You know that "atomic winter" that scientists keep warning about if we get into a nuclear war? Yeah so...

Just put giant mirror to space to reflect some heat. Ez. Where is my nobel prize?

I remember a theory that we could pump a gas/something into a layer of the atmosphere to reduce global warming. the biggest problem being that countries would have to work together.

They explain most of the problems in the episode. The ice cube is taken from a frozen mass that’s flying through space. They transport it using a 1000 year advancement in spaceship technology. The ocean rising is still a problem but they could probably just get a really big bucket and throw the extra water into space. All hail Hypno Toad!

Damn it, Kyle! The man in the Futurama video told us that the problem was solved once and for all! He even repeated it for that little girl who began to give him lip.

Well that was depressing.

(Sets car on fire) Oh come on, your car's temperature has changed before.

Just drop pluto into an ocean

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!!!! kyle finally got to futurama

the thing is, the people in charge aren't smarter than you.

first we need to find out how to cool something down without warming something else. so far, we can't

Alright maggots, get makin' that ice.

Video idea, how does the Chronosphere in the Red Alert franchise work...really?

I'm pretty sure no one’s gonna do anything (at least not something on a big enough scale) until it starts effecting them, when it'll basically be too late and the problem has grown out of our capacity to fix. Which is sad

I've enjoyed watching a LOT of your videos, I like how it makes you REALLY think about stuff and gives good perspective (most of the time). Aside from that though - Where did you get that shirt, Kyle? I really REALLY want one!!

The Earth ain't gonna be affected by the heat, but we are, the Earth will be fine

Climat changes are periodic for Earth and have little to do with human activities. Period.

This is by far one of my top 3 favorite series' on KZfaq :D

Best episode yet. I love your humor and I love all the sidetracking

One of the buildings is 31 kilometers tall! :D

Damn that was more like a public announcement

LETS TAKE THE GREENHOUSE GASES, AND PUSH THEM SOMEWHERE ELSE!!!

We need more videos like this. Thanks Kyle

awesome , : ) i allways wanted to see a video like this About Futurama

Wow that got real deep at the end

we should move earth awat frım sun to cool it

1:00 thing is, glass is transparent for visible light, but stops infrared radiation. When light hits the seats of your car, they get hot. They start emiting more infrared, which gets mostly reflected back to the inside, thus making it stay hot.

I'm just kind of impressed how well you are at writing backwards.

all glory to the hypnotoad!!

He started going on about giving people fridges... He does realize that when you make Ice you PRODUCE heat, right?

4:48 - *"I'm not in the mood, Hypnotoad!"*

CTA at the end. Good one

I dont think there are many people smarter than you, (or at least your writers) Science Thor.

How about the greenhouse gas that is produced to create that ice cube?

Good work, Kyle. You keep this up, we'll get you your own pair of clamps!

They answered the ice issue, they mined it from Halley's Comet, the only source of ice without bugs in it

Yes! The reason I subscribe to Nerdist is back! Love Thursdays

Great video! I think this is a good way of making a little bit more concrete just how big of a deal the global climate change is.

Just finished this episode in season 5. seen the show more than eight times in a row

awesome stuff man! good stuff!

C'mon, clearly the space ship flew to a Europa like ice moon or ice planet, snagged a big chunk, and then dumped it into the ocean. And, to combat rising sea levels they probably used a really long straw from the Earth that had a pump at the end and shot it into space. Because science.

How does this guy write backwards

2:40 Run the Joules, with their hit single, _Newton Diss-placed a Meter._

Do more Futurama theories, they have so many !!

As a scientist, there are few things I hate more than this comment section.

To quote Bender "Yep, We're Boned."

I just fucking laughed hard for the small container ship coming after the larger ones 🤣🤣

THat tiny boat was adorbs! c:

Humanity has killed itself and it deserves it, the universe will be better off without us. The only tragedy is we will take 99.9% of life on Earth with us.

We can fix this by 1 stick fingers into ears 2 going LALALALAALALALALALA

not your funniest video by far, but probably your most important, thank you for your show and your time, great show (better than your two movies to be honest), keep it up and looking forward to see more about this topic :)

One of the best episodes!

We're in an ice age

Well, nice video to watch when just outside my door is 35° celsius... Thanks Kyle. But seriously, i don't get who says that global warming is fake. I mean, they have no intrests in denying it, and when asked for explainations, they say that Earth orbit isn't stable, that through history we got from volcanos everywhere to ice age and back... But when you make the notice the timespan and temperature span of those changes, and put them beside the radicallu fast changes going on right now, a chemistry student with not one but two physics courses attended (that being me) is suddenly an idiot. Because not science?

Would you not let Kyle write the numbers and letters normally so he can do it with ease and then just flip the video to make it not look backwards for us, it saves so much effort

6:56 - NO! RIP Binyah Binyah Poliiwog. Now I am bummed. Thanks, Kyle. Thanks, Science. 💔

Kyle hill, the Bill Nye for millenials

Some issues: 1. A cube 31 km on a side obviously does not have a volume of 31,000 km³. 2. Refrigerators do not cool the Earth (they heat it). 3. If you even watched the episode, the ice came from outer space, which is obviously a requirement, since if the ice is already on Earth, melting it does not resolve the problem (it in fact accelerates it). 4. Thus you missed a chance to talk about the heat of bringing anything from space down to the surface (whether quickly or slowly, no matter the technology or method of braking, all that gravitational energy is eventually converted to heat, which is far more than the energy necessary to melt the ice and heat it to ocean temperature). 5. The volume to surface area ratio increases linearly with the scale factor, not exponentially. 6. Gullah Gullah Island was filmed on Saint Helena Island, with a maximum elevation of 23 m and an average elevation (which I couldn't find exactly) somewhere around 1.5-2 m. Virtually no serious climate models predict a global mean sea level rise greater than 1 m by the end of the 21st century. Of course, the sea does not rise equally across the globe due to differences in temperature and bathymetry, and some of us will probably survive past the year 2100, but there is no way the entire island will be submerged within our lifetimes. However, much of the tidal wetlands likely will be. Real nerds care about accuracy.

Great episode. Hopefully points some more people in the right direction.

Please do an episode on if moving the entire universe around the ship is actually possible.

Well. Don't forget that the Earth is the most unnatural planet we know.

#kylehillkilledFuturama Thanks kyle

I love your presentations ^_^

I can imagine in the Futurama world them taking that big a volume of water out of the ocean, freezng it, and putting it back in the ocean.

Kyle! What are you doing? Because Science doesn’t just follow hype. You break through it all to get down into the actualities (in often fun and silly scenarios). You make the fiction become real with science! But what have you just done? You…you just argued for global warming? Was the pressure too much to actually test something that you would’ve been criticized for testing? Was your team to scared to look at actual scientific observation? Am I trolling, definitely not. I’m just so sad right now… I feel like one of my most favorite shows just ended for good, and It’s never coming back on again. I just had to write something. What we actually see from observations: Global climate has actually been cooling: www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/17/paul-driessen-earth-may-be-cooling-no-warming/ icecap.us/images/uploads/Screen_shot_2014-03-14_at_5.52.06_AM.png Sea levels are nowhere near where they were long before the Industrial Revolution: www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1217353/Face-sand-Roman-amphitheatre-unearthed-ancient-port.html And so many more things that I’ll include later (if anyone’s even interested) so that this post isn’t any longer. Who am I kidding, it’s already too long! Because Science!!

I just realised... This guy has to write backwards for us to see it!!!!!!!

Because of Science standalone channel would be better, this series is the only reason I am subbed.

Please make more videos on this topic. The more true scientific fact we have in circulation the better.

i wonder why people don't think nuclear power is a viable alternative to fossil-fueled power plants

You forgot to mention the historical climate shifts. It wasn't stable, or even metastable. There have been vast irregular fluctuations in the past... so saying nothing changed prior to the industrial revolution is a huge obfuscation of the facts.

I mean 1 solution to making that much amount of ice is simply take a huge amount of water and put it into space where it’s extremely cold, and would freeze, however the issues would be how would we transport that amount of ice into space and how to bring it to earth without it melting along the way and lastly how long would it take to freeze

you could drop a 13Km cube ic block once a month using a giant space ship. Also they probly got the water from the ocean, brought it to space in a huge space station, frozen and processed it, then returned it. if you accomplished this task with a fleet of ships, you could have many smaller cubes as well.

this entire video is a bunch of bulls- ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD

As of now, 24 climate change deniers.

So basically the size of lake Okeechobee in FL

Make a vid about the max and/or average speed of spiderman while swinging (I've always wondered that)

The best thing *YOU* can do to help stop global warming? Go vegan. Why? Because science.

Just use robots to move the earth further away from the sun... that will solve everything!... right? ugh

Very good information as always Kyle and you touched one of humanities most troubling problems. Global Warming, something to this day I don't know how to explain properly to people I work and live around because they don't think global warming exists XD....

6:30 "Its volume increases exponentially faster than its surface area does" No. V ~ l³ A ~ l² It only increases linear faster.

F...uturama

You guys know that the earths temperature has only raised .8 degrees Celsius in the past 80 years

Years later and I have FINALLY found you, outbackzak!

While that does still happen in your car, it's so minuscule that it really doesn't add much to the temperature. A car heats up more from air heating up and having nowhere to go, than the minor amount of trapped radiation from the glass in the windshield. Good analogy though^_^

Climate is always changing, take a look through history folks

Just wanted to point out that in Futurama they explain where the ice comes from. They get it from Halley's Comet. Unfortunately after unknown years of constant use, it finally ran out of ice.

How about an episode sequel ?? .. What if the ice wasn't dropped in as a cube? .. The same volume of ice as a sheet would block/refect more light than the cube, thus provide a greater cooling effect .. And .. if we carefully placed this ice to try and maximize it's effect .. say for example to disrupt some of the ocean current systems that move heat to the planet's poles .. Whatever % we could achieve of slowing down such ocean thermal transfer systems .. A warmer ocean in one places produces more evaporation = more cloud cover = more solar reflection .. a cooler temperatures at the poles = larger growing ice sheets = more solar reflection = that would also further compound the benefit .. etc.

One thing you could do instead...instead of adding water from space via ice...remove the equivalent amount of water temporarily and freeze it by dissipating the energy out into space, then drop the resulting ice cube back in. That way you still get the ice cube but you don't add water raising ocean levels.

I don't know if anyone said this, but: - Making the ice on earth would just throw more heat into the atmosphere. - So considering part of said heat will stay trapped, the effectiveness of said cube will be lower than 100%, thus requiring a larger cube to compensate.

If I remember correctly they got the ice from a comet. The average temperature of comets (According to Google) is -70C. That is a lot more energy absorption to melt the ice. Plus it still has to heat up to the same temperature as the surrounding air/water, which means that the ice likely rose by nearly a 100C before it stopped cooling the surrounding area. The cube, while still massive, would be a lot smaller than you claim.

how tf you write back words so well

Not to mention that the way refrigerators work is by taking the residual heat from inside them and putting it outside of them. This would take all the heat that you're trying to get rid of and put it back in the air which would negate any cooling that would occur from putting the ice cube in the ocean. The only "feasible" way for this to work would be by bringing ice in from outside the system via a comet or some other icy body in space and bring it into our atmosphere slowly enough that it wouldn't heat up and burn away in our atmosphere... not to mention the heat and fuel expenditure of going into space and towing a comet back to earth.

Hey Nerdist how can quicksilver/the flash see in slow motion and how can they control there slow motion vision?

Kyle Hill, I was wondering on the global warming subject would more trees counter the effects? Because I have noticed that in areas with a 100's of more trees the humidity/weather is much colder than in areas with little to no trees.

NASA posted a study on the Internet that stated in 2015 (or 2014 I'm not sure) that there was more ice in Antarctica since the 1970s. so for one, right now we're already doing better and two, there's not much more that we could other then use no electronics.

You forget, in the roswell episode, prof. Farnsworth(btw named after a real guy) says "what's that layer of ozone? Thats never been there" meaning we already fucked up by 3000... and may take less ice than you think because it's just bouncing back out instead of hanging out... meaning more reflecting of beams is a thing, meaning less ice is neaded.. but also we're pretty mutated at this point (thank god Bender went back in time and deatroyed it all so only the strong would survive (seen in both the movie and the pilot))

You would also need to import the ice from somewhere outside the earth. If you would do the refrigerator thing you would dump the energy your cube needs to melt, right back into the earths system

Okay, but the ice wouldn't be at zero degrees, it would probably be significantly colder, and it would take energy to raise the ice from zero degrees up to the ambient temperature. Assuming the ice was near absolute zero we'd have around 270 C to raise it as ice, and roughly 20 C to raise it as water. Given the specific heat of ice and water, it works out to roughly twice the energy taken up to melt the ice. That means you'd only need a third the amount of ice, or a cube 21.5 km on a side, assuming your other math was correct.

some nice mirror typing skills!

You forgot the entropy consideration. To make that much ice we would end up heating up the world more than the ice 's enthalpy