrees Fahrenheit) since 1880, reports NASA.

"If that was to happen, just using the scale I've created for my instrument, the resulting notes would be out of the range of human hearing," said Crawford.

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In the weather community, meteorologists have been discussing new ways to reach the public and raise awareness about climate change, and with a universally understood medium like music, they could finally break through to millions.

"This brilliantly combines two of my passions -- music (as , I'd be a DJ if not a meteorologist!) and weather (and I've )," Stu Ostro, senior director of weather communications at The Weather Channel, said in an email.

Global warming's song has many stanzas left to be written, but it's Crawford's hope that the future will hold happier tones.

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