Geography's Greatest Mystery: Why Europe Has ZERO Deserts

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    When you hear the word desert, chances are, you’d think of sun, sand, and might give you the feeling of thirst. Perhaps, cacti, vultures, scorpions or possibly camels and oases come to mind as well. But in truth, deserts come in all shapes and sizes and vary considerably from one part of the world to the next.[pics] Scientifically, a desert is an arid ecosystem that receives fewer than 10 inches of rain annually, and basically, deserts are defined by having a greater rate of annual evaporation than annual precipitation. And they do not have to be hot. Why Europe doesn't have any deserts
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  • @CuriousReason
    @CuriousReason  Před 2 lety +8

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    • @ade910
      @ade910 Před 8 měsíci

      Lots of mistakes in your video.
      1) The area you outline in the US as "desert" is mostly semi-desert - a similar climate to roughly 50% of the geography of Spain. True desert climate in the US is in a very reduced area of the South West.
      2) Europe does have desert climates - coastal Almería province is a true desert climate (not Tabernas which is at higher altitude).
      3) There is nothing unusual about Tabernas. Even Madrid, the capital of Spain, is technically in a semi-desert climate. There are places as arid as Tabernas peppered all over Spain.

    • @chiisuigintou
      @chiisuigintou Před 7 měsíci

      Don't forget Ukraine oleshky desert,
      the Błędów desert, etc.
      Not to mention this idiot looking at a map that doesn't indicate anything about desertification.

    • @chiisuigintou
      @chiisuigintou Před 7 měsíci

      3:07 Not to mention,
      Spain has lots of water issues, having to adapt various ways to be conservative on water.
      Your entire video is complete bs
      and you should either delete it,
      fucking get it off the platform,
      or at least fucking adres your fucking mistake,
      you disinformative piece of fucking Schweinehund.

  • @polarace1634
    @polarace1634 Před 2 lety +84

    There is a desert in Spain, the Tabernas desert, in Almería (280 km²).

    • @D.Jay.
      @D.Jay. Před 2 lety +5

      Is it aSemi desert? Is it over the desert rain fall limit?

    • @polarace1634
      @polarace1634 Před 2 lety +16

      @@D.Jay. Yes, It is a desert. The average annual precipitation of the Tabernas region is about 239 mm and the limit is 250 mm.

    • @sliftylovesyou
      @sliftylovesyou Před 2 lety +8

      yes, he mentioned this at 2:37

    • @ldelgg
      @ldelgg Před 2 lety +3

      He mentioned it. But its a semi desert

    • @Amen-Magi
      @Amen-Magi Před 2 lety

      😂

  • @NimbleBard48
    @NimbleBard48 Před 2 lety +58

    There's a desert (semi-desert?) in Poland called Błędów Desert that has an area of 32 km2 (12 sq mi).

    • @CuriousReason
      @CuriousReason  Před 2 lety +14

      Its safe to say, its a joke as compared to arid hot/cold deserts. 😁

    • @NimbleBard48
      @NimbleBard48 Před 2 lety +4

      @@CuriousReason Very safe :)

    • @kundeleczek1
      @kundeleczek1 Před 2 lety +1

      Basically it is more of a foretless sandr than desert. Quite interesting anyway.

    • @MeowingWhale
      @MeowingWhale Před 2 lety +1

      It’s not naturally occurring though

    • @magnusevander7706
      @magnusevander7706 Před 2 lety

      @@CuriousReason Hum... we have the Bardenas desert in Spain... and its well knowed because it was use in many cowboy movies....

  • @xnownxinc5680
    @xnownxinc5680 Před 2 lety +9

    The European continent has no desert.
    Putin: Hold my Nukes.
    Mars arising

  • @Amen-Magi
    @Amen-Magi Před 2 lety +7

    0:30If you look at Europe, you will not see any desert
    Also Southern Europe:am i joke to you

    • @chiisuigintou
      @chiisuigintou Před 7 měsíci

      Also Ukraine, Poland, etc
      Not to mention 3:07 doesn't understand how dry Spain
      and how agriculture within the nation is such a challenge.
      This especially the past 30 or so years, with them having to be more and more conservative on water.

  • @ameenahsf
    @ameenahsf Před 2 lety +16

    Only a few minutes in but this quality.. *chefs kiss*

  • @aitorbleda8267
    @aitorbleda8267 Před 2 lety +10

    There are deserts (plural) in Spain.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabernas_Desert

  • @markog1999
    @markog1999 Před 2 lety +14

    We have the UK which is a cultural desert...

    • @HouseJawn
      @HouseJawn Před 2 lety

      Probably not according to the Brexit'ers

    • @DrewWithington
      @DrewWithington Před 9 měsíci

      The French think the UK is a culinary desert.

    • @chiisuigintou
      @chiisuigintou Před 7 měsíci

      That is, some with the Netherlands though.
      Pukes when thinking about it.
      Aniway, the UK is good with biscuits.
      I don't want sugar or milk in my tea however.
      One thing, now that we're on the subject, wtf are Belgian buns?
      Whotf came up with a raisin cookie (rozijnenkoek) cover it with excessive amounts of glaze and throw a candied cherry on top?
      and than call this diabetes bun "Belgian bun"?

  • @diogorodrigues747
    @diogorodrigues747 Před 2 lety +21

    Actually this is false. There are some real deserts in Europe, all of them in Spain (the Tabernas, Monegros and Bárdenas deserts), and lots of areas around the European continent are really dry. Most of the Iberian Peninsula, which the exception of the NW areas, Malta and Ukraine are arid areas, some of them grasslands very similar to the ones in the US and others are semi-deserts because, despite looking like ones, they still don't achieve the criteria for them calling deserts.
    00:39 LOL... no, it's not!
    02:40 Tabernas is a real desert, not a semi-desert.
    And, in the Mediterranean, there is a West to East current, so moisture generally can't reach Iberia from the Mediterranean. The result is that most of Spain is really dry and looks like a desert, in some places even in Winter!

  • @nickknife9681
    @nickknife9681 Před 2 lety +8

    "Deligradska peščara" ("peščara" from the word "pesak" meaning "sand") in Serbia. But we are turning it into a forest.

  • @Kelpo45
    @Kelpo45 Před 2 lety +3

    Amazing work as always, loved the video!

  • @magnusevander7706
    @magnusevander7706 Před 2 lety +4

    Hum... we have the Bardenas desert in Spain... and its well knowed because it was use in many cowboy movies....

  • @Anony8289
    @Anony8289 Před 2 lety +3

    Europe has the arctic desert

  • @emanemz2790
    @emanemz2790 Před 2 lety +2

    Those beach photos are from Gran Canaria

  • @dnkal2875
    @dnkal2875 Před 2 lety +5

    There is a real desert in Greece in the island of lemnos and I think it's only one that can be called a desert in Europe.

    • @zimriel
      @zimriel Před 8 měsíci

      Thera is also historically very dry, requiring cisterns to supply its people.

  • @maxdilcon5679
    @maxdilcon5679 Před 2 lety

    This dudes channel is amazing, it’s gonna blow up

    • @chiisuigintou
      @chiisuigintou Před 7 měsíci

      It's nothing more than disinformation and complete bullocks.

  • @malcolmreynolds4099
    @malcolmreynolds4099 Před 2 lety

    this was a great video, thank you!
    i hope you will skyrocket with subs soon :-)

    • @chiisuigintou
      @chiisuigintou Před 7 měsíci

      Full of disinformation and complete and utter bullocks.

  • @stephanmitph
    @stephanmitph Před 2 lety +5

    There is a very very tiny desert in (East)Germany. It's called "Lieberoser Wüste" (Wüste = desert). Maybe 4 km².
    The area is used by russian and eastgerman military. They cut down all trees to exercise their war-games. Until today whose bombs are in the earth and explode sometimes in hot summers.
    P.S.:
    I see, you named this desert already. 😀

  • @tonyselmanah7411
    @tonyselmanah7411 Před 2 lety +4

    Because God had blessed Europe

  • @billysbees
    @billysbees Před 2 lety +4

    there is a desert in the greek island of Limnos maybe you 'd like to check it out?
    tip off and thank you for your work wich is GREAT by the way

    • @necrommy6989
      @necrommy6989 Před rokem

      Its not a desert but a salt flat, i know it from arma 3!

  • @zaregilsa4999
    @zaregilsa4999 Před 2 lety +6

    There's a desert in Ukraine - Oleshky Sands en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleshky_Sands

  • @pneumonoultramicroscopicsilica

    I am proud to say that i subscribed you when u had 10k subscribers.

    • @edsel6988
      @edsel6988 Před 2 lety

      Same! Glad that this channel is nearing the 100k milestone XD

    • @chiisuigintou
      @chiisuigintou Před 7 měsíci

      And are one of the internet idiots, who believe this crap.
      This is disinformation and complete and utter bullocks.
      3:07 Spain has a lot of problems,
      even having to adept a large amount of innovations towards water conservation.
      There are many deserts within Europe.
      This video is filled with so much disinformation, as well as maps wrongfully depicted and all,
      it rather sounds like a "American joke".

  • @haileymillsap8924
    @haileymillsap8924 Před rokem +2

    Europe does have deserts. The Tabernas desert in Spain.

  • @baarth8305
    @baarth8305 Před 2 lety

    What is the background music ??

  • @alexanderlee5669
    @alexanderlee5669 Před 2 lety +3

    Stop desert shaming us.

  • @czarlguitarl
    @czarlguitarl Před 8 měsíci +1

    Spain's Tabernas desert feels so unseen right now :( why you no think Spain is in Europe? Did the Moors conquer it again and I missed the headlines??

  • @shrinidhi6920
    @shrinidhi6920 Před 2 lety +1

    I'm astonished by the quality of the video and the choice of topics..
    Just brilliant

    • @chiisuigintou
      @chiisuigintou Před 7 měsíci

      And the entire video is complete and utter bullocks.

  • @pollutingpenguin2146
    @pollutingpenguin2146 Před 2 lety +3

    Denmark has a tiny desert on the northern tip of its peninsular

  • @sonnykristiansen5561
    @sonnykristiansen5561 Před 9 měsíci +1

    There are desert-like areas in Spain.

  • @andrurec
    @andrurec Před rokem +1

    Roumania have a little desert,Serbia have too,Ukraine have too,Italy,Spain sure and etc

  • @69Planets
    @69Planets Před 2 lety +2

    Why does this channel doesn't have more subs.

    • @chiisuigintou
      @chiisuigintou Před 7 měsíci

      Bc of disinformation and complete and utter bullocks?
      Good videos take time, lots of research and actually knowing wtf you're on about.

  • @antonpalmer-smith4829
    @antonpalmer-smith4829 Před 2 lety +1

    So it doesn't snow in Antarctica or in the artic??(

  • @JS-jh4cy
    @JS-jh4cy Před 7 měsíci +1

    What about parts of Cyprus are desert?

  • @MantasDoesVideos
    @MantasDoesVideos Před rokem +1

    "Europe dosent have any deserts"
    The mediterranean🗿

  • @miroslavhoudek7085
    @miroslavhoudek7085 Před 2 lety +2

    That's not true, there are so many deserts in Europe: cheese cakes, cremé brulee and all that. Haven't watch the video yet but the title is clearly wrong.

    • @abeceda103
      @abeceda103 Před rokem

      Dessert not desert

    • @abeceda103
      @abeceda103 Před rokem

      Desert vs dessert
      1. Geography
      Desert is an area of land less than ten inches of rainfall.
      2. Cuisine
      Dessert is a sweet course at the end of a meal.

  • @Hamsteak
    @Hamsteak Před 2 lety +10

    Deserts 🏜 are pretty interesting and how the earth's climates work

    • @CuriousReason
      @CuriousReason  Před 2 lety +3

      I will try to make more geographical videos in the future 😊

    • @Hamsteak
      @Hamsteak Před 2 lety +3

      @@CuriousReason Geography and Geopolitics are always a winner. But do keep making videos on other subjects like you have in the past. I like the variety you have.

  • @matteboy_2780
    @matteboy_2780 Před 2 lety +1

    Only Europe can manage to get beat out by Antarctica with the amount of deserts

  • @augustolobo2280
    @augustolobo2280 Před 9 měsíci +1

    There's a desert in southern Spain

  • @andrei3488
    @andrei3488 Před 2 lety

    there is small desert in romania and they say that is expanding

  • @yyyy-ml9pr
    @yyyy-ml9pr Před 2 lety +1

    actually theres only one in europe which is located in poland

  • @erikmegkozeliti6732
    @erikmegkozeliti6732 Před 4 měsíci

    3:14 You forgot about overgrazing, invasive plant and animal species and one of the worst, direct farming next to natural water sources, there are deserts that have huge natural freshwater lakes, but they do not function as oases, there are no trees or shrubs around the lakes, this has nothing to do with Hadley cellic atmospheric circulations or coriolis, there must always be more life in the immediate vicinity of liquid water.
    Because these two listed reasons in the video do not explain the Sub-Sahara, nor the fact that in Central America the main forest zone begins at the latitude where the Sahara reaches its driest point.

  • @jcmendezify
    @jcmendezify Před 2 lety

    Alas, fast forward to 2022 and the Iberian peninsula 😳

  • @JasperKlijndijk
    @JasperKlijndijk Před 2 lety

    good water and land management could prevent almost all deserts

  • @pokeiuri4159
    @pokeiuri4159 Před 2 lety

    Make a vídeo about swimming

  • @AustinPerdue
    @AustinPerdue Před 2 lety +2

    Arguably Europe is not a continent? Eurasia has plenty of deserts.

    • @chiisuigintou
      @chiisuigintou Před 7 měsíci

      Europe has so as well
      and 3:07 the climate in Spain is quite dry,
      which is ideal 4 desertification,
      especially bc of climate change,
      what's a challenge towards agriculture and farmers have to be really conservative on water.
      Been to Spain since 1988 and water is a really big issue.
      Not only does this guy don't do any research, look again, he doesn't even understand how fucking maps work.

  • @bigboyman5743
    @bigboyman5743 Před 7 měsíci

    Kalmykia, which is part of Europe has a cold desert.

  • @nopeyt3387
    @nopeyt3387 Před měsícem

    The Sahara has “expanded” into southern sicily and spain

  • @mrjonesyyy
    @mrjonesyyy Před 2 lety

    Isn't weather most related to ocean currents? I mean, humans sure don't help the spread of forests...

  • @Zeewman
    @Zeewman Před 2 lety

    There is also a desert in Europe in Kazakhstan.

  • @JS-jh4cy
    @JS-jh4cy Před 7 měsíci

    And Malta?

  • @Kostobran123
    @Kostobran123 Před rokem

    The oldest desert in Europe is in Serbia, it is 12.000 years old desert named Deliblato Sands

  • @randomlyselected8998
    @randomlyselected8998 Před 2 lety

    At least we got sand at the coast

  • @roguetheoutlander8800
    @roguetheoutlander8800 Před 4 měsíci

    There is a kinda desert in Czech Republic (its not even 1 kilometer big but its still desert :3)

  • @opinions-um1qk
    @opinions-um1qk Před rokem

    well that aged well

  • @Andrew-df1dr
    @Andrew-df1dr Před rokem

    Please use the metric system

  • @mickeyray3793
    @mickeyray3793 Před 2 lety +2

    This video makes no sense. Europe's desert is Spain.

  • @notinuse203
    @notinuse203 Před rokem

    Poland: am I joke to u

  • @michaelsomething7674
    @michaelsomething7674 Před rokem

    How about Iceland?

    • @pleasedontkillme1185
      @pleasedontkillme1185 Před rokem

      Pretty sure Iceland gets more than enough rain to not have any place considered a desert

  • @bogi3232
    @bogi3232 Před 2 lety

    what about antarctica

  • @Dostoron
    @Dostoron Před 2 lety

    hmm, it is kind of a desert belt wrapping lopsided around eurasia, going from north africa and spain to the ass end of north east sibiria.

  • @daddyleon
    @daddyleon Před 2 lety +2

    But Afro-Eurasia has the most deserts!!

  • @meegel3689
    @meegel3689 Před 2 lety

    The best

  • @sonnykristiansen5561
    @sonnykristiansen5561 Před 9 měsíci +1

    Europe is not a continent, Eurasia is.

  • @paulinhodasilva3961
    @paulinhodasilva3961 Před rokem

    Spain has deserts

  • @aguy9175
    @aguy9175 Před 2 lety +1

    There's desert in Spain, Italy, Greece, Serbia, Poland, Ukraine and more. This is incorrect

  • @asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791
    @asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791 Před 2 lety +4

    Metric please.

    • @CuriousReason
      @CuriousReason  Před 2 lety +4

      Sorry, my bad. Won't use the imperial system on scripts next time.

    • @tessjuel
      @tessjuel Před 2 lety +2

      @@CuriousReason Why not use both?

  • @mroldnewbie
    @mroldnewbie Před 8 měsíci

    Just a nitpick 😜. There is no _single_ "Arctic desert" as the Arctic area isn't all desert and it isn not continuous land at all. It's some kind of "internet truth". Wikipedia actually makes this claim, but at the same time it has an article about the _actual_ Artic desert _eco region_ which is much smaller. It consists of several islands in the Arctic Ocean. The ice covered ocean is not land and a lot of it melts seasonally. Much of Arctic Northern Eurasia has more than 250 mm yearly precipitation. Sure, there are large areas with low precipitation, but they are not continuous.

  • @UHaulShorts
    @UHaulShorts Před 2 lety

    Continent also ain't gotz no skyscrapas

    • @GenericUrbanism
      @GenericUrbanism Před 2 lety

      Europe has lots of skyscrapers in cities like Frankfurt, Moscow, and London.

    • @UHaulShorts
      @UHaulShorts Před 2 lety

      @@GenericUrbanism
      EU not known 4 its hustle & bustle central biness distrix

    • @EnjoyFirefighting
      @EnjoyFirefighting Před 2 lety

      @@GenericUrbanism well all of Europe together has less skyscrapers than Dubai ...
      There are a few here and there, but far from many

  • @D.Jay.
    @D.Jay. Před 2 lety +4

    If we are getting pedantic, then should we really be referring to the "European Continent" as a geologically identifiable individual landmass?

    • @CuriousReason
      @CuriousReason  Před 2 lety +2

      You are right, Eurasia is one landmass but generally, European "continent" ends with Ural Mountains to the west and it includes tiny little piece of Kazakhstan in the south-east.

    • @D.Jay.
      @D.Jay. Před 2 lety +1

      @CuriousReason Yes you can draw arbitrary "continental" borders anywhere. Heck even North and South America use the term "Continental Divide" to describe their mountains, but they divide no named continents. It's no more of a geological term than "country" or "state." Too many people mistake continents for tectonic plate boundaries or climate/ zones. These are things that helped the social divisions that actually define continents but are not consistent boundaries metrics for continents. I reserve the right to mock the usage of Continents geologically as freely as I mock the U.S.A's various measurement systems!

    • @CuriousReason
      @CuriousReason  Před 2 lety +3

      @@D.Jay. Amen! you have all the right to mock socio-political terms being called in geological context and mock the American measurement system. I will gladly enjoy mocking the imperial system with you as I hate it myself but the reason being that my most viewers are from the North America, I used the imperial system and I reserve right to do that, sir. 😂

  • @THEWIZARDDK3
    @THEWIZARDDK3 Před 2 lety +1

    theres a desert in denmark named råbjerg mile. basically its a sand dune sweeping across the jutland peninsula.

  • @Itsalloverrated
    @Itsalloverrated Před 2 měsíci

    Bledowska desert guys😂 in Poland😉🤭🤔

  • @theafrobook3347
    @theafrobook3347 Před 2 lety

    Is EUROPE REALLY A CONTINENT, or do you mean Eurasia?

  • @zimriel
    @zimriel Před 8 měsíci +1

    Maybe because Europe isn't a continent but a subcontinent, like India.

  • @35906
    @35906 Před 8 měsíci

    WRONG Dude you are WRONG Tabernas Desert is in Spain and Accona Desert is in Italy.

  • @nilsruggiero8503
    @nilsruggiero8503 Před rokem +1

    hey my guy europe is not a continent

  • @ericanell8933
    @ericanell8933 Před 2 lety

    So if the artic is the worlds 2nd biggest desert, then europes biggest desert shouldnt be in an artic contry such as Rusia?

    • @CuriousReason
      @CuriousReason  Před 2 lety +2

      75% of Russia's territory is in the Asian part - Siberia and far east regions.

    • @billynomates920
      @billynomates920 Před 2 lety

      @@CuriousReason 1:45 handily leaving the scandinavian parts of the arctic desert off of the map? most of their territory is in europe!
      and yes, i'm being petty and pedantic for jokes - it's a great video! 🙂

    • @CuriousReason
      @CuriousReason  Před 2 lety

      @@billynomates920 Arctic is no continent and belongs to number of countries in the north. But I would consider it as different landmass overall.

    • @jabedhossain9961
      @jabedhossain9961 Před 2 lety

      @@CuriousReason right

  • @woodscriatures5636
    @woodscriatures5636 Před rokem

    There is no deserts on europe ?!!
    Dude go fishing ..

  • @MzRogerz147
    @MzRogerz147 Před rokem

    That’s BS

  • @ak.5620
    @ak.5620 Před 2 lety

    Hi

  • @wirliv
    @wirliv Před 2 lety +1

    CLICK BAIT!

  • @ap3768
    @ap3768 Před 2 lety

    First

  • @cani5761
    @cani5761 Před rokem +1

    Because europe isnt a continent

  • @gagsdoublej4254
    @gagsdoublej4254 Před 2 lety

    Excuse me Sir/Madam
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    If you died tonight are you going to heaven?
    Jesus loves you

  • @dicdicd1767
    @dicdicd1767 Před 2 lety

    Stop talking about inches and square miles! They don't exist outside of the US! You are wasting your video.

  • @DaremoTen
    @DaremoTen Před 2 lety

    Europe isn't a continent. It's a region of Eurasia.

  • @SuperKevin6464
    @SuperKevin6464 Před 2 lety

    Europe is not a continent. It is just west Asia.

    • @That1HotMF
      @That1HotMF Před 2 lety

      Its not have u heard of tectonic continental plates ?

    • @That1HotMF
      @That1HotMF Před 2 lety

      Europe is different from asia even from culture,history and land

    • @nischaymiglani2617
      @nischaymiglani2617 Před 2 lety +1

      Europe is just a north-west Asia.

    • @That1HotMF
      @That1HotMF Před 2 lety

      @@nischaymiglani2617 in ur dreams

    • @EnjoyFirefighting
      @EnjoyFirefighting Před 2 lety

      If Europe is west Asia than the USA is North Mexico ...