Climate change: Earth’s giant game of Tetris – Joss Fong
To understand climate change, think of the game “Tetris.” For eons, Earth has played a version of this game with blocks of carbon. They enter the atmosphere as carbon dioxide gas from volcanoes, decaying plant matter, breathing creatures and the surface of the sea. And they leave the atmosphere when they’re used by plants during photosynthesis, absorbed back into the ocean, or stored in soil and sediment. This game of Tetris is called the carbon cycle, and it’s the engine of life on Earth. What’s the connection to climate? Well, when that carbon dioxide is in the air, waiting to be reabsorbed, it traps a portion of the sun’s heat, which would otherwise escape to space. That’s why carbon dioxide is called a greenhouse gas. It creates a blanket of warmth, known as the greenhouse effect, that keeps our Earth from freezing like Mars. The more carbon dioxide blocks hang out in the atmosphere waiting to be cleared, the warmer Earth becomes. Though the amount of carbon in the atmosphere has varied through ice ages and astroid impacts, over the past 8,000 years the stable climate we know took shape, allowing human civilization to thrive. But about 200 years ago, we began digging up that old carbon that had been stored in the soil. These fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas are made from the buried remains of plants and animals that died long before humans evolved. The energy stored inside them was able to power our factories, cars and power plants. But burning these fuels also injected new carbon blocks into Earth’s Tetris game. At the same time, we cleared forests for agriculture, reducing the Earth’s ability to remove the blocks. And since 1750, the amount of carbon in the atmosophere has increased by 40%, and shows no sign of slowing. Just like in Tetris, the more blocks pile up, the harder it becomes to restore stability. The extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere accelerates the greenhouse effect by trapping more heat near the surface and causing polar ice caps to melt. And the more they melt, the less sunlight they’re able to reflect, making the oceans warm even faster. Sea levels rise, coastal populations are threatened with flooding, natural ecosystems are disrupted, and the weather becomes more extreme over time. Climate change may effect different people and places in different ways. But, ultimately, it’s a game that we’re all stuck playing. And unlike in Tetris, we won’t get a chance to start over and try again.
Earth sucks at tetris. The problem isn't fossil fuels or deforestation, Earth just needs to get better at tetris.
Anybody else notice how the animators made all the people around the world varying shades of white? (1:10) Weird…
So like…plant trees and shit.ย
Time to…. find a new Earth!
Make a polar vortex video, please.
Great Video!
Anxiously waiting for this to be subbed in portuguese! ๐
Love the analogy. Makes it very easy for people unfamiliar with the nature of Climate Change to get their head around it! Good job ๐
depressing ;(
Here is a related video about how to grow fresh air ..ย http://www.ted.com/talks/kamal_meattle_on_how_to_grow_your_own_fresh_air.html
Please get that crap out of our Earth's atmosphere.
We will get to try again. ย But, reset takes something on the order of 100,000 years.
the solution is simple, we could plant more plants and trees to absorb carbon dioxide, but this is not profitable andย nobody is interested…. sad…
Sure are a lot of idiots here that believe this crap…gullible fools don't know when they're being lied to in order to have some unelected global controllers tax them for living while the controllers live lives of luxury exempt from all their own rules. Earth's climate has never been stable and BTW we're heading into an ice age…not warming.
CO2 makes up such an minuscule part of the atmosphere that it literally insults my intelligence to suggest such a thing. CO2 makes up .04% of the atmosphere. For every 10000 molecules only 1 is CO2.
Why are all the peoples head around the earth white people?
@WillMePHD, really?
Have you ever tasted the effect of something with a very powerfull tast like coffee, Aspartame, bitter drugs and so on? A very small drop in your glass can have a huge impact on the tast of the drink. Aspartame makes up about .03% of diet coke, yet gives it a sweet taste. You see, it is just like that with CO2 and greenhouse effect, CO2 makes up a small portion of atmosphere, but yet has quiet a big impact on earths atmosphere. If you think about it logically, there is no reason to conclude that a small substance could not have a big impact, just think about the diet coke.
Good analogy for kids, sadly kids now a days don't even know what Tetris is. Haha luckily being nearly 30 I got the analogy.
we are doomed!ย
we will die
So it's a good thing we are running out of fossil fuels…?
why are you telling us about this climate change crap? talk to the governments, idiot. if this is real it's a crisis and in a crisis you act, not talk to people about the problem you're having.
Very well though out. Thank you.
nice job , guys , lets find another idea to explain to the public …
We are stupid things with a great consciousness, nothing else, the universe doesn't give a fuck if we stop existing or about whatever we do.
Yes, im in my period today (?)
CO2 better know as plant foodย
Oh , Human ..
I did not like tetris analogy as it makes this looks like a childs play
A really colorful explanation. Unfortunately it is very true!
We won't be able to start over or try again. Well better buy some floaties.
Fuck it no one is gonna do a thing anyways
How does the weather change extremely during climate change?
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people can use water to fuel cars but they chose not to use it
try looking for information on how recent sun activity affects earth, I find this video as nothing more than GW propaganda. If you stumble upon information that is opposite of this one – that we may face extreme cold weather and more extreme storms,heat waves, everything basicly and no word of global worming, just enjoy your mind being blown and enjoy the feeling of waking up ๐
So, the influence that cosmic rays have over the climate is… irrelevant, right?
The knowledge that at some point we had 5 to 10 times the level of actual CO2 and yet lower temperatures, is also… irrelevant.
There is a clear correlation between the amount of cosmic rays in the galaxy, the Earth's position on it, and the sun's activity.
But again, it is also… irreleveant.
Why are all the cartoon people white?
They display people around the earth and they all happen to be white?
Weird.
pure indoctrination. I would rather see facts and figures than just a ideological metaphor.
God this is stupid, as NASA shows,
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http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/ir_tutorial/irwindows.html
ย GHGs BLOCK out far more heat than the block in. ย 159.3 degrees F at the equator on the equinox. ย While keeping in only 59 F. ย Cooling the earth by 100.3 degrees F per second each day.
People are so stupid when they think the have an education in climatology but have only read some article sin the New York Times.
can i download this video and add subtitles?
so why dont we just stop breathing?
climate change is Martial law Wake up people Repent of your sins and surrender your lives to Jesus Christ for salvation before its too late
Awesome, probably one of the best descriptions of climate change I've ever seen
and solar radiation said, I did not get it.
Loved the comparison! If only climate change came with a catchy theme song too, then people might start to care..
hi my name is Jose
"the more blocks pile up the harder it becomes to restore balance". Obviously you didn't play a lot of Tetris; it's called "setting up a combo".
came to see her…
what a disappointment…good video tho
Liked the comparison. Unfortunately, I'm afraid my students are not familiar with tetris.
We just need Athmosphere-trees that float up there and photosynthesize the shit out of CO2.
"yeah, eat that Green house Gas you dirty dirty ivy"
Climatology just got sexy. I think we can mobilize the masses now.
what is tetris
At approximately 40 seconds in, the narrator says that "CO2 traps heat from the Sun in the atmosphere". This is NOT how the atmosphere warms.
CO2 traps EARTH heat, not solar energy. Incoming solar energy zips right past CO2, is absorbed by the Earth, then radiated as heat.
Of course, time is limited in these videos … but that the atmosphere is warmed from below by Earth radiation is a fundamental concept which science students need to understand.
everybody search up Joss fong to see what she looks like… she's gorgeous.
i.m like tetris in game
dick my cat
DOOT DOOT DOOT DOOT DOOT DOOT DOOT DOOT DOOT DOOT
How does he do it?! He has two pieces at the same time!!!!!!!!! 0:13
The cheat code to win the game : T R E E S
What complete bullshit…let's just ignore the fact that the planet is greener now than it was 50 years ago precisely because we are burning fossil fuels…or maybe it's the volcanos…let's talk to our plants and trees today and ask them if their co2 is from a volcano or a cow fart or maybe Algore's jet exhaust…and in the short term we don't even know if we will need an umbrella this afternoon.
i will do this:
CCCCCC <——- line cleared
C C
C C
CCCCCC <——- line cleared
Ooh ooh what's earths tetris high score because I so beat it mines 3 points.
Basically all we have to do is get all the carbon dioxide to get into a straight line.
JUST LIKE DARK SOULS
i will clear the blocks this way:
SSSSCC
SSSSSC
SOOICC
SOOIOO
S I I POO
S= sea's surface
P= dust particle
C= carbon
O= oxygen
I= i-particle
Who is the narator? Joss Fong? like from Vox? Why her voice sounds off?
If the only way the temperatures can go is up, then what, exactly, is an ice age, and how can it come to be?
Tell that to the US Prez
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I was surprised to see that Joss Fong makes Ted Ed lessons too.
Here in America, What needs to be done is fixing the election process once and for all securing it from the republicans and neocons and other outsiders hacking into it and stripping the peopleโs vote! Then get them and their fossil fuel contributors OUT of office and away from our legislative process!! And Iโm sure the same corruption is going on in many other places on this earth!
Another great vid by joss
Wow! Joss Fong of Vox! I hope that more information about climate change includes deforestation and destructive practices of animal agriculture. CH4 or Methane is not as large as CO2 carbon dioxide in amount released, however, it is more potent in its effect as a greenhouse gas. I also would have hoped that in the Tetris analogy the game would have started to speed up with overpopulation, melting of icecaps, refugees who left flooded areas due to the tide, heat increase and acidification of the ocean.
0:54 – When you duplicate objects over and over again on LittleBigPlanet.
population is directly proportion to pollution…more we reproduce then more we will pollute
the amount of climate change deniers on this thread are alarming
2:08 anyone notice this from smash bros?
idk what is this i cant take it if we ran out of trees what will we do? i dont know
i don,t get it from one point of view in our energy sources like electricity we use nuclear and other fossil fuels to generate heats in order to create steam to drive turbine then condense it from sea or other water sources one could say we are using the dormant heat and pouring it in our environment beside co2 isnt that real problem since that hot water become part of ocean and atmosphere
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SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD TED-ED. I LIKE TO WATCH THIS VIDEO
let's just shoot some water up into space
that is so wrong
Bello!!!
well we're stuffed
I like Ted Ed, I just subscribed but itโs pretty good for getting general information but not specific which is what Iโm looking for
Honestly tetris isn't that good of an analogy. Or at least the way they used it.
There's more than one way to win Tetris! Fossil fuels are GOOD
well this video is nice it was boring and complicated we see you too study in a easy way which is not complicated but you confused us better luck for next time
Possibly because I haven't played too much Tetris, I'm still not really sure how it relates to climate change. I don't know if there's a clear analogy, but I do think this is great video with concise information that makes it easy to understand the basics of climate change.
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Eh salut ma classe
So they did not mention quantum mechanics this time.
If you believe in climate change, search up Greta Thunberg on youtube
"It's a game that we're all stuck playing. And unlike in Tetris, we won't get a chance to start over and try again"
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Co2 is not warming the Earth.Idiots.
tetrist is suppose to be the most viral game in the world