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Futurama - Global Warming

David SklenickaCited 3× on HN, 2019-2023
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767K views · 10 years ago · comedy · evergreen

A short Futurama clip about a ridiculous cartoon solution to global warming.

It is used only as a joke when threads discuss absurd or unworkable climate fixes.

Satire & parodyClimate policy, solutions & debate#futurama#globalwarming#tvclip#satire

3 comments from Hacker News

@sillywalk2023 · in “A Heat Shield for the Most Important Ice on Earth”

Coating the arctic ice in glass micro-bubbles, seems about as viable as this Futurama solution. [0] [0] ▶ this video

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@dTal2020 · in “UVB radiation was the Devonian-Carboniferous extinction kill mechanism”

"...thus solving the problem once and for all!" "But-" "ONCE AND FOR ALL!" ▶ this video

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@acqq2019 · in “A man who linked CO2 to climate change in 1895”

> And why is it that modifying such a small part of the atmosphere (0.04%) can cause such a huge problem? The modification is invisible to you, but not invisible to the photons which are supposed to leave the atmosphere and cool off the earth a bit. It it were visible to you, it would look like this: link Regarding the photons of thermal frequencies leaving the Earth atmosphere, or remaining there, the simplest you can imagine is a blanket: if it's cold outside the blanket keeps the heat not leaving the area under the blanket, keeping you warm. Here, the CO2 is actually a "one-way" blanket, it doesn't block the incoming radiation : The heat coming from Sun has other frequencies as it comes than the photons blocked that would cool off the Earth. The key is: CO2 is an ink-black "blanket" for exactly a part of the radiation that cools off the Earth. It's not too big, but big enough to make in sum that 0.8 C degree change since 1880. Or to produce even more warming in the coming years as we burn always more and we haven't managed to change that. A little more precise: "Energy arrives from the sun in the form of visible light and ultraviolet radiation . The Earth then emits some of this energy as infrared radiation . Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere 'capture' some of this heat, then re-emit it in all directions - including back to the Earth's surface." (There's of course infrared radiation coming from the Sun, but the one making problem is the radiation from the Earth) Scienti

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