The strangest summer in recorded history - David Biello

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  • @Suddenly-appears
    @Suddenly-appears ปีที่แล้ว +445

    It's possible that the great painter William Turner captured the atmospheric changes from the eruption of Mt.Tambora, in his paintings of foggy, spectacular and bounderless sunsets during that period.

  • @summerfirebon2362
    @summerfirebon2362 ปีที่แล้ว +509

    Before eruption, Mt. Tambora height was around 4500m, among the tallest peak in Indonesian archipelago, and after eruption the height of rim of its caldera is 2800m. An eruption so massive that erased >1500m of the mountain height and left caldera with ~5 miles diameter.

    • @oliwia2546
      @oliwia2546 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      😮 wow!

    • @umutdenizakdag
      @umutdenizakdag ปีที่แล้ว +10

      now I have to convert miles to meters thx :/

  • @elkhaqelfida5972
    @elkhaqelfida5972 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    There are 3 kingdoms that "disappeared" after Tambora explosion.
    Those are Tambora Kingdom, Pekat Kingdom, and Sanggar Kingdom. Two of them truly lost to the earth, only 1 that still left some remains.

  • @kevin8712
    @kevin8712 ปีที่แล้ว +514

    Europe: Now that we've finally gotten rid of Napoleon, there's no way things can go wrong!
    Mt. Tambora: (erupts)
    Europe:

    • @skyblock_mouse
      @skyblock_mouse ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Europe be like: bruh can we HAVE ONE PEACFUL YEAR

    • @Sokker_
      @Sokker_ ปีที่แล้ว +6

      godDAMN you actually got hearted by teded

    • @kevin8712
      @kevin8712 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Sokker_ I never thought the day would come.

    • @Sokker_
      @Sokker_ ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@kevin8712 🫡

    • @kevin8712
      @kevin8712 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@unamedperson9249 In the face of crop failures, food shortages, spreading diseases, food riots, and abnormal weather changes?

  • @Snowman_44
    @Snowman_44 ปีที่แล้ว +687

    Volcanoes are stronger than i thought. That's crazy.

    • @bruhh3759
      @bruhh3759 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Well ig

    • @HattieMcDanielonaMoon
      @HattieMcDanielonaMoon ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@bruhh3759 Wdym you guess?

    • @salemsaberhagan
      @salemsaberhagan ปีที่แล้ว +17

      It's literally the earth's guts spilling out. Ofc it's strong.

    • @arnoldmbuthia2687
      @arnoldmbuthia2687 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Seems like you haven't been thinking much 💀

    • @ratzfert
      @ratzfert ปีที่แล้ว +5

      My coffee is pretty strong

  • @lillithewolf
    @lillithewolf ปีที่แล้ว +282

    I almost got a heart attack after seeing the title and "1815" in the description,because I've recently become obsessed with a song about a man who doesn't want to leave his farm,even though him and his family are close to starving,because he believes that winter is going to end soon. And the story takes place in the early 1800s,during the year without summer.
    This video was definitely a nice surprise lol
    Edit: in case anyone is curious,the song is "July" by American Murder Song

    • @elchavodelocio
      @elchavodelocio ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Which song is?

    • @aureliano_37
      @aureliano_37 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We need the name of the song

    • @lillithewolf
      @lillithewolf ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@elchavodelocio It's July by American Murder Song,I'll edit my comment and add it

    • @ליזהנורט
      @ליזהנורט ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The entire album is about that year, i love it dearly (it's why i decided to watch the video. Not what I expected)

    • @lillithewolf
      @lillithewolf ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ליזהנורט Oh I didn't know there was an album (lol)! Gonna check it out,thanks for commenting about it

  • @SearchOfSelf
    @SearchOfSelf ปีที่แล้ว +127

    The idea of blocking out the sun to combat global warming is both intriguing and unsettling. It's like playing with fire, quite literally! While we must explore all options to save our planet, we should prioritize reducing emissions and transitioning to renewable energy sources. Geoengineering could be a last resort, but let's focus on prevention rather than trying to fix the problem after it's worsened 🙏

    • @iolanda04
      @iolanda04 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You're so right
      Eating plant based will also help extremely much the earth❤🌍

    • @stevencooke6451
      @stevencooke6451 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I think small-scale use of this would perhaps be useful as a companion project as we implement more long-term stable solutions.
      Whenever I hear about tinkering with the world I think of the man who introduced rabbits in Australia.

    • @michaelrowe8115
      @michaelrowe8115 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Imagine covering the world with a giant sheet and then it catches on fire

    • @SearchOfSelf
      @SearchOfSelf ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@michaelrowe8115 That's certainly a scary thought! We need to be aware of the risks and make sure that safety measures are in place 💯

  • @jameslascelle9453
    @jameslascelle9453 ปีที่แล้ว +120

    My German and French ancestors have left my family with lots of documents stating what was happening in Europe at the time and what was happening in eastern North America. Tamboura and Krakatoa were two eruptions that are linked to the idea of “westward expansion” in North America as the climate wasn’t effected as bad over there. It’s crazy how volcanoes can completely change history. Just imagine the next big eruption and what it’ll do with our modern world. Definitely will create a new world history.

    • @yodorob
      @yodorob ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Even Pinatubo in 1991 didn't quite manage to do that, nor certainly did Hunga Tonga in early 2022. It would take the next Krakatoa/Tambora to do just that.

    • @overson15
      @overson15 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@yodorob Except in 1816 in frosted in New England and many parts of Europe in June and July. If that happened today it would lead to massive starvation and conflict. 1991 92 weren't as bad

  • @TheRcquint2004
    @TheRcquint2004 ปีที่แล้ว +357

    I truly hate to be the "Negative Nancy" here, but does anyone consider that if a country had this ability, they wouldn't weaponize it? In this day and age when so many countries are desperate for power, this scares me!.....(bracing for responses...)

    • @nala6846
      @nala6846 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah it seems apocalyptic to purposefully block out the sun for whatever duration of time. I wouldn't trust something like that. Next they would be forcing us regular folk to pay for sunlight.

    • @HanyaAngulooke
      @HanyaAngulooke ปีที่แล้ว +22

      The United Nations already banned it but of course how helpful is that really.

    • @Scarface4TX
      @Scarface4TX ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Weaponized? Not likely. It would be too slow to be useful (takes years to take effect) and they’d likely harm themselves too if they tried it.

    • @jeanmarc6517
      @jeanmarc6517 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Why do that when you can just throw a nuclear bomb and get the same effect

    • @Hickorypaws
      @Hickorypaws ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I think we can call in a positive Paul here and say that’s not going to happen

  • @ahmermirza
    @ahmermirza ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Thank you for introducing me what "geoengineering" is. Ted-Ed I truly appreciate the effort.

  • @shrinivasmanjithaya2112
    @shrinivasmanjithaya2112 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Started to plant one mango tree every year in 2020.. Trying my best to reduce global warming..
    If you guys don't have enough resources like land, water and time for a tree..just plant small plants in a pot like aloe vera or Tulsi in your surroundings..they will do the best..
    I will be a lot happy person if someone planted even a plant after reading this line..
    Let's work together for this..❤

    • @athaya2992
      @athaya2992 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      up!

    • @nicreven
      @nicreven 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This kind of completely ignores the issue, actually.
      Individual consumers like you and I have next to nothing to do with the climate crisis. We think that because of decades of propaganda from fossil fuel companies - that's where the idea of a "carbon footprint" comes from.

  • @johnnybadboy3475
    @johnnybadboy3475 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Solar radiation management also doesn’t address ocean acidification

  • @eamonthemineman8158
    @eamonthemineman8158 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    I can't believe the strength of volcanoes, and how it can be beneficial to our Earth.

    • @rashwanmohamed4545
      @rashwanmohamed4545 ปีที่แล้ว

      they are nit entirly beneficial, they emit sulphur oxides which are harmful pollutants

    • @yodorob
      @yodorob ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Volcanoes are a two-edged sword - they can destroy, but in the longer term they can also reap.

    • @rbagas3457
      @rbagas3457 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@yodorobyes you right, the Tambora and Krakatoa eruption at that time erase three kingdom from earth, but in the long term it provide a fertile land and attract more diverse culture group to resettle there

  • @officialdratsie
    @officialdratsie ปีที่แล้ว +45

    I want to paraphrase someone about geoengineering, “we are more willing to fight the sun then fight capitalism”!

    • @alexanderguerrero347
      @alexanderguerrero347 ปีที่แล้ว

      I mean capitalism is an idea you can’t kill an idea. You can kill the sun

    • @salemsaberhagan
      @salemsaberhagan ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@user_8982 an impersonal idea neither lives nor dies. It doesn't exist. CapitalISTS on the other hand.... Those are very real people that can live & die. #eat #the #rich

    • @тито-к9в
      @тито-к9в ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @user that’s what the peasants used to say about feudalism

    • @salemsaberhagan
      @salemsaberhagan ปีที่แล้ว

      @@тито-к9в and viola, the French invented ✨The Guillotine✨ Chop Chop ✨

    • @Xever2x
      @Xever2x ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@salemsaberhagan the rich aren't really the problem. They have a bigger influence and the effects of their actions can be felt by many ,yes, but people with far less still do far worse with what they have. If you ever work in any public establishment, you'll see that anyhow you flip it, people are just gonna ... people.

  • @aareview8258
    @aareview8258 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This 5 min Ted Ed summed up 4 hours of lecture in my global climate class. Really great information.

  • @angrygoose23
    @angrygoose23 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    _“It’s April 10th, 1815-”_
    It is?!
    _”-and in just a few moments, the sun is going to disappear.”_
    IT IS?!?

  • @ashwiniachu9791
    @ashwiniachu9791 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Ted ed must make a video about David bamberger who restored a wasteland to beautiful forest in Texas ❤

  • @tabletface6982
    @tabletface6982 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    This was a great video, very enlightening! I hope a lot of people see this.

  • @BlueSmoke216
    @BlueSmoke216 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Thank you for this video. My instinct was to be dismissive of things like huge solar shades, it doesn't fix the underlying problem. But on smaller scales, geoengineering can work hand in hand with solutions we're already trying. More heat-efficient buildings can reduce our need for air conditioning that is energy-intensive and contributes to CO2 emissions, protecting the Great Barrier Reef directly preserves environmental health. Can't ignore a potentially important way protect our world.

  • @DB-me7ol
    @DB-me7ol ปีที่แล้ว +27

    There is also a justice/rights conversation around this. Do we think of the Earth as something we own (albeit temporarily) or something we have borrowed? If the latter is the case, we will need to learn about the long-term impacts that these projects could have over many lifetimes.

    • @imaginarymask
      @imaginarymask ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It would be good if we could fit both the 'borrowed' and 'owned' idea together, as each has benefits. A sense of ownership raises the stakes and investment someone has, which is a good source of motivation to improve it. Likewise, if we imagine that it is 'borrowed,' we acknowledge that others will come after us to 'borrow' it from us, which should be a consideration of the scope of any human endeavor- so as to avoid forcing the future generations to account for our lack of consideration.

    • @loki2240
      @loki2240 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I'm an American. Many of us take and use to the detriment of our contemporaries, with no consideration for future generations. Of course, that can change. But I don't expect to be able to overcome centuries of dysfunction anytime soon. That's especially true with our infotainment bubbles and entities promoting and exploiting the dysfunction.

    • @salemsaberhagan
      @salemsaberhagan ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In either case, it's the only inhabitable planet we know of. The only one that even comes close is something we've recently found 12 million lightyears away. And it's just a guess that it's habitable. Whether we own the planet or not, there is no Planet B.

    • @Xever2x
      @Xever2x ปีที่แล้ว

      @@salemsaberhagan better don't let the people fanatic about terraforming mars spot you. One constant I know about human innovation is that there's always a drawback we don't see until much later that's usually slightly catastrophic, but at the same time , we can't stop innovating because we can't just go back to before either, so we have to fix the problems of today, to create the problems of tomorrow to repeat. But we do a know a lot more now , and we can gather information faster than ever, so maybe one day, we'll be able to successfully balance the scales between innovation and not disrupting nature's laws. And when we get to that, we'll have one final hurdle, if we'll care about the disruption and just go ahead anyway because there's no one else to tell us stop or not ,lol. But until these huge scientific breakthroughs occur, I'll keep doing the little I can.

    • @DB-me7ol
      @DB-me7ol ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I agree!

  • @marktaichen
    @marktaichen ปีที่แล้ว +25

    the liability of doing this would be insane. imagine litigations of every natural disaster after this.

    • @nonyabizness.original
      @nonyabizness.original ปีที่แล้ว

      i wonder how blocking solar would affect my... solar power?

  • @SkinnyGuyDahn
    @SkinnyGuyDahn ปีที่แล้ว +70

    Wow that's scary and fascinating at the same time. I wish i could go back in time and spend atleast a day or week in that time. How cleaner the earth was back then and how this single phenomenon must have made a drastic change.

    • @86jollygood
      @86jollygood ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Cleaner? Lesser pollution? But the the toilets and personal hygiene back then😅

    • @holysong2099
      @holysong2099 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Trust me, You'd wish you hadn't.

    • @marios1861
      @marios1861 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@86jollygood even vikings bathed regularly. Latrines were fine. the population density was small enough for pooping in the forest to not cause issues

    • @ma0487
      @ma0487 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@marios1861vikings weren't around in the 1800s, pollution and hygiene were big concerns during this period :)

  • @boringbilal
    @boringbilal ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Humans have been so advanced as to think up potential projects that affect the whole planet. Amazing.

    • @salemsaberhagan
      @salemsaberhagan ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Amazing in a bad way*

    • @amicableenmity9820
      @amicableenmity9820 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It was hotter during the Roman era, look it up.

    • @jogennotsuki
      @jogennotsuki ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@amicableenmity9820 Yes, in the small Mediterranean region. So? What are you trying to say?

    • @salemsaberhagan
      @salemsaberhagan ปีที่แล้ว

      @@amicableenmity9820 and that is why they mixed sea water in their concrete, not fresh water. It keeps things cooler.

    • @Ninjaeule97
      @Ninjaeule97 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@amicableenmity9820 The Roman Warm Period was a regional phenomenon, not a globally-coherent episode, that wasn't warmed than today, just similar to the temperature around 2000, which probably wasn't that pleasant back then. Also, Europe isn't suffering that much from climate change compared to other regions in the world.

  • @vikalptrivedi157
    @vikalptrivedi157 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Summer is the best time of the year and the worst.
    The good and the bad.
    By the way I am from India
    You can literally experience any season throughout the country if you want to.

  • @recks1151
    @recks1151 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Geoengineering is the type of radical idea that will cause the apocalypse with a single misstep. Knowing that humans constantly make mistakes, this is probably a terrible idea

    • @stevehewitt1151
      @stevehewitt1151 ปีที่แล้ว

      Also totally unnecessary - there is no crisis and CO2 has next to bugger all to do with controlling earth's temperature!

    • @yodorob
      @yodorob ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I would put it on par with nuclear war.

    • @DSAK55
      @DSAK55 ปีที่แล้ว

      apocalypse is already baked-in to your future

  • @invox9490
    @invox9490 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The problem with this is that WE don't know when to stop... And that is EXACTLY what we need to do.

  • @patrickmccartney2418
    @patrickmccartney2418 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    These are great examples of trusting the climate to private industry. As was pointed out at the end, the crisis we are in is from climate engineering done by these industries. Private industry’s answer to extreme CO2 is to pollute the atmosphere more to block sunlight. It just follows.

  • @amalsrivastava6853
    @amalsrivastava6853 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Cant imagine life without summers

    • @karikari1463
      @karikari1463 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah that's what im thinking to

    • @dionjohn1744
      @dionjohn1744 ปีที่แล้ว

      in tropical climates like here, summer is soo dreaded. right now as i am typing this, i have at least sweat like 2 buckets lmao

    • @salemsaberhagan
      @salemsaberhagan ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@dionjohn1744 sweat is good. It cools you down. Or just hang up some thick jute or hemp curtains & spray some water on them. I guarantee you'll feel cooler than if you had an air conditioner.

    • @salemsaberhagan
      @salemsaberhagan ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@dionjohn1744 plus, it's sustainable & it doesn't pollute the environment

  • @maxd3028
    @maxd3028 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    A boom can be heared over 2000 kilometers away!
    BIG WOOOOW 😮😮😮

  • @daniyalshah4338
    @daniyalshah4338 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Love from england
    Where if there is summer u can expect 40 plus degrees and where there is rain u can expect inches upons of it

  • @on_the_off_beat
    @on_the_off_beat ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's funny that something that is famous for being super hot made the year without summer.

  • @foldingwishes
    @foldingwishes ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The gloomy weather born from the eruption birthed Frankenstein. A particularly bad storm shuttered Mary Shelley and her friends indoors in 1816 for a while. To pass the time they decided to do a horror story competition and the scifi horror classic was born.

  • @davidsmithsmith5679
    @davidsmithsmith5679 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    This is how I feel the weather in the US is rn , no summer only storms

  • @coltafanan
    @coltafanan ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The way things are headed right now, we may soon have the first year without a winter

  • @joshuagorero7588
    @joshuagorero7588 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If any of you are interested, I’d recommend watching Extrapolations, which is an anthology series that focuses on the effects on climate change if we don’t take the initiative to decrease and regulate carbon emissions as well as to care for our environment seriously. A couple of episodes depict the use of geo engineering and its impact

  • @aishairmayeni4951
    @aishairmayeni4951 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Oooh!!! I never thought I would see Tambora Eruption in one of TedEd video
    I hope you will make one about Tambora Eruption for history video,
    I really like studying Tambora Eruption because it was such a bizzare phenomen

  • @arcie3716
    @arcie3716 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It’s so cool and scary seeing how much impact volcanoes have on this planet

  • @richewilson6394
    @richewilson6394 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm curious as to how during the Vietnam war that they did cloud seating affected the overall climate change if it was anything that we should be trying to repeat or not. I know certain areas can't handle huge amounts of rainwater because of long-term drought and having erosion taking place but it might help with solving the freshwater problem we have.

  • @nimbus3957
    @nimbus3957 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Bees’ll buzz
    Kids’ll blow dandelion fuzz
    And I’ll be doing whatever snow does in summer

  • @kamu747
    @kamu747 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Brings to mind the Geo engineering that keeps being brought up in the series Extrapolations

  • @aksheee
    @aksheee ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can't have a world without sunsets, and plants wouldn't grow... we should not contain the bad fumes but completely reverse the effects

  • @imaginarymask
    @imaginarymask ปีที่แล้ว +13

    The hubris of these scientists is astounding.

    • @loki2240
      @loki2240 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's impolite to peek at someone's hubris without their consent.

    • @imaginarymask
      @imaginarymask ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@loki2240 public display is about the clearest form of consent I can think of. But nice silliness you did there lol

    • @loki2240
      @loki2240 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@imaginarymask - Sometimes I laugh to keep for crying. We're so far from doing what we should be doing,

    • @salemsaberhagan
      @salemsaberhagan ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@@loki2240 then YOU do it. It's not like you've got a spaceship or a time machine to blast you off to a safer place. You'll burn with us. There is no escape.

    • @loki2240
      @loki2240 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@salemsaberhagan - Do what?

  • @astaridjatmiko8187
    @astaridjatmiko8187 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Please don't do it in Indonesia. We can't afford the cost of disaster. Anyway, i'm now enjoying some days without rain. Sun shine brightly, i can enjoy riding my bike. This summer only last like 2 or 3 months. Because it's like, rain almost everyday here in Garut.

  • @ksanan111
    @ksanan111 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We need a day called Environment Day where (almost) all airlines and factories will shut down for 24 hours... This will be so helpful to support the planet's healing process from all the poison humans have gave it

  • @Sunstreaker89
    @Sunstreaker89 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    We've just had a year without summer down in New Zealand, Aotearoa.
    Plus, two Cyclones.
    Its been a wild start to the year.

    • @lucyshnyr5647
      @lucyshnyr5647 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wow, sorry for that, I didn’t know about it being on the other side of the world. And… damn, “Aotearoa” sounds just soo beautiful, really, Maori names are out-of-this-world beautiful…!

    • @Sunstreaker89
      @Sunstreaker89 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Lucy Shnyr thanks very much!
      I think most of us in the Pacific's are hoping it's just a freak year and not our new normal 😅

  • @aksheee
    @aksheee ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Maybe we should be addressing the root cause of climate change... like transport, deforestation instead. Its more reliable but would take long.

  • @gregorycotter6461
    @gregorycotter6461 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Anyone planning to intentionally block out the sun ,should be jailed.

  • @Thanh_Thien
    @Thanh_Thien ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The weather in Asia is crazy hot now. I have never seen an extreme summer like this.

    • @yodorob
      @yodorob ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm sure there were extreme summers like that during previous Holocene warm periods, like during the Medieval or Roman or Minoan Warm Periods.

    • @DSAK55
      @DSAK55 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      you'll remember 2023 of the coolest year of the rest of your life

  • @AwesomeBoysJPTV
    @AwesomeBoysJPTV ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Teded: The Year Without Summer
    Phineas and Ferb: No Way!!!!???

  • @doubleeph8920
    @doubleeph8920 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Geo-engineering of weather systems to slow down global warming is giving shades of the events in the novel/movie/ TV show Snowpiercer. We don't want humanity to be stuck inside a segregated, self sustaining perpetual motion train navigating a completely frozen over planet Earth!

  • @angelb.8578
    @angelb.8578 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I didn't even realize how impactful Pinatubo was in 1991

  • @abdullahsohail9194
    @abdullahsohail9194 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The original narrator is back 🎉

    • @urbanzs
      @urbanzs ปีที่แล้ว +1

      they have different ones for each video

    • @salemsaberhagan
      @salemsaberhagan ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@urbanzs nah, they only have new people coming in for special features like cultural or social stuff. TED Ed is originally a scientific education oriented channel & this guy has been there from the very beginning.

  • @AreHan1991
    @AreHan1991 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The people pushing these «solutions» are mostly fossil fuel interests. They handily forget that reduced solar input would reduce crops, like Tambora led to widespread starvation in the early 1800s

  • @AV-we6wo
    @AV-we6wo ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Maybe someone already mentioned it - another interesting fact is that the eruption of Mt.Tambora ultimately led to the invention of the bicycle.
    The crop failures and regional famines were the reason a lot of horses had to be slaughtered. In 1817, a German nobleman named Karl von Drais who had already worked on the concept of (a predecessor of) the bicycle, started promoting his 'Draisine', which became quite popular, because people needed a mode of transport that didn't rely on horses. Of course a lot of other inventors added to his original idea, but that's more or less the origin of bicycles.

  • @TwoGrids
    @TwoGrids ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Summer is the best season, you can't change my mind.

    • @VS_ryt
      @VS_ryt ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Come to India. We’ll talk then😅
      Love to see so many Indians agreeing with this🤭

    • @informatbia8683
      @informatbia8683 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@VS_ryt th-cam.com/users/shortswRwUIaurtlo?feature=share

    • @HAZRDLyrics
      @HAZRDLyrics ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yea amigo, come here it’s 50 C at 11 AM

    • @ydid687
      @ydid687 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      its 47 degrees here soon to be 49 in a few days and in a month the humidity is gonna reach 90%
      Quite probably you haven't experienced real summer in all your cozy life

    • @shubhamgupta4919
      @shubhamgupta4919 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@VS_ryt I came here just to say that😂

  • @ToudaHell
    @ToudaHell ปีที่แล้ว

    Geoengineering is no longer a taboo topic. That confirmed my nihilism.

  • @dhyanicrescita
    @dhyanicrescita ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Sounds interesting they published this video exactly the same day we had a huge flood never seen before in northern Italy, after a strange spring with continuous rain (and on the opposite, kinda dry previous years)...

    • @marymurrow8869
      @marymurrow8869 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's what I was wondering - I asked a couple of friends last week when we were having days on end of torrential rain in spring, in May which is normally the sunniest month of spring in central Europe, if they thought that it was possible that the weather had been manipulated to create rain because the global warming fanatics believe or hope that this year will be "the hottest summer on record" ...
      A friend from Italy sent me photos of the same kind of weather, even on the Mediterranean coast, in Istria, too, torrential rain. Not normal.

    • @yodorob
      @yodorob ปีที่แล้ว

      I dare say there were periods like that before in history, way before any one of us was alive.

  • @august6281
    @august6281 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    that sucks for the Kids, no summer break

    • @salemsaberhagan
      @salemsaberhagan ปีที่แล้ว

      Au contraire. This means longer summer breaks. Kids are especially vulnerable to heat stroke. You should heat water in the sun & use it to give babies a sponge bath. Leave a bucket on the terrace or in the garden or something for an entire day. Helps the baby acclimatise to the heat. We do that often where my grandparents live.

  • @jojoabellar2536
    @jojoabellar2536 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was born when Mt Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines

  • @loki2240
    @loki2240 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    One moment, you're trying to save the world. Next moment, you find yourself hanging upside down in a wampa's ice cave...

    • @salemsaberhagan
      @salemsaberhagan ปีที่แล้ว

      Maybe think about what you were doing that caused you to get swallowed up in a wormhole & turned into a bat.

  • @XOPOIIIO
    @XOPOIIIO ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think they should do it in some form or another right now, not when all glacial would melt. There's no way we could cut carbon emissions in acceptable timeline.

  • @Momotank
    @Momotank ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The fact that two of the largest eruption in recorded history is from the same country 😮

    • @yodorob
      @yodorob ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not to mention the Toba super-eruption of 75,000 years ago - much more powerful than even Tambora. Indonesia is more vulnerable to volcanic eruptions big and small than just about any other country.

    • @chris01230
      @chris01230 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@yodorobAlso remember that the most devastating earthquake and tsunami were happened in Indonesia in 2004. Eventhough Japan known for their frequent tsunami. In fact Indonesia got hit a lot by tsunami, more than Japan post 20's.
      Indonesia is geologically nightmare.

  • @dylansearcy3966
    @dylansearcy3966 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    5:28, that's edgy. The guy just had a heat stroke I love how every ted-ed video concludes with a final statement like summer will never be the same again.

  • @apurvasingh2702
    @apurvasingh2702 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesom ted ed❣️❣️

  • @ApLzTheArtist
    @ApLzTheArtist ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Phineas and Ferb’s worst nightmare

  • @freshguy601
    @freshguy601 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love it! Creatures trying to avoid the inevitable!

  • @rrmanoukian5080
    @rrmanoukian5080 ปีที่แล้ว

    Insane idea that never should be tried. Who wants to cause famines and flooding!?

    • @SirCranberries
      @SirCranberries ปีที่แล้ว

      A more moderate version could possibly prevent famines and flooding. For instance, cooling a summer down enough that crop failure is less common or slowing the melting of glaciers.

  • @JasonB808
    @JasonB808 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Year 2123
    Old man to his grandchild “Back in my day we had bright blue skies, and the sun was so brilliant you would go blind staring at it.
    Kid = “Grandpa why did the sky go grey and hazy?”
    Old man = “Because we couldn’t resist money from Oil industry. They invested in Giant Haze machines that blanketed the world all so they could continue to pump out more carbon in our atmosphere”

  • @p11111
    @p11111 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What could go wrong?

  • @Rando_Shyte
    @Rando_Shyte ปีที่แล้ว

    Best narrator ☺

  • @CreoQueLaura
    @CreoQueLaura ปีที่แล้ว

    Mr Burns was ahead of his time

  • @shaylee7471
    @shaylee7471 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I’m fairly certain the idea of combating climate change in a way like this was the basis for the movie/show “Snowpiercer”. If you haven’t seen it…let’s just say it didn’t work well

    • @lukea7688
      @lukea7688 ปีที่แล้ว

      Choo choo!!!!!

  • @zyxw2000
    @zyxw2000 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Correct me if I'm wrong: Didn't the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 create a similar scenario to that of Mt. Tambora?

  • @Anti-CornLawLeague
    @Anti-CornLawLeague ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Now there’s so much carbon in the atmosphere, it’d probably just be the Year Without Wildfires.

  • @Apledore
    @Apledore ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Silly me, I thought the video would be about the event named in the title. Really wasn't though, was it?

  • @editflores
    @editflores ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Climate change is also natural. Canada Illinois used to have a glacier on top of it. Then it changed.

  • @robertcoplin2830
    @robertcoplin2830 ปีที่แล้ว

    Right. Humans have a record of good ideas that go bad. This is another one of those.

  • @jec_ecart
    @jec_ecart ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I can only dream about it. The heat is killing me.

  • @Bigshrexy
    @Bigshrexy 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Greece aready paints a lot of their buildings white to lower temperatures and it works great

  • @1jotun136
    @1jotun136 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Do you want a Snowpiercer? Because that's how you get a Snowpiercer!

  • @JemCruz
    @JemCruz ปีที่แล้ว

    BTW great pronunciation of Pinatubo.

  • @valuableknowledge123
    @valuableknowledge123 ปีที่แล้ว

    Valuable knowledge

  • @momentomori5263
    @momentomori5263 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    me who plants trees : i am lorax i speak for the trees

  • @JoshAsence
    @JoshAsence ปีที่แล้ว

    Mt. Pinatubo is in the Philippines 💯

  • @ArtypNk
    @ArtypNk ปีที่แล้ว

    Listen, I'm down. It's September and we have +30 in UK. Do what you have to do, just make this stop.

  • @daveduncan8090
    @daveduncan8090 ปีที่แล้ว

    Think size is impacted by precision of measurement over time?

  • @mildndr
    @mildndr ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Europe: Finally, Napoleon is defeated. Now there can be peace
    Mt Tambora erupting: say sike right now

  • @nirmanyugoel313
    @nirmanyugoel313 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    So to fight climate change due to pollution, the big idea we came up with is putting more stuff in the atmosphere.....

    • @finitecurve
      @finitecurve ปีที่แล้ว +3

      kinda mad at ted ed for putting this on their platform. Geoengineering shoudln't be considered as a legitimate solution to global warming right now

    • @nirmanyugoel313
      @nirmanyugoel313 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@finitecurve I guess it could be a good way to buy us some time till all the humans figure out a new and more reliable solution...
      We can only postpone the inevitable not avoid it...

  • @InternetStranger476
    @InternetStranger476 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Doesn't more CO2 in the atmosphere increase plant growth?

    • @yodorob
      @yodorob ปีที่แล้ว

      And besides which, CO2 was much much higher in Earth's distant past.

  • @yamiarisu49
    @yamiarisu49 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    And to think a volcano on one side of the world that cause storms near a villa near Lake Genova that force a group of writers to have a writing contest that resulted in the first science fiction and morden horror stories.

  • @abd4704
    @abd4704 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Geoengineering sounds an interesting concept for real life adaptation of movie geostorm .😅

  • @nowistime8070
    @nowistime8070 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They are already doing it. the thick hazey cloud is for blocking out Big Red

  • @michaelmcgarrity6987
    @michaelmcgarrity6987 ปีที่แล้ว

    We need it warmer where I live. Warmer is better here.
    Crank up Carbon Molecules!
    It's freezing here.

  • @niisigh5478
    @niisigh5478 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interesting

  • @EnglishIdiomsandWordsfor-sb3un
    @EnglishIdiomsandWordsfor-sb3un ปีที่แล้ว

    Mt. Pinatubo of Philippines ❤

  • @naryanr
    @naryanr ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This video felt different for some reason.
    The messaging was more aggressive,
    and the art in the video was a little underwhelming.
    It all felt a bit off...

  • @KTChamberlain
    @KTChamberlain ปีที่แล้ว

    You know in the show Dinosaurs, when the WeSaySo corporation caused the decline of an insect that ate plants that overrun civilization, they then tried to kill the obnoxious plant with a chemical, but in the process it killed every plant on prehistoric earth. Mr. Richfield then proposes trying to create rainclouds by dropping bombs into volcanoes. That then led to the Ice Age and thus the end of a great TV show in the early 90's. Why am I having deja-vu to that after watching this video?

  • @BMohantyone
    @BMohantyone ปีที่แล้ว

    Who'd thought initially that this video sounds like 'Interstellar theme'?

  • @Ko-komedian
    @Ko-komedian ปีที่แล้ว

    I thought this video was going to be about Laki erupting...I had no idea it happened with another volcanoe as well.

  • @BLGStudios
    @BLGStudios ปีที่แล้ว

    I believe this was one of the loudest sounds ever recorded