Why Kilimanjaro's Glaciers Are Melting
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2020
- Red Bull ice climber, Will Gadd, embarks on a mission to have one last shot at climbing the glaciers of Mount Kilimanjaro. In 2014, Will made several first ascents of Kilimanjaro’s ice towers. Now, as the mountain’s iconic ice cap disappears rapidly, he returns to make a last ascent. During those elapsed years, some glaciers on Mt Kilimanjaro lost upwards of 70% of their ice. Will finds out why.
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Great film, indeed. And I definitely don’t underestimate the climate change. But it would be fair to mention, that the Messner route was not climbable (because of poor ice conditions) already in December of 1990, when there was an attempt of famous Czech mountaineers Josef Rakoncaj and Miroslav Šmíd.
watching this while my state is burning
Much love from Tanzania 🇹🇿🇹🇿
If someone gets on a plane and travels around the world but manages to inspire 5 others to live more eco-friendly lifestyles then that plane ride was worth it. Just something for the hypocrites in this comment section
Yeah good point!
Boats are a thing but take forever.
The problem is there are millions just like him/her that have the same agenda. He just continues to use up all of the CO2 allowance of the 5 people that changed their lifestyles. And so on.
Well it depends. Yes every person who chooses to live a more climate friendly lifestyle is a step in the right direction, the most important thing we can do is to regulate big businesses and increase state spending on reducing emissions. The belief that we as the consumers are the big problem is sadly a big propaganda ploy by BP. One step into the right direction would be to ban private airplane flights for example
It's such a oxymoron. Everybody is concerned about the glacier.
But still 50.000 people every year come to climb the mountain.
And probably 99% are coming by plane and so on
Where's the oxymoron?
Res Bull should do something to help environment
Nada se puede hcaer.
Green Planet yeh they should feature more 2 stroke racing that should do it
*Red
Jonesy329 lol
@@BlitzBodyBeatsgoed gezien proficiat maat klap in u handjes zijde blij dat je een fout hebt gevonden🤦
"The planet is fine. The humans are fucked"
- George Carlin
I notice that most comments point the finger at others. That's a big part of the reason we're in this terrible position, it's easy to see the mistakes others make, and very difficult to own up to our own personal mistakes and take action to correct them.
I found this mountain in one book,
It's written that no snow would be found in year 2020. I'm glad some snow still exists.
2 years later, with record snow fall and maintained low tempertures have advanced the snow cap. Oops!
Now they are saying 2026
They also said that if we didnt replace disposable paper products with recyclable plastic, the amazon forest will be gone by 2020. Now we have plastic trash everywhere and amazon still there
My first climb of Kilimanjaro was in 2003. I have been to the top 8 more times since than and am astounded at the rate of change. My photos in 2019 show a completely different landscape. . .the canary on the coal mine!
Make sure to tune into our live stream this Wednesday Sep 23rd, Will Gadd will tackle those rates of change as well on the live: czcams.com/video/dI_dGFX7P7c/video.html
I’m from Minnesota and the people here depend on their cars. It makes me always wonder why they don’t put in a bullet trains that go up north to Lake Superior etc. Minnesota has a lot of old minded people. There thinking is still in the 1940s ( figure of speech)
a lot of people all over the world still behave like this they won't change their lifestyle until nature punishes them and they realize that they lost their jobs or houses
Big Smoke that’s very true!
@@shredspectrum356 Oh yah! Doncha know? You betcha!
I figured this out snowboarding on Colorado mountains a decade ago....
How is this not more obvious to people who have careers in the outdoors?
We need a whole new social structure or we won't survive what's coming.....
The impact of the ice melting is far worse than just sea level rise
Actually climate change isn't necessarly bad news overall
The Maldives just received 5 new airports, a decade after their propaganda underwater govt meeting.
The Mendenhall Glacier is spitting out a forest estimated to be from around a thousand years ago. Melting glaciers at Norway's Lendbreen pass reveal tools and more from around 1000 years ago too. These glaciers covered up a forest and human artefacts. How is atmospheric CO2 emitted by people responsible for glaciers growing over forest and human artefacts?
@@channel1_channel that's what you call a strawman.... or i'm completely misunderstanding your point.
This has nothing to do with ecosystem collapse caused by the fact that the temperature IS changing and affecting weather stability.
It just snowed here in Colorado after weeks of 90 degree plus weather everyday.
That's worrying for anyone that understands we are biological creatures that must grow food sens have habitat to survive.
When there's no habitat to grow food we're done here.
Yes, animals can adapt and migrate but trees cannot.
Many lifeforms require specific conditions that are now out of whack and unlikely to stabilize.
If you don't find this concerning to your own survival I'm confused.
Everything I have studied about science and the environment throughout my life shows we are in dire circumstances....
The benefits of new discoveries from melting glaciers is a pitiful trade for losing most life on the planet if not all
@@xanthuumnihyr5319 where did you get an idea like that?
Losing most life on the planet is overall a good thing?
Sorry, i'm not a psychopath, I care about life.
@@MattAngiono I didn't ask you to speak for me
My point is that the biosphere is always at its climax when the earth is hotter. Our current climate might be well suited for humanity but i don't think it is ideal for life in general.
“I do need to do more” (the trips to Africa and all around the world don’t count though because we’re more important than everyone else)
10M soon! ✌
Victims?
1:00 its been a lot of travelling to get here and now its time to go..
The change in humidity and precipitation is directly linked to extensive deforestation around the mountain. And indeed, hope the carbon footprint of the production was offset?
Explain CO2 vs the Lendbreen glacier revealing human artefacts from around 1000 years ago. The Mendenhall Glacier is also revealing what is believed to be the location of a forest from around 1000 years ago.
Thumbs up from the Philippines 👍🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
Hello Well done for this 🙏
Don't fly home
swim instead over the Atlantic
When I poke ice cubes, they brake into pieces and melt.
We can only assume you mean break, I mean how would ice cubes brake anyway? Maybe by skidding along the bottom of the glass, I guess.
@@bluepvp900 you are 🤢🤮
I remember watching the video back in 2014😪
me misreading the “the” as “this”: wot?
me reading it again: oh
Really sad to see these amazing structures vanish...hopefully something of that kind will come back, some time
This is even worse. Around 1000 years ago a forest at Mendenhall got destroyed by a glacier. Now the Mendenhall glacier is revealing stumps and logs.
Natural cycles are not man made. Unlike the unnatural poison red bull encourage the sheeple to consume.
How much emissions does Red Bull pump into the atmosphere? k.
Significantly less than the rest of us I am betting....are you doing something to reduce your carbon emissions or are you just bitching for bitching's sake?
Enough to flood us with their litter.
I want to know what kind of gloves do you guys use to keep you warm? and for your feet?
I pity Mt Kilimanjaro might lose its glaciers like our Mt Kenya 😓is there anything possible to prevent this
My beautiful country 🇹🇿💪🏿
This makes me happy of what redbull is doing of us. Please let's save kilimanjaro
Whatever you say, the footage shows more snow in 2020 than 2014, i saw black and white footage of kilimanjaro from the 1930 and there were not much snow back then!
That doesn't make much sense due to the fact that from 1912 to 2007 the ice body has lost approx 85 % of its area. Sooooo maybe the photo was taken in the summer times?! Or from a different location. I once saw a photo of a flying cat but I am pretty sure cats can't fly. Maybe someone threw the cat and took a picture ;)
@@ramtadam1469
Whatever you say, the footage shows more snow in 2020 than 2014, i saw black and white footage of kilimanjaro from the 1930 and there were not much snow back then!
@@freedomisdead9638 well IT is Not about the snow anyways 🤷
@@ramtadam1469 😂😂😂
@@freedomisdead9638 It is about the ice
I live in Kenya 🥳(I what to cycle up kili
Red bull very old channel I love your videos
Red bull🔥🔥
Excellent video thanks 🙏
It makes me sad.
The winter is come, the wall beyond seven kingdoms
Stop chipping at the ice and helping it disappear then.
Tanzani ni KENYA very beutiful...
3:35 to 4:25 In just 50 seconds, they clearly link CO2 emitted by people to ice melting. Rewatch this part of the video to be better informed.
The Mendenhall Glacier is spitting out a forest estimated to be from around a thousand years ago. Melting glaciers at Norway's Lendbreen pass reveal tools and more from around 1000 years ago too. These glaciers covered up a forest and human artefacts. How is atmospheric CO2 emitted by people responsible for glaciers growing over forest and human artefacts?
halfasheep ?????
@@zakkhartwig Are you confused now? Research> glaciers are coughing up trees and artefacts from just 1000 years ago.
halfasheep I don’t understand how any of that is relevant? That was over 1000 years ago like you said. The world had been getting colder for the last 6000 years, we are living in an era that would normally be due for an ice age. However, temperature trends completely flipped once the Industrial Age began.
@@zakkhartwig Mountain passes turned into glacial areas. Forests felled by glaciers (Mendenhall). Vikings thrived on Greenland with reports of old graves with tree roots in them (still in permafrost!). We have a contemporary narrative and those facts don't fit very well.
Yes we melted the ice. Without us the ice on the mountain would have stayed the same for eternity.
Why dont you use ice stupa that is being used to preserve ice in ladakh in india
I want to see more videos like this
So Red Bull can spread more of their carbon foot print all over the world? Red Bull produces more co2 than most small countries.
@@TheFirstBubbaBong well ummm i like red bull and i like these 3 min videos so yea
"I will use less carbon going forward"... get's on a plane and flies halfway around the world.
the planes travel even if you're not on it....
@@jimmy-jamesolivier-mccutch2126 this sort of statement lacks a very basic understanding of how supply and demand works.
Reminds me of someone I know throwing a bunch of plastic straws around a McDonald's restaurant and I said you should probably stop wasting them. He said it doesn't matter, they've already been made. 🤣🤣🤣 This is why we pay attention in school, folks.
You really think this guy isn't aware of that? The guy making a video informing people about how carbon dioxide is changing the climate and melting the ice, you really think he isn't aware that when he flies he is part of the problem? Come on guys think a bit bigger than that
@@tcw95NZ of course he knows, that's the point. It's all a little pretentious I think. Have Red Bull sponsor a video about how the ice is melting on Kili. Is their goal to make us aware and of melting ice and global warming(like we are not aware by now) or is their goal to make their brand look like it actually cares about the environment?
@@ErloBrown1 those are some good questions, who knows what their motivations are but if it's like 99% of other companies on this planet it's probably just to make money. To my original comment though, I was just trying to say that being environmentally conscious and flying on places don't have to be mutually exclusive.
Cause it’s hot!
Amazing 👍
Yeah, amazing how dumb people can be. How can u not recognize this? Climate change is a thing and it is now. If we dont understand this, we are all gone...
How
Redbull is like "global warming is bad guys" meanwhile they have multiple motorsport teams that produce a ton of carbon emissions and have other sports like piloting stunts and boat teams that also emit carbon. Not hypocritical or anything. If you're gonna give lessons to the rest of us, make sure to actually follow your own advice. Still love motorsports though, I don't care about weather changing.
You will care for the change of weather when it becomes uncomfortable and you cant breathe.
it's just a lost game case
Sad😪
Red Bull more like Adventure Bull
i will stop using carbon too. ill just stop breathing XD
Tell me more than a year later, is your life still changed by this and what 2 things have you done to "use less carbon"?
drink some of the glacier its really good before its too late
honestly wonder what they think of Antarctica.
You mean the North pole ?
I respect that they didnt disable the comments xD
Welcome. 😊
great !
sad realy sad
Kilimanjaro Tanzania.🔥🔥🔥🔥
Who decided the earth was supposed to have glaciers forever?
Google earth shows tons of snow in 2023
This is not melting,
this is transformation.
Not mad, but our circle of life is much shorter the earth's circle of life.
Yes there is less ice now then there was yesterday but, we have more trees in the northern hemisphere then we had in the 100 years.
Carbon is in every! Wood, dirt, people, food, water, air, "Ice." It's what binds us together🤷♂️
It is what it is. Thanks for this message Wish the best too all! 😉
yeah, it is what it is - but you dont want it to be what it will be if it continues. it is getting ugly.
@@khoado2060 true! plastic is a byproduct from oil refineries. Oil is from past plants and animals. Plastic isn't a natural occurring. 🤷♂️ I'll just leave it as that haha I could say 101 things about this topic.
Have a good one
bruh the thumbnail is so click bait
Ever thought about dropping your F1 Team or stop flying athletes around the World to create these 3 Minute Stunt Videos you upload here???
SAVAGE
Well said
@MATADOR nah but doing these things speeds up global warming and it makes this Video look hypocritical when you as a company have a bigger carbon footprint than a small country.
btw they calling it now climate change because they cant prove that the temperature will constantly go up. Thats why they changed it ;)
@@EDDIN125 "Climate change includes both the global warming driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases, and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns. While there have been previous periods of climatic change, changes observed since the mid-20th century have been unprecedented in rate and scale. Wikipedia"
@@sFde46 using wikipedia as a source??? lmfao
We are all aware of climate change, or at least most of us are, and a lot of us are trying to make a change. However, Red Bull flying people all over the world to climb ice is also damaging it.
If you think about the amount of people in the Red Bull teams that travel all over the world for various events from mountain biking to F1 is just silly. Also, just think of the amount of waste and pollution your drink alone is doing to the world from manufacturing to shipping it globally.
The largest contributors to global warming by a significant margin are international shipping and the US military. Are you complaining to them and voting for their curtailment or just snarking at athletes on youtube?
You do realise Redbull represents a drop in the ocean? Unfortunately, major change relies on regulation and legislation to encourage industries to green up. Change often comes from public pressure, which is increased through greater exposure by such films. Setting an example I guess does a similar trick, although this is a more powerful narrative seeing the visual impacts of climate change.
Barry Bonifay they were snarking at the company Red Bull in general. It is a little hypocritical for a company of that size to preach this message I agree
@@lynwood77 I was merely pointing out that everyone needs to make a change to how they exist on this planet, not any one specific company/corporation. But them saying "this is what global warming is doing to the ice sheets" while flying people all over the world which is, in my opinion, not helping. And getting mad at someone that is pointing out a fact just shows how narrow minded they are and not really looking at the bigger picture. For example, you wrote that the military and international shipping are by far the worst, and just to point out... Red Bull ARE international and ship globally, so you sort of shot yourself in the foot with that one.
Climate change is just the same alarmism as Covid = Bullshit
Hit and run
I wonder if they know that the whole Planet has been frozen and thawed a few times
I wonder if you know anything science based at all.
I was wondering where his carbon monoxide bag was so he could start converting after that last comment.
@@RKWDBMX The Mendenhall Glacier is spitting out a forest estimated to be from around a thousand years ago. Melting glaciers at Norway's Lendbreen pass reveal tools and more from around 1000 years ago too. These glaciers covered up a forest and human artefacts. How is atmospheric CO2 emitted by people responsible for glaciers growing over forest and human artefacts?
Oh my god a glacier on the equator is melting
One heat wave and now it’s melting and in one cooling event like the mini ice age will regrow the glacier
We have underestimated global warming
Easy, just look at California!
American burn acreage and heat waves were much higher in the 1930s and into the 1940s.
halfasheep
What was causing the Arctic ice to melt enough for the Franklin Expedition to try and find a route through the previously frozen Northwest Passage in 1845? 🤔
Says preachy Red-Bull dude “that’s it, I’m using less carbon!”…..
But….um……how you gettin’ home now, rad Red-Bull dude???
Why Glacier melting?
Ans:Humans
Humans with ice picks
Why some glaciers growing Ans: Humans
@@webmasterguru7799 LOL ;)
@@channel1_channel okay sheepy
trumps orange face
Why are people disliking this?!
FAKE NEWS
Misinformed people who mindlessly repeat climate change denial.
More exposed surface area allows for the ice to exchange more heat.
Therefore increasing the rate of melting ice.
I am more surprised that there is there is ice on a mountain that looks like a desert than that ice is melting.
Every year mother earth's condition is getting worse, and that's on us humans
How did you get there. How did you get home. Your sponsor, don’t they race in F1, don’t they sponsor flying races. I feel guilty but not because some privileged guy tells me I should do.
If redbull give back to the environment, like plant as many trees that would take up the CO2 emmisions red bull as a whole produced each year, then I'd be more forgiving. It's not all they can do, but would be a great start. They could start donating 5 Cents to planting a tree for every can of redbull sold.
Do people expect glacier cover to stay the same? It does not. In some regions glaciers grow and in some they shrink. Meanwhile, there is more land area in the south pacific ocean than there was 20 years ago, and the Maldives are not underwater. The Maldives just received 5 new airports.
Thank you for not politicizing climate change.
Its almost like its Summer
Remember there wasn't supposed to be anymore snow on the mt in 2010. Keep stretching that line, sooner or later it might be true. Thank India and China for the Carbon emissions, plus curious what your carbon foot print is. All those planes and traveling.
Scientific predictions have almost always been true. The ones that weren't true were under-predicted, not over-predicted.
@@firstname405 How does your point work here. Remember the northern passage was going to be open year round by 2010.
Welcome Tanzania
Glaciers melt that’s what the do in between ice ages
Red bull is on 9.59 m subs
Go pro is on 9.49 m subs
Let's see who hits 10 m first 🤩
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Whilst it is important to bring attention to changes suck as these, it feels little irresponsible to climb and therefore weaken what little ice is left. On top of the carbon spent to get an entire team of people and equipment all the way there. I mean you're damned if you do and damned if you don't in terms of getting there and reporting on it, but to climb what's left seems a bit much to me.
The sun is hot.
I will not eat ze bugs.
because of businesses like yours.
Life aint fair... I won't stop consuming until those with better circumstances refuse to as well (cough cough red bull athletes cough cough). Why should I restrain myself when others have lived 10x what I have and still refuse to stop.
u do u. sometimes its not about consumption but responsibility. beeing responsible feels better in the long run.
Red Bull : Why are Kili's glaciers disapearing ?
Me : You really want to know ?
It's been melting since the ice age. No matter what we do it will continue to melt.
way too simple.
Snowing in Colorado, in the summer!
Oh gotta love climate change!
BATSOUP BUKAKE one single offseason snowfall does not compare to the huge amounts of evidence we have about climate change.
Why would most glaciers be shrinking if climate change wasn’t real?
@@rafaxddant936
You want to stop climate change?
Hold your breath!
Nature being natural is nominal... Pay more attention to the sun, not cow farts...
BATSOUP BUKAKE sun doesn’t really have much influence on the earths climate. Greenhouse gases are much more important and effective in warming the earth. By the way, solar activity has been going down since 1960s, yet earth still warms up. The problem with humans is that we emit more greenhouse gases than what earth can reuse, so it’s not about us breathing, but about our factories, cars etc.
Btw, the entire west coast has been expiriencing massive fires this year
A single of season snowfall compared to years of increasingly bad and out of the norm forest fires is nothing. If climate change is not real as you suggest, why is it that early September snow is not getting any more serious and constant thought the years, like forest fires are currently doing?
What’s with the hate? Obviously a joke and a good one too
Maybe if we weren't sinking billions and billions into going to mars to look at rocks and sand and put it towards helping our planet this would stop
LOL its less then 1% of the budget while military is over 30% yet science is the problem LMFAO cant fix stupid
Time will never stand still.
Nobody knows completly how Earth climate works.
True.
The Mendenhall Glacier is spitting out a forest estimated to be from around a thousand years ago.
FYI- to everyone watching, electric cars do not help carbon emissions!!! 62 percent of electricity comes from fossil fuels, and only about 18% comes from renewable energy sources. Hydro power is .3 percent... Buying electric cars is not the answer at the moment until we can use wind power ore efciently as right now we do not have enough places to store it.
That is an average. It depends on your location in the world and the local energy sources. If you're in Australia, where most electricity still resorts on burning coal, then maybe not. However if you're in Germany, or France, Quebec, Denmark, etc that rely heavily on renewable energy, then electric cars are much better, by quite a long shot! The carbon cost of building lithium batteries is large, but has been shown to be negligible with respect to the daily emissions caused by normal cars over their lifespan, which, let's not forget, also have a carbon cost associated to their production.
Hybrid cars do
@@TheSkate2skater Yes but most of the CO2 produced during a cars lifetime is produced during manufacture. Upwards of 75%. So buy all the electric vehicles you want that figure will remain. It will only decrease with better manufacturing methods.
That's the the best fake thumbnail you could've made? C'mon red bull I thought you were better than this
Ice melts eventually melts... what a surprise. Weather can be different... what a surprise.
Why they melt? U still asking it? Of course it us who melt it, who amd why else
Que triste video!!!