This is what a glacial lake outburst flood looks like
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- As the climate changes and glaciers melt, a lesser-known threat lurks in alpine areas: glacial lake outburst floods. These events happen rapidly, releasing huge amounts of water with little or no warning. Unsuspecting communities lying in the flood path can suffer serious losses.
Researchers seek better ways to predict these outburst floods and mitigate their danger. Take a hike through the Swiss Alps with glaciologist Fabian Walter to learn about this phenomenon and our ongoing efforts to understand it.
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I pray for all my people in Sikkim. I never thought or anticipated anything like this would ever happen in Sikkim.
I hope everything goes back to normal soon✨.
Inshallah ❤
Love Sikkim. Went there last year. Beautiful place. Even better people.
Sikkim is in my prayers and thoughts. 🤎
glacial lake outburst floods have existed for millions of years. Two examples are the Badlands in South Dakota and the English Channel. The floods happen whenever glacial water burst from melting glaciers. There have been 6 major Glacial ages and outburst flooding have occurred.
Thats unpossible, remember climate change is manmade.
@@darrenc3439 No, it is NOT impossible...at least not to the 'climate change' ( read that as: man made climate change). somehow, they will find a way to blame those ice age floods on you & me. these dis-honest and geologically ignorant people need to team up with the 'Flat-Earthers'...what a show they could put on. I wonder if Greta would be their spokes-person ?
@@darrenc3439 A bit of sarcasm hmmmm?? Climate scientists never said climate change is only caused by humans. Climate change, which is both warming or cooling globally over extended periods of time.
The so called Milankovitch Cycles alter the eccentricity and tilt of the earth which has led to the ebb and flow of the ice ages, but those changes occured over thousands of years. We are between cycles at this point and no warming is imminent from these cycles nor is another ice age coming soon.
In fact the elevated CO2 and CH4 in the atmosphere is likely delaying the next age for an indefinite time. When the ice ages occured CO2 was at 270 ppm and dropped to as low as 190 ppm. But now CO2 pushing up toward 420 ppm making an ice age very unlikely. And no the Grand Solar Minimum won't bring even a little ice age for the same reason.
Science!! Gotta love it!!
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 TLDR
You talk about theories - as if it's reality - while completely oblivious to the obvious: the ice ages are fiction.
You were programmed to believe in idiotic theories from low IQ imbeciles that graduated with their C average in Chemistry, Geology, Physics, Calculus, etc., from low level institutions with minimal entrance requirements - your fake experts graduated from bozo colleges in Idaho, Nevada, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, Iowa, California ... and since the 85 to 115 IQ's are uploaded - online - by Psychologists who tell us this is, at best, the intellectual equivalent of the smart kids in fifth and sixth grades, there's no excuse for you to believe in the theories from those with the mind of a child.
You think the billionaires that control our world also get their "science" from low IQ lunatics or you think maybe the billionaires get their science from the 170 to 200 IQ's that graduated magna cum laude from Oxford and Cambridge?
You think the banksters that control the rigged stock markets and the corrupt politicians want you to know the true Chemistry and the true history of our Earth?
Is that what you tell yourself because you're too adolescent to think like a man?
You've never heard of the public being "dumbed down"?
You've never heard that GMO's are poisons?
You're unaware that the wheat in bread and pasta and pizza crust is soaked in acid - to keep it from breaking in the wind so that the crop yield is higher so the farmers can get more profits - and then you're unaware that the wheat is then bathed in bleach to keep bugs from infesting the flour?
You're unaware that the chicken, beef, pork and seafood are also poisoned with chemicals?
Do you not know that soft drinks are also poisoned with high fructose corn syrup that causes sterility, diabetes, heart disease and a long list of other ailments and diseases?
On and on and on the poisons go which causes the public to be so comatose that they're oblivious to the obvious.
But you enjoy imagining the billionaires want you to know the true science - as they siphon 99% of the world wealth into their control which relegates billions of babies and children to an early death in horrific poverty - worldwide - but you just can't resist believing that the billionaires care so much about you?
The billionaires that control the multi-million dollar publishing houses that print
idiotic "theories" in schoolbooks and university textbooks ... they would never deceive you - right?
They would never lie in their "science" magazines that are printed in dozens of languages - all across our Earth - the billionaires wouldn't like to the "science" geeks in India and China and Europe and Africa and Latin America - right?
The billionaires wouldn't lie to the Americans!!!!
Come on! No one could be so evil as to indoctrinate the dumbed down, drugged up ones with silly theories about ice ages, pangaea, continental drift and continental collision - right?
We're talking about the history of our Earth - no one would lie about that!!!
The Creationists include geologists and they would never lie either - right?
It's all lies, guys - their theories are intentional disinfo - to keep you from realizing the true timeline.
How do we know?
Because the true cause and the true timeline for the massive water erosion across our continents and islands is documented in historic records - by our ancestors - in over a dozen different languages - by those who witnessed it - I don't expect you to believe this because you have the mind of a gullible child that believes what "big brother" has programmed you to believe - you're also programmed to DEFEND your detachment from reality - which is actually your insanity.
Since the true cause and the true timeline for the broken and subducted tectonic plates is also documented - by our ancestors - by those that recorded the Earth Changes, for you - or anyone - to believe in the fiction of pangaea, continental drift and continental collision is to cling to insanity.
You're free to believe what you want - I have no interest in taking away your delusions of grandeur which are your feelings of superiority because you think you know the history of our Earth - but seriously, this is psycho lunacy - cling to it all you want if you don't mind being an imbecile.
Since the timeline and the forces responsible for the stratified layers of the Grand Canyon are also documented, since the timeline and the forces responsible for the Siberian and Deccan Traps is documented, since the timeline and forces responsible for the cataclysms known as Eltanin and Nuuanu are documented, since the timeline and forces responsible for the formation of the Yucatan Peninsula are also documented, since the timeline for the eruption of Yellowstone and dozens of other supervolcanoes - all in one night - as thousands of smaller volcanoes erupted across five continents - is also documented - by our ancestors - in different languages by people more than 16,000 km apart - since their reports are corroborated in Russian, French, Spanish and several other languages by those who witnessed the on-going horror which continued for decades, since the timeline of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets is also documented by our ancestors in numerous different languages, since the timeline for our continents, oceans and mountains is also documented, since Earth's expansion is documented, there's no excuse for you to believe in "scientists say... chemical analysis proves... millions and billions of years ago... "
What corroborates the timeline from their "chemical analysis"?
Nothing
Who owns the multi-million dollar labs the print the timeline for Egyptology?
Who owns the expensive labs that print the timeline for humankind?
You think archaeologists and geologists own the labs?
You know they don't.
Who owns the labs?
Could it be the same creeps that bribe politicians?
Who owns the multi-million dollar museums that prop up fake relics that reinforce their timeline lies?
Museum curators own the multi-million dollar museums?
When will you stop thinking like an eight year old and grow up?
When will you realize you've been deceived all your life and you've been too dumbed down and drugged up to realize it?
If you want to continue to live your life like an idiot, go ahead.
Whenever you're ready to grow a brain, you should toss their insanity into the rubbish where it belongs - the choice is yours.
The Creationists are as detached from reality as the "scientific community" - they are all completely bonkers.
Gosh.. looking at what happened today, this mighty terrifying for the Himalayan region
This has been happening since almost forever ! There's folks living down stream and too bad the Indian government didn't have some sort of warning system in place or someone just monitoring activity upstream. But hindsight is 20/20. I couldn't watch the scene of those poor souls trapped on top of that dam, RIP
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This is the 2nd time I'm watching/hearing about this incident in uttharkhand.... india geologists scientists needs more precautions and have better technology wherever a threat may be for this sort of natural disaster
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Yup. Pakistan right now...
Prayers for Uttarakhand 🙏
Yes
Prayers to a non existing god wont solve the problem. Everyone should take acting to fight against man made global warming
Stay strong Uttrakhand!!
@@observeoutofthebox7806 It doesn't make a difference!
@@subh.joydhar_9423 it doesn't make a difference yet because people think it wouldn't make an difference so they never try to anyway.
And the few who try to make a difference only talk on social media about useless activism.
This has happened on a massive scale in the recent past. Check out glacial lake Missoula which carved the Columbia river gorge.
cosmic rancher...Yes, an excellent example!! The floods shown here are nothing compared what happened with the Missoula floods. Yes, floods plural.
Check out Randell Carlson. It will give you a new perspective.
Check out chamoli floods
Most terrifying video you will find
@Dean Zinter listen to what he said. he said the floods carved it out
@@jaysilverheals4445 The Columbia River is older than the Cascade mountains and was there before the floods. No doubt the floods widened the gorge though as the amount of water was beyond comprehension. Professor Nick Zetner from Washington State University has many programs and lectures on TH-cam on this area and the floods
Nothing compared to prehistoric dam breaks in the American North West at the end of the last ice age.
Indeed, what Randall Carlson postulates is fascinating. The annihilation of an ancient civilisation.
This is not about the reviewing the worst floods from the past.
Not all glacial lakes break out because a "dam" broke up. The glacial lake I was part of group studying drained out the bottom like a tub every year during late summer. One summer a group ventured approx. 50 ft into a tunnel. 2 years later I lead a group past that point and walked along bedrock with the glacier above us for just over 3/4 of a mile. We came out at a seasonal stream bed.
Lol that's just jargon for the common folk. Your lake emptied every year because of ice melt in the summer..pretty much the same as a dam break .
Where was this? If it's high enough to dam it can be plumbed.
Everyone on the planet is subject to some form of natural disaster depending on the geographical area they’ve chosen to settle in. Wildfires, Hurricanes, earthquakes, landslides, tornadoes, avalanches, tsunamis etc…
water is wet
But maybe, check this, if we can become more aware to them we can warn communities to evacuate before the disaster stikes? Ever heard of a tornado siren?
@@anthonybrochier4022 - I live in Georgia, tornados are literally part of spring and summer culture here so.. Yeah… We have tornado sirens. They’re about as loud, annoying and condescending as your comment above.
@@BoCaine is wet
@@Mahalo_83 sure inbred rube
who is hereafter the Uttarakhand incident? please pray for the families of victims.
I am from Peru, and directed the examples you showed in the video. We did around 40 works to reduce the hazard from dangerous glacial lakes, indeed reducing the risk. The procedures consists in reduce the volume of the dangerous lakes according flood modelations and after we complemented with hydraulic structures like reinforced concrete conduits, earth dams and stone channels.
Thank you for your comment. I would like to learn more about glacier interventions.
We get these regularly here in Alaska. We usually call them Jokulhlaups. A couple of our glaciers, like Bear Glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park, break with almost predictable regularity. It's always amazing when it happens, especially in remote places like that where nobody is in the way
Hey that’s my backyard and exactly what I’m talking about, this is not scary it’s nature
Those people who didn’t read call it claimate cheng
I was there on a fishing trip when that happened. It was minor. The Kenai River raised about a foot overnight. I asked how that happened and was told the glacier let loose.
I’m from Pakistan,and here the flooding due to glacial lakes is getting more and more common.yes it happens but never happened at such frequency before.this is not normal
Glacier Bay, Alaska, experienced its most significant glacier retreat from around 1720 to 1800 or so. Nothing even close to that level of retreat has occurred since. This was back when CO2 levels were around 300 parts per million (ppm). Today we are at 420 ppm. How do the climate change alarmists explain this?
Fast forward 2 years after this video was posted and Pakistan is suffering from this🥺😢
I was strolling on bank of Alaknanda a week before & it was very calm. Shocked by what happened yesterday.
Same i was in joshimath on 26th of jan...and exploring the beautiful banks of dhauli ganga..
Oh you mean their cow god didn't save them?
@@rydz656 go get ur ass treated
@@shazyounis6213 Hindus and their temples are safe . Protected by Gods .
Otoh , God has washed all the arabian dirt away in pakistan floods .
This happened today in Uttarakhand, India.
right
Another commenter also said this but some of these look like annual seasonal glacial change, i.e flooding during the spring and growth during autumn and winter; for example glaciers in the Sierra Nevada, probably takes place in the Alps.
Volcanic activity which are volcanic eruptions over glaciers melting them creating lahars, for example Iceland.
Not saying climate change doesn't exist just be aware different conditions can cause glacial melt, including above average winter temperatures.
Pictures are worth a thousand words. Photography of any event is worse without context of the causes of it than uninformed photos.
Thank you for coming to this Ted talk. Probably is garbage what I'm talking about anyway.
Not an expert in climate science, volcanology or any such subjects.
It happened yesterday, 7th feb. in India...it was terrifying...150 peoples still missing
They just had one of these in Iceland but it was from a volcano under the glacier. It warmed up enough to melt some of the ice so the lake drained down the mountain. Wasn’t as bad this time I guess and it’s not looking like that volcano will erupt now but ya never know.
20,000 people died in 1985 in Colombia when the same thing happened.
Thanks a slightly different thing called a lahar
Who was so short sighted as to build in a flood prone area?
I am watching this video after we had a devastating Teesta river flood in Sikkim, 3 days back due to the outburst of South Lhonak lake which then broke a Dam that itself contained more than 5million cubic meter of water. Destroyed more than a dozen of bridges and hundreds of houses. We are still in the process of search and rescue with hundreds of people still missing.
Search glacial lake Missoula and the foods that carved the canyons in western Washington and Oregon for some perspective.
The area where I live owes it's whole geology to a glacial lake flood. The mother of all glacial lake floods in fact. Glacial Lake Missoula was the size of Lake Superior and the dam pretty much all failed at once. Flooded all of Eastern Washington. It's amazing at how all these eons later, one can drive from the Idaho panhandle down through eastern Washington to the Palouse and see evidence of the flooding.
Hi neighbor. I live on the edge of the Willamette Valley, and you can still see the signs that the flood made it all the way to Eugene. If you get high enough up, you can look down on the valley and see dozens of smallish tear drop shaped hills that show that the water went south very quickly. The area around Eugene has piles of rock, dirt, and debris from the water sloshing back and forth at the southern end of the valley. I'm fascinated by the raw power of nature, and how it shapes our world.
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@@user-fc2xg5iz7y : Ok, you got the attention of my curious side - I don't know what "208" means...
@@greenbird777 area code. neighbor.
Hello there my fellow sikkimese people🙋🏻
Hello
Now it's been two days our beautiful sikkim is also facing.. its the small state from india...
Ice dams were never stable, as ice deforms under pressure and moves. Natural dams suffer the same problem as most dams: Overflow. A natural dam is not planned to handle overflow. So once overflow happens, the top of the dam gets destroyed and opens a more and more becoming bigger gap that finally leads to the wide opening and total dam failure. This is nothing specific. It always happened in the past and is not a new phenomonon.
Doesn't make it any less of a threat. With any disaster it doesn't particularly matter what the cause is rather than what effect it will have. Everyone gets hung up pointing the finger arguing, I propose we prepare for the worst rather than getting caught with our pants down.
Huh, that's funny, every beaver I ever met disagrees with you, in fact the beaver I was just talking to says that you are un-natural, not him. Then again we'll never meet someone going to university that wants to know what the beaver knows and that is the problem. Too bad the best these brilliant minds can come up with is a tax, all of them too dumb to read the little booklet "The true cause of global warming" by the one and only authority on the matter. Then again that would make the university degree appear as worthless as it truly is and that'll never happen.
@@philipm3173 the question is not whether it is a threat or not, but rather, is it naturally occurring (ie. not man-made). Common sense leads me to believe that these glacial lakes have been normal since the beginning of time.
The dam is not the new phenomenon, the intensity of the floods and the shortening of the time between floods as well as the unpredictability of said floods is what is being presented in the video and reaserched in order to better protect and evacuate communities.
@@joeyelton407 See but that isn't the prime concern. Yes it is important to know whether these are anthropogenic but it's threat level and the indication it has on the climate are the primary concerns.
Nature is so natural
Water is so wet .
Fire is hot.
Maybe really means maybe not
Cheese is so cheesy.
Ohh, durka durka
We are enjoying life now because of past global warming. Many of us are living in areas that used to be glacial and covered in perpetual snow.
Thank goodness there was a warming which has allowed the world to flourish. The Earth is always cooling down or heating up.
Man it's almost like it happened before......
Another natural phenomenon similar to Glacial Flood or Land Slides is Debris Flow. The cause is weakening of the earth, major reason due to mining, deforestation and construction excavations. In the Western Ghats of India especially in state of Kerala, this is repeating every year more frequently from 2015. In the regional language Malayalam we call it "Urullpottal" (ഉരുൾപൊട്ടൽ). Inhabited areas are affected in a large scale.
When was earth’s warranty up? Didn’t it say in the fine print that the climate and temperature were guaranteed to remain constant forever? These occurrences are so common one might think they had occurred many times over geologic time.
You are correct. However, the data shows that glacial melt has intensified greatly in the last several decades. Meaning they are melting at a speed greater than before the industrial era.
Oh good god. This has been happening for about 12,000 years, since we exited the last interglacial period, a process we are still in today for those who are keeping track of such things.
This happened today in Juneau, Alaska
You act like this is the first time this has happend,,, guess what it aint the first and it wont be the last
This video meant to be any kind of review of the past, but a study of the problem NOW which has accelerated because of warming climate.
If you talk to any of native peoples around the world they will tell that they have no history passed down from ancestors of any changes that have occured this quickly meaning within a few generations.
@@johnperic6860 Really? In what way?
@@johnperic6860 So if it isn't climate change then what it is that is causing such changes in our climate? And why have those changes come about much more frequently in the 20 years?
The Arctic ice cap has receded faster, the hurricanes have gotten larger and more powerful both because of the warming of oceans again because the atmosphere is warming so fast.
In fact I see the changes myself and I see the correlation to climate change.
Prayers to those that lost their lives and to the families that lost loved ones in this tragedy. Glacial lakes are a thing/feature of this planet and have been around since its formation/creation and (for better or worse) glacial lakes are prone to on-going cyclical natural earth changes over time. Unfortunately, if humans continue to build and live near these areas, such terrible and unfortunate tragedies will continue to occur :'(
stop makin sence
@@dianahillberg1721 - or sense ;) ;) ;)
@WJK: Or since!! 😂
Something that has been happing for millions of years 🤷♂️
but they need to make money on natural occurrences and life cycles of this planet and blame it on man.
The fact that you comment that, shows that you didn't understand it. Watch it again. It might help
Don’t use common sense with these people
@@alessandro9509 seems like you’re the one that doesn’t understand
Happening Lonny not happing
Around What year did glaciers start to melt??
Not to forget the massive flood happened in Uttarakhand, India, in 2013 when Chorabari Lake or Gandhi Sarovar (Lake) broke and came down with massive power destroying simply everyting in its path. Uttarakhand is still in the process of damage repair!
Yes, I agree, glacial lake outburst floods have existed for millions of years. It is a cyclic phenomenon caused by the cooling and warming cycles of the earth. We are currently in a warming cycle following the last ice age, or cold cycle. It will continue to cycle for millions of years in the future.
Funny you should say "millions of years". The last time CO2 levels were over 400ppm was 4 million years ago. I highly doubt that this cycle will continue in many regions in the next 100 years, because many regions won't have the glaciers that used to be there.
And how was the biosphere doing at that time? How about when it was 2500? Now look at how the biosphere was after cosmic impacts. What should we be worried about?
@@azchris1979 Thank you.
@@azchris1979…..you obviously don’t know shit about gardening. CO2 makes shit grow like mad!! Look at garden shops….they actually sell CO2 generators for this very thing. So someone has lied to you, my friend.
@@Herkimer_Snerd - You keep highly doubting it but it doesn't mean it's not true. Your religion is climate change.
This has been going on for millions of years
These events have been happening for millions of years
This has been happening since the end of the last ice age, we're lucky we were round when the real big ones were happening.
Yeah this is some bullshit about the climate change, it’s been happening for a very long time, yall lucky they small, they used to be anywhere from 100ft to 400ft walls of water!
@@joseywilds3133 Climate changes. What's your point?
Glacial lake Mazulla
@@ponesty Check our Randell Carlson. He's doing some pretty intense podcasts about the scablands.
@@joseywilds3133 - it’s not bullshit, but it’s not accurate either. Too many people have an agenda. Once they have an agenda they lose objectivity. You and me included. You want to believe humans have nothing to do with climate change. I wish it were true, but it isn’t. Was the climate change inevitable, most likely. It would have taken a few thousand years to have what has happened in the last 100 or so years. We are polluting the air, the jets (huge issue no one wants to accept or acknowledge) industry, vehicles, sooo many vehicles. Morons who think Rollin coal is cool, people that can’t afford to maintain their vehicles properly, phenomenal increases in the price of vehicles such that old vehicles are kept on the road longer, natural releases of methane, CO and CO2,,,,, it all goes together, but human “industrialization” has definitscrewed things up. So we accelerated the process. If you are alive today and reading, you may not notice much change, but the next 2 generations are going to notice in some horrible ways. Easy for me to say, “oh well, not my problem”. It’s gonna be your kids problems and especially your grandkids problem.
Times are changing, like it or not, and we sped up the process. Did NOT cause it, but certainly sped it up. Think,,,,, the glaciers in Alaska used to stretch as far down as Montana USA, completely covering Canada, the 2nd largest country by land mass in the world!! Almost all of Russia was covered!! It was enormous and the oceans were much, much lower than they are today. There was a land bridge between North America and Europe!!! Now it’s a 100+ mile wide straight a couple of hundred feet deep!!
Climate change is inevitable. Human caused climate change wasn’t, but needed to be addressed over 50 years ago. We are basically at the point of no return.
Yep, climate has never changed ever until humans.
(Crossed arms aggressively) climate was perfect, no disasters till cow farts and diesel engines came around.
@@fire_n_ice1984 yep humans invented cows and volcanos
Glaciers are melting world wide? Is that why PBS put out a documentary about the growing dangerous glacier on Mt. saint helens?
There is a town in Chilean Patagonia called la junta that is really a shooting gallery, has steep mountains around it with glaciers, a few years ago this happened with one of them and killed half the town, it's expected that several other of the towns glaciaciers will do the same during this century yet people will not relocate.
This is so devastating to the natural ecosystems in the path of the wreck. It’s so sad that the sun reflecting glacial material is melting.
Keep up the great work. In Mt Rainier they had water falls burst last year. I heard 30% of their glaciers melted that year.
Settle down. Glaciers melting is literally part of nature and has nothing to do with co2 levels.
This is what exactly happened in Uttarakhand India 1 day ago.
No the temperature is not rising. It varies since the very beginning...
about 1:14 i heard something like "there is often no warning when a damned glaciat lake will burst"!!
Welcome to reality. This isn't the first time. You have no choice but to go with the flow..
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A million years ago that area was under 2 miles of ice and SCI AM has tunnel vision during this inter-glacial period.
So are you saying the ice is melting because it is a interglacial period? If that were the case then why did glacial ice begin to melt much more rapidly beginning in the mid 70's and especially since 2000?
It is not just SciAm saying that glaciers are melting faster, but climate scientists all over the world. The Arctic Ice Cap is also retreating more rapidly as are Greenland and Antarctica. They are melting much faster in response to the warming climate and they have the evidence to prove it!!
The climate will always be changing. It's up to us to adapt.
Wasn't it glacial floods that carved out most of the Grand Canyon,,And Niagara valley too..
"Climate Change"....So where does the idea that climate is a static thing come from? Climate is always changing.
I believe the correct term is Anthropomorphic climate change.
Caused by industrialising nations. It’s how the massive release of carbon from the burning of coal and oil has skewed the natural climate cycles which, yes you are right, would change anyway. The problem that anthropomorphic climate change presents is the speed at which it has happened.
My advice.. move to higher ground and colder climes if you aren’t there already.. preferably nowhere near a glacial lake 🤩
Just for perspective, Earth’s glaciers have been melting for 12,000 years.
Solution: when out hiking, stay out of the valleys and always have an 'exit' plan in mind (e.g. which side of the valley you can run up to and get to a reasonable height to avoid any lake coming your way). As for 'communities'...I live in the USA and wouldn't call any place like Louisiana home. Why? I know the weather there. Don't live whether there is a natural flood plain. Don't live in the path of something that you can predict may reasonably happen year. Hurricanes...people can typically ride them out and are hardheaded. Floods come into the house. Big difference. Some hurricanes bring huge floods, which is why they tell them to evacuate and they refuse and end up getting rescued on their roof. Solution: don't live in the path of glacial lakes.
0:54 I don't know think anyone has been killed in glacial floods in Iceland 🇮🇸 for decades. I can't recall any deaths.
Hush, people need to be scared so the liberal politicians can get away with the carbon tax and line their own pockets with the proceeds.
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Natural climate change is so hard to track, since the cycles are usually so far apart.
Not really, historical record tells us the time scales for natural climate change.
The problem is that we are seeing changes that natural climate change would take eons to achieve, happening in centuries or even decades. That acceleration is solely due to human interaction.
your going to ruin the narrative, climate change is supposed to be manmade.....
@paulgarcher With the man Bashing/Hate in Australia right now, neither do I.
Bring on the next ELE asteroid strike I reckon.
Check out the Greenland Ice Core Data.
@@petert3355 that's not true.
Those who are saying this theory is nonsense, wait stupid savants.
Today's glacier burst in himalayan Region of UTTRAKHAND INDIA is an eye opener for everyone
Man-made issues or not, glacial lakes/dams have been forming, filling, draining, refilling and also BREAKING for a long, long, longggggggg time... ever since the planet was formed/created and glaciers 1st appeared.
Not really, nature has been doing this for million of years.
In north sikkim(india) the Himalayan belt, on oct 4 early morning, the south lhonak glacier lake burst out and flash floods occurs causing major losses of humans, dams, bridges roads
Here in the Tropics we got No such Icy Problems.
Some Say I Live on the Rim of a Volcano - and yes, it Smokes Sometimes - but I know it’s Actually just a Little Island so I don’t Get why they Say I Live on top of a Mountain.
Temps have been fluctuating for millions of years. Though impressive, this is nothing new.
Climate is getting cooler, not warmer.
Attic sea ice is a record levels too.
Umm no. But keep living in your fantasy land. Hundreds of glaciers exist within a 50 mile radius of where I live and all of them are getting smaller... rapidly so. 10 warmest years on record all happened in the last 15 years. Not sure where you get your data but you might want to try somewhere else
Because ice breakage is being transported into said sea. It might feel cooler where you're from, but it's not a representation of global temps. In fact, whilst we're still technically in an Icehouse event, we're not headed to downward temperatures.
When nature Show his power then no one's idea worked 😮
Man is not in control of or responsible for these glaciers melting.
Uk's been getting colder winters for 13 year now lol. This year (2021) we had our coldest day ever recorded looooool. Load of bs
@@danstrayer111 think you are reading a bit to literally. I understand it fine thanks. Our winters have been colder for at least 10 years now.... that is climate! Maybe pipe down and shut the f up you mug
Happens since millions of years - and climate change was and will always be natural. What has changed is that now more people are affected. We got to learn to live with it as it is insignificant what we think we might be able to do "preventing" climate change.
What has changed is we're speeding it up and influencing it.
Randall Carlson: "boy, do i have a story for you..."
Breaking glacial lakes wiped out towns in Northern Europe and recently. It's akin to building a city at the base of a volcano. The time will come.
earlier covid and now, glacier melt, science always triumphs...
At only 98%.:
Stay scared......send them your tax dollars and they will save you.
@@darrenc3439 and they'll fly in their private jet to ensure we all know they're serious about addressing the issues at hand, whilst telling us we are evil for not saving the planet 😄
Some of these deaths weren’t caused by glacial lake floods, especially the ones in Iceland.
Rather, what happens in Iceland is their glacial floods occur due to volcanic activity. The glaciers in Iceland often form on top of volcanic peaks in the region, which, when magma intrudes into the crust, will melt the ice lying overtop of the volcanic vent and cause a rapid release of glacial water downstream. These are called jökulhlaups.
Some of this, if not a large portion of these, tend to not be due to climate change, but from natural forces beyond our control. In fact, some of these look like they’re Lahars caused by volcanic activity rather than glacial melt.
You can not change the weather or temperature, so it would be better to plan for what is coming instead!!
Yes we should take better care of our planet. 100% agree. Also stop hugging trees.
Good work Walter, understanding this violence in nature might safe a lot of people.
But understanding this, also means you should have a well studied past.., doesn't it?
Then why on Earth, do you count people, or Humans; outside of that what you call Nature?
There are no two different facts here, Humans ARE Nature.., they are ONE!
Your one of the first people I have heard acknowledge this other than myself. I tell people this and they don't understand. Humans hold themselves separate but we aren't. We are nature. We were always nature. Even our machines are nature. We are an animal that manipulates it's environment. We build. Not all animals do but some others do as well. Beavers are a perfect example. They alter the environment sometimes causing floods from their creations. Many tend to see beavers as nuisance animals. Except they aren't. They are doing what they were built to do. People are doing what we were made to do. We aren't a mistake rather your religious or not. From a purely scientific standpoint we are not a mistake. Nature/life doesnt make mistakes it evolves. We evolved to have this cognitive ability. Given the structure of life, DNA, and the majority common code in every organism it seems life is a pretty universal and likely built the same everywhere in the universe. It's likely if we ever find intelligent humanoid life elsewhere a comparison of our DNA may just find we are the same animal evolved in a different set of environmental factors. Point is we are part of it not separate so once people realize this them perspective changes. It's like people say all the time climate change is going to kill the earth or end the world. No earth will be just fine. It will be bad for us not earth. The world will go on. We won't. But even then climate change can't kill us we will adjust as we always have. As a matter of fact most likely it will benefit us. Life likes warmth not cold.
@@adamtedder1012 agreed.
We are Life itself.
And Earth has no environmental problem.
Humans do!
If Humans cannot handle the possibilities of the brain, Then Life takes a better way, as it always takes the only best direction, and time is nothing.
Life cannot misuse Life like we do, we have to wake up.
cheers Adam!
Global temps have been rising since the ice age. And people shouldn’t build in flood planes.
We are still in the Ice Age.
@@jeffpittman8725 were are in a green house time. nothing we can do can change that and the earth has been doing that from the beginning. relatively we are still in the ending of the ice age. once all the ice is gone we can be considered a true green house period.
So why are they spraying us?
@@enduser63 Who is spraying us? Be specific!
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 the list is far too long,start with pilots ,the chemical formula patent holders,many foundations, research geoengineering .
Fascinating. What sort of rates of erosion could result in a valley below a large cyclic glacial outburst?
I'm interest because that is the geology of my valley - the Wye Gorge is a deep incised meander through limestone with at least three cyclic lakes at damming choke-points about 50-100 km downstream of the polar icesheet in the Younger Dryas, and with evidence of overbrimming the valley sides leading to reverse flows draining into another river, the Severn. Orogeny was by homeostatic uplift downstream of the icesheet, then by rebound as the icesheet retreated.
The two rivers are, in effect, braids of a single single river draining what was once a very flat catchment. They arise in the same bog on Plynlimon, and drain into the Bristol Channel with their confluence near Chepstow.
Climate has always changed on earth. Sometimes faster sometimes slower. With or without human interference.
Nothing in earth is static. Ever.
Whether we like it or not. And human cannot stop it. Ever. Remember we are part of earth not the other way around.
Wait until the Beaufort Gyre releases and then tell me about your warming temperatures.
Wisconsin dells was formed by glacial outbursts. It happens rather quickly, not millions of years like we were taught in school.
Good info and video
More common as the climate changes as if these haven't happened for MILLIONS of years...... We live in a very calm climate right now
Global temperatures are rising yet there are literally places inside of the US that have growing glaciers
glaciers are growing everywhere.
yes some are growing but almost all of them are retreating
@@solanskotnes6652 you cant have it both ways. Climate change is just that. Its been changing for millennia. It will change again.
Where?
Mount St. Helens has a glacier that is growing.
Did they change the definition of climate change again?
Its fluid, just like the narrative, and they wonder why no one believes them.
Yeah, hot or cold. Doesn't matter. Maddow said that years ago.
Nature can fulfill our needs, not our greeds...
Thanks
I've traveled extensively around the alps and try to visit as many glaciers as I can before they disappear. Seeing them in real life and how much they have receded in recent years is very sad.
Maybe humans should figure where to build and stay out of the line fire. I mean really, just because it’s never flooded doesn’t mean it shouldn’t.
Nobody ever talks about how when things are colder, mankind suffers its bitterness. All we can do is pay attention and watch the changes and ADAPT to those changes. The Sun controls EVERYTHING that happens in its neighborhood, and the Earths climate is driven by its actions, along with the configuration of the continents and the ocean current circulations and volcanic activity (or lack of it). Humans are fleas on a dogs back when it comes to having a measureable influence outside of the gigatons of plastic we dump in the oceans or the volatile chemical spills or the catastrophic nuclear disasters. I will say the Russians put on a master class in trying to be a bigger influence by damming up and then draining the 4th largest inland sea and turning the area into toxic desert waste land that blows toxic dust storms across the cotton fields they grow with the water they stole from the Aral Sea.
Nice to see someone who doesn’t mindlessly blame humanity for climate change, but recognizes that the sun is THE driver of climate.
@@marcmelvin3010 Amen to that brother. Its amazing how blindly alot of people just go along and believe in this nonsese. And the worst dodge in all of this from the world of "science" is how Earths magnetic field is weakening which will cause the very extreme weather that we see occuring. Set the record for global lightning strikes last year. And the media does not speak a thing of this. Its somehow humans fault, oh and don't forget the cow farts... wooof.
I have not heard of any deaths here in Iceland. Glazial floods are highly monitored and never come as a surprice.
Earth being Earth, she doesnt need us,but we need her..
Why can't you talk about glacial lake drainage and glaicialology with out inserting the BS narrative of global warming.
And this has been around long before man... Who do you blame for the melting of the ice age.... Cave men with Cadillac SUV's
Samuel Anselmo
Yes...you are finally understanding...good for you..!! And just not the caveman SUV'S, but all of those camp-fires...oh my gosh...what environmental destruction those un-caring cavemen caused...!!!!
@@marbleman52 more like the volcanos that were active at that time... And there are getting more active now
Glacial lake Missoula: lol, get out of my way!
Alot of hydrologic data suggests that no amount of ice could actually hold back a body of water the size of lake mizzoula. The channeled scablands could have been formed in one massive outburst flood. It was most likely a meteor or something hitting the ice sheet during the last ice age. A meteor strike would explain the younger dryas as well
@@Cheesusrice69222 my understanding after finding out as much as I could about the Missoula glacial floods was there were many of them, perhaps in the dozens, of varying sizes over a period of 2000 years. The Cordilleran ice sheet was there for a very long time, and the Clark Fork river wouldn't have presented much of a challenge to being dammed by it. A direct strike by a large meteor certainly could have disrupted the dam, but would have left geological evidence I would have thought, as it was only 10-15000 years ago? Interesting.
@@nevillebartos2858 there is evidense of a direct meteor strike onto the ice sheet which was miles thick instantly vaporizing water into the atmosphere spiking temperatures ending the younger dryas . No crater would exist with this model.
Also the layers of leoss that we see in channeled scablands from the backwash of the floods would suggest that there was hardly anytime between the sedimentary layers. There are no traces of grass, plants, saplings or anything. If there were years between these deposits wouldnt at least grass grow?
Geocosmicrex is a great channel. Randall carson goes into great depth with the channeled scablands and the floods and is pushing the science where it needs to go. Ge actually has a lecture on the ice damn and how it is majorly flawed
I used to intentionally block streams with dams made of sand and rock, and mimicked the process of outburst floods.
lo… this propaganda is so ridiculous. Man made interglacial periods…. Ok geniuses
When their employment relies on research they will say anything to keep that money rolling in....just look at that scientific and elaborate drawing that took him years to complete....
Dynamite management of these ice damns. Similar to the way they have mitigated the risk of avalanches by using cannons and explosives. Glacial lakes have presented a hazard forever.
It's moronic to think we have ANY effect on this planet's global atmosphere.
It is better than never later....save nature you will be saved.....else should b ready for such calamities....
always makes me wonder if the before and after pictures are just winter then summer when ice naturally melts
No they aren't and besides glaciers could never melt that fast from winter to summer.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 well I was more specifically referring to polar ice sheets which do melt seasonally
@@electric_photon4660 The Arctic ice is melting back further and further far below the normal retreat if the past.
This has documented by sites such as the National Snow and Ice Data Center or NSIDC. They have been documenting the retreat of the Arctic ice cap for decades. Last September the Arctic retreat was the second lowest on record. This retreat in combination with the warming Arctic results in a destabilization of the climate for the rest of the planet.
The Arctic ice is in retreat because the Arctic is warming at least twice as fast as the rest of the planet. This warming has destabilized the jet stream causing that jet stream to dip south frequently bringing with it extreme cold like hit Texas and the south this winter or creating a blocking high pressure ridge that caused the hurricane Dorian that hit the Bahamas in 2019 to stop for 48 hours causing catastrophic damage to the northern islands.
See what you opened up by mentioning the Arctic ice retreat as if what is going on now as normal?!
A lot of people are good at Photoshop.
Never stop being afraid. The sky is falling, the sky is falling.
Please figure out how to control volcanos.