Game On, Climate Change. Game On. | Laura Tenenbaum | TEDxUCSD
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- Laura Faye Tenenbaum is the Senior Science Editor for the NASA’s Global Climate Change publication and a member of the Earth Science Communications Team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She develops interactive new media products to engage the public in climate and Earth science. In her talk, she warns of the dangers of climate change, and explores innovative ways of combating it.
Laura Faye Tenenbaum is an innovator in science communication. As the Senior Science Editor for the Webby Award winning website NASA’s Global Climate Change, a member of the Earth Science Communications Team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the author of the Earth Right Now blog, she develops interactive new media products to engage the public in climate and Earth science. She has also held a faculty position in the Physical Science Department at Glendale Community College for 13 years.
Her goal is to bring science, multimedia and education together to attract a highly motivated and enthusiastic new generation that will be ready to take on the huge environmental challenges we face.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
1974 I purchased my beach home which sat 600 feet away from the water at "HIGH TIDE" in Texas. I know this because my wife & kids had a discovery day for school & this was one of the things they wrote down, plus gathered sea shells. In May of 2019 we had a family gathering at the beach house & due to the climate change sea level rise debate, we went out at "HIGH TIDE" & measured the distance again. I see factual data that temperature has changed in the past and I theorize that the climate will change in the future. BUT AS TO THE SEA LEVEL RISE! It has been 44 years my simple experiment has rendered that Hypothesis of sea level rising to be still under review because it "HASN'T HAPPENED" like they said it would happen in 1980, 1989, 2010 etc.
Sea levels have been rising for 10,000 years. But it is a very slow process, and it is not caused by humans. No, the rate of increase is not any faster than it has been over the past 10,000 years.
I presume you factored in tide levels?
@@samlair3342 Read what I wrote, at high tide. And because we did think that the time of year may have something to do with the tide, so we have measured at different times of the year because we go there all year round. Still the same, and if you look at the southern part of Texas, we're not on the equator, but we are not that far.
@@billsmith9903 it's not just about being high tide. Every 2 weeks or so there is a spring tide (where the water rises higher and falls lower) to varying degrees between the neap tides (where the difference in high and low is reduced). It's to do with the position of the sun and moon in relation to each other. So I think Sam is asking whether you measured the tide height at the same point in the spring/neap cycle?
@@laurakemp4803 Laura smh 44 yrs I've owned this beach house and it's still the same distance to the water. 44 yrs, lol it costs more to prevent global weather change than it does to adapt to it.
Thanks Laura! You gave my class a great presentation the other day at JPL and said that you embrace your trolls, because it means that you're doing something meaningful. I know you need no encouragement to keep on igniting passion for the greatest dilemma that we face, but we're sending you lots of appreciation!!!
Tony Heller has excellent presentations on You Tube about climate.
Yes and he provides DATA to back himself up.
Fear based presentation.
I would suggest that the climate change deniers move to the seashores so they can become one with the oceans....
What about those who deny that human-caused emissions of CO2 have no bearing on climate change.
Most are surfers so it's all good. You're a climate change believer. Yucky.
I suggest you move to higher ground. You only have 50 years to decide where.
move to the sea shore, next to All Gore?
HAHAHAHA I did and so did Al Gore and Obama. 1974 I purchased my beach home which sat 600 feet away from the water at "HIGH TIDE" in Texas. I know this because my wife & kids had a discovery day for school & this was one of the things they wrote down, plus gathered sea shells. In May of 2019 we had a family gathering at the beach house & due to the climate change sea level rise debate, we went out at "HIGH TIDE" & measured the distance again. I see factual data that temperature has changed in the past and I theorize that the climate will change in the future. BUT AS TO THE SEA LEVEL RISE! It has been 44 years my simple experiment has rendered that Hypothesis of sea level rising to be still under review because it "HASN'T HAPPENED" like they said it would happen in 1980, 1989, 2010 etc.
So we ignore water vapor in the air then, only water in the oceans?
Irma, Harvey, Maria, Jose. A heated ocean spawned the most powerful hurricanes ever in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. Thank you Laura Faye Tenenbaum.
Volume please!?
Thank you Laura for the demonstration, visually very enlightening. Thank you for your passion in relation to concern for the planet. Your message though is sorely lacking solutions to warming. I am left non-convinced that the inertia within the earth system has already sealed the fate of most life, but thank you for the temporary "feel good". Attempts to play God, the geoengineering of cloud brightening, iron feeding the oceans, and what ever else man has attempted leave me frankly afraid of what will be tried next in desperate attempts to save the 1% elite.
Glad to hear a climate TED talk point out the obvious, that the added warmth in the oceans will take 100s of years to manifest in the atmospheric temperatures. I've read papers estimate 600-800 years. This obviously disproves any atmospheric warming effects from CO2 in the 20th century and there must be another explanation to the 1978-1998 rapid rise of surface temperatures [ 2m above the surface in the shade]. Liked the pro-science peep talk btw, we need more STEM students.
This is a response to your question about temperature rise from the 70's to now. Do you wonder why the graphs for temperature start at the late 70's? We have great accurate temperatures going back to the early 1900s . The reason they don't use them is because of what happened in the 1930s. Do you remember what happened? The great dust bowl. The temperatures in the 30s for some cities and towns got as high as 120 degrees. Then the records show a slow decline so in the 70's some scientists thought an ice age was coming. This is why they go way back on some things but temperature starts in the late 70's. Don't you think this would be important. This shows a bias and an important one
@@skipd9164 Skip, preaching to the choir. Did you mistakenly reply to my post instead of commenting to someone else? I suggest you copy/paste to correct place.
@@skipd9164 I just figured out what you were referring to. I think you misunderstood my concept regarding the lag in atmospheric temperatures due to the ocean forcing 600-800 earlier.
@@williambaikie5739 thanks for your reply and no problem just pointing out something so if people read your comment. They will have further info on the dust bowl and its effect on temperature models. And thanks for being civil in your reply
I dare you to survive the anthropocene extinction.
I get it, the oceans will absorb the heat, but then they will be too hot. Then there are all the other effects of melting ice, larger storms, droughts, floods, rising seas, species migration and the spread of tropical diseases to the temperate zones.
If oceans are absorbing heat now then they have always absorbed heat.
They absorb heat when it is there to be absorbed, so in that sense, you are dead on correct.
That's what I was thinking...what YOU said, SHOULD HAVE been what SHE simply should have said!
It's not so either/or. Anyone who's ever spent time living inland and time living on the coast knows that Oceans absorb heat during the day and release heat at night. That's why the coasts are more temperate, inland is prone to larger variation. When the air is hotter than the water, the ocean absorbs heat. When water is hotter than the air, the ocean releases heat. It's a balance, that over the long run, operates as an equilibrium. When we increase the greenhouse gas, the equilibrium is no longer in balance and the oceans slowly warm over time, they still cool off at night, but overall the equilibrium points to warming, until a new balance is reached. The new balance might take a couple hundred years to reach.
nice
Laura I saw your presentation recently and this comment may be late. I agree the specific heat capacity of water is relatively high. Therefore, a lot of heat will be absorbed by oceans. And that has its own weather problems. The specific heat capacity of water (oceans) has helped us a lot. Besides the 4.184 calories is for clean water. I do not know what will be for salt water. Anyway, the temperature of the earth is increasing. The other side of the equation, which you did not address is the latent heat of fusion of ice. Compared to the specific heat, it is very small and climate change will affect the glaciers considerably.
Darn. We really are screwed. ..... thanks. Great pep talk. Game on it is. 😊😊
What have we here,? its game on for climate change not exactly the words i would have used to describe the way mankind is traveling down this road,more like total future mayhem.
I think her message is good, but I also agree with you. Especially with Donald Trump in office. Game delayed, not game on is more accurate.
YTEdy
( "Game delayed" )
As drastic as things will become it will all come down to future crop production, regarding game delayed it might not be that delayed as many believe,? regarding this video the speaker talks of climate change as being an exciting challenge,i don't think the third world countries of our World will view it as such.
What a great point. Everyone looks to the scientist to tell them even in spite of their reality, and yet nobody gets up and discovers for themselves. I guess everyone and nobody is a little extreme generalization, am i the only one who exaggerates to make a point??
Very nice video with very important message for everybody!!! We have only PLANET A!!!
So explain the current ice gains in the arctic?
tony heller for why she has brown eyes
The stupidity of many of these comments is enough to make one cry. They probably voted for Trump as well. Well done lady. More strength to you
Take the duff from the forests in danger of fire and spread it across the permafrost.
10 reasons why.
1. Less fire
2. More forest
3. Prevents erosion
4. Prevents methane production
5. Sequesters carbon
6. Oxygen production
7. Habitat for insects/birds/herbivores in 2-4 years
8. Habitat for entire food chain in 10-20y
9. Mitigates albedo effect
10. Provides jobs
all wrong.
well, this is my inner eighth or ninth grade self rather than third
Well, you really never put it succinctly - so, is it too late ? Tell us what life will be like after going a year without Arctic ice. Reminds me of a high school graduation speech.
A very helpful primer on the science & social implications of climate change. I sense implicit boundaries on what is acceptable, from NASA's perspective, to say about the topic -- the "national security" implications as explored by your sister organizations in the Pentagon & DoD, etc, are entirely ignored, as one might expect (e.g., see the sources & websites cited in the opening chapters of Christian Parenti's "Tropic of Chaos"). The framing of the issue in terms of challenges & opportunities is wonderfully problematic. Overall a solid job on the premier issue of the day -- or more aptly, the coming millennia.
Are you assuming the earth with no glaciers!
Let's break 🐣the Global Warming together ...everyone.
Do you think people have the power to change the climate? How much arrogance.
+Cartola, Unfortunately we do have the power to change the climate. We should stop our arrogant behavior.
+Nellie, The biggest grand solar minimum on record dropped global temperatures a mere 0.3 fraction of a single °C at most from the surrounding periods. If a new solar minimum actually happens (unpredictable, and not happening yet), and if it is a worst case Maunder-style minimum lasting for a few decades (a worst case is unlikely), it won’t even be noticed against the very certain and imminent 3 to 5 whole °C global increase this century, a warming that will go on for many centuries.
Cartola da silva says:
"Do you think people have the power to change the climate? How much arrogance."
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We can at least slow it down.
Stop driving.
Miss Tenenbaum should take her dog for walks more often. She might regain her sanity that way.
@timobrienwells
you are not seeing the whole picture
Hope is a bad thing
I'll take hope over dope anyday. (hint, it's the deniers who are the dopes).
We cannot curb climate change.
OH MY GOD! WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE!!
One day we will be able to think of holding the balloon in the fire with a steal rod or similar so we don't have to burn our hand nor our clothes.
WTF IS SHE TALKING ABOUT?
How much CO2 was released by burning fossil fuel for a half hour to roast that water balloon? Water is not only important for understanding where heat goes, but also how it sequesters carbon back out of the atmosphere. Trees and other living organisms use water to absorb carbon and store it underground as roots. Hotter land and trees can grow faster and absorb more carbon at a faster rate, but to do so the trees and other organisms have to be able to root everywhere and contain transpiration currents within the canopy instead of letting them leak/blow away due to hot dry winds produced by pavements and other deforested areas. If we can sufficiently reforest developed areas, water will absorb the heat and use it to absorb the carbon and sequester it underground, but if not the humidity and energy/heat will leak into the sky and form increasingly more powerful storms that weather and erode soils causing further ecological impoverishment and deforestation.
Let me guess, she is just another investor in green industries, and the investment has not paid off.
This is stand up comedy... science is something differente
I do hope she mentions animal agriculture...
Nope. Sorry, vegan.
+Identified Patient Thats ok, non vegan? LOL!
+Neoteric Phoenix Tried to be, but failed. Healthy food is too expensive. BTW, animal agriculture is nothing compared to the methane emitting from the thawing arctic tundra. They're calling it the clathrate gun pointed at the head of the world.
The clathrate gun is unlikely to go off with less than 6C overall warming (that's 10C+ in the arctic). We are still a long way from that. The situation is plenty serious, but clathrates are something we really don't need to worry about too much yet. Worry about the things that really are a problem (argiculture, sea level rise, malaria), and _do_ something personally about it. Reduce your own footprintg, and hassle your representatives (and friends) to take this seriously.
+Identified Patient potatoes? rice? beans? oats? bananas? expensive? What were you eating? lol! Yes the ice is thawing due to the large amount of combined greenhouse gasses created largely from factory farming. It's easier to help combat climate change by choosing to do without the meat and dairy (especially) as well as combat the cost of medical care to taxpayers due to growing rates of diabetes, cancer, obesity, heart disease of course. 🐘🖖
If it is a scam why has Australia recorded its hottest March on record, yet again, with New Zealand following suit with its second hottest March on record. January was also Australia's hottest January and New Zealand recorded its hottest day period. If these were just curious one off, it would be interesting, but when these records happen year after year it's not so interesting, but in fact alarming.
Year after year huh. When your old you can look back generation after generation with crisis apon crisis all spelling the end of life as we know it.
All come to naught. Life has continued to improve . Annoyingly now though the chattering classes have the internet so the volume is louder
A mi los globos me parecían una teta joven y otra vieja. Ahí lo dejo.
Far as I'm concerned, the world can burn to a crisp if I only had a hot, intelligent chick to watch it with....Laura...call me.
Hope the chinese are watching this. Or we will be just playing with ourselves. Game on.
I can only laugh!
of course science is the answer to everything, all the time. oh but doesn't science change, all the time. When new things are discovered that out date what we thought we knew. Would science get over its own importance, and stop the fear mongering.
I do not think there is a limit of thoroughness which we could be sure that the discussion is in, but I'm sure this talk is severely superficial and naive. Sad to perceive so shallow arguments being used to tackle humanity's biggest issue ever, while denying what I think it's vital analysis such as our own historical ideology. Science isn't everything we need to get over the ruling paradigm. Maybe we could start to consider that this is a much more profound problem than just an energetic one. To deny that historical, cultural and economic reasons resonate through time to create todays problems is to voluntarily blind ourselves. To tackle climate change we humans will need to realize our common situation while admitting the ancient system of oppression and structural recklessness about anything outside our cultural or subjective perspectives. There will be need to revoke some of the comforts of modern society. There will be need to change the economy's premises - no more economic ruling class. There will be pain and shortages of goods. It will be hard. It's not a game. It is not only about humanity survival. We are but one species in the midst of a plentiful number of others. We do not own a thing. Question your premises. Question your conclusions from the previous question. How can we create something that we need but isn't evident yet? How to be political still socially coherent? Which fundamental questions are still hidden from plain sight? Let's think and try new things, fellow humans.
Nice try!...more volume of water in that sphere...than on this planet sphere...
@lionel martin
that makes it even more important
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Dress code?
Sea rise last 100 years was 7 inches, under 2mm per year. Worst case estimate for next 100 years -- a 50% growth to 3mm per year, oh my goodness...maybe 11 inches. I am sure we can't keep up with that in the next 100 years.
80,000 years ago Kansas was under 2 miles of ice. 80M years ago it was a 2,000 ft. sea -- all without a single smokestack or SUV -- go figure.
An emotional plea to tug at the heart of imagined inequality
More likely an ice age in the next 50 years.
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Volcanic activity reported to the public is a small percentage of the volcanic eruptions in the world:
Volcanic eruptions beneath the ice and snow of Antarctica, Greenland, Russia, the Himalayas, etc., are not reported to the public.
Volcanic seafloor eruptions - from the seamounts, the ocean ridges, etc. - are also not reported to the public - even though they represent about 90% of the volcanic eruptions in the world.
Anyone who has done the research knows that water vapor is about 97 - 98% of the greenhouse gases -
which means pointing the finger at CO2 is insane.
Because of the exponential increase in the heat coming off the volcanic seafloor eruptions, our oceans have been heating up which results in rapid evaporation of the ocean waters which are carried by wind currents to nearby low pressure systems where the water vapor is dropped as record rainfall -
this is happening all around the world.
This explains why sea level rise has been minimal while the glacial melt is astronomical -
our ocean waters are evaporating almost as rapidly as the glacial melt is flowing in.
The fire, the balloons and the popping are a curious approach to distracting the public from the truth.
hard to take you seriously when you come to a formal presentation in your bedroom top!
7:09 20 hand made "one of a kind" instruments dedicated exclusively to studying earth's climate and earth psyence... LOL whatever... and I have a one of a kind hand made nordic track dedicated exclusively to making you a greek god and a mountain climber... 19.95 it's such an awesome deal...
Go to planet B, take a go cart to Haagan Daz.
Nice talk but his question was will we all drowned, the answer is no.
Siberia is melting, it is to late to stop.
juvenile.
This childish show is supposed to prove anything? Who is she talking to.... kindergarteners?? TED should be embarrassed.
so her point is that the oceans have 3500 times the heat absorption capacity of the atmosphere, which is exactly why miniscule amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere will never ever cause catastrophic climate change.
Somebody failed science.
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This must be the most unscientific bunch of fearmongering bs ever.
she looked toooooo tired.
The more I watch these fear mongering videos produced by those who want to tax you for living, the more i realize how awe inspiring Jehovahs creation is. We have life sustaining greatness all around us, if it wasnt for Humans we would live in Paradise already. Mismanagement of earths resources and scaring the public into conformity, thats the name of the game.