Glaciers Are Disappearing Almost As Fast As You Can Ski Down Them | Climate Games
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How badly is our planet heating up? I’ve put together an experiment that asks: How much of an olympic-sized swimming pool would be filled with glacial meltwater in the time it takes to ski down a glacier? Helping me - by actually skiing down a glacier - is JT Holmes. And you won’t believe the final answer.
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Glaciers being around since an ice age isn't special. By definition, there are no glaciers unless we're in an ice age.
What's disappearing faster than glaciers? Common sense, reason, rationality, and love for fellow human beings.
😂so true 👍
🥵
Truth.
Hey man, but it the CO2 I tell ya, what ice age?
You forgot to mention good scientific discussion. That's gone too.
4:23 "How do you even ski down a glacier??" That, my friends, is called _foreshadowing._ Because as it turns out a few seconds later...not well.
I skied on a glacier in Germany
And think about it, 99% of the people who go and ski places like this, they don't have a helicopter circling around...
@@kukri1877 99% of people who ski places like that DO have a helicopter.
There's no ski lifts up a Glacier, & judging by the terrain he parachuted over, nobody's climbing up there without a chopper.
"To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve, and cherish, the pale blue dot; the only home we've ever known.”
- Carl Sagan
I love that quote by him
Who?
@@wolfiestreet6899 The one and only Carl Sagan
@@dapotatoguy7019 Never heard of her.
@@wolfiestreet6899 its a him-
That's why we created our project "El Huerto de Meres" to teach spanish speaking people about to compost, better use of the soil and water and cultivate their own food. It's essencial to understand it is a global issue and we need to take action now.
Thank you Dianna for such a great info and spread the word.
congrats to you and the best of lucks !
Wouldn't that lose the efficiency of scale and lead to worse impact on the climate?
@@gramgramchabadou2524 Z. M mom massik
This is like a documentary with millions of dollars as budget.
That's when you know it's well funded propaganda.. You can bet that she didn't pay for any of this.
@@calholli Doesn't change the fact that it's all alarming and depressing.
Quite frankly if you disagree with this video, I do see why all of this is happening, and why the human race does not have a good outlook on the future; because of people like you.
@@farlig8666
That's a very bold accusation.
@@calholli How is literally showing a place where stuff happens propaganda? Sure they talk about it but showing a video by using helicopters is propaganda? That's a very cheap argument.
@@paulgoogol2652 Ummm, lets see, the blame is heavily on the burning of fossil fuels as to probably the heaviest leading cause of global warming and thus glacial melt and yet uses a helicopter (i.e., burns more fossil fuel) to make a video that really doesn't amount to anything being that is a representation of a supposed single hour sample of a 8760hour cycle (i.e., a year cycle). You really cant get any more statistically insignificant than that. Sounds a lot like propaganda actually.
She even mentions in the video that the glacial melt is at a higher rate than anticipated (predicted would have been a better word to use here but whatever...) . So if anticipation (or prediction) is off, then there is a problem elsewhere in the equation. if *A* causes *B* and *C* is a resulting evidence of *B*, then if your anticipation (or prediction) of *C* is wrong, then there's a good probability that *A* is wrong too.
Is global warming real? YES (no argument there from me what so ever).
Is it manmade or man heavily influenced? That is very debatable and there is supporting evidence that contradicts the general belief that man / co2 is a heavy driving influence. I honestly think that many in the field actually know this but are too afraid to admit it because the real cause is uncontrollable destiny. One question I have posed many time to people who claim to be climate scientist and yet this question causes them to disappear from the conversation every time is:
_"if co2 is one of the most significant driving factors of global warming, and our current atmospheric level is just over 400ppm, can you explain why based on ice core samples, all previous interglacial periods had peak co2 levels below 300ppm except for one that hit 300 and during the same time of those peak co2 levels, average global temps were a few degree's C warmer than current and sea levels ranged from 10m to 80m higher then today. If co2 is such a driving factor and it is currently 25% higher than the last know peak, why is our average temp still considerably cooler and sea levels considerably lower? Also, why does all of the data suggest that co2 peaks occurred between 600 to 1000yrs after the peak temp and peak sea level of all the past interglacial periods?"
Its rather interesting that up until that they are eager to answer or at least attempt to answer every question posed but as soon as that above (or variation of it) is posed, they always go dark.
Wow. This is next-level production quality, and I'm already a fan of Diana's normal style. Having that hit as hard as it did... Impressive, and shocking.
It’s all misinformation to pull the leftist narrative and to give it shock value to the under educated in such matters of climate science.
The fossil fuel industry funded it.
This is a CZcams originals video. They usually have better quality than normal because CZcams helps them. With cameras at least and I'm pretty sure help fund it to.
@@marvintpandroid2213 so big tobacco funds anti smoking campaign, their just gas lighting to the leftist crowd, does not make it right. It just politics.
Yes, quality is more important than the message we want to spread
That wasn't a science experiment, it was a sensationalist Red Bull advertisement sprinkled with facts.
This is my issue with all the climate change talk. I’m not doubting that the climate is changing, I know it is and it has since the beginning of time. I just need scientists to approach this in a more realistic non feelings based way. And also acknowledge the potential positives of the earth warming. Maybe it won’t get so many people on board with “saving the planet” but it’ll be the truth and the start of all of us working together instead of working for a cause. You can’t feed me sugar and tell me it’s candy
I hadn´t even noticed the Red Bull logo!
@@isaacmartinez442 Well said. The earth has warmed and cooled many times in the past. It wasn't that many years ago, alarmists were screaming "the planet is heading for an ice age".
@@isaacmartinez442 I'd recommend checking potholer54. He has a more objective scientific approach to the subject. I agree with you; climate change is big enough of a problem in itself that you don't need to sprinkle it with exaggerations. I think that puts people off. Well, it's certainly good to take time to talk about the problem and hence make people more aware of it, but I don't think Diana gave the problem enough justice in this video. Maybe it isn't as entertaining to some, but it would be a lot more informative with more data and statistics.
@@timjohnson979 so you must know about the debate between the effect of light reflecting pollution in the atmosphere vs infrared absorbing pollution? Just because news articles love thrilling stories doesn't mean scientists actually ever thought an ice age was coming any time soon.
Important topic.
But I feel like the experiment was just there, because a yt original has a certain budget. It didn't really add a lot of information or entertainment imo. I think just saying "This glacier is x meters high and melts at y Litres/hour. That's z olympic sized swimming pools! Woah, terrifying!" would've been just as effective.
Think it will make the average Joe more likely to watch. Personally, I liked watching some extreme skiing.
You are right that Physics Girl's normal audience doesn't need the ski dude, and the fatuous 'experiment', but a video like this is aimed at the wider public, who will watch because of the ski dude and then hopefully learn something about the scale of the glacial melt/global warming problem. So we are not really the audience here, which is why it all seems a bit odd. There is a whole series of these 'climate games' videos featuring youtube creators and athletes of various flavours. There are still a whole load of idiots claiming it's all a scam here in the comments, so we really do still need basic education for normal people, and stuff like this probably helps.
Perhaps you should have talked to a glaciologist instead of a skier. You could have saved all the carbon needlessly added to the atmosphere by the helicopter.
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I'm 61 and I have always lived in central Texas. I thought last February would shock people into paying attention. I was wrong. Still business as usual. We are paying about $25 more for electricity every month. Nobody seems to care. I don't think they realize how bad it can get.
that's the thing about exponential growth on the level of the planet. humans think they can keep up with the "slow" changes, until one day, we won't be able to.
Simple Things, it nice to be old you have time to see things others do not.
Physics Girl says things have to change, yes but how?
This movie took place near Vancouver Canada... It has about 3 to 5 months of no or very limited sun ...
How will wind and solar work?
We have no battery that can run Vancouver electric needs even for a day. So what energy do you use?
Vancouver is in a high seismic zone so nuclear is out of the question so are we not left with natural gas?
How does a electric car work in minus 30F degrees? (Ottawa and Montreal)
How big does the electric grid have to be to power cars and heat homes in Canada?
What happens when a Canada use only electricity?
How is green energy going to work in Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal Canada?
The cleanest energy that will work in Canada is natural gas? But it still produce carbon ... Nuclear is possible but all the green people seem to oppose it...
It nice to be old, because I can ask the questions and the politician can keep on lying and it really will not affect my life because I will be dead soon. Simple Things many people care but like everything else climate is political so we have fake news from the government on how to deal with the problem
So my question is the kids hear and see the problem but how to fix it? Just ask yourself what is the carbon footprint of a windmill? Don't forget all the concrete underground that keeps it from falling over.
Cheers have a great day and now back to the simple things in live a nice breakfast then SSS.
@@ardentenquirer8573 tl;dr just do your part.
You mean when Texas had an unusual cold wave, and suffered the consequences of trying to build a "renewable" power supply grid like California? I think the lesson I've learned is that people are being led down a path to a much reduced standard of living, and they are accepting it.
Why do you think electricity prices has gone up?
4:34 Between my dude jumping over crevasses like some weirdly enthusiastic crash test dummy, the muffled "O.. Eugh.. Argh..." and the sad music starting, I must admit I probably wasn't feeling the emotion I was supposed to feel during that part.
Yeah that was kind of a weird beat. My initial thoughts from the heli shots were "wow, with all those crevasses that must be almost impossible to ski, what an amazing guy! I wonder how he's going to navigate them?" And then he just barrels straight into them and crashes XD
I'm sure the guy is incredibly skilled but it was cut very weirdly.
It was a dramatic video... but we never actually got to see a swimming pool filling, or even a comparable amount of water actually flowing. The only moving water we saw in the video was the tiny stream coming off the glacier, which really undercuts the message that there's just so much water being shed constantly... but we can't show you, even in CGI. But hey, action movie music. I'm sure Wren from Corridor Digital would have loved to do a colab.
I was thinking the CD guys could pull up something that would demonstrate the water offshed as well!
It was there at the end. Problem is there's so much water coming down, how do you get a sense of scale?
Kathleen Madigan said it best in a bit about the National Debt, Might as well as tell me it's mashed potatos
I was also shocked at how little I felt when she mentioned 19 pools were filled.... idk why I feel I need to 'see' it, outside my state motto.
The majority of water flowing off a glacier ends up flowing in to crevasses and moulins, and flowing under the glacier pretty quickly. There are massive rivers under that glacier that are entirely invisible to us, until it reaches the lakes and rivers below the glacier.
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I was just waiting for her to tell us about the experiment but it was just a guy skiing
Exact same feeling here
Yeah, where did they measure these 22 swimming pools at? How was it done?
@@Robert256 that's still a simpler calculation. Knowing volume and rates of flow, you can tell how long each would take, no?
You forgot the joke at the end!! Okay, I'll handle it:
What do you call someone who steals a glacier?
An iceberglar.
What do you call a duck inside a glacier?
A quack in the ice.
How do you spot a glacier?
You have to have good ice sight!
What do you call a climate change promoter who flies around in planes and helicopters burning massive amounts of fuel as they tell you to change?
@@calholli
Freddy made a song about it: "I'm a great pretender..."
Shouldn’t you have hiked out to the glaciers, instead of flying in a fossil fuel burning helicopter?
Communities will be wiped out... soo let's go ski down a glacier? The angle of this video is weird.
I have seen the RedBull logo at some point, perhaps they sponsor the skier. It would be better if they also talked to some proper scientists, such as climatologist or glaciologist.
I miss the numbers about the replenishing of the glacier. That would put your message into perspective. This way it is just telling half of the story.
This was soo depressing. I feel bad for the scientists who actually measure and see these changes happen, They must feel so bad.
I think a lot have lost hope tbh, and I don't blame them
@@dylan7476 yes. But a lot of em are trying. Rather than giving up we should support those who are at least trying, maybe that would make a change.
They do, and they don't, what makes feeling bad from what I hear my teachers say (they participate in the GIEC) is that writing it, staying it and seeing everyone in power greenwashing after while the power knows that makes them feel bad.
God the first summit for the climate was 40 years ago, and we are still producing each year more carbon dioxide than the precedent. And the production over the years is exponential.
And all that is shown here is the climate, but when we add like biology and ask ourselves about the crops and the future of agriculture,...
In France the vine production already suffers a lot from climate change, but vine is not necessary for leaving, other plants are quite important.
(I study geosciences in France and won't do research in climate, cause gosh it's depressing and not my thing, but probably research in erosion, and yeah, it's depressing and thrilling at the same time, to be where it matters, where it makes sense etc)
@Paul What do you mean 🤔.
@Paul its been soon since the 70s. Hadn't happened yet. Poles are flipping though so...
The first step in solving a problem, is acknowledging that there is a problem.
Sorta like trying to get people to admit that Biden is mentally in no condition to be trying to run a country....Or even drive a car around. I understand many people don't like Trump but that doesn't mean an old man with dementia is better for the job.
@@michaelbrinks8089 this video is about climate change. Why bring politics in? The more ppl make scientific discussions like vaccines/global warming as political, the worse those things may get.
@@michaelbrinks8089 anything is preferable than trump.
@@soutriksarangi5580
How come you can't see that the climate debate is all about politics. Insidious politics at that.
@@Peter_Riis_DK this year's Nobel prize in physics went to researchers who did their work on climate change models. So is that a big political propaganda there too?
Amazing cinematography!
How large is this glacier? It would really help to have an idea of how much area of glacier is creating this 22 olympic swimming pools of water.
It will be hundreds of miles cubed to produce that volume of water. She would have picked the biggest one to prove her point. With the highest rate of discharge.
@@Diddleurdad According to the map she showed on screen, they were at Ipsoot Glacier. There are several ice fields far larger than Ipsoot even in just that area. Or they could have gone to the BC Rockies to the Saskatchewan Glacier, which makes Ipsoot look like a kiddie skating rink.
She just explain
How many swimming pools 200 years ago?
I'll tell you.
They've got no idea. None.
@@wolfiestreet6899 Of course not. That was before measurements began.
I’ve skied Mt Hood and other Cascade range peaks backcountry, including some of the many classic glacier lines, since the late ‘80s. The change in the last few years has clearly accelerated, and this summer, the Eliot glacier, and a classic late summer skiable slope, the Snow Dome, was in worse shape than I’ve ever seen.
Some classic ice caves on the Sandy glacier have completely collapsed.
The impact is obvious to those who venture out. Too bad too many people will never get past the denialist rhetoric to recognize the issue.
I'd like to know, if you've ever encountered a climate change denier, what do they think about your own experiences, as in opposed to mainstream media telling them the facts, you tell them your own experience, will they still deny that?
I can understand someone not believing numbers from an outside source, but when it is person to person, you telling them, how do they react?
The thing I resent most about it is that it is being used as a means by politicians to exploit the poor... when governments and corporations are the main culprits.
Just give them florida and build a wall, they will learn
@@twirlyhat Walls won't work in Florida - the ground is made of porous coral like a sponge, so the water rises from underneath.
Glaciers left the New York city area 20,000 years ago. If global warming was a real threat, they'd be building nuclear plants instead of "green" energy which needs to be backed by gas plants putting out emissions when solar/wind has issues and can't keep up with demand. But those gas companies and their lobbyists, they sure like to promote green energy, right??
The irony here... flying around with a film crew and helicopters etc. burning up fossil fuels to make a video about how bad global warming is.
What's annoying is that something like this is required. Because it seems idiots don't believe scientists when they're told what's happening. And need to be shocked like this to believe it.
@@Fogmeister Tell it to the Chinese. The rest of us are well aware.
@@ploppyploppy lol! Good joke. 😂
How many Americans still "roll coal" on EVs? 😂
You should check the credits, to find out which helicopter company it was and notice the mention about their carbon neutral program, which should make you go search their website and learn more, which points out they are investing in carbon offset programs........
I feel him with that busted nose. Been there numerous times, just never while skiing. I did, however, have to deal with it and keep on going and/or get back in there. Whether baseball, wrestling, or firefighting, you have to push past. Plus, I mean, descending over a glacier under canopy looks super fun!
230 feet = 70 meters
P.S. I hope someday people stop measuring things in buildings, olympic pools etc and just use metric system. Not trying to mock anybody just seriously concerned. Diana designated length as 230 feet and as 16-store building. Neither was informative.
Ahh good ole USA where people have to be fed sports related referential measurements like olympic pools and football fields
7:43 A tiny bit of googling offers tons of articles where this claim is made in the future tense, but very few speak in the past or present tense, and those don't add up to millions. Does anybody have a source for this claim?
yeh, I had the exact same question. Cool video (due to the huge budget) - but a little lite on science :p
It's propaganda.
No one is being displaced by rising sea levels. She has sold her soul to the almighty dollar.
How did you calculate the flow of water for that one hour?
Change is the only constant.
A guy skiing down a mountain is science somehow.
As beautifully done as this was, all I could wonder is what the carbon footprint was of all the things we saw in it, from the helicopter, the travel, the manufacture of ski equipment the parachute, the cameras. This includes all of us the subscribers watching this on our laptops, in our air conditioned and heated homes. Perhaps we need to change the way we live.
You can't save the world without using a little CO2. Besides the activists, nobody wants to watch a video where Diana just talks about climate change. And also I think the helicopter shots really showed the scale of what is happening. Also, what is it exactly you are proposing they do instead? Walk around with flyers?
And yet, here you are
@@bobthegoat7090 You sound like the soldier from the Vietnam War who said: "We had to destroy the village in order to save it."
Said very well.
You have a suggestion on an EV helicopter that could have been used? Do you think the awerness this type of work brings created changes in behavior that reduce carbon output by more or less than the CO2 used in this video?
Or are you just trying to virtue signal while not actually thinking through what you're saying. The entire point of the video was to educate people on why they need to change their behavior...did you miss that?
Wow let’s do a lap in the helicopter, clothing made of plastic , cameras set all over, so many people putting there footprints down. Wow, put it in perspective for me melt water is a bead of sweat off these giants. How many swimming pools are left. Nice experiment, looks like a waist of resources
230 feet, 16 story building... anything but metres
70 meters
On a scientific channel, I expect SI units.
They may be translated into strange units used by some country not getting the advantages ;-)
It’s all misinformation, the oceans consist of trillions upon trillions of gallons of water, a few billon gallons would do nothing. It’s like tossing a 55 gallon drum of water in a swimming pool, the water only rises a few millimeters.
@@morallyinsane7639 not to mention ice takes up more space than water, so if they melted it should go down.
@@professorfukyu744
But ice is less dense and so floats on water. It is true that the local land may experience a relative sea level regression via isostatic rebound when the weight of the ice is unloaded, but the global sea level will experience a transgression.
Really great work Diana (& team), keep it coming.
Great production value. Great pictures.
But personally, I found the video to be too light on -happy- _depressing_ physicsing facts. I suspect that there is so much more to this topic. How exactly does the melting process work? Or how much does the loss of ice affect Earth's albedo? I would rather hear about that than watch a daredevil ski down a glacier to dramatic music.
Not to mention that the title itself isn't worth a physics channel. It feels like an equivalent of measuring time in kilograms or length in kelvins.
He's there to give you perspective. He ran those mountains when they were all snow, now he's pointing out how rapidly they've receded.
You see a daredevil having fun, I see a dude reminiscing about the past, and giving an idea as to how quickly things have changed in just his short lifetime.
People don't care or want to see the physics behind it, so they need to see the actual results of our actions. You show a room full of average folks a physics essay on the matter, they're not going to sit around and be bored. You show them the mountains going away, maybe they'll pay attention.
Hard to believe, right?
@@MegaHooked They don't show the physics or the data because it would ruin the climate change narrative. The climate is fine. Glacier melting is normal and cyclical. Climate change is either not happening, will be mild, or a net positive. The best science is 1 to 1.5c increase by sometime in the 2100s. Hardly a problem.
The proposed loss of albedo is overrated since almost all of the planet is water or non-iced land. I would bet there is more heat retention from cities than loss of ice albedo.
Having grown up in Alberta, and frequently traveled in to the mountains between BC and Alberta, I've seen glaciers vanish. It's so very different now. Yet there are people I know that are in total denial that the climate is changing. Ask anyone that's 50+ years old. The winters are so different in Canada now. In the 1970s the snow was always deep in the winter, but by the late 1980s the fields were hardly covered by the snow. The glaciers used to come right up to the road. You could park your car and go touch them. Not any more.
Go there again in ten years and you will realize, you are so wrong.
@@oldineamiller9007 I've watched the glaciers recede for 40 years. Are you casting bones to predict a reversal over the next 10?
@@oldineamiller9007 czcams.com/video/ur4I8tYnxP4/video.html
@@Enn-
No. I refer to the climate science. The actual situation points clearly towards a quite impressive cooling for the next 10 years. It is caused by the very rare coincidence of three major climate cycles being in sync in 2030/31.
@@Enn-
I cannot predict if this will make the glaciers worldwide grow again, but it sure stops the melting of most of them and some of them will certainly grow. But it will make the arctic sea ice grow again for sure. It already started.
Glaciers are melting, it's a huge problem, the entire planet is going to feel the consequences. And to talk about that disaster today, let's all welcome ... a professional skier - wait what? Am I on the right channel?
You don't get the method of discovery . . . and that's OK . . . watch again and understand that millions of humans require this sort of explanation to understand the severity of the problem that we now encounter . . . you may want to try what JT Holmes attempted and then put it on CZcams . . . I'll wait . . . and then, I am thinking that you will have something disparaging to say about anything that any caring person does, in order to to better understand the problem that humans currently encounter with global warming . . . have a nice life and hope you know how to swim . . .
@@bmendyka I think you don't get the joke mate ;)
@@kaczorefx and I don't think you know me . . . mate . . .
@@bmendyka I apologize wholeheartedly for beeing too forward.
Great Diana! I like the quality of this video!
I'm from Washington State. We are the second most glaciated state in the U.S (1st is Alaska, obviously). Its a very similar environment to southern British Columbia. Ive been climbing in the Cascade Mountains for about 6 years (Ive hiked since I was a kid, but didnt get in to mountaineering/climbing until recently), and Ive seen visible changes to some of the glaciers Ive been on even in that short timeframe. Its really sad to watch some of my home glaciers dying before my eyes.
6 years isn't even half of a sun cycle. Quit being a willing victim.
@@professorfukyu744 It sounds like you've been drinking too much oil company coolaid.
@@briandoolittle3422
It seems you might be one of the high priests of the climate religion.
@@Peter_Riis_DK Everyone that actually goes outside and looks at the state of glaciers accepts climate change, while people like you that get all your information from news channels or websites and have literally no idea whats going on scream that we are wrong.
*I don't just see evidence of glacier melt since I started climbing. Rock that has been under glacier has a distinct look about it. You can easily see ex-glacier from 20-30 years ago. I'm on rock like that almost every week. Washington is quickly becoming a glacier graveyard. Many of those glaciers where 1000 years old or older. Sun cycles are a childish explanation.
I hope your cult is fulfilling. Its certainly not helping the rest of us.
@@briandoolittle3422
I'm not denying that climate is changing - it always has been. I'm highly questioning that it is man made, as dangerous as the climate mafia want's it to be, and as fast moving as all the alarmists want - I'm not even sure it is changing towards warmer weather. Neither was climate scientists fifty years ago.
That danger is, that this is the rich man's agenda and the yoke of the poor man.
I don't get it. Talking about climate change is great, but seeing people skiing and carried with a helicopter is a non-sense for this topic. This video looks more like a Netflix documentary than usual Diana works.
This video is stunning and incredibly depressing - well done but also 😩
Don't believe everything, just because someone you like sells it.
@Nātānsaurus
First of all - it is one sided propaganda, and anything in propaganda is rarely the truth. Record temperatures? Look at historic (untampered) data - yes, there's actually meteorological historic data, that shows as hot or hotter weather than we've had this year.
Secondly: Probably that glaciers somewhere are reclining - as they've always done - and somewhere else are expanding - as they've always done - and that it has nothing or at most a negligible amount to do with human CO2 emissions.
@@Peter_Riis_DK and where do I get this 'Untampered' data from? And what is the proof that it is untampered?
@Nātānsaurus
I'm not really sure what you're on about, but I see you're a follower of the climate religion. Pay more taxes. Good luck with that - the shame is that you guys are dragging the innocent along with you.
Man.
@@soutriksarangi5580
That is all information you'll have to seek out yourself - me pointing could be construed as tampering.
By the way, beware that tampering often is explained as "corrections" or "alignment".
Thank you for showing us this.
Why dont we talk about the helicopters and airplanes that are just dumping insane amounts of air pollution
Because we need them to travrl faster and give every one of us a better life experience. You want us to go back to horses?
Meanwhile some British tv-host tried to argue that "carpenters kill trees" and that "you can grow concrete."
Man, it's depressing sometimes...
I like her videos and believe her stats. What I do not like though is this "experiment" she said it was. I do not think you can characterize it as that. This was a flashy PSA. How did she measure the melt-water? What kind of climate research was done? What is in the atmosphere now vs in the past that is causing the warming? What role does solar output play into it? What and how long are warming/cooling cycles occuring? Volcanic activity? Overall, this was disappointing (on many levels). I want more data that better describes the problem and an explanation of what it means. That is how you convince people.
Right? Sources pls
Yes, replace the shots with the weird falling dude with science. Thanks Diana.
Do you think covering all those variables in a video would also generate as many clicks as this one? You can't convince someone who didn't click. And then there's viewer retention. Who do we need to convince? The people who love learning? Don't get me wrong, I'd love a video like you describe.
How long do you want the video to be? 10hours?
@@fischersfritz468 one more reason not to spend it on the skiing dude.
Stunning video.
It's true that the science here was not well presented. As Physics Girl, you could've talked about the amount of heat captured by the glaciers and heat that they reflect into space, etc.
For me, that was not the message in this video, which is something the naysayers here go on about.
IMHO, the most important point is that one day in the not too distant future, these glorious scenes will be gone for centuries, if not millennia, along with the part they play in buffering the climate.
All we will be left with is videos like this.
yes, it's not glacial melt that is causing sea level rise right now as much as thermal expansion from the heat we've already added. (If huge ice sheets like Greenland suddenly collapse, that will cause dramatic sea level rise)
@@mikemoore-hehim1149 "yes, it's not glacial melt that is causing sea level rise right now as much as thermal expansion from the heat we've already added. "
Well, the point she made was about the rise of sea level if they all melt, not the current sea level rise.
This video also wasn't a video to convince people who deny the science. It was really a call to action, via fundraiser, for people who are not in denial. I don't think fundraisers are part of the solution to climate change, but that is another issue.
I do think both types of messages are important. People need to understand what climate change is, and people need to do something impactful about it.
Although the skiing looked impressive, it would have been far more useful to know what percentage of glaciers are forecast to melt by 2030 and 2050, and the resultant rises in sea level. Etc. 🇦🇺
its propaganda that aren't interested in facts.
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Question: at what temperature does ice begins to melt at the rate the pools would fill up?
The melting temperature of glaciers is very complicated and does not just depend on the temperature of the air. Happily climate change melting the glaciers is a hoax. Glaciers recede and extend in regular patterns over years, decades, and centuries. There is nothing odd happening. They just point at a melting glacier and say "see climate change" and ignore the other glaciers that are growing or the fact that we are coming out of a mini-ice age ending in the mid-1800s causing more melting and slightly higher sea levels.
The video mentions that millions of people have already been displaced by rising sea levels. Where are these now underwater cities located?
pictures of coasts around the world look remarkably similar to those from the late 1800s. p.s. the maldive islands were predicted to have already sunk
Building more runways for aircraft. I believe I heard 4 more to be exact in the Maldives.
@@atillathehungry3145 "p.s. the maldive islands were predicted to have already sunk"
Yeah, a politician made that prediction. Scientific predictions are the Maldives will be underwater by the end of this century, probably around 2080.
Great video - really stepped up the production! Go team ReWild.
Amazing video, well done girl! Needs to be seen on the big screen.
Are you making videos anymore or is this channel just an #Ad placement now?
Not for one moment do I dispute climate change BUT science videos like this should be scientific and mention the time of year plus the fact that all the above glacier snow melt adds to the water run off. This sort of video just gives weight to people who would deny climate change.
I agree. This was very light on science, and I'm being kind. This was very disappointing. Not up to her normal excellence.
Never question the mainstream narrative (Newspeak) or they'll call the Ministry of Truth on you. Deny climate change? No one denies the climate changes. The question is what drives the changes and it is not CO2 or anything we can do anything about. It was hotter in the recent past without any help from humans. The climate is not dangerously changing.
@@outofcompliance1639 There is no doubt the climate has been far hotter and much much colder in the past but CO2 levels are the reason this time. In the past (without human intervention) the planet has self righted but taken ages to do so, fossil fuels have taken millions of years to store (absorb) CO2 and we (humans) have released it in a matter of decades, we need to prevent the methane from being released from the permafrost or we will really be in trouble. I do think we are going in the right direction and if needed we could re-forest the planet by planting billions of trees but billions would be what's needed. The maths is very easy to workout but the time needed for the forest plan to work might see humans really suffer until the trees can absorb the excess CO2 and then we will need to prevent the wood from rotting once harvested, no doubt the time for action is now.
@@purpleom9649 The problem with your theory is CO2 has also been much higher in the past and sometimes it was colder and sometimes it was hotter than today despite the high CO2. The science does not support the idea the CO2 drives the climate. The best model shows a temperature increase of about 1.5c with doubling of CO2. So from 1950 CO2 was 300 ppm, it will double to 600 in the 2100s, we are at 415 ppm now so we will see a gradual temperature increase of 1.5c from 1950 to 2100s (all else being equal). Hardly a problem. The climate is fine so far so why are you so worried?
The methane issue was a theory but has proven to be false in the real world. I saw a science video on it but forget the mechanism that keeps the methane from being released, some microbe or something.
I believe there is a 1 trillion tree planting project already. "1,045,323,045,305 Committed Trees 35,551,269,278 Planted Trees". (1 trillion trees website) I guess it is a good thing but more CO2 is probably better.
No need for public action at all. In fact, the action they are proposing won't even help the non-problem but it will cost trillions and ruin millions of lives.
@@outofcompliance1639 I will admit I'm no climate scientist but the climate denying scientists are so very few and far between theses days. " The methane issue" isn't a theory, it's a fact. All said and done I'm far happier that green renewable energy supplies are being sort today, being less reliant on oil and gas makes the chance of runaway inflation less likely. Yes changing infrastructure can be costly but you can't deny burning fossil fuel isn't nice to breath and can have health issues. Ignoring experts is so 6 years ago.
Emotion have to work hand to hand with science, not alone. Science is sad to be left alone here, while emotion shows off a palette of dramatic effects.
Propaganda videos are all made like that, with a lot of emotions.
When is your mt Wilson observatory episode coming out
Mt St Helens glacier is growing.
Haven’t they been melting since the ice age ended?
It's the change in the rate of the melting that is important. It's been accelerating.
glad humans didn't try to stop the glacial recession that formed the Finger Lakes (upstate NY) or the Great Lakes (Northern US/Southern CA). I would probably live somewhere not on a glacier - maybe FL.
You are doing very important work! Keep moving forward, Physics Girl!
Is there a baseline for your experiment? What is it on a last summer?
"it's warm, I was sweating the whole way up".... Just like any person would hiking up a mountain covered head to toe in warm gear?....
Finally a interesting video from physics girl after a pretty long time
Sobering. nice job. We take for granted the natural things we have on our planet.
Ok the production looks dramatic and all but was this video supposed to do? This felt more like a commercial for some new camera
Editing and lighting, camera
It is like watching a movie preview.
Meanwhile, humans might phase out.
thanks! it helped me so much in my general paper exam
Things have to change .. I hear that from the era of Carl Sagan
"To highlight climate change we flew in the best athletes from all around the world to highlight the matter...."
Personal responsibility isn't going to cut it any more. We need systemic change, and that means we need to educate the voters. Ideally, we would not make things worse in our efforts to educate, but sometimes you have to endure a little pain to fix the larger problem.
The people who claim to be the most concerned about climate change also tend to have the largest carbon footprints.
at least the helicopter co have an offsetting / carbon neutrality programme (9.40 in the vid)
@@ItsGroundhogDay nah man, I have the tiniest carbon foot print.
@@davehughes9448 carbon offsetting is an accountancy trick, designed to make the rich and polluting feel better.
meanhile a record low has been reported in the northpole and tree's have been found un glaciers from round the romain time
Wao.
Interesting & informative 👍
They should make a part 2 of this vid in the dead of winter on the same glacier and let everyone know how many olympic size swimming pools are being created each day....
That would be silly. The fact is that more than 100,000 glaciers around the world are losing more ice in the summer than they gain in winter, and therefore shrinking.
This is Very Bad, especially if you depend on the water from them that will decline, or live near a coast, or have to make room for displaced climate refugees from Florida etc, as well as a million other bad consequences.
How did you estimate the rate of melting and how does it compare year round?
I've never heard of JT before but hopefully he doesn't waste helicopter flights just for skiing!
(Please show units in metric for those of us less familiar with imperial units)
sold out
Question: Law of Interaction
[MAKE A VIDEO ON THIS QUESTION PLEASE]
How can I move something, say a chair. If the net force is resultimg to 0. Since I applied a force to the chair (ACTION), then the chair also exert a force on me (REACTION) WITH THE SAME FORCE. So why can I move a chair if the net force is resulting to 0?
Thanks anyway.
good work
These are the best years. In the coming decade we will look back at todays forest fires, droughts and superstorms with nostalgia for how mild and rare they were.
I remember hearing the exact same thing in the 80s.
Rare, no, biblical. .
@@neonshoji Yes I remember the same thing in the 80s too. It's horrific to think that we didn't do enough then and we're seeing those predictions come true.
Yea we’ll back in the 70’s they were predicting the next ice age, it’s amazing how little they know.
@@MusicalRaichu which predictions? You realize this is all unfalsifiable pseudo science, right?
This video feels like a random advertisement. Bombastic soundtrack, slow motion shots, emotional marketing but not much physics in this one. I like Dianas more grounded Videos better. Climate change would have deserved a much deeper look, than this nonsensical experiment.
Anyway, I generally like your content. Keep physicsing Diana!
CZcams’s own videos are mostly bad
Lovely video. Is it possible to find a website that indicates trends of sea level rise over a period of years, say 50 years to the present? The ones I found are particular to some cities and do not seem to register alarming sea level rise rates. So I'm confused.
Drone shots are just amazing...
By now, I don't even know what is more depressing; the fact that climate change is happening, or that these kinds of videos are needed to reach enough people to make a difference. I know that I am not part of the target demographic of this video, but it still kind of hurts me having to see this important issue being diluted by sensationalized glacier skiing. The cognitive dissonance between "This is an extremely serious issue" and "Wow, cool ski stunts" is just a bit too much for me to bear. While this is probably necessary right now, I also believe that we desperately need to work towards a world in which stating the facts about the horrendous consequences of climate change is enough to mobilize the population.
@Murph the Martian Mustelid I think the point was to visually show off how large the glacier is, and how climate change it is affecting it, etc. Rather than just show a glacier on a map, or in the distance. Having a guy ski on a glacier better represents the scale.
Also, I don't think it is this channel's responsibility to inform people of this problem, and plenty of resources are out there. Arguably more that give the details than are calls to action.
Also, the current 33+ years of foot dragging in the US is more depressing, IMHO.
Islands such as the Marshall Islands are only a few meters above sea level so they will start being submerged within a few decades or less and will require the people to be relocated.
The Marshall Islands were due to be under 15ft ofwater in 1970, 1990, 2000,2010, and now 2020. There are goal posts moving all round the world
Nice work
this is not true,the glacier in Iceland GREW this year
Did all the others?
that is not a science experiment, it's an arbitrary comparison.
Give her a break she wants to get paid and she has to do as she's told sometimes so she can live an upper middle class lifestyle - that's much more important than truth
Videos like this hurt more than they help. It skips over any meaning full data and instead tries to evoke an emotional response, rather than a logical conclusion. All we saw was some guy skiing, and we heard some baseless claims.
What glacier was it? How large is the glacier? How did you calculate the amount of melt water over an hour? How does it compare to melt rates in prior years? How much of the ice loss is expected to be recaptured this winter?
^ this. Wish this was at the top of the comments section
So true. This video could have been very informative *and* visually stunning.
Alas, it's only the latter.
Stunning video and amazing footage but those dialogues didn't sound natural at all...
JT Holmes is amazing for tackling that glacier. Great video. Attenborough's last doc blew me away. How he's seen mother nature change over nearly 100yrs is mind boggling and heart breaking.
Message for all the little scientists here, including myself :
This video is focussed on spreading the fact that climate change is a thing. This video is NOT like a typical "Physics Girl video". This video is more specific for people that are not really convinced yet that it is a very big problem. In my opinion the skier wasn't really needed. And I know most of you, would rather have some more details and numbers. But that's just not what this video is for. There are plenty of videos online that talk about these numbers.
I hope this video just spreads consciousness amongst all humans.
Feel free to give your own opinion on this!
i know for a fact global warming is simply a political football...nothing more
@@roneil63 Ridiculous statement.
I don't doubt that human activity has vastly accelerated global warming. I accept that as a fact. Here is my question. With ice ages being cyclical was this going to happen anyway and we as a species have accelerated by hundreds of years? After we have had our 3 minutes of the evolutionary clock will the planet cycle back to another ice age? I'm not arguing or disputing the facts I'm just asking the question. Should we do something about it? We should of years ago. We have had our industrial revolution where as China and developing Countries are experiencing theirs. Is it right to stop their expansion after we ourselves have done the very same thing? No one can stop China just like no one is stopping the Rain Forest destruction. We have walked into this with our eyes wide open. I'm not anti climate change, I don't dispute the facts, I just wondered about my question. Any explanation appreciated. My question comes from a place of naivety not dispute. Thank you.
We're toast. It's too late. We've past the tipping point. Say hello to the HOT HOUSE EARTH. So sorry, to bad , too late.
I dont have a direct answer, but i do have a semi-answer in the form of another question. Is the leading cause of climate change human selfishness? Or is it human need?
I'd argue that it is the latter. Because the only people who care about it are those in the privelaged first world. Until everyone gets their basic fundamental necessities, we will continue to burn and destroy. Because good luck convincing a poor man to stop what he is doing to feed his family.
@@timelsen2236 then stop posting lol
It is not too late to stop it becoming worse than not doing anything.
The problem is two-fold:
1) We're accelerating the change, as you point out, and we're accelerating it so much that even we are struggling to adapt -- to say nothing of natural ecosystems that are already under strain from human civilization. If this was happening naturally, we would have hundreds or thousands of years -- now we have decades or less. And keep in mind, it's not the human species that's at risk (we'll be around for a long time yet), it's our civilization that's being threatened. Any civilization can withstand change, but too much change too fast will result in a collapse.
To give you a concrete example, there are something like a billion people living in the middle latitudes of the planet. If the planet warmed slowly according to a natural cycle, those people would have generations to move into cooler climes and/or adapt their societies to the extra heat. But what happens when a billion people need to move out of the middle latitudes over the span of a decade or two. Europe was thrown into chaos with just a million Syrian climate refugees a few years ago, now imagine 100 million.
And again note that I'm glossing over the changes required by ecosystems, which inherently adapt much more slowly that human societies.
2) Since we're already about 1.5X the highest CO2 concentrations recorded in the last 800,000 years -- and we're still climbing -- even if this was happening slowly enough, it would still result in an earth hotter than anything we've seen in the last 800,000 years. I have no doubt that we could adapt, but I don't relish the thought of the majority of humanity living in caves (or other extreme ways of living that would be required to live on a planet 7+ deg C hotter than it is now).
But the real worry is that we hit one or more tipping points where we move the Earth out of the normal cycle of heating and cooling that you describe into a new cycle that is much less conducive to human life. There are gigatonnes of carbon trapped in tundra and at the bottom of the oceans. These ecosystems have heated up enough that they are starting to release that carbon. In other words, we MIGHT start a runaway process where heating releases carbon, which results in more heating, which results in more carbon being released. If you've ever looked at Venus, you'll know that this process may not end well for us.
Incredible video👌🏾👌🏾💯💯
Good video Dianna. I think our first problem is our transportation spewing out a tremendous amount of emissions. Then there must be a gazillion miles of pavement which gets warm / hot and stores heat. Maybe I'm the first one to mention this. We can't destroy the roads. This is a complex situation.
I once watched a documentary that said the US cattle industry alone produces more greenhouse gasses than the entire global transportation industry. It also stated that it is the leading cause of deforestation to make farm land to grow food for the cattle. Additionally, that if the US could repurpose the farmland used to grow cattle food into land to grow crops for humans that it would be enough to end world hunger.
@@TD-qs9vt One of the things I hear is that the problem with world hunger isn't the amount of food the world has, or lack thereof, but rather the management of the food the world has. There's already enough food for everyone, it's just hard to get it everywhere and make it available.
With all due respect, for me to call it an experiment - there should be baseline measurements, to which you compare current measurements. Not just N liters of water per M seconds now
I'm new to this channel, and not a science guy, but I am in legal research; I know what standards of evidence are required to pass muster in court cases, which can be considered the gold standard of what constitutes "proof." I ask questions like yours all the time, and never get answers. Nothing in this video can even remotely be considered factual; it is all speculation and theory. This happens in medical research a lot as well, a cross-over area for me. Problem is, people watch stuff like this and just accept the premise. So, it makes for a great political tool.
@@rolandvox2599 I wonder if they factor in how they supposedly have fond evidence that Antarctica was once a thriving dry land eco system. Continents have shifted, and poles have reversed. I am pretty sure they have strong evidence that our axis pitch and points have changed too. Yet somehow it was millions of years ago life thrived, complex life.
I am not a climate change denier, I am just skeptical to the fact is it naturally inevitable these things happen.
I also wont say we are not doing the atmosphere any good either.
I wish someone would post research on all of these events combined.
Doing this experiment in the summer seems pointless. It’s bad, I get it. If it’s that bad, there shouldn’t be any reason to dramatize something that regularly happens. “Glaciers always melt in the summer but...” 🤔
How did they get network on the mountain?? I want that very same carrier...
happy to see you recently at discovery science how to build everything.
Sometime ago I listened to an interview of a retired Noble Prize physicist. At one point to interviewer ask his opinion about global warming. The physicist said he had looked into it and saw no evidence that supported Global warming. There was in fact a relatively low amount of atmospheric carbon and the past historical heat increases had been a benefit to life, a time of plenty. My own research indicates the global weather trend is looking to be a cold and icy one. The Gulfstream in the Atlantic Ocean is slowing and it's likely to stall devastating Northern latitudes with artic conditions. Most of Europe is to the north of New York city. The Gulfstream is a heat engine that keeps northern latitudes temperate. The sun is 99% responsible for the weather leaving a measly 1% impact by people. Don't listen to the politicians who have an agenda and are using lies to accomplish them including global warming. Strange and dangerous times are ahead of humanity but it's not this psuedo science. People are being emotionally triggered by the powers that be. This idea of settled science is like the Spanish inquisition. The scientific method requires all of the sciences to remain open to question and reexamination.
Hey all! For a little context, you’ve probably heard of the upcoming UN climate conference, COP26. I partnered with CZcams to make this video for screening at one of the COP26 events, and I was given the ok to share the video on my channel as well. If it looks quite different than my normal videos, that’s why. ⛷
This is spectacular in production and horrifying in content.
hi, would you make a video on what life will be like on earth if global warming wins out... 50, 100, 200 years from now... thanks... off the coast of Greece there was a city.:/
how did you get 22 Olympic sized swimming pools filled in an hour? You didn't say in your video how you actually got that number.
How many swimming pools would of been filled at the same time of year 50 years ago? I bet the result would be just as high.
@@bozmaccino9156 No. The rate of glacial melt now is unprecedented since modern humans have been around. It is accelerating because humans have been treating our atmosphere as an open sewer for greenhouse gases since the industrial revolution.
This is just one glacier. Over 100,000 glaciers around the world are shrinking at ever increasing rates.
This is great news for states with cold climate.
breathtaking