It’s pretty typical for someone ignorant who doesn’t know what wind really is , rejoice .. at last came someone to explain it all for you , now you know what wind really is
Maybe because it was a relatively complex explanation for a banal phenomenon which every knows since the age of like 1. And because the name for the explanation was told at the end.
''''''''Up next: How Geography turned the Amazon into a desert. ''''' that should have been the question in this video when it came to the Sahara dessert what geographic forces turned the Sahara area into a desert ? asking why the Sahara area was a green land is like asking why Georgia is green it's normal for an area to be green
Climate is so complex and your videos explain things in a good manner. Which my geology classes were as informs and interesting as this video. Lucky TH-cam exists to provide a platform for this content
The best thing I like about this video is the number of different sciences that came together to discover things like this. Astronomy, geography, metrology and more came together to make sense of the complex interactions. It really shows how important it is that different sciences come together to explain things one discipline can’t alone.
The different sciences, are like the departments in a Hospital - none talk to related speaciltys and they don't like "push-back" from patients, who aren't supposed to know much about themselves, in that area of our lives. Must be a bit disconcerting, when they start practiceing & find that the "corpses" are animated & Do, from time to time, get annoyed, and "vent off" at the arrogance of an ignorant MD.
Rap Aden راب عدن So what do you call that particular desert? Because there has to be a way to differentiate between that desert and the Kalahari or the Gobi.
Although without the drying of the Sahara, human civilization might not have existed or taken longer to exist given the fact that Ancient Egypt, the world's first civilization was created due to it drying up.
@@MrMisanthrope_ That's unlikely. Adding organics increases porosity when the soil is clay rich but does the opposite when its excessively sandy. So in effect, plants more or less push permeability toward an equilibrium as opposed to extremes.
Talking about side-effects of global warming: "The degree to which this happens is, of course, up in the air." Hey! I see what you did there. Clap clap!
May I ask, if Earth's cycles have such effects on forests and deserts: How would other parts of our planet have looked during those cycles? i.e. maybe South America was -desertier-?
Deserts usually form at a specific latitude on the west coast of continents. A true desert that stretches from coast to coast is actually unusual. The Andes mountains would probably halt whatever desert tried to stretch east, inland.
@@tylerdurden3722 Actually it`s the atmospheric hadley cell that`s beneficial in creating and maintaining desserts as these atmospheric packets create sinking air that prevents clouds to develop - The majority of our world desserts are under those Hadley Cells.
@@Cl4rendon yes, exactly. That's why a mountain range is what usually stops deserts from going further east. Because those mountains push up that air and causes relief rain. (Except for a short dry spot)
We looked at this exact topic recently in ecology It's refreshing to see thing's like the Milanković cycle and specific heat capacity explained in such a simple and interesting way Cheers
I think this would also effect the Amazon as well since the winds of the desert Sahara and the mountains of Chad blast nutrients and particles to the Amazon helping the rainforest grow
But the great part of this cyclical understanding is that the Amazon can clearly survive and thrive (species wise) without such nutrients on their "regular" basis. They are clearly a less important factor and more incidental than we all first thought. The resiliency of nature and for ecosystem to adapt is the impressive factor here.
Well...sifting aside the mythological embellishments, it wasn’t a terrible theory? We kinda expect the same thing to happen (and have evidence of it) through directly human-related activity (like burning up fossil fuels and melting ice packs that bounce back solar radiation, and of course burning down massive forests and overgrazing/overfarming grasslands, and punching holes in the ozone layer which, you know, also deflected radiation)
@@anonymousfellow8879 The "holes in the ozone" are natural by products of lack of sunlight... do you think it's a coincidence they appear at the poles and worsen during the 6 months of the year when that pole is in perpetual winter? Ozone needs UV to be generated in the first place!
It would be great to see a future video that describes how all the continents climate and vegetation would have changed during the african humid period.
How will you expect him to learn how to get up if he doesn't fall, i learned how to drive when i was 13 years old my father used to let me drive the car on rural roads when we exit the city so that we don't endanger anyone two years later i got my license faked being 16 but who cares 1 year difference is not big deal now i drive between cities as long distance uber driver
"The hour (apocalypse) won't happen until the land of the Arabs go back to being full of meadows and rivers." _Muhammad peace be upon him. More than 14 centuries, Muhammad, peace be upon him, had made two prophecies. First, that the land that the Arabs have known for tens of thousands of years to be a waterless desert was full of greenery and running surface water. Second, that that same unforgiving empty land will again be full of greenery and rivers. NONE at that time and geographical area could have known that. Especially that Muhammad, peace be upon him, was illiterate. NONE could have imagined such a thing let alone to predict it. Muhammad, peace be upon him, was called a magician, crazy and a liar, yet he was never apologetic and went with full force in what he believed in. He relentlessly preached the oneness of God and ridiculed the pagans despite all prosecution. He made all kind of unimaginable claims at his time, despite being laughed at, but it's all coming to be true. With global warming and a new ice age, the desert will again become full of life. But at that time the Quran yet again miraculously describes space as seamless fabric that at the end of times will rip open. Then nothing will help a human being but his good deeds. Or he will be recycled.
@@sonoflethal you don't have to believe me random person, you just need to understand the message i want to deliver, which is humans learn from trial and errors, and one more thing i don't seek news from one source you should try it your worldview will change drastically.
Hey did you buy the land in Sahara yet, my nephew says his bones will become dust and mixed in the same desert and if after 13000 yrs trees grow one can find him in some form of carbon. Just remeber his name too is Dan... After 13000 yrs hope we can have Dan Carbon :-)
Unfortunately, the region you pointed out in India is experiencing rapid desertification due to climate change. Rainfall has been reduced by up to 65 percent in some places, and land that used to be suitable for agriculture is no longer arable. Lots of people in villages from that region are starting to suffer, because enough food can't be grown to support their lives :(.
Add the Libyan under water resources and you could turn this into the worlds largest grow zone. Grand Solar Minimum northern latitude crop losses are replaced with N. Africa. Great slide at 7:45
Not sure if you could turn it into a grow zone so easily considering the fact that I seriously doubt sand is nutrient rich enough for plants. That being said with modern gmos, growing techniques and fertilizers, it might just be possible. Still it'd be better to invest all that tech into the parts of Africa we are sure are habitable already seeing as much of the continent's agricultural land has still not been realized to it's full potential due to a lack of wealth, infrastructure and stable governments, unfortunately
@@TheRedKing247 That's basically California Central Valley 100 years ago. Diverting Colorado River into it and now it is one of the most productive region in the world.
The word Sahara means desert in Arabic. So when people say Sahara Desert, it sounds like "desert desert" :) By the way, it is called "The Great Desert" in Arabic.
I remember an old teacher in the middle school, she said: A long time ago the sahara desert was green but the roman empire took it down cus they need it do the empire (ships and stuff) and that memory has follow me past the years. A week ago the green sagara came to my mind again and today i found this, thanks for the info!! :)
@@johncampbell829 certainly not, not saying i know whats right here or what to do about what ever situation there may be, but the climate changes without our help regardless and one thing is for certain global warming is about 1000 times better than global cooling. Mans always been obsessed with imposing its will on nature, but at some point natures gonna hit us with a force we cant handle and theres nothing we can do about it. Not saying climate chsnge is that force, the debate around it just exemplifies our arogance.
@@Prof.GoodFeels88 when I was a kid growing up in the 70's ppl were being freaked out by those claiming the ozone layer had a hole the size of Texas in it because of hair spray and AC units...aerosols in other words...we're still here 45 years later...guess they must of fixed it...lol...for those that read the Bible these changes were already prophecy in 750 B.C....
@@johncampbell829 the hole is nearly gone, to be fair, and the hulabaloo about it wasnt about climate change... it was because the ozone layer is our last defense against the solar and cosmic radiation
From "Online Etymology Dictionary": Savannah: "treeless plain," 1550s, from Spanish sabana, earlier zavana "treeless plain," from Taino (Arawakan) zabana. The Tainos were a Native American people.
@@kevinbyrne4538 Could be that the Arabs got the word from the Spaniards. Not very surprising since the Iberian peninsula has a history of Islamic conquest. Interesting etymology. Anyway, the Arab word is also Savanna.
@@arjunsatheesh7609 -- In Europe, the Taino word "zavana" became the Latin word "zauana" (in old writing, u and v were often written and printed using the same letter) in 1516 and then that became the Spanish word "çavana" in 1519. So the word would have to have been introduced into Spain after the last Arabs were driven out of the Iberian peninsula (1492). The Arabic word for savanna is "alsaafana", which is very close. Unfortunately it appears that no etymological dictionary of Arabic exists.
This transpiration process is indeed very important This is the reason of why so many areas in central south america are moist and with seasonal rains, instead being a desert as it should be The transpiration of the amazon forest creates a giant 'air river' trought the continent, that transport moisture of the forest to the southern parts of the continent
Don't know it either but judging by his "seas are deserts" video that even contributed to the "adding iron to the sea to make the carbon pump more effective" video i think he would love to.
@@johnperic6860 Semiarid regions which support a mixture of shrubs, grasses and short trees. They're very common in the leeward side of mountainous tropical islands, and in continents at transition areas to warm deserts where external factors discouraging trees aren't as strong. These places get a lot more precipitation (15-30 inches or 375-700 mm per year) than true deserts (less than 10 inches or 250 mm per year), but the high evapotranspiration rates mean that most of the rain that does fall evaporates rather quickly. Some examples: Guánica dry forest, southwestern Puerto Rico media.metrolatam.com/2018/10/11/14965610422b3b2eb84db-4fdde950f89531908eb3db04857cd430.jpg Hawaii has multiple dry forest areas, and they hold the bulk of Hawaiian biodiversity www.sscnet.ucla.edu/geog/tdfpacific/hawaii.html The bulk of forests in Australia qualify as dry--either tropical to the north or Mediterranean to the southeast and southwest www.ecolsoc.org.au/hot-topics/australias-seasonally-dry-tropical-forests-need-attention Mediterranean forests and scrublands are present in the warm temperate latitudes on the western sides of continents. Areas like these include the western USA (especially California), southwest South America (mainly Chile), South Africa, the Maghrib (coastal areas of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia), southern Europe (a nearly continuous belt from Portugal to Turkey), and various pockets in Australia. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Nahkealehtinen_kasvillisuus.png
@7:20 holyshit. As an Indian I am very grateful that India gets monsoon. We are at the same level as sahara and saudi Arabia. Their area is whole desert while we have a lot of greenery. Thanks Monsoon.
Thank you for mentioning that the Arabian Peninsula used to be fertile as well! Most often, an average person who remmbers anything about history thinks that the "Fertile Cresent" was just between the Tigris and Euphrates. Desertification is an amazingly destructive phenomenon
Even the Bible barely mentions deserts, I think region was even greener 2000 yrs ago. For example north Africa was the bread basket of the Roman empire... can't imagine it now.
*cmiiw The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world, while Taiga or Boreal Forest (Scandinavia, Russia and Canada) IS the largest forest in the world
@@waspjournals41 yes, I googled it and it is universally accepted as the largest biome in the world and not a single continuous forest while some still insisted that it is the largest forest
This is an incredibly high quality video. Entertaining and informative the entire time, great job Atlas. It's not too often you come across one of these.
Weirdly enough, climate change has already caused the Nile to overflow much more during the rain season that it normally does. Sudan has experienced the most rainfall recorded last year
I'm glad TH-cam recommended me this video, how well animated and structured it is! Instant subscribe to your channel :D keep the good work! we need more content like this on this platform!
The depressions in the Sahara can be made into salt water lakes by digging canals to the Med, Red Sea and Atlantic. The large water surface will evaporate causing rain. The rain will green up parts of the desert. In time the canals can be blocked as rain keeps the levels constant which will eventually turn into fresh water lakes, or lakes far less salty. It will also counter raising seal levels in the world.
You forgot another development that will green the deserts -- the breakdown of the jet streams. The jet streams separate the latitudes of climate. The cold polar region separated from the temperate. The temperate zone separated from the desert latitudes. That is why the Sonoran, Mojave, Sahara, and Arabian deserts are all in those latitudes. When the jet streams break down, storms will take more unpredictable paths. That is what has caused the odd weather in North America, for instance. I expect storms to then randomly move over the Sahara as well.
I really love the similarities between cosmologies in different belief systems. I have been wondering where I would see stories that mimic the story of being expelled from the garden of Eden. I've long thought that it could be a story about either the desertification of the Sahara. I hadn't heard the story of Phaethon before and it really sounds similar, like a metaphorical step beyond the same story or a mis-translation. It's basically the same background being from people vaguely near the middle east but still gives some clue to the origins.
Very interesting and informative video. A nit - it's Milankovitch, with a k - but it's easy enough to find information on the web on the cycles and their effects, which interact in yet more complex ways, owing to the vast difference in their cycle times providing for a highly variable set of relative influences over time. I find it inspiring that the video above could be from the efforts of an individual - it's very professionally done, fast-moving, and highly informative. It's worth watching more than once, for certain. I will be certain to explore your other videos as a result. Very well done.
Can you do a video on when different civilizations found out that different exotic animals exist For example when did greeks learn od hippos or rhinos or lions and what was their reaction and so on
Alexander the Great's army were the first Greeks to encounter Elephants in India. And most probably the Tigers. Lions were once native to North Africa, Arabia, Anatolia and Persia along with South Asia. Now they are extinct in all of those places with a small populatuon natively living in India. So that's why Greeks probably knew about Lions.
Hippos lived in islands in the Mediterranean at one point, they were much smaller though and this may have been before what we call Greek or Hellenic civilisation existed. Can't remember. But it was due to a phenomenon we call insular dwarfism, where species are smaller on islands
This is most exciting video I saw on TH-cam in a long time. Sahara regreening is such a fascinating topic. Wonder if one day we will see super canals dug to fill those depressions to fill them with sea water. That could change the climate so much.
The story of Adam and Eve being thrown out of the Garden of Eden would fit right into the time the Sahara and Saudi Arabia returned to desert in a very short time.
The diagram at 3:55 is VERY misleading. Our perihelion is 91.5 million miles from the Sun, while aphelion is 94.5 million miles. That's a 3% difference. I know you clarified that this isn't the cause of winter, but when people see that diagram, they often assume that these distances cause seasons.
Wesley Morgan he clarified, there for it isn’t misleading. He clearly stated therefore, making one KNOW that it’s not the cause of winter. There for it, and he isn’t misleading anyone.
@@Makeitwithmanny I teach high schoolers, and one thing I've learned is that people only remember a small portion of what you tell them. Can you repeat all of the facts in this video? Our brains only save a small portion of what they observe, and it is more likely to be things that confirm our beliefs. So if someone already thinks that the Earth gets drastically closer to the Sun in summer, they will see the graphic (which comes FIRST), confirm their misconception, and likely not pay full attention to the explanation that follows. Derek Muller from Veritasium did his PhD research on learning with videos. I'd recommend checking out his explanations of learning and misconceptions.
a scientist: the Sahara will go green in 15,000 years people from the Sahara: that will take generations. i wish it could go faster carbon dioxide: now this looks like a job for me
or... or... or... listen to this wicked hypothesis: climate change might be a new thing, whether good or bad depending on how future generations might cope with it (or not). And catastrophism might be just the usual profiteers and idiots' loud noisy propaganda. Maybe you've been lied to. Maybe someone wants a good excuse to sell you new crap (electric, super duper efficient crap) when your old, already yours stuff worked just fine... but don't take it from me. Wait a few years.
@@Rechilawest yeah , let's just ignore everything scientists has been saying and/or call it noisy propaganda history is just packed with cases of science being ignored that turned out great, doesn't it?
@@matheussanthiago9685 "let's just ignore everything scientists" Sorry... you misunderstood me. I'm not saying it won't happen. Just that it might have a complex origin (not SIMPLY caused by humans) and that it is not a BAD thing. It's a new thing. It will be "bad" for some, "good" for others. Panicking and bludgeoning mainstream propaganda won't do a thing. Really, if you worry about global warming, you would be shackling yourself to a lithium-mining cart, not bleating about the many advantages of not eating pork. It's not philosophy, just maths. Noone cares enough to do anything really worthwhile, but everyone wants to show "coolness" awareness. Pitiful. Now, the guy that lives in a mountain and throws a rock at me for polluting... would earn some respect. The vegan using an iPhone, slurping a latte at Starbucks and driving a Tesla... what a jerk.
We all need to stop talking about CO2 pollution as "climate change." CO2 pollution acidifies lakes, rivers, and seas. CO2 pollution is killing fish that we eat, causes toxic algea blooms, kills trees and poisons lakes. Climate change is natural. CO2 pollution by humans is not
Thank you so much this actually will help in explaining how these inscriptions founded in several locations in Egyptian western desert as a part of north african sahara desert tells prexisting of a rich grasslsnds and grazing in an areas very arid today and also existing of mangrove coastal forests on the red sea coasts while there ancestors are a tropical rainforest also in an area now very arid, Thank you
"The biggest forest on Earth today is the Amazon Rain Forest". The Amazon rain forest according to you covers 5.5m kilometers sq. The Taiga is a forest that covers most of Canada, Alaska, Iceland, Russia, Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Its biome covers ~17m kilometers sq.
The issue wasn't that amazon burning which is normal but to a much smaller scale, it was mainly concerning because large swathes of land were being cleared for agriculture like cattle and soybean. These could lead to a permanent loss of rainforest habitats unlike natural fires.
@@luana.desousa6398 Yes the Boreal/Taiga forest is technically a biome, but if we only look at the Eurasian Taiga which is a continuous forest from coastal Norway all the way to the Pacific, we get; Eco-region: Area Scandinavian and Russian Taiga: 2,150,900 km2 Ural Mountain Taiga: 174,565 km2 West Siberian Taiga: 1,670,283 km2 Trans-Baikal Conifer Forests: 200,465 km2 East Siberian Taiga: 3,900,000 km2 Okhotsk-Manchurian Taiga: 401,900 km2 North Siberian Taiga: 1,529,373 km2 -------------------------------------------------------------- Total (Eurasian Taiga): 10,027,486 km2 Amazon Rainforest: 5,500,000 km2
Rursus Yeah, but it was said that the Amazon Rainforest was the largest “forest” in general. We’re not being specific about the kind of forest, just a forest in general.
The last 10 years have been the wettest in north African history since the 70th. we might not have to wait 13000 years , but it will be more than a human lifespan
It hasn't rained for more or less than 2 months here in Morocco, which is realy odd in this period of the year, we used to have lot of rain and snow in the mountains... People here are afraid of a drought crisis and farmers and i am one of them are really anxious..
5.38 Little hard to see here but there is the Moroccan Dragon. For better visuals start up Google Earth type in Morocco and hopefully realize that Geology = Biology.
It actually seems like adding such a large growing zone would mean a better worldwide situation for humanity. A mostly flat, sunny, and mediterranean/savannah sahara would probably get industrialized like crazy, help transportation north to south in africa, and lead to steppe-like people on horseback in a Russia kind of situation. Add to that the resources under the mountains and you have some interesting changes to our collective geopolitical history. (Eg. Rome probably has reason to move much farther south to take the land around those lakes, plus that is a massive unsecured southern border that would probably make the defense of rome impossible
It would be so cool to see a video where you cover the northern hemisphere during the same time that Africa was lush, I wonder what it was like in North America then!
As I remember, the last ice age was coming to an end about then. But that was so long ago my memory is a little sketchy. It's amazing how much a person can forget in only a few thousand years.
When he mentioned at 7:35 about the greening of the Arabian desert and how global warming quicken that process at 14:20 due to human's activity, these definitely echoed what Prophet Muhammad pbuh mentioned 1400 years ago, as one of the signs of end times.
7:35 قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: (لا تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ حتَّى يَكْثُرَ المالُ ويَفِيضَ، حتَّى يَخْرُجَ الرَّجُلُ بزَكاةِ مالِهِ فلا يَجِدُ أحَدًا يَقْبَلُها منه، وحتَّى تَعُودَ أرْضُ العَرَبِ مُرُوجًا وأَنْهارًا). الراوي : أبو هريرة. المحدث : مسلم. المصدر : صحيح مسلم. الصفحة أو الرقم: 157. خلاصة حكم المحدث : [صحيح].
"How much do we want to warm the earth" YES! Finally someone says it. Being from northern Minnesota, I'd say a lot. If I lived in southern Florida, I might feel differently...
Too late to experience a wet Sahara
Too early to experience a wet Sahara
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Bring a bottle.
just in time to experience islamic cult and incest marriage !? LMAO
@@utkarshsrivastava and worship cows
@@smtl6029 India isn't in the Sahara
Just want to point out that we live in an age when anyone can watch this for free and get educated... that’s so incredible.
can't agree more
Not really free cause you have to pay for your internet.
JB Balasta there free internet available in most western country, like in mall and coffee shops.
Bona Fide Gadgets not really free again cause you have to drive and pay for your gas to get there. 🤗
@@_Niji1 Are you american or something ?
another solution is to sacrifice our politicians to the Rain Gods.
It won't work unless we get the college professors as well.
@@mikepowell8611 It will not work for sure if we dont try. We fail 100% of the times we don't try, so I'd say lets start right away.
That sounds great but the bankers should be the first after that the police and the army thirdly the politics. 😊
Nice sacrifice 🔪🔪🔪
@@mursalwarsame5839 you see we need to offer a virgin.
Nice one mate 😂😂
_"In a process known as wind"_ I don't know why I enjoyed that sentence so much...
i got goose bumps the first time i walked outsideafter watching this lol
Probably your reaction may be connected to your sense of humor? May you be healthy, wealthy, and wise.
It’s pretty typical for someone ignorant who doesn’t know what wind really is , rejoice .. at last came someone to explain it all for you , now you know what wind really is
He should've said as the pressure gradient gets steeper, the wind blows from areas of high pressure towards areas of low pressure.
Maybe because it was a relatively complex explanation for a banal phenomenon which every knows since the age of like 1. And because the name for the explanation was told at the end.
Alternate Theory: TOTO blesses the rains down in Africa
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Seems i'm not the only "old fart", here.. Me;.. 7:30 p.m. Washington State, USA .. Sept.,30 2019 ...*** Baby Boomers' Rule *** ,, LOL
My favorite band. "How can we believe the world is round? I just can't conceive it" TOTO XIV... Its FLAT!
Surprised there is no r/whoosh here.
I'll allow it
Up next: How Geography turned the Amazon into a desert.
The Amazon will most likely become more land for people to live in since its being destroyed every day
How global warming can swap the Amazon Rainforest and Sahara Desert.
Correction : How evil humans turned Amazon into desert.
''''''''Up next: How Geography turned the Amazon into a desert.
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that should have been the question in this video when it came to the Sahara
dessert
what geographic forces turned the Sahara area into a desert ?
asking why the Sahara area was a green land is like asking why Georgia is green
it's normal for an area to be green
Would like but at 69
I kinda wanna know what happened to the rest of the world during this period!
Well, I definitely want to know!
Me too
The Amazon rainforest would have been much smaller
me too damn
How?
I’d love this kinds of topics. Keep them coming
I read "this kinds of tropics"
These*
Did anyone else have a stroke reading the first sentence?
Yeah B!tch, keep them coming!!!
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Climate is so complex and your videos explain things in a good manner. Which my geology classes were as informs and interesting as this video. Lucky TH-cam exists to provide a platform for this content
The Sahara Desert drifts into a bar and the bartender says,
"Long time no sea."
Sebastian Elytron 😂😂😂
So subtle
"I'll have some h20"
Ahaaaaa
Amazing, truly wonderful.
The best thing I like about this video is the number of different sciences that came together to discover things like this. Astronomy, geography, metrology and more came together to make sense of the complex interactions. It really shows how important it is that different sciences come together to explain things one discipline can’t alone.
The different sciences, are like the departments in a Hospital - none talk to related speaciltys and they don't like "push-back" from patients, who aren't supposed to know much about themselves, in that area of our lives. Must be a bit disconcerting, when they start practiceing & find that the "corpses" are animated & Do, from time to time, get annoyed, and "vent off" at the arrogance of an ignorant MD.
As an arabic person you can’t imagine how weird it is to hear the phrase “Saharan Savana”
Because Sahara means desert in arabic
🤣
Rap Aden راب عدن So what do you call that particular desert? Because there has to be a way to differentiate between that desert and the Kalahari or the Gobi.
daer devvyl is we call it Sahra’a alMaghrib = desert of the Maghrib, not to be mixed with western Sahara 🇪🇭 the country
@@daerdevvyl4314 grand desert Sahara el kobra
And I have never seen an arabic man finish a sentence without spitting on the ground
This video should be called how geography doomed africa part 2
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Although without the drying of the Sahara, human civilization might not have existed or taken longer to exist given the fact that Ancient Egypt, the world's first civilization was created due to it drying up.
Bob Jones Civilizations also popped up in India and Mesopotamia during that time though. We’d be fine.
9:09 I would like to add that plants could help increase underground water reservoir as they make the ground more porous.
Yep, plants insert organics into the soil, which then increase soil aggregates and soil aggregate stability.
That will then cause the water to sink to the hard bedrock and drain to the lakes.
So would this affect the amazon
Songs of the Eons plants are our saviours
@@MrMisanthrope_ That's unlikely. Adding organics increases porosity when the soil is clay rich but does the opposite when its excessively sandy. So in effect, plants more or less push permeability toward an equilibrium as opposed to extremes.
11:56 thanks for that inspiring image
I assume he was giggling to himself while editing that in. After all, why not? Why shouldn’t I keep the massive elephant dong in this video?
Mad how that 1 guy dropped the whole sun from his chariot
Then Zeus said "Aight, so we droppin sons now eh? ZAP!" and dropped Helio's whole son from his chariot
T Bush lol
That's what you get when you use cheap bungees.
Talking about side-effects of global warming: "The degree to which this happens is, of course, up in the air." Hey! I see what you did there. Clap clap!
I never realized just how influential and fascinating geography actually is.... subscribed
11:53
Well then. Not what I was expecting to see today.
EDIT: Some folks aren't sure what I'm talking about. Count the elephant's legs.
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I count 5.
Haha puny Bizantium..Ottoman rule!!
ihsanul fikri So, How About Those 1.5 Million Armenians?
ihsanul fikri crusade
Penis
Damn that's a huge penis
11:57 hm that's one 5legged elephant.
Nah it's an elephant dongalong
i legit came down here just to say the same thing as you but i was to late
@@Alexza525 there are children on this channel you perv.
@@Amlaeuxrai no its a double trunk elephant
a4yster spotted a cute female in the distance
5:52 "In a process known as wind"
Ooooh yeah I've heard about that thing before. I do sciences.
"you see, i'm something of a scientist myself"
TOME Jul
11:59 he really swinging that thing around
crevice pounder a second trunk
Quite the trunk aye?
Penis..
He could put someone’s eye out
11:56 I noticed something very very disturbing
another one hhhhhhhh
@@yasserkickboxing5168 big peepee
You're just jealous.
@@greetswithfire1868 but I'm not transgender
Why you did it to me ? I went back to check what I am missing and regret to do that
May I ask, if Earth's cycles have such effects on forests and deserts: How would other parts of our planet have looked during those cycles? i.e. maybe South America was -desertier-?
South America's landmass wouldn't have made a difference.
Deserts usually form at a specific latitude on the west coast of continents.
A true desert that stretches from coast to coast is actually unusual.
The Andes mountains would probably halt whatever desert tried to stretch east, inland.
@@tylerdurden3722 Actually it`s the atmospheric hadley cell that`s beneficial in creating and maintaining desserts as these atmospheric packets create sinking air that prevents clouds to develop - The majority of our world desserts are under those Hadley Cells.
@@Cl4rendon yes, exactly. That's why a mountain range is what usually stops deserts from going further east.
Because those mountains push up that air and causes relief rain. (Except for a short dry spot)
@@tylerdurden3722 In Australia we have the Great Dividing Range for that
We looked at this exact topic recently in ecology
It's refreshing to see thing's like the Milanković cycle and specific heat capacity explained in such a simple and interesting way
Cheers
No the question i want to ask is why did you causally bring in a dong of an elephant @ 11:59
I would say 'bring out' is the better suited phrase.
It's not exactly like elephants wear pants
@@1Anime4you Ya but they could were a kilt or something
Because it's thirsty!
Nature at its best .
I think this would also effect the Amazon as well since the winds of the desert Sahara and the mountains of Chad blast nutrients and
particles to the Amazon helping the rainforest grow
The winds, also fertilise the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean.
But the great part of this cyclical understanding is that the Amazon can clearly survive and thrive (species wise) without such nutrients on their "regular" basis. They are clearly a less important factor and more incidental than we all first thought. The resiliency of nature and for ecosystem to adapt is the impressive factor here.
So the Greeks thought that the sahara dried up because the Sahara got more solar radiation, but it was acttually because it got less. Lol
More likely a result of sand deposits from catastrophically large tidal waves/flooding from the Younger Dryas Impact Event.
Well...sifting aside the mythological embellishments, it wasn’t a terrible theory? We kinda expect the same thing to happen (and have evidence of it) through directly human-related activity (like burning up fossil fuels and melting ice packs that bounce back solar radiation, and of course burning down massive forests and overgrazing/overfarming grasslands, and punching holes in the ozone layer which, you know, also deflected radiation)
@@anonymousfellow8879 The "holes in the ozone" are natural by products of lack of sunlight... do you think it's a coincidence they appear at the poles and worsen during the 6 months of the year when that pole is in perpetual winter? Ozone needs UV to be generated in the first place!
Oh well, ancient Greeks couldn't know everything
Macaroon_Nuggets *dried *because
It would be great to see a future video that describes how all the continents climate and vegetation would have changed during the african humid period.
11:54 That's a boy elephant! Ask me how I know!
Due to his 5th leg ?
Definitely not an asian elephant
@@Civilmonkey1 lol
@@Civilmonkey1 ahahaha XD African of course, we're talking Sahara :D
the question is what is this for?
Moral of the story: don't let your son drive a car before he gets a license. Otherwise dry things happen.
How will you expect him to learn how to get up if he doesn't fall, i learned how to drive when i was 13 years old my father used to let me drive the car on rural roads when we exit the city so that we don't endanger anyone two years later i got my license faked being 16 but who cares 1 year difference is not big deal now i drive between cities as long distance uber driver
@@عبدالله-ه5ه9ك yeah yeah, we believe you. Go watch some Vox news
"The hour (apocalypse) won't happen until the land of the Arabs go back to being full of meadows and rivers." _Muhammad peace be upon him. More than 14 centuries, Muhammad, peace be upon him, had made two prophecies. First, that the land that the Arabs have known for tens of thousands of years to be a waterless desert was full of greenery and running surface water. Second, that that same unforgiving empty land will again be full of greenery and rivers. NONE at that time and geographical area could have known that. Especially that Muhammad, peace be upon him, was illiterate. NONE could have imagined such a thing let alone to predict it. Muhammad, peace be upon him, was called a magician, crazy and a liar, yet he was never apologetic and went with full force in what he believed in. He relentlessly preached the oneness of God and ridiculed the pagans despite all prosecution. He made all kind of unimaginable claims at his time, despite being laughed at, but it's all coming to be true. With global warming and a new ice age, the desert will again become full of life. But at that time the Quran yet again miraculously describes space as seamless fabric that at the end of times will rip open. Then nothing will help a human being but his good deeds. Or he will be recycled.
@@sonoflethal you don't have to believe me random person, you just need to understand the message i want to deliver, which is humans learn from trial and errors, and one more thing i don't seek news from one source you should try it your worldview will change drastically.
@@عبدالله-ه5ه9ك I said go watch some vox because you're talking absolute bs like them
Hey if you are smart you should buy land in Sahara now. And in 13000 years your nephews will be rich... or you could freeze yourself...
Hey did you buy the land in Sahara yet, my nephew says his bones will become dust and mixed in the same desert and if after 13000 yrs trees grow one can find him in some form of carbon. Just remeber his name too is Dan... After 13000 yrs hope we can have Dan Carbon :-)
Freezing yourself will not work
@@chrismcmullen4313 go back to school and pay attention this time you uneducated donkey
Dan Valy
No offense but r u dumb?? Lol
Dont you mean Descendants nephews what?
I love listening to these kinds of videos. Its like learning about the lore of the world around me.
"In a process known as... wind" lol
Ben Knisley “Liquids like Air”
Me: *Confused Screaming*
@@therealcactoos9457 Pretty sure he meant fluids.
Playguu “fluids like air”
Me: *Only More Confusion*
@@therealcactoos9457 Anything that flows is a fluid.
Unfortunately, the region you pointed out in India is experiencing rapid desertification due to climate change. Rainfall has been reduced by up to 65 percent in some places, and land that used to be suitable for agriculture is no longer arable. Lots of people in villages from that region are starting to suffer, because enough food can't be grown to support their lives :(.
Add the Libyan under water resources and you could turn this into the worlds largest grow zone. Grand Solar Minimum northern latitude crop losses are replaced with N. Africa. Great slide at 7:45
Ghadafi was on his way to doing that until evil forces (Obama, the US, whoever ya want to say is evil) slaughtered him and ruined the water supply.
They build an irrigation system and then the bombing destroyed it.
Not sure if you could turn it into a grow zone so easily considering the fact that I seriously doubt sand is nutrient rich enough for plants. That being said with modern gmos, growing techniques and fertilizers, it might just be possible. Still it'd be better to invest all that tech into the parts of Africa we are sure are habitable already seeing as much of the continent's agricultural land has still not been realized to it's full potential due to a lack of wealth, infrastructure and stable governments, unfortunately
@@TheRedKing247 That's basically California Central Valley 100 years ago. Diverting Colorado River into it and now it is one of the most productive region in the world.
The water under the Sahara Might have limits and Might do more damage drying it up.
You have quickly became one of my favorite TH-camrs! Keep these amazing videos rolling! The voice, the research, graphics. All amazing.
The word Sahara means desert in Arabic. So when people say Sahara Desert, it sounds like "desert desert" :)
By the way, it is called "The Great Desert" in Arabic.
Yeah try giving a American culture good luck with that they don't even have their own culture.
@@kwando472 They jusy made up their culture recently. That made their culture suspect to extreme change in a nick of a time.
@@johoreanperson8396 You mean fat culture?
Kelb shadmuta
@@kwando472 That came out of nowhere.
I remember an old teacher in the middle school, she said: A long time ago the sahara desert was green but the roman empire took it down cus they need it do the empire (ships and stuff) and that memory has follow me past the years.
A week ago the green sagara came to my mind again and today i found this, thanks for the info!! :)
Phaethon: “Lemme drive the boat”
😂😂😂😂😂
😭
A third hint towards why the sahara isn't like it was;
We don't have 3km thick icesheets covering Europe.
That transition is big.
Fredrik S
Ice sheets ended 11,000 years ago. Sahara was green 7,000 years ago.
Still, you are only off by 4,000 years. Close but no cigar!
@@Kawitamamayi so I guess climate change is not a new thing
@@johncampbell829 certainly not, not saying i know whats right here or what to do about what ever situation there may be, but the climate changes without our help regardless and one thing is for certain global warming is about 1000 times better than global cooling. Mans always been obsessed with imposing its will on nature, but at some point natures gonna hit us with a force we cant handle and theres nothing we can do about it. Not saying climate chsnge is that force, the debate around it just exemplifies our arogance.
@@Prof.GoodFeels88 when I was a kid growing up in the 70's ppl were being freaked out by those claiming the ozone layer had a hole the size of Texas in it because of hair spray and AC units...aerosols in other words...we're still here 45 years later...guess they must of fixed it...lol...for those that read the Bible these changes were already prophecy in 750 B.C....
@@johncampbell829 the hole is nearly gone, to be fair, and the hulabaloo about it wasnt about climate change... it was because the ozone layer is our last defense against the solar and cosmic radiation
Wow... incredible explanation and visuals of how the Sahara was so different thousands of years ago. Kudos to you!
I love your care in research! I also appreciate your subtle humor like that throat clearing after the Greek myth "explanation".
“Saharan Savannah” Desert Savannah, noice.
Lingual jokes! 🤣
Yeah! Sahara is Arabic for desert and guess what the Arabic for Savannah is....
Its Savanna
Savanna Savanna
From "Online Etymology Dictionary": Savannah:
"treeless plain," 1550s, from Spanish sabana, earlier zavana "treeless plain," from Taino (Arawakan) zabana.
The Tainos were a Native American people.
@@kevinbyrne4538 Could be that the Arabs got the word from the Spaniards. Not very surprising since the Iberian peninsula has a history of Islamic conquest.
Interesting etymology. Anyway, the Arab word is also Savanna.
@@arjunsatheesh7609 -- In Europe, the Taino word "zavana" became the Latin word "zauana" (in old writing, u and v were often written and printed using the same letter) in 1516 and then that became the Spanish word "çavana" in 1519. So the word would have to have been introduced into Spain after the last Arabs were driven out of the Iberian peninsula (1492). The Arabic word for savanna is "alsaafana", which is very close. Unfortunately it appears that no etymological dictionary of Arabic exists.
This transpiration process is indeed very important
This is the reason of why so many areas in central south america are moist and with seasonal rains, instead being a desert as it should be
The transpiration of the amazon forest creates a giant 'air river' trought the continent, that transport moisture of the forest to the southern parts of the continent
Can you make a video about the dry forests? I think it's a kind of ecosystem that not many people know about...
Don't know it either but judging by his "seas are deserts" video that even contributed to the "adding iron to the sea to make the carbon pump more effective" video i think he would love to.
Like the Sonora forests in Mexico? Those are gorgeous. If so, I agree whole heartedly!
@@johnperic6860 Semiarid regions which support a mixture of shrubs, grasses and short trees. They're very common in the leeward side of mountainous tropical islands, and in continents at transition areas to warm deserts where external factors discouraging trees aren't as strong. These places get a lot more precipitation (15-30 inches or 375-700 mm per year) than true deserts (less than 10 inches or 250 mm per year), but the high evapotranspiration rates mean that most of the rain that does fall evaporates rather quickly.
Some examples:
Guánica dry forest, southwestern Puerto Rico media.metrolatam.com/2018/10/11/14965610422b3b2eb84db-4fdde950f89531908eb3db04857cd430.jpg
Hawaii has multiple dry forest areas, and they hold the bulk of Hawaiian biodiversity www.sscnet.ucla.edu/geog/tdfpacific/hawaii.html
The bulk of forests in Australia qualify as dry--either tropical to the north or Mediterranean to the southeast and southwest www.ecolsoc.org.au/hot-topics/australias-seasonally-dry-tropical-forests-need-attention
Mediterranean forests and scrublands are present in the warm temperate latitudes on the western sides of continents. Areas like these include the western USA (especially California), southwest South America (mainly Chile), South Africa, the Maghrib (coastal areas of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia), southern Europe (a nearly continuous belt from Portugal to Turkey), and various pockets in Australia. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Nahkealehtinen_kasvillisuus.png
*11:54* Oh lord he's coming
Omg i just saw it after replaying it many times 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️😖
Lmfu. He came
SHBoi I guess this was intended to be the hidden Fight Club scene. 😁
Oh God lol ='DDD
@7:20 holyshit. As an Indian I am very grateful that India gets monsoon. We are at the same level as sahara and saudi Arabia. Their area is whole desert while we have a lot of greenery. Thanks Monsoon.
Thank you for mentioning that the Arabian Peninsula used to be fertile as well! Most often, an average person who remmbers anything about history thinks that the "Fertile Cresent" was just between the Tigris and Euphrates. Desertification is an amazingly destructive phenomenon
Even the Bible barely mentions deserts, I think region was even greener 2000 yrs ago. For example north Africa was the bread basket of the Roman empire... can't imagine it now.
Some people’s concept of history begins with what they had for breakfast
*cmiiw The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world, while Taiga or Boreal Forest (Scandinavia, Russia and Canada) IS the largest forest in the world
It's not a contiguous forest though
@@waspjournals41 dem pesky oceans...
@@waspjournals41 Though at this rate the Canadian forest alone might become bigger than the Amazon...
@@waspjournals41 yes, I googled it and it is universally accepted as the largest biome in the world and not a single continuous forest while some still insisted that it is the largest forest
@@johnperic6860 Yeah, it's nearing the tipping point tho
Thank you for spreading the knowledge. I never thought that I would find so many answers to my questions from my childhood here.
I’d like to see how biomes in other parts of the world saw themselves affected by these shifts in temperature and humidity
This is an incredibly high quality video. Entertaining and informative the entire time, great job Atlas. It's not too often you come across one of these.
Weirdly enough, climate change has already caused the Nile to overflow much more during the rain season that it normally does. Sudan has experienced the most rainfall recorded last year
Finally, they added "Geography" from Geography Now to "Real Life"! Great!
Concidence,
Nope
I heard in update 1.69.420 they're gonna remove it :(
@@libyanmapping5408 nice
@@Polavianus Ah, I see you are a man of Reddit.
I'm glad TH-cam recommended me this video, how well animated and structured it is! Instant subscribe to your channel :D keep the good work! we need more content like this on this platform!
Ok, your channel is fantastic on a regular basis but this particular video blew my mind. Maybe your best one yet! Thank you so much for this!!!
5:59 in Spain where I live sometimes we get rain that has Sahara's sand.
The car gets dirty >:v
Víctor Delgado Sousa same we occasionally get it coming as far as South England
Ye I live in England and it get it
It get as far as Southern Sweden! www.severe-weather.eu/mcd/evolution-of-the-saharan-dust-outbreak-across-europe/
The netherlands too!!!
It feels really gross
The depressions in the Sahara can be made into salt water lakes by digging canals to the Med, Red Sea and Atlantic. The large water surface will evaporate causing rain. The rain will green up parts of the desert. In time the canals can be blocked as rain keeps the levels constant which will eventually turn into fresh water lakes, or lakes far less salty. It will also counter raising seal levels in the world.
5:51 in a process known as wind. He really be messing with us
You forgot another development that will green the deserts -- the breakdown of the jet streams.
The jet streams separate the latitudes of climate. The cold polar region separated from the temperate. The temperate zone separated from the desert latitudes.
That is why the Sonoran, Mojave, Sahara, and Arabian deserts are all in those latitudes.
When the jet streams break down, storms will take more unpredictable paths.
That is what has caused the odd weather in North America, for instance.
I expect storms to then randomly move over the Sahara as well.
I really love the similarities between cosmologies in different belief systems. I have been wondering where I would see stories that mimic the story of being expelled from the garden of Eden. I've long thought that it could be a story about either the desertification of the Sahara. I hadn't heard the story of Phaethon before and it really sounds similar, like a metaphorical step beyond the same story or a mis-translation. It's basically the same background being from people vaguely near the middle east but still gives some clue to the origins.
Agreed, it's very interesting!
Very interesting and informative video. A nit - it's Milankovitch, with a k - but it's easy enough to find information on the web on the cycles and their effects, which interact in yet more complex ways, owing to the vast difference in their cycle times providing for a highly variable set of relative influences over time. I find it inspiring that the video above could be from the efforts of an individual - it's very professionally done, fast-moving, and highly informative. It's worth watching more than once, for certain. I will be certain to explore your other videos as a result. Very well done.
11:53 enjoy the swinging...
I laughed at that haha
@@draum8103 yeah it had me wondering why they put that in there so I wanted everyone to enjoy the swing
Can you do a video on when different civilizations found out that different exotic animals exist
For example when did greeks learn od hippos or rhinos or lions and what was their reaction and so on
Lions were native to Greece
Alexander the Great's army were the first Greeks to encounter Elephants in India. And most probably the Tigers. Lions were once native to North Africa, Arabia, Anatolia and Persia along with South Asia. Now they are extinct in all of those places with a small populatuon natively living in India. So that's why Greeks probably knew about Lions.
Would be a cool topic
This would be very hard to research with accuracy
Hippos lived in islands in the Mediterranean at one point, they were much smaller though and this may have been before what we call Greek or Hellenic civilisation existed. Can't remember. But it was due to a phenomenon we call insular dwarfism, where species are smaller on islands
This is most exciting video I saw on TH-cam in a long time. Sahara regreening is such a fascinating topic. Wonder if one day we will see super canals dug to fill those depressions to fill them with sea water. That could change the climate so much.
The story of Adam and Eve being thrown out of the Garden of Eden would fit right into the time the Sahara and Saudi Arabia returned to desert in a very short time.
It's also what forced people to concentrate around the Nile, Tigres/Euphrates, etc...soon followed by civilizations.
Me learning some interesting things: This is incredible!
11:55 : Dang brah!
Goes to show how people are either cursed or blessed by the times they live in.
The diagram at 3:55 is VERY misleading. Our perihelion is 91.5 million miles from the Sun, while aphelion is 94.5 million miles. That's a 3% difference. I know you clarified that this isn't the cause of winter, but when people see that diagram, they often assume that these distances cause seasons.
Wesley Morgan he clarified, there for it isn’t misleading. He clearly stated therefore, making one KNOW that it’s not the cause of winter. There for it, and he isn’t misleading anyone.
@@Makeitwithmanny I teach high schoolers, and one thing I've learned is that people only remember a small portion of what you tell them. Can you repeat all of the facts in this video? Our brains only save a small portion of what they observe, and it is more likely to be things that confirm our beliefs. So if someone already thinks that the Earth gets drastically closer to the Sun in summer, they will see the graphic (which comes FIRST), confirm their misconception, and likely not pay full attention to the explanation that follows. Derek Muller from Veritasium did his PhD research on learning with videos. I'd recommend checking out his explanations of learning and misconceptions.
Oh man, when you said "thirteen", I held my breath in enthusiasm, and then.... and then you said "thousand":-)
Don't worry, according to AOC we'll all die in 12 years due to climate change, so who cares what happens in 13,000 years 😆
@@redskytitan thats complete bs. Don't trust everything you see on the internet
@@SpaghettiRuin you can call it a prediction before the fall. you can call it bs if there is no evidance at all
@@redskytitan rather the ability to reverse it is claimed to be gone in 12 years
i learned more from a 15 minute youtube video than an entire semester of geography
Its these same videos they show in school mate -_-
a scientist: the Sahara will go green in 15,000 years
people from the Sahara: that will take generations. i wish it could go faster
carbon dioxide: now this looks like a job for me
maybe oil companys aren't that bad after all
SOoooooo, does this mean all those fossil fuels we're burning could actually make africa green again?!?
.....
That just sounds too convenient.
or... or... or... listen to this wicked hypothesis: climate change might be a new thing, whether good or bad depending on how future generations might cope with it (or not). And catastrophism might be just the usual profiteers and idiots' loud noisy propaganda.
Maybe you've been lied to. Maybe someone wants a good excuse to sell you new crap (electric, super duper efficient crap) when your old, already yours stuff worked just fine... but don't take it from me. Wait a few years.
@@Rechilawest yeah , let's just ignore everything scientists has been saying and/or call it noisy propaganda
history is just packed with cases of science being ignored that turned out great, doesn't it?
@@matheussanthiago9685 "let's just ignore everything scientists" Sorry... you misunderstood me. I'm not saying it won't happen. Just that it might have a complex origin (not SIMPLY caused by humans) and that it is not a BAD thing. It's a new thing. It will be "bad" for some, "good" for others. Panicking and bludgeoning mainstream propaganda won't do a thing. Really, if you worry about global warming, you would be shackling yourself to a lithium-mining cart, not bleating about the many advantages of not eating pork. It's not philosophy, just maths. Noone cares enough to do anything really worthwhile, but everyone wants to show "coolness" awareness. Pitiful. Now, the guy that lives in a mountain and throws a rock at me for polluting... would earn some respect. The vegan using an iPhone, slurping a latte at Starbucks and driving a Tesla... what a jerk.
We all need to stop talking about CO2 pollution as "climate change." CO2 pollution acidifies lakes, rivers, and seas. CO2 pollution is killing fish that we eat, causes toxic algea blooms, kills trees and poisons lakes. Climate change is natural. CO2 pollution by humans is not
@@Rechilawest - Either way, oil will likely runout in the next 100 years so we need to find other energy sources.
You’ve just gained a new subscriber! I can’t believe how informative and coherent was this explanation. Much love, keep up the good work! ♥️
Thank you so much this actually will help in explaining how these inscriptions founded in several locations in Egyptian western desert as a part of north african sahara desert tells prexisting of a rich grasslsnds and grazing in an areas very arid today and also existing of mangrove coastal forests on the red sea coasts while there ancestors are a tropical rainforest also in an area now very arid, Thank you
"The biggest forest on Earth today is the Amazon Rain Forest". The Amazon rain forest according to you covers 5.5m kilometers sq. The Taiga is a forest that covers most of Canada, Alaska, Iceland, Russia, Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Its biome covers ~17m kilometers sq.
Superbly written and crafted video. Thank you.
How many Toyota Corollas fit in the Sahara Desert?... Wait wrong channel.
Don't drive a Toyota in Somalia they will fit that Toyota up you putter :P n then steal it.
@EmperorJuliusCaesar my momma bicth
What is wrong with this reply section?
@@nuttynoah5342 nthing its the internet what do you expect christians being polite
But Syria is not in the Shara.
13:08 Brazilian here, and the Amazon and Cerrado fires happen every year in the dry season...
People still can worry. Just get some popcorn
The issue wasn't that amazon burning which is normal but to a much smaller scale, it was mainly concerning because large swathes of land were being cleared for agriculture like cattle and soybean. These could lead to a permanent loss of rainforest habitats unlike natural fires.
I am not lying , I learned so many things here that I needed to note them down.
Amazon rainforest is the largest forest in the world.
Taiga forest, am I a joke to you?
No you are a biome to me taiga
@@luana.desousa6398 Yes the Boreal/Taiga forest is technically a biome, but if we only look at the Eurasian Taiga which is a continuous forest from coastal Norway all the way to the Pacific, we get;
Eco-region: Area
Scandinavian and Russian Taiga: 2,150,900 km2
Ural Mountain Taiga: 174,565 km2
West Siberian Taiga: 1,670,283 km2
Trans-Baikal Conifer Forests: 200,465 km2
East Siberian Taiga: 3,900,000 km2
Okhotsk-Manchurian Taiga: 401,900 km2
North Siberian Taiga: 1,529,373 km2
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Total (Eurasian Taiga): 10,027,486 km2
Amazon Rainforest: 5,500,000 km2
The rain forest won't be a rain forest for long it's being destroyed by fire DESTRUCTION IS WHAT US HUMANS ARE KNOW FOR
Taiga forest is not a rain forest. I don't understand why a misunderstanding got 79 likes.
Rursus
Yeah, but it was said that the Amazon Rainforest was the largest “forest” in general. We’re not being specific about the kind of forest, just a forest in general.
Yo anyone notice the oversimplifed song? 1:09
The last 10 years have been the wettest in north African history since the 70th. we might not have to wait 13000 years , but it will be more than a human lifespan
Do you think that we’ve gonna have any difference in 20 years?
It hasn't rained for more or less than 2 months here in Morocco, which is realy odd in this period of the year, we used to have lot of rain and snow in the mountains... People here are afraid of a drought crisis and farmers and i am one of them are really anxious..
The problem is, Mediterranean climates will receive less rain.
@@tylerdurden3722 North Africa is in The mediterranean
saferider10 But the majority of north africa doesnt have a mediterranean climate but an arid one. Except the coast
This man should get his own science show! Or Geography show!!
@@AusLegoBoy it is! One of the winners of the beauty contest winners conducted on Indian Railways!
5.38 Little hard to see here but there is the Moroccan Dragon. For better visuals start up Google Earth type in Morocco and hopefully realize that Geology = Biology.
It actually seems like adding such a large growing zone would mean a better worldwide situation for humanity. A mostly flat, sunny, and mediterranean/savannah sahara would probably get industrialized like crazy, help transportation north to south in africa, and lead to steppe-like people on horseback in a Russia kind of situation. Add to that the resources under the mountains and you have some interesting changes to our collective geopolitical history. (Eg. Rome probably has reason to move much farther south to take the land around those lakes, plus that is a massive unsecured southern border that would probably make the defense of rome impossible
It would be so cool to see a video where you cover the northern hemisphere during the same time that Africa was lush, I wonder what it was like in North America then!
13:44 Wasn't there also an Ice Age on the northern hemisphere 14,000 years ago?
Maybe the Sahara being bigger back then had something to do with it?
Blood Angel The orbit of the earth and tilt in axis was a great contribution why Earth experience a lot of climate change right now.
As I remember, the last ice age was coming to an end about then. But that was so long ago my memory is a little sketchy. It's amazing how much a person can forget in only a few thousand years.
@@oldgysgt
Sahara turn green when Earth is warmer...
@@WadcaWymiaru; yes, it could happen.
The ice age never ended, we're into a warm period of the ice age. in about 10000 years if i recall correctly, the warm period will fade away.
When he mentioned at 7:35 about the greening of the Arabian desert and how global warming quicken that process at 14:20 due to human's activity, these definitely echoed what Prophet Muhammad pbuh mentioned 1400 years ago, as one of the signs of end times.
An aggressive series of mega projects involving slowly creeping green great walls using earth works and water catchments could hack this process.
7:35
قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: (لا تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ حتَّى يَكْثُرَ المالُ ويَفِيضَ، حتَّى يَخْرُجَ الرَّجُلُ بزَكاةِ مالِهِ فلا يَجِدُ أحَدًا يَقْبَلُها منه، وحتَّى تَعُودَ أرْضُ العَرَبِ مُرُوجًا وأَنْهارًا).
الراوي : أبو هريرة.
المحدث : مسلم.
المصدر : صحيح مسلم.
الصفحة أو الرقم: 157.
خلاصة حكم المحدث : [صحيح].
"How much do we want to warm the earth" YES! Finally someone says it. Being from northern Minnesota, I'd say a lot. If I lived in southern Florida, I might feel differently...
Literally.....Very very Informative and Interesting video ....God Bless You, Thanks a Lot!! 🙏🏼
anyone else notice the enormous 5th leg at 11:57? did u have to choose that elephant clip lolllll?
Yes, yes they did, and it was worth it
Why is Australia still so dry?
Because of me, mate.
@@VanaeCavae Ah... understood... As long as the penguins are happy!
Sub tropics tend to be incredibly dry because all the moist wind moves towards the equator or to temperate zones.
this is soo cooooolllll!
im getting major saving-the-world energy and wanna start a tree/plant nursery TOMORROW
interested to know what are the effects of green sahara for the surrounding areas...(Europe,Middle East,Mediterranean regions etc)
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It was very hard to listen with the background music getting my attention.
The music is very cool and African, but it still the focus from your voice.
This video made me interested in studying African geography
Can you make a video about tectonic plates?