Ice Age Catalyst: Climate's Role in Human History | Extra Long Documentary 

There are so many errors in this documentary. The biggest one is the statement that the ice age came to an end around 17,000 years ago, which couldn't be further from the truth. We are in an ice age, the Quaternary, which began 2.5 million years ago and is still ongoing. We are in an inter-glacial period (during which warming occurs) known as the Holocene, which began around 11,650 years ago. I'm disappointed, especially since many will assume the information in this documentary represents the truth.

Milankovic cycles should be discussed in any program about climate

I do not accept the thesis that the Neanderthal died out because of their inability to adapt. They had been adapting to their environments for thousands of years! A recent documentary attributed their massive decline in numbers to a cascade of sudden and extreme climatic and geologic events, like a huge volcanic eruption. Also, the modern humans may have brought viruses and diseases the Neanderthals had no immunity to.

The info here is pretty out of date. First Australians arrived on the continent by boat over 75,000 years ago. This is before Toba (the Indonesian super volcano) exploded 70,000 years ago. The doco fails to mention the impact of comets and other volcanic activity in the past 100,000 years. The concept of "hunter gatherers/foragers" vs farmers has be debunked. The progression was not linear, but a complex mix of both.

Since the earliest Neanderthal-like fossils date to 430,000 years ago, they survived multiple interglacial periods and glacial advances before their disappearance. Your video presents assumptions as facts.

Change is the only constant🫵

Why not finish with a comparison of the early middle-ages hot climate that saw vikings building houses in Green Land which is too cold for human agriculture in current climatic conditions.

my cue from this is the problem is "global cooling" instead of "global warming" and cooling comes from completely uncontrolable factors like sun activity, vulcano eruptions and the deformation of earth orbit

The crazy conclusion presented in the last minute or so is completely contradicted by the evidence presented throughout the rest of the show.

12:10 the most interesting statement of the entire video: ...Here we see a shift within ten years...

I like how at the end he says that we will be able to control the climate if we do such and such. What a twit. 😂😂😂 You really think that, sir? Really? 😂😂😂

Thanks again 😊

EXCELLENT !!! EXCELLENT !!!!! A wonderful video. Thank You !!!

Watching this series and understanding that human activities are governed by climate change all the while having the UN climate change statement saying it is mainly human caused is priceless.

That’s was very interesting and I liked that the last dude made me laugh at the end. We can control climate for future generations? That’s funny stuff. I mean after all that then to finish with idiocy.

Interesting! I have heard the volcano theory to explain the dark skies of 536ad, but I heard it was Krakatoa.

Says Australia populated from Africa only 20 something thousand years....there are 72000 year old pictographs in Kimberly region.

I can't watch it. There is a commercial every two minutes, it's ridiculous.

An age when supposed university professors say 'Sort of, like...' 😢😢😢.

Hey context box, why haven't we had another ice age? "mainly caused by humans" you say? But they had the ice age long before we became industrialized...Kinda funny to me.

The hubris in this in mind boggling

It amazes me how people have the audacity to say we can control the climate.

A lot of leaps of faith in this

Watching from Lombok -Indonesia

Nice. Why you didn't include big eruption app 70.000 ys ago (Tomba), when only few people survived.

So, homo sapiens could deal with climate change, but apparently, we can't 😅😅😅😅

One of the best docos I’ve ever watched highly recommended this . Well done

Sounds like they studied the books in the “The Clan of the Cave Bears” series.

That's quite a story

EXCELLENT DOCUMENTARY! 😃🙌 MUCH need-to-know information, that’s needed to be taken into account when addressing our planet’s approach to climate change.

At 40.10 you say 'Karakorum' was where Samarkand is. Karakorum is "47°12′37″N 102°50′52″E" in what is now Mongolia

Lost me at the earth warmed 40k years ago due to a change in the earth's orbit.

So far I'm half-way through this doc, and I'm surprised it just skips over the Hittites, Assyrians. Persians, Classical Greece, going straight from collapse of Bronze Age (not mentioning every Mediterranean culture to "collapse") to ancient Rome??? And from there to Germania beating Rome in battle, to long Fall of said Rome...where's Egypt? China? Japan? Vikings? Americas??

I'm at 29:31. I'm not going to watch any more of this.

Despite technical discrepancies, the general theme is very interesting. I am convinced about the heavy hand of climate in steering history. The conclusion that we can dictate future climate stability implies that we must reduce CO2 dependence. It would take hundreds of years for nature to recuperate, especially as tipping points may magnify the CO2 effect. If we use chemical CO2 removing technologies it will be ineffective and maybe cause wars. Pluvicopia does show how we can design and manage climate change ecologically, but it is too new for people to understand it in time to save us from +2c or +2.5C.

Gotta love the neanderthals at 5:00 😅

If this is indeed full of factual holes for whatever reason, you owe it to humanity to correct the errors or remove the film from the public domain. I have no doubt the creators had the best intentions here at any rate. "Kindness is invincible" Marcus Aurelius (150 AD)

Great information 😊

As human beings with access to massive amount of knowledge, are we prepared for the next geological challenge? what are those challenges? When? What do we need to prepare? What are the valid sources of information?

How would "Nomadic hunter gatherers" feed themselves when building such a giant , and not to mention highly engineered site ? Where did the stone carving skills come from all of a sudden ? How large would an average group of hunter gatherers even be ? 4 to 5 ? 10, 20, 50 ? Even those numbers couldn't have built it, let alone drag and manipulate those stones without even domesticated work animals...😅 Are our modern "experts" really this ignorant ?!

Al Gore, please pick up the red emergency phone.

What this docus factor out is that this ppl werent halfsentient dimwitts who had to crawl through the bushes to find some edibles but lived in a garden who they knew like the back of their hands. And did so for thousands and thousands of years. It wasnt about getting food,but getting it as easy as possible.

You are ignoring all the underground cities that enabled humans to survive the Younger Drayas ice age for at least 1000 years or more, and more importantly, also ignoring the obvious: How did they carve these humongous cities out of the rocks at the onset of that ice age?......

That was completely awesome, thank you

Don't you just love the definition of "Climate Change" given by the the United Nations : "Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns, mainly caused by human activities, especially the burning of fossil fuels." And here we are watching climate change WAAYYY before humans were here in great numbers ... I Guess our ancestor Grandmas must have melted the glaciers when they lit the camp fire to cook dinner!!!!

you tagged the 536 volano but did not attribute to Santorini the Bronze Age Colapse.

Probably not all that difficult, when there were no "Ice" Ages, only polar dislocations!

Damn all the Floura and Fauna that have played part in all previous climatic events. Damn the very first single celled organisms. Damn our Sun, and most of all, damn the Hominids for eventually evolving to take part is such a chaotic existence!😤

All the dates of the great flood happened about 5000 years ago wrong but great production

fantastique documentaire

Global warming, global warming... But we've learned here that the problems always come from global cooling

its funny how this old docs said the neanders died when 2% of todays human dna have neanderthal dna in us. we still have neander ancestry from interspecies corellations.

Actually, we are still in an ice age, the latest in a series of glaciations and interglacials. We are currently in the latter.

Wait a minute, “dramatic changes in the climate in a period of 10 years” yet we are being told that the 1 degree Celsius warming we have had over the last 100 years is “unprecedented”. Anyone with any sense knows the warming we are experiencing at the moment is well within the bounds of natural variability.

Maybe the people in the UN should be informed. Stop blaming burning of fossil fuels

What a stupid last comment snippet from a sentence with no reason given. Why not include the current position in Earth's 40000 year tilt-cycle ? Where we are in the solaire flares 11 year cycle and why not say how eliptic or circular Earth's orbit was in recent years of the 100000 year cycle ?

We should begin these documentaries instead of the big bang 14 billion years ago with its a mystery how the earth was formed.

The Dark ages were after the fall of the Roman Empire, not in the Bronze Age. Also she goes straight from 536 to the 14th century in the same story. What sort of education did these people have?

Everything was very interesting and logical but then everything went wrong. For me it could be resumed to: warm climate a thriving society, a cold climate famine, drought, disease and war. However, the film ends in an very reddiculose way. Out of nowhere, the rhetorical question is asked, what kind of climate do we prefer? Like the people themselves but not natural cataclysms determine it, which has no connection with what was presented during the entire documentary, and secondly, an analogy is made that warming is bad, which again does not correspond to the content film!

The commenters know more than the documentary:) that out of africa and shoulder stuff was not 3 months ago science... it was at least 3 years ago.

"The Earth created man in order to make plastic and now the Earth has all the plastic it needs and it does not need humans anymore", George Carlin

YO!, What does the United Nations call the ongoing long-term shifts in temperature and weather patterns on planet earth mainly caused by nature, specifically, orbital shifts, planetary and solar events? Would Greta know?

We should ban volcanoes. Let me call Ms. Greta about this idea.

Rather a lot of heresay about the Neanderthal, they were probably out classed by homosapians who had developed better tools and technology and were not only hunter gathering but farming and breeding animals etc.

It’s interesting that these producers face every other civilization a detailed spot and. Asked them conquerers but totaly ignored the Islamic civilization of over 1200 years ( before its collapse in 19th century ) and even evaded giving credit to many inventions talked about that were theirs 🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️ Sad to see even a fully scientific commmunity would be this prejudice 😢😢

The assumption homosapians sprung out of africa and kicked Neanderthals out....they all say that. Im no genius but im sick of that crap.

And the Younger Dryas ?

The final segment hints at a truth: we now know how to control the planet's temperature. Geologic science has shown that when CO2 rises and falls, so does planetary temperature, and the climatic zones adjust themselves accordingly. We now know how to raise the Earth's temperature - by raising the CO2. We therefore also now know how to cool the Earth - by lowering its CO2. However, we are still learning the methods by which we can lower the CO2. Right now, the fossil fuel industry is king. It rules the people of the Earth, and it does not want people to know how to lower the CO2. Look at COP-whatever the number is now. The CEO of the UAE's national oil company is the chairman, and the largest group represented at COP is the fossil fuel lobby. What a cruel joke. But it won't be that way for much longer. By the 2nd half of the 21st century people will dump the fossil fuel moguls simply because - as stated in this video - the rulers will no longer be able to feed the people. The devastation caused by fossil fuels will be so bad, and so obvious, that they can no longer greenwash it. People will turn, family, by family, to solar, wind, and water. Industry will eventually start using clean energy too - not because they "see the light", but for the same reason industry adopts any new technology - because it's costs less, and gets a better job done more quickly than fossil fuel energy. The "dinosaurs" (of fossil fuel) days are numbered, even though they continue to bloat themselves , as if the party will never end.

Did i get this straight, continental drift caused the seasons? This video is garage

vARUS LOST THREE LEGIONS AT THE tEUTERBERGERWALD, BUT BEFORE HIM, cRASSUS LOST SEVEN LEGIONS AT cARRHAE. (Ooops Didn't mean to shout) And the Sahara has been green eight times in the last two million years.

Ito's Houses in Dominican Republic... Again... Thanks NYPD

It was the most informative documentary about earth surface history through scientific researchers and scientific prospectives in parallel to the great historical events that occurred during thousands of years on the earth where climate changed pushed other different phenomena creations . Thank you for a great ( Get.factual) channel for sharing

Do you realy think, that people can set climate in feature?

I'm confused every doc I watch sites different years for ice ages , when they began when they ended, confused while sitting in my climate controlled living room.

6:25 My horses are pure muscle and they don’t eat meat.

Why can't you produce your videos in English? People with vision problems are not able to read subtitles and will miss any important segmants

Thoughtful and deliberate. Well done

The international scientific community in the city of austin texas.

No this so many missing and unreal like earth and the sun

A mawnglam nilo in ZPM fintu lui kha anu zawk ani lo maw? A fintu lui tihfim kha an tum angai tlat ani.

No. The Romans changed to the Church from Rome.

Overly simplified, maybe even made by an AI. Science is incomplete, assumptions out of date. D-

..the use of the 'BC' benchmark is a bit ridiculous..

maybe they suffered from frost bitten knobs.

How many times did you mention volcanoes affecting the climate on a massive scale? I hear you talking about mitigating climate change. What's the plan for controlling volcanoes?

This doc is way off .

Old narratives now unsupportable

A healthy adult mammoth kill would've been an extremely rare kill for Neanderthal. Probably never hunted unless it was sick, hurt or very young.

All I hear are ai scripts these days

Scientists say: lol sure thing .

Unlearned as I am l see no errors,rather this is the most scientific explanation l have ever seen,this work would have required massive research.

Nonsens Look only at the Arctic people like the Inuit and others.

I watch not watch climate propaganda. It is a bunch of religion, not science. Science is about debate. The time for debate is over with religion.

PSEUDO SCIENCE AND I T ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY, TOTALLY DIFFERENT IN TWENTY YRS

voice it over

There is no way human can change the climate on the planet in any significant degree.

There is no contrast to prove what a year is in a core sample to determine time .

Cromagnon was in asia, europe, south pacific and other places before homo sapiens. It wouldve been impossible gor homo sapiens to have all come from siberia all the way to south america and the east coast of north america in that timeline. So homo sapiens probably evolved in many places at the same time.

Spoiled rye. Fungus.

BE REAL