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- Researching a climatic catastrophe that rocked the Earth in A.D. 535, causing two years of darkness, famine, drought and disease.
Written records from China, Italy, Palestine and many other countries suggest a huge catastrophe blighted the world in 535AD. But the cause of it has been uncertain.
Was it a comet? An asteroid? A volcano? Archaeologist David Keys reveals the latter is to blame for the Dark Ages of famine and plague that shaped the world order of today.
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I’m 83 years old and find these programmes informative and fascinating.
That's exactly why I am glued to this..
We grew up with dictionaries.. How wonderful it is to see it moving...!
I’m 38 and I agree. When I was a kid, I read a lot. Now I learn everyday by watching. This is one of the only things about our current era I really like!
Kind of like having a set of encyclopedias on video!
To those who believe the current climate frauds, make them tell us how carbon fuel usage has raised the temperaturs Mars.
The only thing constant about climate is change.
I'm 83 also.
I'm reminded of the quote by the great historian Will Durant -"Civilisation exists by geological consent -subject to change without notice."
Kalo Arepo although if he were to have said “life” instead of “civilisation” he would have been more accurate.
...And most appropriate.
OH YES?,..........I REMEMBER THAT.
@@chris8967 +Kalo Arepo Learn how to spell. Civilization is spelled with a z not an s!
@@Joey-db8bv Learn that "American English" is not the ONLY English. It was spelled with an 's' before we started spelling it with a 'z', per "The King's/Queen's English" of England, taught throughout Europe and many other countries.
I have a lot of nostalgia watching this. I was in high school when this was released--25 years ago! I wonder how the people featured in the documentary look like today. Likely, some have already passed. It's still really watchable. Life was simpler then before our cell phones.
Howd you know its that old. Out of curiosity. Was this a tv programme. Im personally 32 years out of high school and also have a nostalgic yearning for the easier, less hectic, less dodgy information era😂
All sorts of time clues in the beginning of the video....look at the cars, look at his computer, and they mention an Archaeology conference he attended 1994
crt monitor is a key indicator how old this video is. super computer with crt monitor? it's a potato computer for today's standard. early 2000 lcd monitor start to replace crt monitor - even though not as massive as now @@mondop5270
Some added details from Wikipedia:
The storms and unseasonably cold weather resulted in 1816 being referred to as the Year Without a Summer. It is now known that the exceptional global weather conditions that year were caused by the volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia.
The Villa Diodati is a mansion in the village of Cologny near Lake Geneva in Switzerland, notable because Lord Byron rented it and stayed there with Dr. John Polidori in the summer of 1816. Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary’s stepsister Claire Clairmont, who had rented a house nearby, were frequent visitors. Because of poor weather, in June 1816 the group famously spent three days together inside the house creating stories to tell each other, two of which were developed into landmark works of the Gothic horror genre: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and The Vampyre, the first modern vampire story, by Polidori.
Lord Byron wrote the poem "Darkness" during this gathering..... The sense of despair and horror is palpable when read.
Wow!
That would certainly provide the ispiration for such dark stories - thanks for the insight!
It was so unseasonably cold in VT in 1816 that a young Joseph Smith moved to an area of western NY state (wine country!) where he later purportedly found some golden tablets and founded the Mormon religion!
Remember that wiki is a community lead info site, always do extra research and do not assume its true because its on wiki...this is a general rule and not specifically aimed at the info you quoted. Simply a warning to current generations whom assume that what is written on the internet is the gospel truth ( so to speak).
These types of scientists like this guy who painstakingly studied and entered all that tree ring info into a computer program over decades is invaluable information. It amazes me.
They have been trying to figure out signals in tree ring data for 125 years. That mathematician did nothing new. Maybe applied signal processing.
If these scientists cant prove Trump is to blame for shredding our planet to pieces, then throw them in PRISON
@@chadsimmons6347"Shredding out planet to pieces". This is hysteria. It conflates Trump to be a God that runs the world and he has been bad. Unfortunately for you, nothing you do changes the climate. Nothing you can do will change the climate. The atmosphere is a byproduct of the world ocean, 800 million cubic miles, and for that you control nothing at all. For you, life sucks, you are not a God, but you can pretend. Your comment is so unreal and preposterous, you sound like a witch doctor.
For over 100 years tree rings were only studied for a gross idea of rainfall. The concept that you could beat on tree ring data to maybe get a signal of summer temperatures for some pines in Norway and Canada, is one of those speculative shitholes that became natural law over time. Dozens of things affect tree rings, so getting temperature out might work if vast error is okay, but only conceptually became biothermometers to climatic crackpots recently to say what they want. In a signal of random noise, making conclusions of what you see is political.
Where do they get a tree that is thousands years old and how do they know old it is?
The Eruption of the Tambora in 1815 was pretty impressive too. It is reckoned to be the largest explosion in recorded history and ejected around 200 cubic kilometres of volcanic dust into the atmosphere. It caused worldwide climate change for years and resulted in the worst famine of the century.
That's called the year with out a summer to most older famers. My friend and his friends are farmers in Pennsylvania and they often spoke about this event not that they experienced it but when you're doing a certain occupation you know the history of it.
Not to mention that it brought us the story of Frankenstein. 🙂
Clues to how to stop climate change BUT climate scientists ignoring the facts.
@@larrydifran Unlike you, not being a climate scientist and thus being aware of all the factrs, because you have read them on the internet? 😀😀😀
shows how little we are compared to nature..all our pollution in an entire year is only a tiny insignificant fraction of what nature decides to do without any warning randomly..
Crazy how it takes all these various disciplines to come together to solve a simple question …what happened to make the trees not grow so well in mid 500 AD. I love science cause none of this would have been possible without other scientist researching their own curiosities. Who knows how or when this slice of knowledge will be useful to some other scientist some where.
UN: Climate change is man made.
Volcano: Hold my beer.
The Plague of Justinian which hit the European world has been dated 541-549 AD. That would correspond almost exactly with this volcanic eruption. Obviously, if food and nutrition is globally interrupted by a massive volcanic eruption then weakened immune systems would result and make plagues a lot easier to happen. Just a thought.
If crops were interrupted, rodents move inside homes & barns from fields.
This makes perfect sense
All illness and disease is nutrient deficiency. Viruses and cancers are symptoms not causes of illnesses. The elites know this. That's why they don't vaccinate their children.
Not to mention that the lack of sunlight is often a contributor to the beginning of a plague event.
Justinian: I'm going to re-unite the Roman Empire!
God: No, you're not.
I'm always amazed what our ancestors came through. Wars, famines, diseases like the Bubonic Plague and others plagues.
So did millions of other species. We're not as special as we'd like to think. But I guess that egotistical arrogance is part of our survival strategy.
@@valentinius62 it’s estimated that 99.9 of all species that have existed are extinct.. And none of others still around can post comments so 🤷🏻 annnnd we’re one of the few animals with a concept of “self” so it would be remarkable if we weren’t egotistical.
@@JustMr0 Yes. "I'm too important and special to die!" 😢
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Well, fungi, bacteria, plants, and cockroaches have been around way longer than we have. We've been fortunate that more physically powerful animals don't particularly like the way we taste. I think that's what gave us a leg up on survival by allowing our ancestors to come down from the trees. Ever try to make a stone-tipped spear or build a fire while sitting on a tree branch? Yeah. Me, neither.
Sheer luck. But we believe we are the Chosen of God. LOL
That’s nothing compared to…..misgendering. 🤨
@@valentinius62 then why are you speaking as if your opinion matters?
If none within you can be referred as "chosen by god" then under what concept are you expressing your idea?
It certainly is new, that concept of "chosen by god" being applied to all human being. Historically speaking, common people never had such luxury. Commoners have always been the subject for their kings.
You're making light of humanity, but your action most certainly does not reflect that. Such irony it is to call humanity as mere lucky coincidence, nothing more than other animals, while you're out there expressing your opinion like it matters more than a cow nibbling on grass. Conceptually speaking, that argument is flawed on the fundamental level.
Wow! I was on the edge of my seat through this whole presentation-masterfully done!
This is one of the most exciting and informative documentary I've seen. Very interesting and extremely impressive how this event was decoded. Hats off to everyone.
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Amazing documentary. Not only did they film THE royal archivist of Java reading ancient texts in some of the most beautiful footage I have seen, but then they went and funded a Finnish researcher to help him prove his theory on what happened! Outstanding and highly recommendable documentary.
Yes they reallymade a significant contribution and effort
What I dislike is how this reveal is not put into context, not even in the end where it is said that "this changed human history" (and before: "more than any other catastrophe in history"). Okay... HOW. How was this worse and more impactful than the Black Death, than antropomorphic climate change, than the discovery of America, than the Bronce Age Collapse.
@@Enyavar1 First of all this was a global event. Your examples are all local and the bronce age collapse took place over 50 years so you cant compare that to this event which was pretty much instantanious and resulted in years of famine and climate change globally which then would result in increased competition for the limited resouces ie war and more destruction and famine hardship etcetera and all that on a global scale. Thats what makes this so unbelievable.
*Icelandic researcher
@@Enyavar1 Thank you. I have the same question. "HOW" did it change human history. (instead of this 🤔it now became that🤔...?)
I love all these science based documentaries by Timeline. Some of the last quality left on CZcams for this genre.
Agreed
I really wish they would do one on the Santorini (Thera) blast. It’s fascinating; there’s a possibility (comparing it to Egyptian writings of the time) that it might have contributed to certain writings in the bible.
Another huge huge eruption.
Try Archaix channel
You may like Mind unveiled channel or the Archaix channel very interesting . Enjoy!
Try researching when the moon showed up. Native Americans speak a lot about this and why they were removed. Interesting to say the least. Revisionale history? Mud flood, etc.
The oldest recorded living tree on record is a Great Bristlecone pine, believed to have a lifespan of over 5,000 years. Located in the White Mountains of California, this unnamed tree is considered the oldest living tree in the world.
After Henry Kissinger and Nancy Pelosi 😊
They named it Methusala 😂
@@typhon800One down.
Wow!
I went to HHRC school we were taught about the little ice age as well as the volcano that caused it.
There has been more than one, and I have a feeling there have been quite a few caused by volcanic eruptions throughout Earth's history. Immense tsunamis caused by large fault-slippage or sudden subduction events as well. There's no limit to things the Earth's crust can do and no limit to the damage it can cause to things humans build. Global glaciation also grinds to dust everything, and those things go everywhere on the planet, all at once. Humans are feble except for our brains and we need to find a new home.
I had just said that very thing. Why do so many people that believe we can change the climat? Why does Joe Biden think he can change it just by shutting down fuel plants? How many miles to the gallon is Joe going to get from his electrical plane? Really carry around spare batteries while he flies everywhere in the world? And how many miles can he get to one charge? Where are these stations located since he's shut down our power grid? How long is it going to take to charge one and does anybody think it's going to be free? It's going to cost more to charge your car than to fill it up with gas four times. But it's saving the planet. Yeah right. There have been changes throughout the planet such as the ice age as you mentioned. Jurassic period, what killed the dinosaurs could Joe Biden have stopped that s***? He thinks he can! Let's shut down all the oil producers in the United States and buy it from our enemies. We should be able to get it from our enemies for free. That what he thinks? I'm sorry I rattled on. And I'm sure that I offended some people and I hate that but this is the way I feel.
I remember being taught about the little ice age !!
HRCC my bad
@@Nemesis1ism --- Ham Radio Crash Course? Hampton Roads Convention Center? Inane acronyms just show laziness and contempt.
"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun".
Coz everything is under the SoL..
Not true. Uranus has sucked-up most of the big asteroids in our solar system. So in that way, life on Earth is safer than before. Volcanoes? At Etna there are trails cleared to direct the lava flow. But big eruptions like this one are still a threat.
Its amazing what a Volcano has the capability of doing. Remember the one in Iceland back in 2010? That thing wasn't that huge, yet it screwed up the air so bad that European travel was on lock down for weeks. Plus the area was under black clouds for such a long time that crops died. Imagine what a volcano eruption the size of the one they are talking about would look like.
Mount Helena USA
@@debbiehauser4446 Mount St. Helens, Washington was nothing compared to Tampora or even the 2010 eruption...it barely made a dent in air traffic...My grandmother lived just a couple hundred miles away from it and she had a front row seat when it blew both times, and I remember getting a light dusting a week or 2 after when I lived in Calgary Alberta...
It wasn't volcanic ash which kept the planes down. EU bureaucrats and politicans solely reling on fishy simulations caused the chaos. If there is dust in the atmosphäre the sunsets are marvelous and the sky is painted in glowing colors. In Europa this happens one or twice a year when huge sandstorms in the Sahara are pushing dust high in the atmosphere. Sometimes even cars parked are covered with a thin layer of dust. Nothing of this happend by then, but the airspace in Germany was closed.
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I believe the volcano responsible is called "Eyjaffjallajokull".
Hats off to all the human beings that endured such a horrific time in our earths history!
Horrific times currently exist somewhere and will continue to happen but yes we should acknowledge the struggles of our ancestors.
There was a time about 26,000 year ago when humans dwindled to a population of less than 1000. Not well know or recorded obviously. It was noted in several Sumerian epics.
I also find these Timeline programs very engaging. I sometimes use short segments in my classroom, to greater illustrate and give context to historical events.
Amazing how a person would spend many years of their life deeply investigating a mystery just out of curiosity, that most people would find completely trivial, the hallmark of a good scientist.
What I find interesting is the state of his home library - a mess! Yes, this is a man obsessed! And he solved it!
It's also an effort of cementing oneself in the annals of history
...and this was caused entirely by nature, not by man.
That, and a generous grant
He says only 3 reasons why it happened. How about God's judgment on sinful earth?
A key question to ask is how these mega volcanos erupting at known points in history (535, 1815 & 1883) affected world climate patterns not only in terms of sunlight & temperature, but also in terms of precipitation & ice accumulation.
Volcanoes cool the surface of the Earth briefly because tiny aerosol particles are spewed high into the stratosphere and reflect sunlight back out to space, but this effect only lasts maybe 1 year.
@@lbburgett Partially true. ALSO, they can raise the temperature in some areas by trapping heated air. You might want to look into more recent science on that issue, stuff in the past 30 years. We have excellent scientific support for up to 3 years of effects from the largest volcanoes. It is a developing field though, so information may change in the near future, again.
@@lbburgett If solar radiations sufficiently are occluded, then vast amounts of soil erosion & deforestation may occur in some areas, but not in others affected by the same volcano due to topographic & vegetative cover differences. If you look at recent research (mostly in Africa) regarding forests & rainfall patterns, you can see how world weather patterns can be easily affected, even wind patterns.
Volcano goes boom...
@@mr.k1611 … 🤣
Thank you to all the scientists who put the pieces together. Y'all rock.
Literally rock ..!
What a glowing testament to painstaking scientific research! The work of these researchers has made it easy for us to understand historic events in half an hour or so of a globally accessible documentary thanks to the other scientists and engineers who gave birth to the technology powering the internet - and the internet itself.
When Krakatoa exploded in 1883, the sound was heard about 2,000 miles away in Perth, Australia. So for the Chinese to hear this explosion in 536, it had to be a major eruption of Krakatoa. As I said earlier the eruption had to be a high VEI 7 or 8 and I wouldn't want to be anywhere around it when it exploded.
Excuse my English, I'm deaf and normally don't post because of critics complaining about deaf people.
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You write eloquently and precisely..I'm half blind so we make quite a pair. You are not your disability
Your written English is far superior to my ASL.
@@HandlesAreForPussies
LIFELINE cares.....
I'm deaf, too. Perfectly written and explained. Let them complain. You are fine as you are.
If you’re reading this thank your ancestors who survived this- absolute ballers.
I probably don't have much time left in this world; I fear for my descendants who might have to experience it again when Yellowstone blows.
@@indy_go_blue6048 the original indigenous sovereign americans are our ancestors returned. peace.
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@Joachim Hans well, current generations are raised by previous generations, so... it says more about them, than our generation.
Great content. Informative and enlightening. Thank you!
I love the passion you have for your topic, it's infectious! I love how informative your videos are, I always learn something new. Thank you so much! I'm looking forward to the next episodes!
I will never forget the summer of 1984, in Germany. After having lived in Germany for 20 years, I suddenly experienced a year with no summer at all, with heavy clouds, and overcast; no sun at all! The spring rains just continued right through June, and July. In fact, the rain continued every day, until mid September, when we had about 10 days without rain, and then it started to rain again. The whole year had been cold, and miserable. That autumn, I stood watching as the rain kept falling until, on 3 November, the rain drops suddenly turned into snowflakes! The following winter had heavy snows, right up into April. We saw the first real sunshine in May of 1985. 1984 had been preceded by several significant volcanic eruptions, in Kilauea, and in Alaska, Europe, and Asia, which continued into the early weeks of 1984.
Climate change Ha Ha. The end of the world .
That was likely caused by the eruption of Mount St. Helens, which was very active in the 1980s.
I was in America in 1984 and nothing unusual happened there
@@davidebratton It all started when they stopped teaching the story of Chicken Little in the schools
Hi Kenny !
German guy from close to Friedberg/Frankfurt here.
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT ! 84 i turned 18 and had my first Motorbike an could not use it !
Hugs from Poland (where i live now since 2019)
PS: Where did you live that time in Germany ?
I know a LOT of GI's from Friedberg and Giessen from this time.
XOXO
Who filmed this? I don't expect documentaries to be so exquisitely filmed that scenes make me catch my breath. Wonderful! Well -written, too. Thank you.
Tara N. This is a production of Channel 4, from the UK
My experience is that TIMELINE is dependability high quality
I couldn't have said it better myself. Very well done
That’s because it’s a British documentary without all the over excitement and shouting that you get with American documentaries.
Dave Debang-bang if it were American, there would be some leftist pushing some liberal agenda in there somehow
The soundtrack from minute eight is awesome. But also the tree ring dating is so cool.
if i remeber correctly, Professor Mike Rampino did some deep research about mass extinction, global warming or cooling caused by volcanic eruptions. we need more scientists like these. its fascinating and interesting to see their results and how (for everyone plausible and understandable) things happened long long ago.
This synchronizes with the disappearance of civilizations and cities of South-central America continents.
Thanks for reminding me. Was not the Mayan civilization collapsing around then? Or am I thinking of the 800s?
Lake ilopango
We learned about the “Alta Mira Climate flips” at WSU in the late Sixties. A 300 year flip occurring every 3500 years, lining up with Marduk/Niburu flybys. Ours started around 1970, so we’re fifty years into one. The previous flip is recorded in the Book of the Exodus, KJV. These flips lay waste to civilations, worldwide.
The worst thing to me would be not knowing why all those terrible things were happening.
Repent! The end is nigh! Said all the preachers of the time no doubt.
I watched this about 5 years ago here on utube. I'm glad I stumbled across it again. It's very good! Thanks for posting this
I've seen Anak Krakatau twice from the deck of a ship. No eruption but thick smoke billowing from the crest and a sour, bitter smell with gritty soot.
I love how all the reactions/comments/experiences inspire me to research more. The comments pointed me to eruptions I never heard of before, human history I never knew of. This is a very inspirational documentary which shows science at its best.
comment sections are an important learning tool, I think a lot of people dont realize this.
An area and condition I have never seen mentioned or explored is the area around the southern shores of lake Erir the 80 plus miles of I 90 classified as the NY toll way where deep layers of iron type deposits are exposed by stream erosion and human excavations.Finding how these powdery bands of heavy iron deposits were made might provide clues as the history of earth,s comets or Nibiru's iron clouds impacted and the Climate changes.
I've recently started contemplating one that is normally discarded by modern scientist, the Great flood. And the science that surrounds the concept of such an event.
We often toss it out since its "just a bible story" , even though Sumarian and other ancient cultures also mention it.
even christians dont even read what was actually written correctly.
It did not just "rain enough in 40 days to literally flood the world above the heights of mountains" that's silly and doesn't have logical sense.
The actual quote from Genesis is "the fountains of the great deep were opened up, the windows of heaven were opened up, and the rain was upon the earth 40 days and 40 nights" the 40 days of rain came AFTER 2 other events. The fountains of the deep = volcanic events, and the "windows of heaven (heaven in scripture usually refers to outer space, not the afterlife) = meteors
It was a far bigger geological event that is very plausible, and fascinating to estslish the idea as hypothesis, then dive into evidence that supports it.
A meteor a mile wide hitting directly into the ocean alone would flood mountains with the scale of tsunami created by it.
Watch magnetic reversal and Oppenheimer ranch best info out there
@@RedDeckRedemption And the Ark of Noah was discovered by Ron Wyatt in what is now Noah's Ark National park in Eastern Turkey.
But our next catastrophe will be WW3 and a man made financial disaster starting now.
From trees in Europe to the tropics. Everything about this documentary was outstanding.
Commenters are blowing my mind! I'm learning about history, science, nature and literature all in one forum. Incredible.
I have had Keys' book since it was published in 1999 and have read it several times. It always seemed a fairly important idea and his research seems detailed indeed. What puzzles me most is that despite looking for it over 20 years, I have never seen any serious follow up to either challenge or confirm it. I find that a big negative for historians of the time.
Go to SuspiciousObservers CZcams channel or don't. Remember that Conspiracy Theory is just a fun fact that hasn't been proven to be correct YET. If you go there, you'll find the answer. You might even put 2 and 2 together as to the desperation of the WEF for a one world government, their words. Get ready.
Is it in the bible?
What was the pharaoh of egypt at the tme?
@@franciscorompana2985 great question. The books contained in the Bible were finalized at the council of Hippo in 393 AD. The last book written was Revelation, which was composed around 95 AD. Some Christians hold to the belief that we are currently living in the End Times and that the events of revelation 8 could have been prophetic regarding the darkening of the sun in 536 AD.
@@nathanrice1
In the first generation of mankind, two lies were told and two issues were raised. Both issues were allowed to run their course to failure to prove once and for all time which is correct and which is incorrect.
The first lie told was "surely you will not die".
What happened to Adam and Eve? They died. Case closed forever.
The second lie told was you don't need God, you will be like God, able to choose right from wrong on you own, meaning self-governance and prosper equally as well.
Every form of self-governance has been tried and failed with the exception of one, a free armed Constitutional Republic based on freedom of religion and Biblical Christian principles.
The United States of America is the final experiment of mortal mankind's ability of self-governance.
When this latest and greatest attempt of mortal mankind's ability of self-governance fails it will settle the final remaining issue raised in the first generation of mankind and will then be time to exit this detour of mortality bestowed on all generations by no choice or actions of our own and return to that which our Creator originally intended.
Excellent documentary! The island blowing itself apart at the end was extremely well done. Whoever was in charge of the SFX on this deserves an award.
I concur.
@@repentandbelieveinjesuschr9495 nope Jesus is not God
@@fidelcatsro6948 Don't the Catholics believe in the Holy Trinity? The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghostbuster.
Prof Lowenstein of YVO says there were two kabooms. The 450 AD killed off the Roman Republic in the West. Then a monster 530 AD one sent ash all around the world. The Goths were invited into Roma, to get those souls out from under a 13 year build up of the yearly Capita Tax. So hail Odoracer, King of Rome, and forget the 800 year old Republic. By 530, the Goths had been chased into Iberia, by Byzantines based at Ravenna at the mouth of the Po and so they missed c out on the worst of this volcanic winter.
@@davekoenig9935haven't a CLUE what you're talking about but you've convinced me! Well done 😅
This also happened in 1816, "The year of no summer." Apparently volcano eruptions can spit out so much ash that it blocks out the sun.
Some said it was 1814/5, as the Napoleonic Wars were brought to an abrupt end due to the serious livelihood problems caused by the explosion of Tambora.
The onset of "The Little Ice Age" circa 1285 is interesting from what I've read. Agricultural failures and starvation in central Europe and the sudden cessation of vineyards (previously as far north as Oslo), receded far to the south of France in just a few years..
This happens around solar minimums.
@@jasonyu6649 Krakatoa, Tambora, and Toba. Indonesia's big three.
@@sosoanngeyoutube Samalas/Rinjani more powerfull than Tambora n Kraktoa
The question I have is what was the alignment of the planets during these events? Gravitational pull of the planets has been connected with earthquakes. Is it possible that it is also connected with volcanic eruptions? Could it also predict the magnitude of eruptions? They talk about when eruptions have occurred, but they don't seem concerned about the cause of the eruptions.
The two tree ring researchers are heroes to me.
Yes, the sound of a volcano can travel even further. “A loud bang” is pretty accurate. I heard the Tonga volcano a week ago. There was a loud noise, followed by a lot of smaller noises. I guess it woke me up, because I was awake before I heard it, but I think the loudest noise happened before and that’s what woke me. It was like 4:00 AM, and somehow I knew the sound was significant and that I would find out later what had made it.
Where are you living?
@@Wutzmename North of Anchorage.
@@coolgirlfrozenfeet I was hearing reports from Alaska that heard it. Amazing. The shockwaves traveled the globe.
i heard Tonga Explosion Also, in Alaska 50+ Miles North of Anchorage
that's crazy. thanks for sharing!
This was so informative, explaining many things I didn't quite understand or tying together all the different ways we date cataclysmic world events(which allow us to understand history in a new light-or is it new darkness?). It is fascinating, thank you!
Awesome work
This video is probably from the 90s-00s, the ending leaves things wide open 6k BC to 1200AD. Hope someone has done more work too see if 530s-540s was volcanic and related to a specific event. Good video and like how they walked through other possibilities before attempting to narrow this to a specific event.
I remember watching a series on this research back in 1999 and then in 2001 on SBS. I was so fascinated, I bought the book and read it cover to cover. The book describes the mass migration of people around the globe. Absolutely fascinating.
Most of the four to five generations alive today have never experienced weather-related migration patterns to the extent our Ice Age ancestors did! They followed the herds and the herds followed the food supply.
They depended on the earth for every bite of food they ate, and would be enraged to see how their descendants have ruined The Mother. Imagine explaining how feed lots work to someone who hunts, stalks and kills the food his family depends on to live!
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What is the name of the book?
@@angelssoul5596 Catastrophye, An Investigation into the Origins of the Modern World by David Keys, published by Ballantine Publishing Group 2002
I was given a copy by my ex, loan it and lost it, so I found this one second hand on-line.
About a third of the way through, I said to myself: "If they don't mention Krakatoa, I will be sorely disappointed." A fabulous film, this is the best documentary I've seen. Really beautifully done, both in information and style. Years with no sun! Sparked the Dark Ages, I believe. See my analogy! is both on and off the money. "Sparking" something so dark is oxymoronic. But volcanoes are the biggest sparks around.
I thought they'd mention Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. Its eruption in 1991 allowed us to watch volcanic impact on global weather in real time.
Did it? Caused the dark ages did it? That was very prescient of the dark ages to anticipate a 19th century eruption by 1500 years wasn't it?
The documentary presents all like it is a result of one man"s research. It is not. And now we know the answer, it is easier to reason backward by excluding the other logical possibility first.... The history of getting to the truth is usually more complicated.... Take another example, the dinosaurs' demise 60mil years ago.
@anonymouscrank That's correct and had an impact on Global temperature for several
@@valentin5403 I read up on the event after watching this, and apparently some time after they filmed this documentary, geologists ruled out that the 536 event was connected to Krakatoa. The eruption referenced in the Book of Kings mentioned in this video apparently took place a whole century earlier.
Really astonishing research work. Congratulations.
we are just guests on this planet, and this docu is just fantastic....we are nothing....
Just giant naked rats soon destroyd only planet living
Earth is our home and the place we, humans, were born. Maybe those "we" you are referring to are extraterrestrials?
All the years I’ve been reading the Arthur story, and I never through about a volcanic eruption shaping the narrative until now.
"Every little eruption adds more and more rock to the island. Eventually it gets so large it blows itself apart." (40:27) This doco certainly called that right! That's exactly what happened the year after this was posted, in December 2018. The island's still there but a third its old height, with Anak Krakatoa's 338 metre cone having blown itself to bits in what amounted to the deadliest volcanic eruption of the 21st Century so far.
Solution to climate changes demonstrated by Mother Nature, BUT climate scientists refuse to listen. Stating "models do not include process, it's risky. "
@@larrydifran Why do you say they refuse? Most scientists agree climate changes happen from geological or asteroid events. However we are speeding it up rapidly.
Essentially what happens with Krakatoa is as the hot plume below the volcano adds to the calderas available pool of lava pressure is built up because of two things. One is that this particular lava has high moisture content so it has high steam pressure. Then you have the water seeping in through cracks as the living Rock so to speak rises and falls. Eventually enough moisture comes in contact with the lava results in an explosion. It's kind of like I Campi fliagra that surrounds Naples Italy. If you look at the geology of the caldera, and then look at the population concentration, this active volcano could kill millions the next time it goes. Not just in the Naples area but in Europe in general. Super volcano explosion
@@larrydifran What a sweeping, incorrect and insulting comment. Scientists refusing to listen is in the main a nonsense.
@@carolgibson-wilson4354 The " we are speeding it up rapidly" part is the lie though. Water levels are stable, temps etc.
It's important to point out that all these climate catastrophies involve cooling and not warming. Warm is good and cold is bad.
i was watching a movie on netflix. i turned it off and watching this instead. amazing content!
"During the years 535 and 536 a.d there was a sign from the sun the like of a witch had never been seen or reported before. The sun became dark and its darkness lasted for 18 months. Each day it shunned for about four hours and still this light was only a feeble shadow. Everyone declared that the sun would never recover its full light again." ~ John of Ephesus, Syrian Bishop
NEIN NEIN NEIN 1936 a.d there was a sign from the sun the like of a witch had never been seen or reported before. this is documented people in austria could read news papers at night. ist photo proof. go research it. actual real proof. not your fantasy nonsense, UND this sign was that WW2 was to begin! similar to the red sky china just had another sign the red dragon has returned and ww3 will begin with china invading india. do u know anything?
Our species would've went extinct if not for the short time frame and the resilience we as a species have developed.
Worst part about this, there would be literally nothing you could do to prevent something like this from happening again. Nature is a wild beast and we are simply holding on for dear life.
Something like it is happening again and humans are causing it by making massive amounts of CO2 enter the Earths atmosphere. It is called climate change, and it is happening now and will last much longer than 2 years. With 410 parts per million of CO2 our atmosphere is like to was 3 million years ago. Sea Levels were 60 feet higher than now. Slowly worldwide glaciers are melting and even if CO2 were stopped today Sea Levels will raise 60 feet or more. I live about 20 feet above sea level. My hometown, Wilmington, CA, is doomed but I'm 71 years old and wilol be gone by the time it's under water in 40 to 50 years.
100%
Humans are at the mercy of nature.
Let’s went
Apparently your eyes and mind are closed to WEATHER ALTERING and GEOENGINEERING. Wake up!
Excellent presentation- thank you Everyone!
Very well done. I plan to watch again.
It's amazing to think we can look back 7500 years from these trees, but it's even more amazing that's barely scratching the surface of the timeline of the earth
Everything is "amazing" apparently.
Humans: "We have to stop climate change!!"
Mega-volcanos: "Let's see you pathetic apes stop this."
@@peteranderson210 The Lenape legend has it is a gigantic turtle
I believe in climate change:
Spring
Summer
Fall
Winter
Agree! Spending a trillion tax dollars to prevent Climate Change is a total waste! It won’t alter Earth’s temperature. If anything, it has made things worse as it has empowered countries like Iran & Russia who WHOLLY DEPEND on high oil prices to fuel their wars and jihads and make planetary climate conditions worse, not better! Then there are the hidden and largely un-talked about side effects of green energy….the mining of rare earth minerals and their eventual disposal, slave workers etc.
All they needed to do was watch the cameraman's footage from 536 AD and interview him.
You win. 😂😂😂
Lake Taupo in New Zealand has a huge caldera under it,twice the size of Yellowstone Lake..1800 years ago there was an eruption comparable to Tambora,and25,000 years ago there was a massive explosion, called Oruanui.
Is there any reliable sources indicsting Taupo caldera is two times bigger than Yellowstone?
@@aron1332 Said it was twice the size of Yellowstone LAKE, not the entire caldera.
@@aron1332 Well the Taupo Volcanic Zone isn't one Volcano but consist of lots of Volcanos (4 of them being Super volcanos, 5 VEI:8 eruptions in the last 1.2m years) and covers an area of 217miles long and 31miles wide, not sure how that compares to Yellowstone. But what is known is in the last 1 million years Taupo has had some of the biggest eruptions with the Whakamaru eruption being the 2nd biggest in the last 1 million years after Lake Toba. And the Mangakino eruption just over 1 million years ago being bigger than the largest Yellowstone Eruption.
I live just over 100kms from Taupo and I wouldn't fancy my chances if it does go off again in my lifetime, and I was very concerned when I felt the last magma quake from over 100kms away.
Now the rest of the world knows what it is like to live in scotland
HAHA! Or vancouver
You all live in balmy paradises. Regards from Norway.
Or Minnesota
Do ppl from Norway know ppl in Minnesota call themselves vikings due their predominantly Scandinavian ancestry. They had the chance to go somewhere new...
LOL!
There are lots of programs for ring pattern matching (see CDendro for instance). Each year, trees grow in diameter and produces new wood in a layer just beneath the bark called the cambium. In the spring when moisture surges, the cells of a tree expand quickly. Over the course of the summer as the ground becomes drier, the cells begin to shrink. This change in cell size is visible in tree-rings, or growth-rings. Natural tree variation, sudden climate changes or if a tree is planted near a creek or a river, for example, it may get so much water (and water is what makes those little tree cells expand) that the rings no longer equate to each year elapsed (81). But for the 40% that are datable, counting the rings on a sample tells dendrochronologists how old the tree was when it was cut down. However, counting alone does not tell dendrochronologists what time period the tree is from. To find that out, scientists must focus on the pattern of rings rather than number of them.
Tree rings develop in the same pattern (e.g., wide ring, wide ring, narrow ring, wide, narrow, etc.) in all trees across the same climate or region. Scientists identify these patterns by laying a strip of graph paper across a sample, and marking only the narrow rings. This is called skeleton plotting (82) . This method works because of the human brain's aptitude for recognizing patterns. Humans are actually, "much better at that than computers are".
Amazing documentary..
Very interesting report. Explained the process very well and suggests the probable answer to the question. Well done.
now this is a good documentary. it walks you through how you know, instead of just claiming the theory.
most documentaries do a slow paced narration like this, but have so little substance. This one actually has substance.
I noticed that, too. There is so much information here, and they even gave credit to the dendrochronologist who created the database. It's very well done.
I’m sorry but there is no firm evidence given here. A gap in carbon data samples of over a thousand years proves nothing. They may be correct but it’s still just a theory without more time correct evidence.
I was at first a little annoyed at the side-tracking of possible meteors or comets, but they gave good evidence to discount them.
Wikipedia has the dating of the Javanese "Book of Kings" account as 'dubious', in that it may refer to 535 CE ... or 416 CE. They also have a 'tentatively dated' list of medieval eruptions, none of which are 1215 CE - 1150 & 1320 are as close as they get.
Scientific discovery usually takes time with many contributing factors but all too often we get an agenda disguised as science.
I love how we get to come along on the whole journey to find out what happened. Quality documentary!
Yes, keep this video dear. I once had a quality video that went into the great potato famine. (The Year without a Summer). It was deleted from my queue. My shared by text links of it, deleted too. I am hoping this may be the one/that video but so far, I think not. But I am thankful to have discovered this one.
If one's a reader, one knew ahead of time what was coming. I knew about both the eruptions in the nineteenth century, so it stood to reason.
I live in New Zealand and as a kid I remember a story that I think was around the same time they are talking when Lake Taupo (a supervolcano) erupted and caused all these same effects idk if the story I heard as a kid was right or not
Excellent documentary!
This documentary should be mandatorily shown in all schools to teach and remind us all... how fragile we are.
Walt Whitman ova here
Wow this is very interesting first time seeing this thank you for bringing back history this is better than history channel
One of the best documentaries ever. Thanks Channel 4.
Medieval historian Micahel McCormick, a Harvard archaeologist and chair of the Harvard University Initiative for the Science of the Human Past, explained to Science: "It was the beginning of one of the worst periods to be alive, if not the worst year," McCormick speaks of the ill-fated year of 536.(2018)
Just wait until 2030. You will own nothing, but will you be happy?
@@andrewmiller6663 Are you clairvoyant? Try being more optimistic.
@@karenharper2266Nope, not clairvoyant, the World Economic Forum has told us. Good luck. By the way, hope is not a plan.
@@andrewmiller6663 That’s only what “they” think... will happen.. WE can’t let it happen! 👍🏼
I remember when mt.st.helens exploded, we were leaving england to go to ireland on holiday when the sky went dark as night at noon, pitch black, the ash had gone high in the atmosphere which then moved around the world
Volcano are an amazing geological nature but damn they’re terrifying some days one of them could perhaps do huge damage to our civilization
And we can’t control it no matter what politicians try to sell.
Nature is king
Makes me wonder what even a comparatively mild volcanic eruption would do to the atmosphere with our species proprietary polluting blend of herbs and spices already causing havoc.
Thank you for your thorough documentary. When I was taking British History many moons ago, I came across the tale of the "dark ages". No one could answer why it was called that. So it got listed as "around the time tall tales in King Arthur's time". Certainly, the large volcanoes that have been going off since 'Pinatubo' would be suspected of sources affecting climate change in our day.
This documentary is really well done . It demonstrates the evidence , then what is missing in those sources to help bring a conclusion. Let us hope WWIII does not progress. Wishing you Peace from USA .
It's progressing
This process has everything I am really interested in.
I just love how Mike Bailey thinks and how he worked this out using tree rings - it’s all of it, it’s so cool. I mean 7,500 years!! How amazing is that?
Jared Diamond explains how scientists have developed several of these fantastic techniques in his book Collapse! If you liked this video, I highly recommend it.
I had it pegged as a volcanic eruption when I heard them mention the Nanshi ancient chronicle saying, "...yellow dust rained down like snow".
Growing up in rural Ohio the only fun thing to do was to play in the woods and build forts from tree branches- when it was raining the only fun thing to do was reading the encyclopedia set we had- had read about the little ice age since then, and most people I’ve talked to don’t even believe it happened. So many people haven’t even heard of it.
I've heard of it. There are books, youtube channels and lots of sources out there. And yet, it is so obscure to most. We are going into a Grand Solar Minimum, just as in the litte ice age. It is a regular solar cycle. Get ready.
Going back in time, we see large climatic rhythms. A deep temp trough with the worst being the 1600s. Where floe ice so tightly surrounded Iceland, one year, that fishing fleets couldn't leave Reykjavik that year. Long-term cooling had already been underway for centuries. But a recent study suggests an exacerbating factor: the 1500s-early 1600s death of many Amerindians, their farm land reverting to forests, creating a giant carbon sink, chilling the atmosphere.
Farther back in time is a long warm spell. Vikings lived in Greenland--in land-based agriculture, with enough grass for their herds--for 4 centuries. They even had trees.
Going back roughly a 1000 more years is Hadrian's Wall, with nearby vineyards.That was the peak of Roman Empire power, in a several-centuries warm spell.
In between--related to this documentary--was a long-term cold spell. That was under way well before 536AD. Goths, Visigoths, and Vandals invaded Western Europe, because of cooling-related lost grazing land, a century earlier. Starting the dark ages, back then.
But the 536AD event, making a cold era even colder, would have exacerbated the cold trend. Making the dark ages even darker. Very catastrophic, to already infrastructure-weakened European peoples.
The idea that changes in the miniscule amount of cultivation accomplished by amerindians could affect global weather patterns is laughable. Cultivation by these primitive people was exclusively limited to stream banks and flood plains. It wasn't anything close to the near-industrial farming performed in Europe at the same time.
@@shimmyshimmyko-ko-bop594Possibly greater cultivation in Central and South America but I agree, not enough to effect the global climate.
I suddenly want to go outside and idle my car engine. Warming the Earth a degree or two seems far preferable to cold events.
Excellent article, and can lend insights to the many historical changes that occurred than and after.
I accidentally pushed the Bedankt button and put my reaction over there,congratulating the people who made this solid scientific video with their years of work.Thank you,working together will solve these important riddles and get us on track to where we should go to get ahead.
Those early 2000s graphics and brick computers. Takes me back.
Try the eighties pal
I've heard the comet theory before, but krakatoa blowing its top works too. This eruption must have made 1883 look like like a firecracker compared to a neutron bomb.
Toba was bigger still. It just happens that Krakatoa was the loudest noise ever recorded, with around 45 cubic kilometers of material expelled; but Toba was several orders of magnitude bigger, with some 2800 cubic kilometers expelled. Then you've got Tambora, about half the volume of Toba expelled, but still big enough to cause the world problems..
@@janspup6232 Actually that theory has pretty much been disproven, as there seems to be no real narrowing in the gene pool at all.
@@janspup6232 Yeah, you'd hate my family's Christmas, then.
@@Leyrann I'd be interested in your source, if seen several documentaries to the contrary, i think if any supervolcano were to erupt to would have to some effect of the hominids of that particular era, but unlike i lot of people i don't have an ego that won't allow them to admit when they're wrong. When your girlfriend has more black belts than you have socks and is a military trained sniper, it changes things--i feel much safer at dinner.
@@LQOTW haha, not true, I'm actually more into astrophysics, but i find all sciencetific disciplines interesting.
The funny thing about the Arthur legend also is that, the land, trees and forest all died right towards the end of Arthur's life!!! Which fits PERFECT in this time period!!!
Yes. King Arthur historians refer to this time....
This is one of the best documentaries I’ve seen in a while. I’m in awe of the scientists that have collected all this data and painstakingly put it together. They are the some of the best of humanity. I hope we as a species continue our focus in science and our endless curiosity to know more about the world around us.
The proper use of computers
This is amazing, and an ideally well-done video!
This is a marvelous example of how the scientific process is to work. Unlike the "examples" we have experienced recently.
What recent examples do you mean? I have a suspicion that you like this example because it lines up with things you already believe, but you dislike others because they don't.
That's not a problem with science - it's a problem with arbitrary limits you've placed on what you're willing to accept from science.
@@dracolique I am simply stating that when the facts coming out of research line up with the premise stated, it creates confidence in that premise.
When the facts of research fail this, scientists will seek to modify the premise. Pseudo-science will repeat the premise more loudly and support government intervention to insure the failed premise is the one that is accepted.
@@TimothyHathaway Fine, granted... sometimes this has been a pattern, although it tends to be quickly corrected by follow-up research. Charlatans tend to be rooted out in science.
The question remains though: what recent examples? I'm curious what prompted your initial comment. To what "pseudo-science" do you refer? Because many people these days are labeling legitimate science as "pseudo" simply because they don't like the results.
@@dracoliquehe is obviously referring to the crazy climate hysteria that HAS slanted data to reach the wanted conclusions
A great documentary, about topics that are very rarely, if ever, heard in public discourse about climatology. One does wonder why these rarely make the discussion about our global climate experience, noting it is such as hot topic presently?
They very well could be old mining piles from the old world full of chemicals that combine and explode.
There is no public discourse just imposed narrative. If there was an open and honest debate the AGW crowd would be blown out because of questions they can’t answer. Michael Mann is a perfect example. The rest of us are not sophisticated enough to understand his hockey stick graph cited by Al Gore’s fraud.
People capable of such dedication probably already know this, but the Huon pine of Tasmania( renowned for clean air), lives for up to 3000 years. A very long way from Iceland, or Europe anyway, it should provide great data( if it hasn't already). Thank you great science!
It was Tambora in 1815 that "changed the world", 1816 is known as "year without summer". Historically, it was the most extreme volcano aftermath globally: extreme weather for 3 years, no sun for a year, no crops, mass starvation of humans and animals all over the world, disease... This year was factored in as a catalyst for later pandemics in Europe!
Idiot, go back another 4200 years for a real cataclysm. 1815 was a cakewalk compared to that one.
We know some people talk to trees but when they talk to us it’s more interesting!
Hearing sounds at distances is so strange. When I heard the Tonga volcano eruption from American Samoa I didn't know what it was. It sounded like distant, ongoing artillery. I didn't think about it much, but then Facebook Messenger advised us that there was an eruption and there was a danger of tsunami we evacuated.
It still seems strange to me that I heard something from hundreds of miles away.
That was great! Very exciting information. Thank you.
All of this makes me cringe to think about the Yellowstone Caldera. 😬
I was living in Rapid City SD when Mt. Saint Helens blew. As noted, should an explosive eruption occur that will be the end for most of USA. No sense in worry about what one cannot change or predict.
Yellowstone is at least 100,000 years from being due for an eruption. Stop looking at just the last 3 eruptions it had and look at its entire history. When you do, you begin to understand that it isn't "due" for an eruption anytime in the near future.
@@Baronstone
I had read the Turtledove trilogy. Yikes 😬
@@Baronstone It probably isn't due for another Eruption for 100k years give or take 100k years.
@@abacab87
If you take away 100k years from 100k years, that equals zero, that would mean an eruption happens NOW or a year from now!
I am going by memory, but a few years ago, National Geographic has a cover story on Yellowstone that indicated the dates of the previous eruptions.
Wikipedia shows the last three eruptions were this many years ago:
(A) 2.1 million years
(B) 1.3 million years
(C) 630,000 years ago
Thus, there were 800,000 years between "A" and "B"
and 670,000 years between "B" and "C".
Thus, if there is 670,000 years between "C" and the next eruption ("D"), since "C" was 630,000 years ago, then "D" happens in 670,000 less 630,000 or in 40,000 years, in 42020 AD.