I live in Ireland, we like our gulf stream, please save it! The example I like to use is we are at the same latitude as the Kamchatka peninsula in East Russia. Its frozen for like half the year. We don't want the same fir Ireland
@Dirty Magic11 Normal cycles that take millenia to occur, not in 50 years. Yeah the world is gonna change terribly and billions will die. That's tough alright 🙄
Even Siberia and Antarctica will thaw out if it gets hot enough. I say keep the CO2 going and ban all natural ice and turn the poles into farmland and new trade routes. 8B people is too many anyway, 1B is more than enough. Fewer humans = less CO2, so it will all work out by itself eventually.
@Dirty Magic11 Why would I believe in these utterly extreme scenarios? Climate change will make areas that are currently full of people almost unlivable. Leading to huge social upheaval and minimum millions of deaths. I'm sad to see that outcome doesn't cause you a second thought
@@gurjotsingh8934 literally what's causing the temp to rise. Manmade emissions front coal and oil. It's a result of over exploitation and greed. No thought for sustainability.
@@lucasetten Maybe YT algorithm needs a push, to put first stuff that matters, instead of the crap one sees in "trending", but the YT algorithm only reflects what people see, so you can get an idea of what people are really interested in there. If you asked, it is sad, very sad.
@@Max-kd2gh doesn’t mean we shouldn’t question the business interests behind the priorities in the algorithms. In fact, it means we have even more of a reason to do so. Remember the scandal when it was giving kids hours of auto-generated plotless featureless bland CGI, which toddlers lapped up through autoplay and going “ooh, colours”?
This would have made it an actual pun. "Co-motion" isn't a pun at all, because the idea expressed there is literally the meaning of the construction of the word with its Latin prefix.
@@BritneyLaZonga do you add the tea(bag) in after the water? I pour my water over the tea (/fruit/flowers) and it’s even from the get-go. (I have a glass teapot because I like to watch.)
@@kimberlymonsini2604 Soon, maybe. A paradigm shift in information exchange is happening, to be sure. But, if the dissemination of information becomes concentrated in a proportionate few instead of homogeneously, it could be very bad, as intelligence is seperate from morality, as most people understand it. I wish they would teach the principles of Eudaimonia in school, but i had to seek out aristotle and the like on my own.
One of the things standing in the way of 'being smart' being celebrated these days is the politically inconvenient reality of biological and cultural factors influence on people's tendency to become #smart. To take the least-possible socially controversial demographic as an example: I wonder how we might better tap the impoverished population of Appalachia for hidden brilliance.
When you made that Co-Motion joke youtube instantly cutted in with 2 ads like even TH-cam doesnt find your jokes funny which made me mad because I actually laughed about the pun
The AI knows when you are distracted and loves to backstab you with totally hateful ads. I think Capitalism should be destroyed only so we can enjoy ad-less videos.
As somebody living near the North sea, the "colder water sinks" is the reason it's a bad idea to dive say, a meter or 2 deep. You basically get hit by that colder water. Staying on the surface is hotter.
50% of comments: You should have done "Com-OCEAN" 50% of comments: People who think they know more about science than thousands upons thousands upon thousands upon thousands upon thousands of climate scientists who know that climate change is real
Its because the people against this, the people that would lose the most money for themselves made it political. When you make something political they know you'll be on your "side" of things no matter how wrong you are. We treat politics like a sport.
I can't tell you how refreshing it is to scroll down and not find a pinned comment or an extra advert. Thanks for everything you've done, mate. have a good one.
"did you build my universe?" "ya & it's the size of a Lobster tank, it's whack" haha rick and morty that tank reminds me of. the zeep and rick fight scene.
In the UK our average low to average high temperatures year round is like 2 to 23 while same latitude in Canada it's around -15 to 23. Winter is so much easier to deal with when we only get snow 0-4 days a year.
Yup, which is why we should be on the bleeding edge of combating climate change - we stand to suffer dramatically at the hands of the weather if the gulf stream is disrupted
Now I'm just imagining a sci fi book about how some intergalactic civilizations would break planetary AMOCs to cripple enemy civilizations. Awesome video!
AMOCs, Plural? Where is the next planet at? Oh, and with the hugh mass involved, I doubt can be or will be stopped suddenly. If it did I think a lot of big bumps and gigantic whirlpools (way bigger than refrigerators) would become very evident.
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@@luisenrique6547 If you trade with a skilled trader such as Mr. John Scaparrotti, his trading strategies are very good, that won't be a problem and bother you.
Came here for this. This movie, while not exact on the science, still brought a visual that we may need to use to get it though our collective minds that we’re destroying our planet.
When I read your comment, I thought "The Day After", which was an 80s cartoon on what happens if nuclear war ensues. Then I realized I'm just getting old.
Sometimes it is. Making generalities is a good way to remember a concept without using too much energy for it. But the price is its truth. Seeing the problems we're facing today, making generalities about humans creating problems may not be a really good idea.
Yes! I was just thinking about Hot Mess. Did that one actually get cancelled, or is it just happening to not have any episodes for a long time? Anyway yeah, people who like this episode should go check it out.
Ohhh, I'm sure it'll be fine, maybe we can look into it in a few years. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got some forests to clear for that new coal fired power plant, progress waits for no man and all that.
Don't worry, it was fine even in the worst of the Ice Age, when it was some 5º colder but there were bisons and woolly rhinoceros so pretty much like Sweden or Poland today, I guess. We have more to fear from uncontrolled warming than from cooling.
Magnificent episode. Glad I decided to watch it. I would love if you could make a video detailing what you meant by "such complxity" that would include actual models, number of variables, computation power required and so on. Maybe even publish agenda first and take suggestions. Its high time we learned what does it mean when scientists say "its complicated".
no but I wish they did, it would help us be more educated about an actual crisis, it was just a chapter on info about the ocean currents and from where they flowed
@@rizzobitzThe entire planet is warming. If the AMOC stops, it stops carrying heat to Europe, Europe gets colder, but the heat doesn't go away, it just builds up faster in the areas the AMOC had been picking it up from.
I am really not sure we have the salt mining or transport capacity to pull that off we are talking about thousands of cubic kilometers here with even more water that will flow in to replace that if you are even partially successful. You would probably need easily billions of tons of salt to make even a modest temporary difference. Bear in mind here that the global production of salt is only around 280 million tons annually. Also with our largest bulk carriers only having a capacity of around 400,000 tons and we only have 68 of that size transporting the billions of tons of salt into the middle of the ocean even if we had it would be an issue. In short, the ocean is simply vast and the quantities of salt that would be needed to rebalance the system are almost unfathomable certainly beyond our industrial capacity to deliver.
@@seraphina985not to mention, if we WERE to somehow figure out how to gather that much salt, that in itself would have environmental impacts. Our world is a delicate thing!
Where do you find these detailed animations of ocean currents? I'm trying to learn more about these currents and winds from a sailing perspective. Thanks!
The sad thing is, we (collective) don't even look after ourselves. Despite knowing how bad junk food is for our arteries, we continue to gorge ourselves on high fat/high sugar foods, clogging our circulatory system. The amount of "largeness" is continuing to increase, despite everybody knowing the negative effects. So if we can't even look after ourselves, what hope is there for the ocean? Yeah, I just depressed myself. Good job me.
And the carcinogenicity of meat, dairy and eggs. If people don't care about themselves, imagine caring about something as "abstract" as the planet SMH Go plant-based for your health and the planet!
Thing is, I would wager that we don't ALL know. Not even close. The amount of ignorance of a lot (most?) people is actually astounding. The US is the best example, but it's a global trend. People, somehow, know much less than they should about a whole array of topics.
@@tyrellarson Yeah never underestimate humanities capability of willful ignorance the ability to forget ignore and or fail to internalize information that is unpleasant i.e. doesn't conform to our internalized narratives. It seems that humans have evolved enough eusocial characteristics to reach the point where these internalized tribal narratives are more important than our own existence. Tribalism is a both a fascinating and terrifying evolutionary imperative that seems deeply wired into our brains. And we have maximized our species capacity for such toxic self destructive behavior by developing sorting algorithms allowing like minded individuals to find each other and form narrow minded tribes of willful ignorance and delusion.
Small changes make a big difference, that's why, I think,, if they made the pipeline to take water from the Great Lakes, I think Superior was proposed, to California it would be a disaster.
@@pa28cfi I don't know. However. When the convection stream stops. Oxygen and salt will not be replenished. All life in our oceans will die. Also our planet is warming up. So I doubt the north pole will freeze up. At the other hand. There are theories that say global warming can cause a new ice age, so you might be right..........
When seeing stuff like this it defies belief that people simply dismiss global warming as some hoax without giving any consideration to one of the many catalysts such as explained in this video.
Spent two weeks searching for information or an article like this for my assignment which is due tomorrow, finally got my hands on this. Great work!! This has even me given more enthusiasm for this field to make a difference.
Wait, if Greenland melts then ocean currents stop and northern parts gets way colder then if it's way colder then there will be way more snow thus way more salt water there so ocean currents gonna restart again?
I prefer real science movies like The Core and 2012, thanks. The overexaggerated and dramatized crap in The Day After Tomorrow just muddies up the waters like a Fox News report.
what i dont know from university and school... I can search easily this knowledge via youtube. I can't imagine if such silicon valley and other IT companies all round the world collap suddenly and we lost literation...
this is why i love Be Smart. i've watched several videos on the AMOC and this is the only one that featured such an easy to follow, in depth explanation on what the AMOC actually is (the scientific process behind it). good science communication is invaluable.
Great video, as always. But I'm so tired, man. I'm tired because none of this will ever get fixed. We've been trying to get people to understand for nearly 3 decades now and it hasn't worked. We will never clean up our act, our atmosphere, nor our oceans.
It would help if people better understood the problem and those who are best in positions to make the biggest efforts did so, but we also need to keep in mind that the concept of "fixing" the situation isn't really an option, it never was. To the best of my understanding, what is happening is basically an acceleration of the natural order of things. The events and consequences are totally natural, it's the rate at which it is happening that is "unnatural". So even if overnight we somehow "fixed" everything we've done, it wouldn't undo the progression thus far, it would just remove our factor of the acceleration. However, that also doesn't mean that it would just revert to the past rate either, as the rate of change takes time as well. In short, while we totally need to work to stop accelerating things, we also can't expect it to not keep progressing regardless because it isn't just going to reverse to the old "normal". Change comes, accelerated or not, and those who choose to ignore it will be surprised and unprepared when it affects them. Like a thief in the night, either you are ready or you are not and then it is too late.
Also, even 30 years isn't as long as it seems, especially with trying to make change on a societal level. Though we certainly want things to progress faster (seeing results always feels good), there has been progress regardless. Raising the current and coming generations to love and care about actively doing good and actively avoiding bad will make some of the biggest changes we can do, but that takes time and a lot of dedicated honest effort. And it starts in families, not government.
Lacks half of the explanation. The AMOK starts in the Gulf of Mexico, heating up water. That water is now not transported to Europe, but stays at the East Coast, already clearly visible on 10:55. That heat isn't just surface water, but extends all the way to the bottom of the ocean. It's a huge warm water reservoir, passing it's energy to the weather system. It's energy will be converted to violent storms and tornados. Not good.
This is such an awesome video! I didn’t know there was so much going on with other currents. I know a little about the east Australian current which is possibly getting faster and making the finish times for the Sydney to Hobart shorter and the circumpolar current around Antartica, I’ve heard that scientists thought it was super good at stopping anything from getting through but then they found a bunch of micro plastic and stuff. I’d love to see an episode on this if I wasn’t obvious enough already 😅
@@markae0 I believe that we don't have that much of an impact as regular people, but if we could just stop being such idiots, we might actually save our planet by reducing the need for getting new stuff. But the era of consumerism...
Other interglacial periods have ended with the final ice sheets melting. The AMOC is the only current explanation we have for glacial cycles starting up quickly as seen in past records. Stopping this from happening will stop the current ice age we live in. Only people could mess that up so much.
This was a really cool explanation of how temperature and solute gradients can have large scale effects. I was just wondering if we can negate the effect of excess freshwater dumping into this current system by dumping salt to compensate for the melting of ice caps.
My research said the under water current has stop along the east coast 6 years ago which is causing climate change...and its to late for change...is it true?
Yes. Fluid dynamics is fun isn't it. Cooler in eurpoe, but an average globally of warmer. Think less of slowly pushing a pool of water, more like dropping a hammer in it. Earth can deal with slow changes, not quick ones, even if they deliver the same energy overall.
Literally this week, scientists have reported early and unexpected signs of the amoc breaking down in which wouldn't have been expected to occur this century. So yay us! /s
I really like this video. So I agree with everything mentioned in this video. Will the effect of colder winters in Europe a permanent thing or will it be cancelled out by trapped carbon? I am looking at this climate modeler and it forecasts warmer winters by 4 degrees Celsius for Europe.
Not all climate models take all pertinent factors into account. They can only be as good as the data they are given by the people who designed them. This is likely to change in the near future with AI coming online and becoming more advanced.
This is a good one. I like how everything is totally scientific except the cold blob. Hey what should we name that? How about HBCWDII2? Naw, how about cold blob and we call it a day? works for me.
I do have two more questions about this interesting and easy-to-follow explanation: - Does increased ocean acidity affect the thermohaline currents? - What would the disruption mean for ocean-dwelling algae? They are already under duress by the increased ocean acidity, but if this is another major stressor for them, we'd lose 70% of nature's oxygen sources, meaning we'd have to make do with the remaining 30% (that we keep cutting down at a rapid pace). Human women can no longer give birth to live babies if oxygen levels drop to 50% and lower.
Thank you so much for a great show. On your show on ocean currents you mentioned how the gulf stream warms Western Europe. I think this warming influence goes all the way to Moscow in Eastern Europe. The things you said about London are also true of Moscow.
I can't believe they just let all that perfectly good water run amoc
Ba Dum tiss
I see what you did there
Nice
I didn’t get it until 6:57 haha
Well done
Stop being so salty about it....
I live in Ireland, we like our gulf stream, please save it! The example I like to use is we are at the same latitude as the Kamchatka peninsula in East Russia. Its frozen for like half the year. We don't want the same fir Ireland
I live in Calgary. I wish we had ocean 😭
@Dirty Magic11 Normal cycles that take millenia to occur, not in 50 years. Yeah the world is gonna change terribly and billions will die. That's tough alright 🙄
Even Siberia and Antarctica will thaw out if it gets hot enough. I say keep the CO2 going and ban all natural ice and turn the poles into farmland and new trade routes. 8B people is too many anyway, 1B is more than enough. Fewer humans = less CO2, so it will all work out by itself eventually.
Just like how Chicago is on the same latitude as Rome, and we went below 0 a few times a week this winter, give us an ocean
@Dirty Magic11 Why would I believe in these utterly extreme scenarios? Climate change will make areas that are currently full of people almost unlivable. Leading to huge social upheaval and minimum millions of deaths. I'm sad to see that outcome doesn't cause you a second thought
Another thing to add to the "screwing up before we understand" List.
Good call.
Please disclose the complete list
@@gurjotsingh8934 TH-cam has a character limit
@@gurjotsingh8934 Chernobyl, Fukushima, GM food, AI computers. Autonamous cars, just off the top of my head.
@@gurjotsingh8934 literally what's causing the temp to rise. Manmade emissions front coal and oil. It's a result of over exploitation and greed. No thought for sustainability.
You know, you could have said: "Thanks to our Patrons, who keep this channel *afloat*" ...I'll get my coat.
I sea what you did there!
You mean you WON'T be here all week? LOL
Or boat ?
A pun AND a rhyme?
What is this, Christmas?
@@somefuckstolemynick Well, no. But it's either your birthday, or your un-birthday, so either way, you're due for a gift. :-)
It would be great if channels like this had the same fan base and support, that celebrities has,it would make a huge difference in mankind as a whole
I agree. I sometimes look at what TH-cam has as "Trending" videos and slowly lose faith in humanity.
@@lucasetten Maybe YT algorithm needs a push, to put first stuff that matters, instead of the crap one sees in "trending", but the YT algorithm only reflects what people see, so you can get an idea of what people are really interested in there. If you asked, it is sad, very sad.
I’m with you here guys. Let’s not give up though and cultivate sustainable practices in our homes and be responsible for our daily choices.
@@ikocheratcr it is a business and kids are the biggest user base on TH-cam... nothing sad just a reality
@@Max-kd2gh doesn’t mean we shouldn’t question the business interests behind the priorities in the algorithms. In fact, it means we have even more of a reason to do so.
Remember the scandal when it was giving kids hours of auto-generated plotless featureless bland CGI, which toddlers lapped up through autoplay and going “ooh, colours”?
I feel like these are made for middle schoolers but at 35 I’m learning so much! 😝
@James Taylor Oof U killed her :/
@James Taylor Maybe you could be more thoughtful and consider this wasn't even known 20 years ago?
@James Taylor they also teach social skills at school but I guess you didn’t listen to that. Practice what you preach.
You never be too old to learn something new 😉
@James Taylor My High School never even talked about this
At 1:53 I expected the pun explanation to be, “Get it? Com-OCEAN! You know... because we’re talking about oceans...”
the rare double-pun!
This would have made it an actual pun. "Co-motion" isn't a pun at all, because the idea expressed there is literally the meaning of the construction of the word with its Latin prefix.
Cum ocean
@@varunachar87 I think he did that on purpose.
thought that too xD
"Yeah. Take that AIR"
I Should not have laughed as hard as i did
I read that coral can get stressed and bleach. I asked myself what coral had to be stress about?
Then i realised. Current events.
Hahahaa 😂
lmao
🤣🤣🤣
Good One :D
Lol, they're so e-motion-al.
I haven't had nearly enough tea this morning to adequately deal with how much the red water/blue water demonstrations blew my mind.
Funny enough, i get a very similar effect when i make fruit tea. As long as i don't dip the tea bag, the red layer is perfectly visible
@@BritneyLaZonga do you add the tea(bag) in after the water? I pour my water over the tea (/fruit/flowers) and it’s even from the get-go. (I have a glass teapot because I like to watch.)
Was so amazing working with you folks to write this vid!
Thanks for helping, its a great video!
Ham
ha, you don't get pinned
Thanks for your support
@I would like to remain anonymous 💀
People don't like to admit this, but ending climate change cannot happen without a global change in the economic structure and our daily lives
Us military = greatest offender, while California bans gas mowers 😂
Was not expecting a Calgary name drop. You darn right we're colder 😂
Me neither I was so surprised
I dare say that being smart is not just o.k., but it's actually cool to be smart!!
my how times have changed.... lol
@@justinpyle3415 It took damn long enough! It is about time! Finally, we can stop hiding how intelligent we are and begin to be revered for it!
@@kimberlymonsini2604 Soon, maybe. A paradigm shift in information exchange is happening, to be sure. But, if the dissemination of information becomes concentrated in a proportionate few instead of homogeneously, it could be very bad, as intelligence is seperate from morality, as most people understand it.
I wish they would teach the principles of Eudaimonia in school, but i had to seek out aristotle and the like on my own.
No, it's essential
One of the things standing in the way of 'being smart' being celebrated these days is the politically inconvenient reality of biological and cultural factors influence on people's tendency to become #smart.
To take the least-possible socially controversial demographic as an example: I wonder how we might better tap the impoverished population of Appalachia for hidden brilliance.
a VSauce like transition at 0:39
yep
On point
YEPPP
When you made that Co-Motion joke youtube instantly cutted in with 2 ads like even TH-cam doesnt find your jokes funny which made me mad because I actually laughed about the pun
I looove his jokes!
The AI knows when you are distracted and loves to backstab you with totally hateful ads.
I think Capitalism should be destroyed only so we can enjoy ad-less videos.
1:53 I expected better Joe, an opportunity for Com- Ocean was right there! This close!
Not where my brain was going but ok
I thought that one too and was lowkey upset when eh said "co-motion"
As an oceanography student it’s really upsetting when lecturers basically tell you we’re fucked
As somebody living near the North sea, the "colder water sinks" is the reason it's a bad idea to dive say, a meter or 2 deep. You basically get hit by that colder water. Staying on the surface is hotter.
Very true indeed. Hi from Trondheim!
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50% of comments: You should have done "Com-OCEAN"
50% of comments: People who think they know more about science than thousands upons thousands upon thousands upon thousands upon thousands of climate scientists who know that climate change is real
Its because the people against this, the people that would lose the most money for themselves made it political. When you make something political they know you'll be on your "side" of things no matter how wrong you are. We treat politics like a sport.
I always come here for my current events
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I can't tell you how refreshing it is to scroll down and not find a pinned comment or an extra advert.
Thanks for everything you've done, mate. have a good one.
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"did you build my universe?"
"ya & it's the size of a Lobster tank, it's whack"
haha rick and morty that tank reminds me of. the zeep and rick fight scene.
This 'Low Probability, High Impact' event is now turning into a 'High Probability, High Impact" event. Thanks, Politicians & oil CEOs.
In the UK our average low to average high temperatures year round is like 2 to 23 while same latitude in Canada it's around -15 to 23. Winter is so much easier to deal with when we only get snow 0-4 days a year.
I'm at that latitude in Canada and it's more like -30 to +30 :( but part of that is our continental location. It's not so fun.
@@TS_Chick Based on data on Wikipedia under climate for Calgary
Yup, which is why we should be on the bleeding edge of combating climate change - we stand to suffer dramatically at the hands of the weather if the gulf stream is disrupted
Now I'm just imagining a sci fi book about how some intergalactic civilizations would break planetary AMOCs to cripple enemy civilizations.
Awesome video!
Both then, what would be the driving force of these AMOCs?
Maybe solar wind?
But then space is mostly empty
AMOCs, Plural? Where is the next planet at? Oh, and with the hugh mass involved, I doubt can be or will be stopped suddenly. If it did I think a lot of big bumps and gigantic whirlpools (way bigger than refrigerators) would become very evident.
VERY ENGAGING FROM BEGINNING TO END, A YEAR FROM NOW YOU'LL EITHER BE HAPPY THAT YOU STARTED WORKING ON YOUR DREAMS OR WISHING THAT YOU HAD STARTED, GET STARTED NOW AND DON'T LIVE WITH REGRETS! You can do it!
One day or day one Your choice, Regardless, businesses and investments are the most clear ways to make money.
People will be kicking themselves in few weeks if they miss the opportunity to buy and invest in Bitcoin.
Obviously, I decided to trade cryptocurrencies but was put off by the market uncertainty.
@@luisenrique6547 If you trade with a skilled trader such as Mr. John Scaparrotti, his trading strategies are very good, that won't be a problem and bother you.
I have worked with 4 traders in the past but none of them is as efficient as Mr. John Scaparrotti, His trading strategies is awesome!
Literally taught this last week in my environmental science class.
Awesome 👌
I had to check to see how old this video is😂 2 years after this video was made (2023) scientists say the Amoc could collapse as soon 2025 😢
The Day After Tomorrow...
Love that movie!
Yeah but that movie was off the rails psuedoscientific. They just straight up invented cryo hurricanes that are so cold it freezes gasoline.
Came here for this. This movie, while not exact on the science, still brought a visual that we may need to use to get it though our collective minds that we’re destroying our planet.
@@setcheck67 Well it wasn't a documentary as far as I know... 😅
I can, probably say, and may, or might, likely, say the chance of the sky falling, is possibly, maybe, bull$#/¥!
When I read your comment, I thought "The Day After", which was an 80s cartoon on what happens if nuclear war ensues. Then I realized I'm just getting old.
We basically treat the Ocean as a big garbage dump. We probably think that as long as it isn't discovered, its fine.
Not sure what to comment, so I'll just.. wave. 👋
Get it? Currents.. waves? Ok, never mind.
😂👌
Lol
Got it. 😆
I miss HotMess, This would have been a good episode to have there.
Anyways, the problem is, It's never not Humans.
Sometimes it is. Making generalities is a good way to remember a concept without using too much energy for it.
But the price is its truth.
Seeing the problems we're facing today, making generalities about humans creating problems may not be a really good idea.
Yes! I was just thinking about Hot Mess. Did that one actually get cancelled, or is it just happening to not have any episodes for a long time? Anyway yeah, people who like this episode should go check it out.
Ohhh, I'm sure it'll be fine, maybe we can look into it in a few years. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got some forests to clear for that new coal fired power plant, progress waits for no man and all that.
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I live in northern Spain, in the same latitude as Vladivostok. AMOC please don't go!
Don't worry, it was fine even in the worst of the Ice Age, when it was some 5º colder but there were bisons and woolly rhinoceros so pretty much like Sweden or Poland today, I guess. We have more to fear from uncontrolled warming than from cooling.
This video is gold, it's so sad what's happening
3 years later and it's gonna happen in 5 months ☺️
2 years later and they say the current will stop by 2025 😢
2025-2095. But yeah this is gonna be crazy.
Magnificent episode. Glad I decided to watch it. I would love if you could make a video detailing what you meant by "such complxity" that would include actual models, number of variables, computation power required and so on. Maybe even publish agenda first and take suggestions. Its high time we learned what does it mean when scientists say "its complicated".
We literally have a chapter in 8th grade about ocean currents and it covers the exact same topics that you covered, so this video helped me a lot!
Did they help explain why it's called global warming if it's leading to an ice age? The cognitive dissonance is getting to me.
no but I wish they did, it would help us be more educated about an actual crisis, it was just a chapter on info about the ocean currents and from where they flowed
@@rizzobitzThe entire planet is warming. If the AMOC stops, it stops carrying heat to Europe, Europe gets colder, but the heat doesn't go away, it just builds up faster in the areas the AMOC had been picking it up from.
@@rizzobitzthey actually did
Reminder that 70 percent of all emmisions are produced by the top 100 companies
This sounds very interesting!
I love watching your videos. You teach while keeping a sense of humor. I love it!
11:16
Me: I really want to put a lot of salt in that cold area and see what happens
I am really not sure we have the salt mining or transport capacity to pull that off we are talking about thousands of cubic kilometers here with even more water that will flow in to replace that if you are even partially successful. You would probably need easily billions of tons of salt to make even a modest temporary difference. Bear in mind here that the global production of salt is only around 280 million tons annually. Also with our largest bulk carriers only having a capacity of around 400,000 tons and we only have 68 of that size transporting the billions of tons of salt into the middle of the ocean even if we had it would be an issue. In short, the ocean is simply vast and the quantities of salt that would be needed to rebalance the system are almost unfathomable certainly beyond our industrial capacity to deliver.
It would sink and even colder water float up doh!!! It is only 3C on ocean floor.
@@seraphina985not to mention, if we WERE to somehow figure out how to gather that much salt, that in itself would have environmental impacts. Our world is a delicate thing!
@@VonnieVon2009 Right.
Where do you find these detailed animations of ocean currents? I'm trying to learn more about these currents and winds from a sailing perspective. Thanks!
I believe oceanographic organisations produce them.
government pilot charts show global currents , winds and weather . ...the Gulf Stream is not slowing
"Maybe the Romans wouldn't have empired as much." LOVE it! 😆
im loving the new meme-y presentation style, not to take anything away from it, it's still very good quality editing
The sad thing is, we (collective) don't even look after ourselves.
Despite knowing how bad junk food is for our arteries, we continue to gorge ourselves on high fat/high sugar foods, clogging our circulatory system. The amount of "largeness" is continuing to increase, despite everybody knowing the negative effects.
So if we can't even look after ourselves, what hope is there for the ocean?
Yeah, I just depressed myself. Good job me.
And the carcinogenicity of meat, dairy and eggs. If people don't care about themselves, imagine caring about something as "abstract" as the planet SMH Go plant-based for your health and the planet!
And meat. Not just ‘junk food’.
Thing is, I would wager that we don't ALL know. Not even close. The amount of ignorance of a lot (most?) people is actually astounding. The US is the best example, but it's a global trend. People, somehow, know much less than they should about a whole array of topics.
@@tyrellarson Yeah never underestimate humanities capability of willful ignorance the ability to forget ignore and or fail to internalize information that is unpleasant i.e. doesn't conform to our internalized narratives. It seems that humans have evolved enough eusocial characteristics to reach the point where these internalized tribal narratives are more important than our own existence. Tribalism is a both a fascinating and terrifying evolutionary imperative that seems deeply wired into our brains. And we have maximized our species capacity for such toxic self destructive behavior by developing sorting algorithms allowing like minded individuals to find each other and form narrow minded tribes of willful ignorance and delusion.
@@Dragrath1Very well put. Scary, yet fascinating.
The most practical video on Climate Change I have seen on TH-cam.
Love the Mafia bit
Thank you❤️
From Sri Lanka 🇱🇰😍
I come from the future to say that now the AMOC has a 95% of stopping between 2025 and 2095. Wooooooo……
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Small changes make a big difference, that's why, I think,, if they made the pipeline to take water from the Great Lakes, I think Superior was proposed, to California it would be a disaster.
We are aware of this since the 90's. If this process stop, we have problem!
Looking at the bad Covid response in many countries we are absolutely doomed in regards of climate change
@@whiteraven550 I agree... Nature always finds a way.
@@pa28cfi The correction takes a long time, and there are still the other climate factors to account for.
@@pa28cfi I don't know. However. When the convection stream stops. Oxygen and salt will not be replenished. All life in our oceans will die. Also our planet is warming up. So I doubt the north pole will freeze up. At the other hand. There are theories that say global warming can cause a new ice age, so you might be right..........
@@pa28cfi Good question.....
I .like . I am 53
And I enjoyed The class . Great way tu explains. Thanks Joe and PBS.
This is the best incentive for stopping climate change I’ve ever seen
No matter how much YOU are convinced there are a lot of people who would just look at this, say "meh", and continue on...
When seeing stuff like this it defies belief that people simply dismiss global warming as some hoax without giving any consideration to one of the many catalysts such as explained in this video.
Yet my mom and brothers cannot be conviced that climate change is real or that climate and weather are different things. 😣
An object in motion tends to stay in motion.
Spent two weeks searching for information or an article like this for my assignment which is due tomorrow, finally got my hands on this. Great work!! This has even me given more enthusiasm for this field to make a difference.
You're bad at googling
Thanks
You're welcome!
You should do a collab with Matpat, you both make learning fun and explains it more enjoyable
Wait, if Greenland melts then ocean currents stop and northern parts gets way colder then if it's way colder then there will be way more snow thus way more salt water there so ocean currents gonna restart again?
The moment you realize that the movie "The Day After Tomorrow" is actually a documentary of the future.
You are being fooled 😛😛😛 by movies
A futurmentary?
A Documenture?
A giant chuck of one of the Larsen ice shelves broke off a few years ago 😂
I prefer real science movies like The Core and 2012, thanks. The overexaggerated and dramatized crap in The Day After Tomorrow just muddies up the waters like a Fox News report.
what i dont know from university and school... I can search easily this knowledge via youtube. I can't imagine if such silicon valley and other IT companies all round the world collap suddenly and we lost literation...
12:19 Yeah, but how do we get those in control of governments to actually do something about it?
Sadly the possibility of a peaceful resolution seems to grow weaker year by year....
this is why i love Be Smart. i've watched several videos on the AMOC and this is the only one that featured such an easy to follow, in depth explanation on what the AMOC actually is (the scientific process behind it). good science communication is invaluable.
Great video, as always.
But I'm so tired, man. I'm tired because none of this will ever get fixed. We've been trying to get people to understand for nearly 3 decades now and it hasn't worked. We will never clean up our act, our atmosphere, nor our oceans.
It would help if people better understood the problem and those who are best in positions to make the biggest efforts did so, but we also need to keep in mind that the concept of "fixing" the situation isn't really an option, it never was.
To the best of my understanding, what is happening is basically an acceleration of the natural order of things. The events and consequences are totally natural, it's the rate at which it is happening that is "unnatural". So even if overnight we somehow "fixed" everything we've done, it wouldn't undo the progression thus far, it would just remove our factor of the acceleration. However, that also doesn't mean that it would just revert to the past rate either, as the rate of change takes time as well.
In short, while we totally need to work to stop accelerating things, we also can't expect it to not keep progressing regardless because it isn't just going to reverse to the old "normal". Change comes, accelerated or not, and those who choose to ignore it will be surprised and unprepared when it affects them. Like a thief in the night, either you are ready or you are not and then it is too late.
Also, even 30 years isn't as long as it seems, especially with trying to make change on a societal level. Though we certainly want things to progress faster (seeing results always feels good), there has been progress regardless.
Raising the current and coming generations to love and care about actively doing good and actively avoiding bad will make some of the biggest changes we can do, but that takes time and a lot of dedicated honest effort. And it starts in families, not government.
9:49 There are more and more independent scientists who are saying clearly that the probability is high and not low!
wow am i early, and WHY U GOTTA POST WHEN IM BOUTTA GO TO BED WTH
I know that this is a joke but why did you click In the first place🤣
Lacks half of the explanation. The AMOK starts in the Gulf of Mexico, heating up water. That water is now not transported to Europe, but stays at the East Coast, already clearly visible on 10:55. That heat isn't just surface water, but extends all the way to the bottom of the ocean. It's a huge warm water reservoir, passing it's energy to the weather system. It's energy will be converted to violent storms and tornados. Not good.
This is such an awesome video! I didn’t know there was so much going on with other currents. I know a little about the east Australian current which is possibly getting faster and making the finish times for the Sydney to Hobart shorter and the circumpolar current around Antartica, I’ve heard that scientists thought it was super good at stopping anything from getting through but then they found a bunch of micro plastic and stuff. I’d love to see an episode on this if I wasn’t obvious enough already 😅
Greenland does not get enough credit for how weirdly important it is in global rhythms.
It's funny that everyone is talking so much but no-one is actually doing something. Big corporations don't care so the governments don't care.
Karma will fet them soon enough
"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." We are all burning fossil fuels , so don't say no-one is doing anything.
@@markae0 I believe that we don't have that much of an impact as regular people, but if we could just stop being such idiots, we might actually save our planet by reducing the need for getting new stuff. But the era of consumerism...
1:57 is the single best editor cut I’ve seen in my over 13 years of video streaming
And 3:12 is the best quote I’ve heard in my entire life
“probably not gonna happen soon” haha….. hahahha… oh it hurts watching this now lol
Excellent presentation!!! ❤
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Other interglacial periods have ended with the final ice sheets melting. The AMOC is the only current explanation we have for glacial cycles starting up quickly as seen in past records. Stopping this from happening will stop the current ice age we live in. Only people could mess that up so much.
Thank you so much for this video 🙏🏽 I always wondered this, this was so informative!
I’m surprised that humans have com this far, considering how criminally stupid and selfish we are.
This was a really cool explanation of how temperature and solute gradients can have large scale effects. I was just wondering if we can negate the effect of excess freshwater dumping into this current system by dumping salt to compensate for the melting of ice caps.
Dig a canal from the Dead Sea down to the Red Sea?
Alright, I just have to give a shout out for the use of Doom fire effects. That is just so well applied to the context xD Bravo!
This was a great video
#protecttheoceans
Think of the fish
Yep. Save the fishes. Don't eat fish. Watch Seaspiracy on Netflix.
Great video! Thank you for breaking it down & using red and blue dye to show the difference in water temp, very cool!
Those were some pretty incredible graphics... never seen such clear explanation of ocean currents before!
My research said the under water current has stop along the east coast 6 years ago which is causing climate change...and its to late for change...is it true?
So climate change could temporarely lead to cold temperatures in europe?
Yes. Fluid dynamics is fun isn't it. Cooler in eurpoe, but an average globally of warmer. Think less of slowly pushing a pool of water, more like dropping a hammer in it. Earth can deal with slow changes, not quick ones, even if they deliver the same energy overall.
Hey! Here from 2023..... We didn't stop it
There's simply not enough media representation of climate change specially in live TV
If we act, the US dollar will collapse, because it's almost only sustained by Saudi oil since Nixon.
Literally this week, scientists have reported early and unexpected signs of the amoc breaking down in which wouldn't have been expected to occur this century. So yay us! /s
The fact that this is not a national emergency is scandalous
A scandalous lack of scandal.
Me in Europe watching this vid 2 months later while parts of Europe are seeing the worst floods in memory. Scary 😥
I really like this video.
So I agree with everything mentioned in this video. Will the effect of colder winters in Europe a permanent thing or will it be cancelled out by trapped carbon? I am looking at this climate modeler and it forecasts warmer winters by 4 degrees Celsius for Europe.
Not all climate models take all pertinent factors into account. They can only be as good as the data they are given by the people who designed them. This is likely to change in the near future with AI coming online and becoming more advanced.
This is a good one. I like how everything is totally scientific except the cold blob. Hey what should we name that? How about HBCWDII2? Naw, how about cold blob and we call it a day? works for me.
Is it amazing that I knew how they worked before watching this video?
I do have two more questions about this interesting and easy-to-follow explanation:
- Does increased ocean acidity affect the thermohaline currents?
- What would the disruption mean for ocean-dwelling algae? They are already under duress by the increased ocean acidity, but if this is another major stressor for them, we'd lose 70% of nature's oxygen sources, meaning we'd have to make do with the remaining 30% (that we keep cutting down at a rapid pace). Human women can no longer give birth to live babies if oxygen levels drop to 50% and lower.
The swirly patterns of ocean circulation look a lot like those found on the dense atmospheres of gas giants.
Indeed that is because fluid dynamics is driving the time evolution of both systems
Exactly what I thought of, Jupiter.
Here i was just trying to learn about ocean currents for my class but ended up learning so much more.
Terrifying. Don't break!
Thank you so much for a great show. On your show on ocean currents you mentioned how the gulf stream warms Western Europe. I think this warming influence goes all the way to Moscow in Eastern Europe. The things you said about London are also true of Moscow.