Siberia's Pleistocene Park: Bringing back pieces of the Ice Age to combat climate change

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@joemac84 4 года назад

Thank you for putting the full stories online. People need to see this stuff

@ramonbenitez306 4 года назад

2020 been a crazy year so far so a wooly mammoth appearing this year wouldn’t be to surprising

@АндрейЕгоров-ч9п 4 года назад

along with saber-toothed tiger

@jeanbarque9918 4 года назад

@@АндрейЕгоров-ч9п and wooly rhino

@ghoward6797 3 года назад

Might as well bring back the Neanderthals too...

@yerman0564 3 года назад

@@ghoward6797 imagine the racism.

@Lonely_Texasball 3 года назад

@@jeanbarque9918 and chickenosaurus by Jack Horner

@nl4064 3 года назад

every country should fund this

@katrinkasanfranciscobayare7364 3 года назад

Ja Absolutely✔

@dukedashwolfgg2283 3 года назад

Aggreed

@21LAZgoo 2 года назад

but the trees and mosses grew into the mammoth steppe even though the megafauna were still abundant, it wasnt until shortly after that happened that the megafauna started to collapse. the same thing happened 130,000 years ago at the start of the eemian which was around 1.2 degrees C warmer than now which nearly made the mammoth steppe and mammoths and other animals which were in that habitat extinct, happened 14800 years ago and 11600 years ago as well

@WildPrimal23 Год назад

@@21LAZgoo what are your sources? Not saying that you’re wrong- just looking for a good read

@21LAZgoo Год назад

@@WildPrimal23 i gotchu i’m find that study, haven’t seen it ina few months

@whippet_boy8594 4 года назад

This entire documentary is still trying to make him look like a mad man

@Drskopf 3 года назад

I felt the same thing, like this reporter or channel have an agenda, itself still stuck with that cold war mentality.

@noahway13 3 года назад

Not.

@Tabris94 3 года назад

Well, to be perfectly honest, it is still a theory. And he could be wrong. So a little scepticism is not bad.

@christinearmington 3 года назад

This piece didn’t explain how the animals dig through the snow for food, pulling back the insulation of snow and exposing the ground to freezing temperatures.

@Tabris94 3 года назад

@@christinearmington exacly the same as mooses and deers do.

@l4zrh4wk 2 года назад

Stop calling these innovative scientists “crazy”, having people who think outside the box is our only hope to save ourselves from ourselves.

@Azamat421 2 года назад

Too late already

@bushleaguesociety Год назад

Exactly!!! Who else dedicates as much time to observing and inferring AND testing?

@bushleaguesociety Год назад

@@Azamat421Sadly, that is a solid hypothesis. 8.25 billion variables

@newoldvideos989 3 года назад

WOW< I cant wait to see a real live Woolly Mammoth! He can fund it just by having tours... I'd pay for a tour !

@bethgoldman2560 3 года назад

Hmmm....kinda sounds like a plot for a movie. What could go wrong?

@jackstraw262 3 года назад

@@bethgoldman2560 mommoths are plant eaters. And we have fences.

@dukedashwolfgg2283 3 года назад

@@bethgoldman2560 dude seriously Not cool

@DonnaFernstrom 3 года назад

@@bethgoldman2560 Folks think mammoths were giants, but they weren't any larger than existing elephants, so I'm pretty sure the answer is 'nothing.' lol

@zion3335 3 года назад

@@DonnaFernstrom yeah the wooly mamoth is just about the size of a bull African bush elephant...its not like we are bringing back palaeoloxodon namadicus

@raychallenger9623 Год назад

I have always loved 60 min shows, glad to have found this one !!

@kushviper 3 года назад

Damn! Dude is hard as nails 💪

@gostavoadolfos2023 2 года назад

I am more touched by the fact that he passed his passion and cause to his son. 😻😻😻😻 we should teach our kids about this and make them care.

@ferodrigues1211 4 года назад

Sergei the legend.

@iancaldwell8451 3 года назад

All scientists once said the earth was flat . Sergei has given a solution , to mock him just leaves more space on the face for egg.

@kcck7588 3 года назад

All scientists have not said that lol

@MAG320 3 года назад

The video had me convinced. If the permafrost is warming, and microbes are now sitting there eating all the fossils of which didn't happen in the last hundred thousand years, that's a problem.

@dukedashwolfgg2283 3 года назад

Especially the greenhouse gasses, I saw a video of someone who drilling into the ice then lit it with a lighter and it was just a long strand of blueish flame

@timberrr1126 11 месяцев назад

We need more CO2 to prevent human extinction.

@leslieanne7467 3 года назад

That was fascinating!

@bhuvaneshs.k638 3 года назад

These American conservatives can't imagine his vision. I support Pleistocene park

@Brakvash 3 года назад

He's being a journalist, he's asking questions and allowing Sergei and his crew to convince the audience or not. What's wrong with not agreeing on everything?

@pakde8002 3 года назад

There wasn't a conservative in the entire program. Did you mean conservationists? Science is philosophically (as opposed to politically) conservative. They don't just jump on something because it sounds cool. They have to see the research and the research must be able to be duplicated by others. What he is proposing is not only beyond the current limits of science but would require an investment of billions of dollars. Therefore the "conservative" approach is fully warranted.

@dwreal 3 года назад

Imagination is what it takes to make completely baseless claims 🌈

@dukedashwolfgg2283 3 года назад

@@dwreal I can't tell if you're with us or against pliestoscene Park

@kennywolfsbanemusic3105 7 месяцев назад

I acknowledge my bias of wanting to see ancient grasslands with huge healthy heards of grazing mammoths, but I think this man is an absolute genius

@franciscusjohannesburger3720 3 года назад

Thanks for the video !

@austint2328 3 года назад

2:50 amazing how calm the interviewer is with the 1000000 mosquitoes around.

@GLiTX2527 3 года назад

Russia.. can have a lot of mosquitoes

@DonnaFernstrom 3 года назад

I wonder if that's actually natural? Did the Mammoth Steppes have that many mosquitoes, or is this overabudance also due to the ecological damage caused by eliminating most of the large animals? It will be interesting to see if a more diverse restored ecosystem has more mosquito predators.

@deiwokreue7896 2 года назад

@@DonnaFernstrom Not really, it is not. Now here, in Sibiria, are no animals to eat moss, so water accumulates under the moss and swamps are formed. Where there is a swamp, there are mosquitoes. In fact, this ecosystem is not natural to this area. Sergei Zimov talked a lot about this in his lectures, alas, almost all of these lectures are in russian language.

@ethanhoward6126 4 года назад

Check out their patreon or just donate to help them out.

@Drskopf 3 года назад

What's their patreon?

@ethanhoward6126 3 года назад

@@Drskopf just go to their website Pleistocenepark.org they have a link to it there

@PierreBezemer 3 года назад

www.patreon.com/PleistocenePark

@mech-E 4 года назад

Drastic times call for drastic measures

@paulsuprono7225 4 года назад

OMG .. . I think he's on to something !

@Crazy_Rabbids 4 года назад

Nicolaj Nielsen if we bring mammoths back pepole are gona hunt them for tusks and they go extinct again 😓

@Drskopf 3 года назад

@Julian i think the same, is less work, just need to pick them up from the beach or the forest

@dukedashwolfgg2283 3 года назад

@@Crazy_Rabbids they'll probably be protected like white rihnoes are

@keitel2015 3 года назад

So Reznov escaped Vorkuta to go start a nature reserve to help the environment? Damn Black Ops lore took a turn

@yebestus 3 года назад

Countries may have their own differences but scientists are all on the same team.

@ebonyblack4563 3 года назад

Such a fascinating concept!

@dukedashwolfgg2283 3 года назад

Not concept, it's a fact

@night9caster 3 года назад

how condescending is the narrator, when the shows already been dumded down for an American audience

@Drskopf 3 года назад

That idiot had a hidden agenda, is probably stuck with cold war mentality

@chuckhartey9349 Год назад

Awesome can't wait to ride one!

@thedirty530 3 года назад

We are all in this together! We can do ANYTHING WE DECIDE to do!

@evalevy2909 3 года назад

Notice the swarms of arctic mosquitos. They are relentless

@tobinprowant10 4 года назад

I'm sure the solution to this problem would be destroy capitalism. I hope everyone understands. I'm being sarcastic.

@salvagemonster3612 3 года назад

The white beret really lends to his credibility. I take my advice from Eva Gardner circa 1933

@vonsuthoff 3 года назад

Creative ability allows us to think outside the box and to combine options that others will not allow themselves.

@TortugaPapi 4 года назад

How can people (6)dislike this video? Amazing!!

@dankabal 4 года назад

vegans?

@komarudinmadin4179 3 года назад

Poachers

@marlin8631 3 года назад

@@dankabal why should vegans do taht?

@marydesmond9595 Год назад

@@marlin8631 because they aren't very smart

@Think-dont-believe Год назад

@@marydesmond9595i was gonna ask if 3 years later they now understood thumbs down. then i saw your comment and 🙁the fact you not only believe but are not aware this whole thing is to take control … sad

@ChakibTsouli 3 года назад

Sergey reminds me a lot of Charles Bukowski. Same mannerisms.

@dotsinki1096 4 года назад

what a superhero

@katrinkasanfranciscobayare7364 3 года назад

Sergey is not a Madman! He is a right on man!

@nl4064 4 года назад

the un needs to fund this

@dukedashwolfgg2283 3 года назад

Apparently some institution is being funded 15million to make a mammoth

@kristinangelicatubig6680 3 года назад

Omg so little views. Good to be knowledgeable of how the world is despair

@barbaradeitz1853 3 года назад

@MrFattyfatfatboy loo

@MrEazyE357 3 года назад

Man, I couldn't do the bugs there or the temperatures.

@joshuaaikens1961 3 года назад

I absolutely agree with the man. In previous climate changes nature natural migrated to areas that were suitable for growth. However, that took thousands of years. Not withstanding the pains of darwinism genetic adaption. By identifying the locations where life will become more suitable for growth, the human race owes this planet to accelerate this process. This can be done by transplanting plants and animals that will strive. Essentially terra forming the earth over time through a universal system of state parks, national forest and preserved natural areas. This is the key to surviving the impending climate change. Combined with other worldwide climate change initiaves, mankind can truly mend the damage we caused.

@Azamat421 2 года назад

Nope too late

@mwj5368 3 года назад

Great video! Eye opening! I had a strange apparition. To anyone else does the scientist at 11:46 to 12:24 remind you of Bobby Fischer when he was that age, the famous chess player? It almost seems like maybe they were relatives.

@razorransom1795 3 года назад

Ya never know, could be distantly related and thus a spiritual child as well. Ya never know what your ancestory contains, unless ya have a good family keeper and ancestry looker upper/s. 😎😉

@mwj5368 3 года назад

@@razorransom1795 Hi Razor! I remember my comment but didn't know where I'd left it! Also the YT system doesn't always alert me when a reply happens. Thanks for your wise input! I don't know what Bobby's nationality was, but those moments in this documentary really immediately struck me when that scientist spoke and the last thing on earth that was on my mind then was Bobby. It's strange because even the nuances of his facial movements, his eyes, everything seems so unreal and like Bobby! I'm only amateur and did some family genealogy, a streak I had about 10 yrs ago. I also think too at times people of the same nationality can look like brothers and sisters etc. but really feel this likeness is extraordinary. Someone should do a video and line up their faces as they both speak when Bobby was this gentleman's age, yet by that time Bobby I think was not in good health and not eating right and a lot of other problems. See I wonder if this guy's friends and family have ever said how much he looks like Bobby, and more than that, even his voice and mannerisms. I think to the younger folks of today they probably don't know much if anything about Bobby. I had a Bobby Fischer streak and really enjoyed all the documentaries and interviews with him, also too a sad, very sad, story. I think Bobby, like other great minds in history, like Nikola Tesla, Einstein... all could have shared secrets to how their thought processes transpired... also that guy from India who was the math genius. I think they really had other things never touched on that would have influenced humanity. Life is fascinating!

@TAZ0300 3 года назад

I think it’s a great idea they were talking about doing this in the 90s here we are 20 years later and we still haven’t done it 🤷🏻‍♂️ The world is warming up 🔥 🌎

@katrinkasanfranciscobayare7364 3 года назад

People need to stay more focused on global warming instead of all this racism bs

@Azamat421 2 года назад

Cuz it's too late

@razorransom1795 3 года назад

Well yup, and pine trees have been inching if not gone up by feet more north for years. Yup, their dark pine needles, been melting snow and doing this for years, but are speeding up pace lately.

@engelwyre 3 года назад

Science needs controversial ideas, not complacency or comfort. Science needs to be pushed forward, scientists and their ideas need to be challenged. When science grows stagnant it becomes dangerous close to religion.

@viniciuspaiva3578 4 года назад

At minimum it would allow us to peek into the past!

@snaileri 3 года назад

Really intersting stuff

@kathyl9222 3 года назад

In Russia people can buy pumas, maybe they can use pumas to replace the lions.

@DonnaFernstrom 3 года назад

Siberian tigers are a more reasonable choice.

@kathyl9222 3 года назад

@@DonnaFernstrom I wonder if putting all these animals together like this will make them evolve into more iconic Pleistocene megafauna forms. A tiger could evolve saberteeth to cut through thick-necked megafauna arteries.

@dusan19377 2 года назад

@@kathyl9222 First they need 500-1000 herbivore animals in the park before they can introduce some carnivores... Tigers or wolves, they will think about it later, but for sure they need a lot more herbivores to trample the snow... And people from US and Canada can help if they know people who can help with transporting larger herd of Alaskan bison to this park. Bison from Sweden they bought almost all died off in the arctic conditions...

@TheZFighter7 Год назад

So it’s been 3 years… where are the cloned mammoths?

@grapevine5352 4 года назад

Official site of Pleistocene Park: pleistocenepark.ru/ Interesting project & inspiring people!

@babylov3r Год назад

In the near future they will no more snow at north and south poles. It will become original earth like dinosaur era

@lnfwhat01164_rules 3 года назад

Resurrect an extinct animal at all costs

@lemini4k 10 месяцев назад

Joe Rogan brought me here. Amazing year 2024 is going to be.

@robertw9677 4 года назад

The future of earth for humans my guess questionable we destroyed it

@LegionnaireScout 4 года назад

Then lets fix it

@saltzmann1 Год назад

I like the heat you can always cool off, but when it gets cold you need fuel to make heat.

@ks5553 3 года назад

The permafrost has not been frozen as the host says for "hundreds of thousands of years". Its been frozen for about 13,000 years. Siberia was boreal forest during the Pleistocene, it was NOT permafrost. Seems like a pretty easy thing to get right for such a respected source of news.

@rodgerswaters3109 3 года назад

Вот пример настоящего пассионария!

@stephenx2857 3 года назад

this was in 2019. now in 2021. siberia is burning with rampant wild fires. on par or greater than the entirety of the United States fire season in a year, by july.

@dusan19377 2 года назад

When those trees are dead, maybe ashed will fertilize grasses to grow again and attract some herbivores....

@bradbuckner9496 5 дней назад

More carbon on earth would be the very best thing that could happen to this planet.

@freddy7171 3 года назад

This reporter couldn't help but insert a pun into every sentence haha

@superfastmonkeysim5200 3 года назад

The journo’s lack of compassion to work being done seems biased. It’s because of folk like this that the work is left to the side, and undertaken by those who have no choice but to dedicate their lives and the lives of their families to it. Thankfully the work is being done. Regardless

@gary_michael_flanagan_wildlife Год назад

Update: there should be a mammoth produced by 2024, as per some experts who are in the know. Very close now. As a wildlife photographer this is exciting, but as a naturalist I don’t know what to think. The mammoth extinction debate is not as cut and dry as they try to show. There are a great many experts who believe that a major cataclysm 12-15000 years ago wiped out the mammoth, and that people couldn’t have done it with primitive weapons. I feel that they may be right. But let’s see what happens. I leave you with a quote from Jurassic Park: “You could do this but did you ever stop to think about if you should?” 🤔

@kas7344 3 года назад

More people should see this video

@notmyname9625 11 месяцев назад

Wouldnt unburying this permafrost accelerate the rate at which it is melting?

@AmViR1 3 года назад

We all know that earth has a life span, It either will fully drown or natural disasters will destroy everything. So there is no escaping destiny !

@SphericalVacuum Год назад

Very strange that the most part of information about this project broadcast by English-american sources.

@01Breakfan 4 года назад

Key point, the loss of mega fauna around the planet which changed the dynamics of the ecosystems in the Pleistocene may have been climatic change at a world wide level! Research is now pointing to the possibility that it wasn't human beings that caused the shift. Humans may have played a part but not the fundamental mechanics. So, if we allow the question to be seen as plausible, how does that change the equation for the present, especially because human beings are now a key part of the equation?

@stevengodoy6896 3 года назад

In Soviet Russia, the permafrost melts you.

@oui2611 Год назад

calls the scientist a madman, when before he said that, he presented him doing normal human things like eating, smoking, drinking and laying down to think.

@eascm27 Год назад

Well 7 more years till we see Sid and manfred 🤞🏻

@LutscheLumpia 2 года назад

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerburg etc should fund this thing

@jonathanroberts727 Год назад

We need mammoths.

@PinoyGamingTribe 3 года назад

its only 13 mins :(

@everythingtechpro007 3 года назад

We have to ban all pollution soon and fix the climate change issue or we are going to get in big big trouble. So solar, go EV, go green in building your house, buy green products. Reduce waste., Lots of things to do.

@johnstojanowski8126 2 года назад

It is not possible to de-extinct the woolly mammoth that existed over 10,000 years ago. It became extinct on the mainland but not on islands because surface gravity was increasing to near its current value. It is well established that they, and other megafauna, were experiencing severe dwarfing at the end of the Pleistocene. From the book ‘Quaternary Extinctions’: “Virtually all mammoths associated with Clovis points in the New World are diminutive and have reduced tusks.” Only a much smaller, hybrid version of the Pleistocene mammoth can be resurrected. My theory, The Gravity Theory of Mass Extinction explains this as well as my book ‘Ice Age Extinctions, A New Theory’.

@ironhornforge 3 года назад

He's right, humans did play God and it's our responsibility to put things right again. Our planet evolved with all these creatures to live in unity for one another's survival, we have played with that balance ignorantly and it is our responsibility to return that balance for all life on earth.

@jimscara5018 3 года назад

if we believed you it would be 500 degrees by now

@kewllizard8627 3 года назад

It's a gradual process till the point of no return :)

@johnhoney5089 Год назад

The fact that Ice Ages have happened before is proof in itself that climate change can happen again, in the vein of hurricanes and other forces of nature. People act as if the last 10,000 years were all that's ever happened, but it is only 1% of human history (315,000+ years in total for modern humans).

@petebrian2841 3 года назад

Pig and elephant DNA just won't splice.

@MichaelMiller-op8fe Год назад

CO2 in the atmosphere has gone from .03 to .04 percent in the past 30 years. I could use a little warmer weather.

@salvagemonster3612 3 года назад

Did anyone else click on this because the thumbnail showed a yeti standing there

@Zakraktak 3 месяца назад

been 4 years man.

@unclegunnysack4895 Год назад

An Ice Age Park????? Instant bucket list addition! We need onr in Northern Canada...

@josemartinezgonzalez2450 4 года назад

Cuando los Romanos conquistaban y civilizavan germanía, aún existían y vivían grupos de Mamut en el norte de Siberia !!.

@Drskopf 3 года назад

Pero aparentemente se los comieron, yo leí hace mucho tiempo atrás que eso fue lo que pasó al caballo y mamut en norte América,en tiempos remotos. los indígenas los cazaron hasta la extinción, y fue de ahí que ellos se dieron cuenta del daño que causaron y para pedir perdón a la madre Tierra empezaron a coexistir con sus ciclos y respetando la vida de los animales que son parte de ella.. en los años 70 y 80 se encontró el esqueleto de un Mamut en las montañas del Norte de Nicaragua, me pregunto si fue por la presión de la caza que llegó hasta allá?

@pascalguerandel8181 Год назад

Elephants learn everything from their mothers like what to eat and all that kind of stuff who's going to teach the mammoth what foods to eat. I hope they don't starve to death because no mother where's the mother. They can bring back the Neanderthals and then they can hunt the mammoth!

@katrinkasanfranciscobayare7364 3 года назад

I believe the woolly mammoth is part bison. And I believe the elephant we have today was created buy a woolly mammoth and a rhinoceros....

@MrEazyE357 3 года назад

You know that it's definitely not, right?

@doc1holiday381 3 года назад

These guys are legit

@bradbuckner9496 5 дней назад

So in other words is working out exactly the way God planned it when he created it all. No big deal. Read the Bible, God says he will absolutely destroy this planet in the last days of the end times and everything that dwells upon it. No big deal.only the stupid, are surprised and tried to metal with what God has done.

@andrewfoster1641 3 года назад

Isn't the Kolma River valley the site of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich?

@jaimemartinez4971 3 года назад

maybe we don't want any more pathogens on the loose!

@danntrev 3 года назад

Assuming humans are the reason for Mammoths and Bison extinction may be a mis step... younger dryas...

@OzyMandias13 Год назад

What is David Letterman doing in the thumbnail?

@MichaelDavidSherwood 4 года назад

Only one view and already four thumbs up? LOL

@stubronstein9932 3 года назад

I feel cheated. This wasn't 60 minutes but only 13:38. What a rip off.

@neffa101 Год назад

this is interesting i like it

@CRSolarice 3 года назад

A LOT of assumptions and one of them is that all of this is correct. One person's calculations and assumptions don't mean that all of this is accurate or correct. Lets hear other people's assertions about this...

@IIIBIGPIGlll 3 года назад

Humans bad, hunting bad, carbon bad, kooky scientist &Jurassic park lab animals good... got it

@stephenlangsl67 2 года назад

That guy must have let His hair grow out for years.

@chrisy4011 4 года назад

I don't think it's possible for humans to hunt all those large animals. Not accounting all the other large animals.

@jojrab5207 4 года назад

Big animals take a long time to grow their populations. Except in Africa and Asia, where previous human species lived before, megafauna across the globe have never seen humans and never adapted the proper defense techniques to deal with us.