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Good news everyone! Global warming is a real thing, ok so not really good news. Futurama had their own solution for it, but would that really work? Kyle heats up some science on this week’s Because Science!

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  1. Kyle Hill: Generally, the process to create ice in a freezer releases heat energy, so making that much ice would just create a bunch more heat for the giant ice cube to combat.

  2. Hey Kyle I know this is an old video that I am actually commenting on but I have to ask what if we were using the ocean water to make the ice and we are putting the ice in our poles like the Atlantic or aunt Arctic to try to and make glaciers doing this might keep the ice longer then it would in the ocean and also it would start to build up after we dropped it every day would the ice cube have to be smaller then

  3. 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.

  4. And i should give a shot about a climate chamge because….why? Im not gonna be arround when the speculated effects start to show.
    I could literaly give less shits how bad the world will be for the future liberal society.

  5. Start tariffs based on environmental damage done by that country. That would make it easier for companies to do business in environmentally friendly countries, instead of in countries with no or little environmental regulations.

    As it is now with free trade, companies are punished for doing business in environmentally friendly countries, and are rewarded for doing business in countries with no environmental regulations.

  6. the solution. take all that excess energy and use it to produce clean energy.solar energy, wind energy etc…
    people need to cut down on there use of motor vehicles, use vehicles only when necessary and use public transport and trains more. transportation that runs primarily on electrical energy and has less emissions.
    the next big thing is tackling deforestation, people need to cut down on meat consumption, as agriculture contributes massively to global warming AND deforestation.

    unfortunately the majority of us have the "someone else can do it attitude"
    someone else can put solar panels on there roof….i dont like how they look.
    someone else can use public transport…i like my car.
    someone else can stop eating meat…i like eating meat.

    unfortunately when the land is too dry to grow food and the seas are boiling its these people that will be the first to complain that nobody did anything to stop it.

    if you are not actively supporting or planning to support power companies that promote the use of clean energy,
    if you are not actively trying to cut down your usage of personal vehicles by taking alternative modes of transport,
    if you are not actively cutting down on the amount of meat products you consume,
    …then you are the problem.

  7. It would actually have made more sense for the Futurama cast to just take an equal amount of warm ocean water to the dark side of the Moon and just let it freeze there before returning it to Earth.
    Hey, if they have the technology to throw the island of Manhattan into the Sun over an influenza outbreak, they can move a few trillion gallons of water.

  8. damn people…its so easy. to avoid the flooding just use a frozen substance that is a gas at room temperature and super-cold like dry-ice. gosh, so simple you idiots! the efficiency would be huge, it would sublimate instead of melting so it would work faster and instead of huge excess water causing floods it would just evaporate… into….C…O…2…um…well, shat. ill get back to ya on that one. gimme sec.

  9. is it possible to just switch to using the excess energy trapped in the Earth atmosphere and then stop producing energy that create greenhouse gases and over time reduce the effects of global warming. while at the same time have cheap or free energy for about 300 year and fight global warming

  10. Over the course of 100 years its gotten only 1 degree hotter on average. So if you believe in global warming that proves how wrong you are. They have proven countless times over and over that global warming is fake and that its not a threat, thats why im thankful that we left the paris accord. We were pumping money into fake science and wasting money for no results because there was no problem. Seriously 1 degree in the last hundred years. Thats poultry compared to other more important issues.

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