You know what else has disappeared from the ocean ever since Man began industrialization? Driftwood. Whenever it storms trees fall down and are dragged down by the river to the ocean. Over time they decompose, sharing valuable nutrients to the nutrient-starved surface. Furthermore they serve as stable foundation for ocean dwelling plants like seaweed to attach themselves to, not to mention all the bivalves. But ever since the industrialization Man has been clearing up the waterways, preventing fallen trees from entering the sea and potentially blocking shipping lanes. And as a result the oceans became just a bit more barren. Furthermore plastic trash has taken the role that driftwood used to have, becoming artificial islands in the ocean with disastrous consequences.
Mmmmm, it would help a bit if you gave a justification for plastic trash having disastrous consequences. I only know of sea turtles mistaking thin plastic bags as jellyfish and plastic rings catching on swimming animals. Surely some animals can swallow chunks of driftwood. Do the new havens offered by these new floating objects outweigh their harms?
@@izaakaz6863 "Furthermore plastic trash has taken the role that driftwood used to have, becoming artificial islands in the ocean with disastrous consequences." To be clear, my position is that plastic trash floating in the ocean has become habitat for the same marine creatures that make use of driftwood. I'm pretty sure driftwood is better for them than plastic, but the plastic is better than nothing. It's a complicated issue whose consequences are not entirely disastrous or even entirely understood. I understood you just fine, I just don't agree with you.
The idea that scientists go into an experiment knowing the outcome is a fallacy. Performing a experiment on a small scale in a lab isnt the same a large scale. Frankly, I'm in the camp that we start a reforestation of multiple areas that have been damaged due to deforestation all over the world.
That’s not as easily done because no matter how hard we try those trees we plant another set of trees of the same nature is cut down at the rate we are going we are going to see another Ice Age which is what happens every time the Earth ecosystem falls apart the Earth has seen six Ice Ages according to scientists so if we don’t do something even experimental fast the Earth will enter a new Ice Age that could last a good million years or worse Earth becomes another Mars
@@zemrocku1287 correct which is why some species should be avoided all together and we should move to using something else like bamboo or hemp to replace them.
Forest is only a small part, and forest can recover from itself fast. Oceans are the primary focus. That's where life starts, that's how we get our oxygem.
@@SeptemberMeadows Yes, and we´re doing it by messing even more with the balance, but since is branded as "positive" many people like you accept it. What a shame, we never learn.
@@manuelalvarez7146 The only thing that I accept is the fact that I will no longer be alive within 10 years from now, so not my problem. There's Doers, Whiners, and DGAF'ers. Chose your stance then live and die by it 🫡
9:09 I don't know what that is a chart of but if the scale on the right is pH then it's showing that the pH has risen over the years not decreased, which means that the ocean is getting more base not more acid. 7,0 is neutral 1.0 is strong acid and 10 is strong base.
It looks like the samples were taken near Hawaii with a change of approximately 0.2 over a sixty year period. An island chain with known active volcanos in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, surely, fossil fuels must the problem!
The red line is the Co2 displayed on the left of the graph, the blue represents pH and the green represents E.C. (electric conductivity) I've seen graphs really similar in my marine biology course!
The current carbon dioxide level in our atmosphere is 0.04 % If these dumbasses are successful in lowering the carbon dioxide to .02% all the trees will start dying..... If they succeed, we all die
We know that during Roman times the temperature was about 3° above what it is today... they were successfully growing grapes for wine up at Hadrian's Wall. That's Scotland if you don't know.
It's the rate of change that's the huge, unprecedented issue and clearly linked to human industrialization. Global temperature shifts over thousands of years is normal and, while still jarring to ecosystems, allows more time for things to evolve- not just species but ecosystem relationships. Global temperature shifts as quickly as we're seeing are abnormal and dangerous, this trend is just getting going as we continue to change our atmosphere unnaturally
@@garysloan9793 Not to mention all the other bits of evidence such as ice cores that show the amount of carbon that has been introduced to the atmosphere which lines up perfectly with the industrial revolution and so on to modern day.
The Romans used a lot of wood especially for military campains. There was a lot less forest than we have now. Things are going in a good direction when it comes to nature preservation except for the headless fixation with climate change and CO2 which is contributing to it in an amount we have very bad estimates for. Experimenting with removing live giving CO2 from the atmosphere and vandalizing landscapes with large bird killing wind mills and huge areas of solar panels that should only be put on roofs or over farms. If we kill our economies by these efforts along the way no one will care about nature any more and just want something to eat and a roof over their head no matter the environmental impact.
"The world will be uninhabitable in five years." *Me tapping my foot.* Either we're twenty~forty years past due, or the bullshit machine is still very much a thing.
You appear to be blind to the fact that LOTS of effort has been made to keep this planet habitable. And as a matter of fact, that "5 years" line was not in this video, which proves you didn't actually watch it
And even those of us with decent backgrounds in science. :3 There's some topics on this channel that I'm already relatively familiar with, but the graphics and explanations help solidify a concept, or give me a jumping-off point to do my own research.
No idea if WATOP sees this comment but he should look into Terra Preta as a way to combat co2 emissions. It's basically super charcoal that the Amazonians used. Coupled this with nuclear energy and all theses issues with emissions can probably be resolved. Probably will never happen because of special interest groups. Same RU-vidr mentioned had also mentioned this with Terra Preta, but no idea how true it is. Apparently oil is also pretty renewable. People kind of went back to Texas to scan the old oil fields and had found that they had been renewed. They have a theory it is something to do with microbes that work like algae, that work differently.
With all the videos I've seen here about introducing one animal to solve another, I don't buy into this plan... Unless I get a bunch of videos about the times that has worked out years later..
Hold up, wait a minute, something ain't right now. Has anyone stopped to consider that CO2 levels are rising nearly equally to the rate at which deforestation is occuring?
But that involves land, people own land, or at least burn then claim that land, then there were all the Australian wild fires and the Canadian wild fires, those would require serious government action to control. Not to even begin mentioning any that are started by humans. Here we have… oceans /could/ absorb CO2, no one owns the oceans, obvious choice for someone that wants to pretend to care about the climate.
It doesn't work that way, deforestation is not the issue. When a tree dies naturally, or is burned to ash, most of the carbon is released back into the atmosphere. Using trees as fuel is green because the carbon is already in circulation. For every tree you burn up you need to grow an equal number of green mass to achieve equilibrium. Therefore it's mostly fine as long as you regrow the tree. However, burning carbon-carrying rocks, coal and oil releases trapped carbon into the atmosphere. Meaning, to achieve equilibrium, you have to not only grow the tree, but bury it underground so the carbon is removed from circulation. To give you an idea, imagine that for every liter of fuel you burn in your car, you have to grow and then bury several cubic feet of lumber.
@@TheLordboki there are studies that have shown that carbon really isn't a big problem. That's why so many progressive green weenies have move to other natural elements, like nitrogen.
"There are huge non climate effects of carbon dioxide which are overwhelmingly favorable which are not taken into account. To me that's the main issue that the earth is actually growing greener. This has been actually measured from satellites the whole earth is growing greener as a result of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. So it's increasing agricultural yields, it's increasing the forests, it's increasing all kinds of growth in the biological world and that's more important and more certain than the effects on climate." ~Freeman Dyson, Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
Reducing carbon concentration in the atmosphere won't solve global warming because we're in the end of an ice age, the pollution we produced in the last two centuries contributed to the greenhouse effect but it would happen sooner or later regardless of human interference. The best thing to do is to start developing resources to help people to survive the change in climate rather than trying to manipulate it without knowing the consequences of it in the future.
Im happy being just right under taxable income if my taxes are used to fund government yacht instead of infrastructural upgrade and social welfare. Its literally on the news here daily.
@@zackcampbell3604 Taxes are THEFT the government is stealing your hard earned money and spending it on their own lavish lifestyles 🤷 it doesn't go to the schools, or the roads or infrastructure when the pass bills for millions to put to schools, roads, and infrastructure..... Think about it....
The only thing about climate change that scares me is knowing there are people arrogant enough to believe they can "save" us by playing with the delicate balance of our ecosystem. Leave it alone or we're going to have a real problem.
First of all, thanks for this fascinating video ! There are just a few things i would like to add or modify. I think the title is not appropriate. It does not seem to match the actual content of the whole video. Then i would like to pinpoint the fact that an ideal and constant temperature would help even more the Great Cause of the environment. Finally, although the whole project was very well introduced here, i think there should be more specific data about these molecules, and how exactly it affects our lives. Congrats for making this video quite enjoyable =]
I graduated in 1984 the window has closed several times since then. When the dinosaurs roamed the earth co2 in the atmosphere was around 1200 ppm we are at around 400 now I think we are ok. 😊
@@davidperrier6149 I am going research that so you saying because the sun was smaller the earth temps weren’t hitting 90 degrees kind of odd because reptiles do not function well in cool temperatures
@@davidperrier6149 Size doesn't matter, only energy output, was energy output 3/4s? Also source, I've spent 30 minutes searching for that factoid and haven't found it.
I actually took many geology classes and am still in college. News flash dinosaurs are completely different than animals today… we aren’t as big as them. Also the environment back then was actually able to handle high levels of co2 and back then was at least 5 TIMES HOTTER. I’m not sure about you but no human can survive in an environment like that now.
Don't you just love how American scientists just love to carry out their experiments with "unknown" consequences in some one else's Backyard, in this case NE Canadian waters.
And that's the point so you have to buy their shitty processed meats and dairy products and meat made in labs 🤢 only certain farms will make it and the rest will either fail due to rain/flood drought or straight up bird flu 🤧
In respects to reflecting back sunlight into space, since all the natural reflecting are melting away, how about if all roof tops world wide are reflective white. Just a thought to see how that would work out for the climate
Good video. I think you should look into the climate cycles. I found that we are not talking more about how the planet has termination events and we are still in the tail end of an ice age and that the planet outside of Antarctica will have no more northern glaciers. Still the more we talk the more we share and the more we learn.
What regular temp, the earth was a snowball at one point and molten hell at another, mankind has walk the earth thru two ice ages so not sure what you mean normal temp
Ah yes, adding salt to rain. That's exactly what we need. To make rain, one of if not THE largest source of potable water on our planet, into saltwater. And let's also block/reduce sunlight. You know, that thing that makes solar panels work and let's plants live. Nothing could possibly go wrong with that idea.
Yes,Increase in CO2 is the main problem leading to global warming & climate change ! Most Inspirational & Unique idea! But Mother Nature seems formidable in her views ! Thanks ❤
I think the big problem is that these scientists want to straight up do large scale tests WITHOUT making any considerations to what could happen. I understand climate change is a problem but the fact little proper thought is put in is incredibly dangerous.
Surely there are ways to conduct these experiments without actually doing it in the ocean, risking damage to the environment? Recreating the conditions within the ocean in a tank or something, and conducting the experiments there. A terrarium of oceanic environments for the purposes of experimentation. That way it can be conducted safely.
Styrofoam pellets on the water surface. What I do know is Al Gore's family lost its oil fields in Venezuela to nationalization. I've always wondered how much that had to do with his concern for global warming. Though we're are at the end of an ice age and soon to begin a new ice age.
If phytoplankton were artificially added, followed by a huge sun spot, the result could be excessive cooling, maybe even in a new ice age. Maybe solar desalination and fog capture could allow massive tree planting in the world's deserts which would increase CO2 absorption. Eventually the transpiration of moisture would lead to cloud formation and increased rainfall, which in turn would allow part of the desalinated water could then water new trees. Probably massive tree planting would be more cost effective than converting to electric vehicles since mining is energy intensive, and every aspect of EV ownership is costly. Natural gas vehicles are more efficient and extremely durable. Recycling metal is extremely energy intensive. Having vehicles that last for 800,000 miles is very significant to energy expenditure! Methane can be added to the fuel, keeping it from being released into the atmosphere. Solar panels require mined rare metals and cannot be recycled economically. In deserts, passive solar using black tanks and mirrors could run desalination plants, with wind power on the coast to pump the sea water into pipes. The tanks and mirrors would provide much needed shade which could allow more plants to grow for livestock such as rabbits or edible giant rats which would not damage the equipment by climbing. Enclosing wires in metal would be necessary regardless because wild rodents also chew destructively. Instead of wasting money on E technology, it would be better to help all nations decrease emissions from coal burning power plants and vehicle engines without pollution reduction features. China, India and some of the larger developing nations cause 90% of greenhouse gases and air pollution. These countries need access to open source economical improvements to their energy infrastructure and machinery. Every dollar spent in those countries would have 10 times more benefit than saddling Western countries with debt for alternative energy sources which are not technologically ready for mass adoption.
My problem with trying to fix our climate is that other people will see this as an opportunity to argue to either go easy on emissions allowing them to increase their footprint. AND/OR becoming relaxed forgetting we most likely hit our limit on how much we can reverse. Usually steering away from emissions free environment. One hand are people trying to repair our world. On the other are people trying to profit off of it as much as possible.
Trying to fix the climate could make things even worse. Earth is a living organism. Any intervention, large or small, can result in natural disasters as the Earth regulates itself. What we need to do is reduce human influence on natural cycles by reducing pollution and minimizing urban encroachment into nature. And of course, focus on how to adapt better to the changes that are coming.
1:26 I'll make myself some coffee, then I'll show you. *Shows us making coffee as proof.* I have two questions for you, mate. 1) What brand of coffee is that? 2) What kind of coffee maker is that?
when yellowstone erupts... the usa may have a new ocean/great lake... idk how that will effect air/weather/global warming or the waters c02 levels*( or its levels of other* stuff).. sorry i talk too much i'll limit my comments to 3. peace and love the content..ty
We will be cold, maybe half of people will die of hunger and or the cold. Animals too my guess. But after, there will be less people on this planet. Wonder how they/them will get taxes, oil, gas or food
A super volcano eruption will block food production for between a year and a decade. The last one was Mount Toba in Indonesia two hundred years ago and the northern hemisphere had two years where it didn’t get above freezing at night in summer.
@@MrI8igmac Earth has not had a below average temperature year since the late 70's, whether a few variables lined up to make one uninhabited area extremely hot is irrelevant
5:30 They don’t want sodium hydroxide poured into the ocean, but yet we use sodium hydroxide on our roads and at our houses during the winter when it snows or when ice forms so all that crap is ending up in the ocean anyway. So really we do need people to start putting a bigger amount to know the actual effects of it instead of the gradual effects of what we’re doing now.
Well we are causing every species to go extinct. There will be a point where growing Algae to preserve the remaining life will outweigh the consequences because those consequences will have already occurred.
@@mrfigaloopierre9610 That's just the opinion of a random dude on the internet. What I have seen so far in the real world rather confirms my suspicion.
@@gzoechi It's not an opinion, humans got where they are by building on the knowledge of other humans. That's how the Roman Empire was built; how European nations conquered the Americas; how electricity was discovered, explained, and harnessed; how smallpox was cured; and how information theory was developed to build computers. You should use more than your own senses, you are one of billions of humans, use the available data collected by scientists around the world to make your opinions.
@@mrfigaloopierre9610 I'm monitoring for years and I only see dumb shit suggestions from fossil fuel and nuclear lobby. I guess there are some smart scientists with good ideas, but nobody will listen to them unless they find a good business model that makes someone billions. Currently it's just politicians taking bribe money from lobbyists who benefit. As long as this works, no good idea will make it even into the news.
i feel like it's stupid to say "it could have major consequences and destroy everything" when what we're doing right now is doing exactly that the burning of fossil fuels should just be banned imo, we should start over and try to find a better way to make energy
Necural energy as well as green energy are the best ways to go. Sadly Green energy has too much waste for it to be the primary source, but necuarl energy is already safe as long as it's done right, meaning now short cuts when building and making sure to not let human error happens.
Alright, here is already the first and biggest problem The main reason why europ has it so nice and cozy is thanks to the golf stream If that stream beceause of climate change will be interrupted, we europeans gonna have another ice age
The big fan for making-hail-storms can't be that small or feeble: instead, genx-intercontinental-turbofan-jet-engine should be the go-to for this concept, the point must be thrusting water-laden-atmosphere up into the cloud-layer to generate a cooling effect & precipitation; & the only precipitation it will generate is hail, 100% guaranteed.
I have done a course that explains in dept the reactions involve with carbon dioxide and the ocean. From the carbonic acid to the dissolved calcium in the water. Yet i still dont believe we humans put out enough carbon to be detrimental. Also wouldnt it be better to grow trees. The limiting factor of tree growth is phosphorus. If the land gets enough phosphorus the increase carbon dioxide in the air should shift the equilibrium to significantly more tree growth.
Considering the amount of material we are dumping in to the ocean trough our rivers, being angry about an experiment with a little rust is beyond stupid. Build a large floating "island" with buoys and chains and have them leech manure slowly and you will see an explosion of life just like you see them around drilling platforms ship wrecks and desalinization exits
I'd feel like something is missing if I didn't say "There putting chemicals in the water to turn thr freaking frogs gay!" If anyone can come up with a ocean version of that do it.
