Tony Robinson could talk about arthritis in the knee joints of the common cockroach and make it seem fascinating. His choice of words, his humour make any subject come alive. I absolutely adore his programmes. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
As an american, I'd only ever known Tony Robinson as Baldrick, and never bothered to look beyond that role. Wow, I am so impressed with these docs and his brilliance as host...bravo Sir Tony!
AWSOME, Tony Robinson that was interesting. I'm being to think of you as instructor Robinson. Between Time Team, and your documentaries I am enjoying all the new information about old stuff. Nature, History, Archeology, and Geologically. Topics that are rewarding to learn about. Thank you!
He is our national antiquities teacher, for sure. He left school with four O-levels: English language, English literature, history and - interestingly - geography. Bristol uni gave him an honorary MA 'for services to drama and archaeology', but - to be honest - I reckon he earned that. You see - he studied archaeology in the uni's extra-mural studies department.
One of the coolest things i've seen in my life, is in Canada. I won't disclose its location at the bequest of the guide, but coming down a former glacier's path, was shown a smooth, but gouged exposed section of bedrock. Not even a km from it, in the exact orientation, the rock that must've carved it. A stone as big as a double decker bus, with half of its flat edge visible from beneath, in what was a small cave of erosion. It felt so surreal, to see a process that was older than anything you could see at a human scale, because everything else is macro to us.
The man is undeniably a genius. To turn interests and passions into a completely different career and taking a large number of people along for the ride can only be described as genius. Thank you, Sir Tony, you definitely earned your "gong". Bravo!
Unfortunately "Chris" doesn't know much about drumlins. He's very wrong about how they form. They don't just form egg shaped mounds from the pressure of the ice. As the glacier moves forward it pushes and gathers boulders, dirt, rocks, sand, organic debris, etc. When there was a large/heavy enough bunch of material, it would settle out of the glacier. It is well known that drumlins are composed of rocks, boulders, dirt, sand, and silt, among others. A pile of that stuff doesn't just appear because of a mile high glacier's weight as "Chris" suggests.
I love how Sir Tony doesn't just talk about the glaciers but also about how geologists discovered their effects. He is such a great communicator. And, of course, a National Treasure!
Yes. I tried to teach my ecology class about them, but many of my students found it too confusing. Of course, with climate change caused by human activity, these cycles are also being disrupted. We do not really know what the outcome will be over the next 10,000 years.
6100 BC is when the final portion of land bridge (what was left of Doggerland) to Europe was enveloped by the Channel and submerged, after a shelf slide off the coast of Norway. This video ends with misinformation, Doggerland is well known beneath the depths.
"Excuse me Mr. MacDonald, follow me ....yes just stand there whilst I push that rock". "We've known for ages that climates change regularly" - tell Greta.
It is the rate of change and the ability to adapt that matters, which is the major issue with anthropogenic climate change. Transitions to ice ages and interglacials take place over many thousands of years, not a couple of hundred, and even then there are mass extinctions.
Wow. Danielle Schreve is in this presentation. When still working on fossil molluscs in the Geological Survey of the Netherlands we met each other several times. I visited several outcrops with interglacial to interstadial deposits containing non-marine molluscs. The Strait of Dover and the Channel were formed during the last stage of the Saalian during a catastrophic event when the landbridge at the South of the North Sea breached.
Oh, was that when Doggerland was drowned? It's so fascinating that Mesolithic artefacts are dredged up from the sea bed there, it must have been such a rich place for our ancestors to live. How sad that it's all gone. Those were the times when what became the UK was literally joined to Europe. Maybe, one day, we will again be metaphorically joined together. (Yes, I'm from the UK.)
Drumlins were created by the water rushing underneath the ice and held their under pressure by the ice not by the ice bringing them off otherwise they would have been flat
The South Coast is sinking, at the rate of 1 inch/100 years, as Scotland rises, due to a return to pre Ice Age conditions. Is the supposed current warming, in anyway related to a change in Earth's orbit?
No. Changes in the Earth's orbit happen over cycles of tens of thouands of years. Current climate change is happening over a couple of hundred years and has been established to be caused by the increase in greenhouse gases.
At 3:00, Adrian Shine is so cagey about what he's seen at the bottom of the loch! Instantly does the verbal equivalent of a squid's ink cloud with the answer and changes the subject! Adrian! What have you seen? Brother Shine! What have you seen?
I live in Toronto Canada. Those ice sheets were also here. Moraines, glacial valleys and the Great Lakes were formed in all of Canada. Lake Superior, formed by the motion of glaciers, is big enough to hold the island of Ireland.
Massive glaciers flowed into the North Sea from the mountains of Norway flattening the whole area, a line of Moraine under water several hundred miles long created Dogger Bank which took thousands of years to flood over, these glaciers would have covered over 100,000 square miles
Joseph, I' m one! Since God has been around forever we are now greatful to science to show us how He did it. I guess Moses didn't have all the details right: he got the general idea.
…and then, without mankind adding CO2 somehow the planet warmed up all by itself. It was a sort of magic. CO2 values in this period varied between a 180 and 300 ppmv (all by itself). Now even more magic occurs. The 97% of the naturally occurring CO2 doesn’t raise the Earth’s temperature but the 3% anthropogenic CO2 does. Amazing stuff.
We found the clay line in Romford as kids nearly 60 years ago in the sand and gravel pits that were extensive around the East of London . I live at the bottom of one of the terminal moraines from the Ipswichian glaciation period , a series of parallel mounds of sands and gravels that created the river courses that flow West to East from the Thames to the Orwell at Ipswich . What was missed in this episode was the ancient forest exposed on the North and South banks of the Thames near Purfleet and Erith which were probably killed off by the low temperatures that were present during that last age . Don't be fooled by this 10000 year cycle thing and the planet should be getting colder . Historically it never happened like that and the Earth , ancient writings , early recordings and continuous record keeping since the 17th Century has shown that along the way we have had mini dips and peaks in temperatures , with much smaller dips and peaks within those that may last 50-100 years that take part in that extremely gradual cycle . The last period of major cooling was in the 17th century when the great Thames itself froze over with Ice so thick , bonfires and fairs were held on it and it was used as a highway and crossing . Harbours froze and summers very cold and wet . Climate change caused by industrial activity , not a bit of it . UK had very little industrial output up until that time and was mainly agricultural with ' as green as you can get ' technology wind and watermills driving heavy machinery such as cannon boring machines and a population much much smaller than today , that the recorded death toll at the Battle of Naseby in the Civil War of around 880 in a total of some 28 000 participants was huge and made headline news in the ' Chapman ' papers , the early newspapers of the time sold by tradesmen and journeymen all over the nation . I'm no " Climate Change Denier ".how can I be I've just spoke of climate change in geological and historical record terms , I just haven't seen the evidence that we are in a long period of global warming caused by population growth or industry because , to put it simply the science doesn't go back that far . At the beginning of the ' Age of Enlightenment ' also in the 17th C , there were just as many scientists with crackpot and crazy theorists in order to try to gain from fame , as good ones that were entitled to enter the hallowed halls of the Royal Society . Now that science has spread from the Old World around the globe , I'm guessing the same is as true today as it was 350 years ago . Human nature is just simply that and unchanged in the homo sapiens species for millennia .
I remember hearing about the skeletons of monkeys and lions a third bigger than anything we have today found in the railway cuttings near Romford. According to the natural history museum in London Earth is below its average temperature now but in the rising phase
At last common sense . Thank you . Unfortunately it’s now being used as a hammer to tax and restrict peoples movement . It has become the religion of business and government propped up by media lying by omission .
So you don't think that pumping gigatons of CO2 and other shit into the air and water is having ANY effect at all? Riiight....(backs away slowly keeping eye contact)
Hi Ian, ( roll my eyes lol) I think your taking what was said a bit out of context, I don’t believe George R was saying our pumping out billions of tons of carbon didn’t or doesn’t have an effect, I thought he was making his own observations and thoughts known and good on him. As for carbon…. Well throughout the history of this planet there have been many times when carbon in the atmosphere was way higher then now, some era’s 6x some 8x. Those stages in Earths history are referred to as “green Earth” periods and for 85% of earths history the Earth was hotter and greener than now, so there where forests etc on both the (ice free) Artic and Antarctic land masses. We are currently in an ice age (defined when there is ice at both poles) and are in an interglacial of that ice age. An interglacial is a period of warming during an ice age and we are (maybe not now lol) going back into the ice age proper, should take another 8,000 years to get back to ice covered Europe and a mile of ice on top of New York (maybe not now though). With all the carbon we have been pumping out we’ve managed to raise the earths temp by 1.5 degrees in 150 years, well during the green earth periods earths atmosphere was on average 6 degrees warmer then now so we’ve a way to go yet. So we stop carbon pumping and go into to an ice age, doesn’t sound like fun to me. We keep on pumping out carbon and end up with higher sea levels but have freed from ice all the land currently under ice. As in Earths history only 15% of the time has it been gripped in ice ages being a lot greener and warmer is actually more the “normal” then what we have now. As for pollution etc, fully agree that we should be a lot more responsible in our undertakings, we should aim for more renewables, recycle, reduce waste etc etc but carbon is not the enemy people are led to believe. Patrick Moores “planet of the humans” is worth a watch or the BBC has IN OUR TIME “The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum”. Both on RU-vid Cheers,
@@iandennis7836 In the previous episode, we watched volcanoes spewing millions on cubic metres of dust and smoke and lava into the air. That surely would have made a difference to the climate. I'm all for pollution control, but no, I don't think we're entirely responsible for the climate change we've been experiencing.. I also saw a documentary in the 1970's which calculated that if every car was replaced by a horse, pollution would be worse. Who knows who to believe?
Great show and loved it thank you,Did you notice how the drum hills looked like the tear drop shaped island in rivers, goes to show that a few mtr of ice cold water was shaping the land.
@Celto Loco She is a shill. She wouldn't be at the conference if they didn't know what she was going to say. Hell they even removed 'offensive' posters in the airport.
IRELAND was once destroyed by volcanoes.... and the IRELAND AND BASQUE are the closes DNA and ALGONQUIN AMERICAN INDIANS ARE MORE THAN COUSINS ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cAjPMBa80yY.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wBx6KhvViM8.html The giants, the reptiles ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kp0IQ_qmTtQ.html
I was 7 when compiled a dozen childish rock examples for a school project, specimens I can remember today were the glacial polished granite's that most intrigued me and made sense as explained by my geologist dad... 'machined' wavy glossy rock you'd not normally expect. That was the sort of rock we'd love to drive our Matchbox Cars on. :D
David Fraser... I know what you mean but it was ever thus. The English always say sing "For the sake of old lang syne" instead of "Auld lang syne." They think that 'Scotch Eggs" are from Scotland instead of 'scorched eggs.' They don't realise that the Scots language is not 'English spoken with a Scots accent" but a separate language drawing on some (SOME) common roots! I'm 5/6 generations English but from Caledonian origins related to Lord George Murray of Blair Atholl and I have the same surname. My brother's forenames are Neil Fraser... David.. I hope that you enjoy strawberries. I know that you will understand that strange remark when English folk don't. Lang may yer lum reek! From: A bum Englishman, who married a lassie frae Glesgae tae top up the Scottish blood!
MauriatOttolink It's not just the English that can't pronounce syne correctly but the majority of folk apart from Scots. They tend to say "zyne" as opposed to "sign" though. Also Your correct in saying Scots is a different language rather than English with a Scottish accent. They both share a common ancestor. Scots is a northern variant of Anglo Saxon just as Anglo Saxon was a northern German variant of the old Germanic language that so many Northern European languages come from. I love strawberries but I'm missing your meaning here. Lol.
If you think about it, the investigation of the glacial evidence of Loch Ness, denies the existance of the Loch Ness monster.. According to legend , Nessie is a surviving dinosaur , how could a dino survive there if Loch Ness didn't exist until the ice carved it out. 12000 years is a bit different than 65000000 years.
Seattle sits between Puget Sound to the west and Lake Washington to the east, both of which were carved deeply by glaciers. That's why Lake Washington has two floating bridges because of its silty depths. Being able to go from the likes of Baldrick to hosting deeply scientific documentaries shows how versatile and brilliant Sir Tony is. Thanks so much for your good humor and clarification of Britain's geology!
The conclusion is a bit premature. The changes of climate in the past were much more severe than predicted for the next 100 years. A new ice age is likely and is not being prevented by humans. It is just uncertain when the next ice age will start. It cannot be just CO2 that controls climate because water vapour has a vastly greater effect on temperature. And, in the past, it is temperature that rises first and then CO2 rises. Besides the fact that the rest of nature produces CO2 more than we ever could, and that vegetation needs CO2. CO2 is not a pollutant. It is plant food.
London was certainly not the most southerly glaciated area of Britain, Tunbridge Wells in Kent & the Chilham valley in Kent were both glacially carved & deposited with huge rocks, both well south of London. Tunbridge High rocks is still a spectacular tourist attraction today.
There was another HUGE factor, not mentioned, that formed the division of Britain from the Continent-the events re: the Storegga landslide and the subsequent drowning of Doggerland. I wish that had been discussed.
That altar stone at Stonehenge HAD to be a glacial erratic. Bronze age folks, to whom I give a lot of credit, did not move a six tonne stone 500 miles.
This is an excellent science program. We get to the point very quickly rather than the dragged out narrative that we often get in so-called preeminent science and technical video stories.
Oh the horror of learning something because it makes you more knowledgeable! Were you born "lame", or is it something you are working on? The brain in your head is actually there for more than just insulation for your cranium, or so that the wind doesn't whistle through your ears.
probably not and I think the dramatic music and his voice are tiresome,BUT I learned more at 72 from watching this and skipping some of his boring shit than I learned from any school teacher, so I think you are ,on balance fortunate to be able to see this.
There are, a lot was cut down but are being replanted, its a valley area so trees arent as common but go like 2 miles north or south and you will see many forests with trees(deciduous and boreal)
An island nation that’s been inhabited for 10s of thousands of years, from the Romans, to the the largest empire on earth that started the industrial revolution and you’re wondering were all the trees are 😂
The temps globally have been on a steep decline for the last 3000 yrs. The very short warming period we have been in for roughly two decades is over Scientists are predicting around 50 yrs of weather like the maunder minimum has already begun.
Kinda funny that I've learned FAR more about this planet from the internet, than 16 years of school. Now,..... If everybody would get their shitt together on geological time frames, events, etc. THAT would be less confusing. And are they frikkkin GlassyErs... Glaciers..... WTH?.....
You can hear tony say glaciation not glassiation at the top of the building and once he forgets the pretense on the ship with adrian shine and says glacier so no rules to british pronunciation
tru..education is mainstream,not educational,as in our history,where we came from,its all keep them dumb but make a shit load of money.look up dogon,zulu,myths,hindu scripts,,they all say we came from the stars,sirius,orion,?,theres 3.forgot the last.the dogon knew of sirius,2 stars,before we knew sirius existed.the egyptions settled in egypt,after,,,the pyramids were thousands of yrs old..they were part of a world wide power grid..but dont tell no one...
It's a plague! Everybody wants to make their videos "more exciting", and they just make it difficult or impossible to understand what is being said. I have to use captioning way too much. If I wanted to read, I'd get a book.
33:50 It annoys me when they have to wear them STUPID HARD HATS in places like this....were is the danger ?? It reminds me watching Time Team ,in some places they had to wear them stupid hats in a hole in the ground ! But then again....something could just fall out of the sky and land on their heads right !...like space junk..!!
It is required now by law to wear these and other safety gear, such as eye glasses. Even where it seems ridiculous to do so Leigh. The worker could be fired fot not doing so! Also there is proof that these things reduce accidents.
@alanrtment porter I noticed in TT episodes that they wore hard hats only when the big digger was around, so there must have been rules to that effect.
My grandfather had a large square shaped indentation in the top of his head, when I asked my farther what caused it he told me a digger bucket hit him. That's why when the big yellow trowel is used on TT they have to wear a hard hat.
Records from India from the Ramayan show that people from India had visited Europe and found it fully covered in Ice, and to dangerous to travel, that shows that the Ramayan was more than 9000 BC old. Dewali is celebrated because of the victory of good over evil at that time.
The video is very good. The background music is dreadful. Why can't the editors blend in softer background music that doesn't overwhelm the show.Sometimes it was difficult to understand the narrative.
Yeah Loch Ness would have been there regardless of an ice age just not as deep, it’s lochs like loch Tay, loch Rannoch and loch Morar which were carved out by ice
Question…if during the ice age the ice around the earth was a mile thick about where the men were standing at Loch Ness , then where did all the water go ? Surely all land must have been covered by thick ice so why aren’t we all covered by water now ?? Genuine question…
The sea level was much lower when the ice sheets advanced, when the ice retreated the meltwater flowed into the sea and raised the sea level. The land will also have risen (isostatic rebound) when the ice melted
I'm a little confused by the timing of when Great Britain was connected to Continental Europe. My understanding that they were connected by Doggerland about 8000 years ago, circa 6500 BCE. The narrator says it was hundreds of thousands of years ago. There seems to be an inconsistency here.
Probably because the White Cliffs of Dover and the shaping of the south of England alongside the basic shape of the channel was during that very severe ice-age - which was what he was referencing - but the channel was much shallower a few thousand years ago and still functioned as a landbridge? As far as I can remember anyway, but google will confirm how faulty my memory is Edit: Yep, I'm really that lazy
fantastic scenery and good information about glaciers but also some misleading information. Britain only became a nation of islands about 8000 yrs ago due to rising sea levels after the last ice age and a possible tsunami caused by a landslip in Norway that formed the North sea. Too big a subject to cram into 45 mins. Wasn't overimpressed with part one, have yet to watch part three
Amberann. Agree with you to a great extend... 8/9k years. Robinson himself did a great video describing the inflow of the north sea over over settled Doggerland making us into an island. I found that it didn't quite fit with this one. Certainly an island but a long while before we actually became a Nation of Islands.
@@MauriatOttolink Yeah,the problem with covering such a vast subject for a glossy magazine style article documentary is obviously that at some point they feel they've spent enough on experts,animation,helicopters, fees and production that someone decides it is 'good enough'.
It's a program about the last Ice Age, so talking about glaciers is a given. If this was a video about making swords, would you be surprised to find that the word "sword" is likely to crop up a fair bit?
The glaciers and ice sheets that covered the northern U.S. during the last ice age were thousands of times larger. I live at one end of a moraine that stretches from just North of St. Louis clear up past the Great Lakes. That means the Glacier was over 700 miles long. And that was one of the small ones. The entire Great Plains were formed by such glaciers.
@Adam, just south of me in Ohio there is a long chain of small lakes and gravel pits, marking the most recent limit of the ice sheets here. Sometimes an ordnance survey map can give you sufficient evidence to plot the extent. Lake Erie has a number of raised shorelines that are quite distinct. On the western part of the state, it went further south, to a town called, fittingly, "Moraine".
Really glacier envy/competition? This is a documentary about the ice age in Britain. What the hell has glaciers in America got to do with anything. There are glaciers today in Antarctica, Greenland and the Arctic bigger than anywhere else, but no one felt the need to mention them as their relevance to the Ice age in Britain is zero. Ok well done America had big glaciers thousands of years before it was America. You win 😩
The ice sheet that covered Britain also covered the entire North Sea, Scandinavia, northern Germany, Poland, the Baltic the Baltic Sea and western Russia. There were once massive glaciers flowing from the Norwegian mountains into then dry North Sea creating massive deposits of Moraine that when the ice melted and the North Sea filled up with water took several thousand years to flood over again.
@@RicTic66 They are very insecure, bless em. New kids on the block, so they have to boast about everything. And the rest of us go ' Yeah, right, you keep chewing on that teething ring!'
I watched another show that said the loch was formed when a hunk of North America ran into Scotland. The valley, discounting the silt sediment at the bottom, does not have the classic U-shaped valley, but rather a V-shaped valley.
If you Google it, Collins dictionary has vids of someone saying the word.Surprise surprise! Glay seer OR Glassear .2 acceptable pronunciations .How annoying for some people.
and as a canadian... we use french - british -american spellings..as in colour and color...armour and armor..but americanized words as well..... bad example ...who has ever heard of Zed Zed Top ? IT'S - Z(ee) Z(ee) TOP
Naturally, they end the story with 'global warming' which is childish. A little bit of gas isn't going to stop vast, titanic, ASTRONOMICAL forces that drive the Ice Age cycles.
