Tony Robinson could talk about arthritis in the knee joints of the common cockroach and make it seem fascinating. His choice of words, his humour make any subject come alive. I absolutely adore his programmes. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
As an american, I'd only ever known Tony Robinson as Baldrick, and never bothered to look beyond that role. Wow, I am so impressed with these docs and his brilliance as host...bravo Sir Tony!
The man is undeniably a genius. To turn interests and passions into a completely different career and taking a large number of people along for the ride can only be described as genius. Thank you, Sir Tony, you definitely earned your "gong". Bravo!
I love how Sir Tony doesn't just talk about the glaciers but also about how geologists discovered their effects. He is such a great communicator. And, of course, a National Treasure!
AWSOME, Tony Robinson that was interesting. I'm being to think of you as instructor Robinson. Between Time Team, and your documentaries I am enjoying all the new information about old stuff. Nature, History, Archeology, and Geologically. Topics that are rewarding to learn about. Thank you!
He is our national antiquities teacher, for sure. He left school with four O-levels: English language, English literature, history and - interestingly - geography. Bristol uni gave him an honorary MA 'for services to drama and archaeology', but - to be honest - I reckon he earned that. You see - he studied archaeology in the uni's extra-mural studies department.
Seattle sits between Puget Sound to the west and Lake Washington to the east, both of which were carved deeply by glaciers. That's why Lake Washington has two floating bridges because of its silty depths. Being able to go from the likes of Baldrick to hosting deeply scientific documentaries shows how versatile and brilliant Sir Tony is. Thanks so much for your good humor and clarification of Britain's geology!
Wow. Danielle Schreve is in this presentation. When still working on fossil molluscs in the Geological Survey of the Netherlands we met each other several times. I visited several outcrops with interglacial to interstadial deposits containing non-marine molluscs. The Strait of Dover and the Channel were formed during the last stage of the Saalian during a catastrophic event when the landbridge at the South of the North Sea breached.
Oh, was that when Doggerland was drowned? It's so fascinating that Mesolithic artefacts are dredged up from the sea bed there, it must have been such a rich place for our ancestors to live. How sad that it's all gone. Those were the times when what became the UK was literally joined to Europe. Maybe, one day, we will again be metaphorically joined together. (Yes, I'm from the UK.)
That altar stone at Stonehenge HAD to be a glacial erratic. Bronze age folks, to whom I give a lot of credit, did not move a six tonne stone 500 miles.
One of the coolest things i've seen in my life, is in Canada. I won't disclose its location at the bequest of the guide, but coming down a former glacier's path, was shown a smooth, but gouged exposed section of bedrock. Not even a km from it, in the exact orientation, the rock that must've carved it. A stone as big as a double decker bus, with half of its flat edge visible from beneath, in what was a small cave of erosion. It felt so surreal, to see a process that was older than anything you could see at a human scale, because everything else is macro to us.
London was certainly not the most southerly glaciated area of Britain, Tunbridge Wells in Kent & the Chilham valley in Kent were both glacially carved & deposited with huge rocks, both well south of London. Tunbridge High rocks is still a spectacular tourist attraction today.
Great show and loved it thank you,Did you notice how the drum hills looked like the tear drop shaped island in rivers, goes to show that a few mtr of ice cold water was shaping the land.
I live in Toronto Canada. Those ice sheets were also here. Moraines, glacial valleys and the Great Lakes were formed in all of Canada. Lake Superior, formed by the motion of glaciers, is big enough to hold the island of Ireland.
Massive glaciers flowed into the North Sea from the mountains of Norway flattening the whole area, a line of Moraine under water several hundred miles long created Dogger Bank which took thousands of years to flood over, these glaciers would have covered over 100,000 square miles
What a great episode! I love the way scientists concentrate on learning from the past to be able to help us predict and plan for our futures. (if we live that long!) 🙂
This is an excellent science program. We get to the point very quickly rather than the dragged out narrative that we often get in so-called preeminent science and technical video stories.
There was another HUGE factor, not mentioned, that formed the division of Britain from the Continent-the events re: the Storegga landslide and the subsequent drowning of Doggerland. I wish that had been discussed.
Naturally, they end the story with 'global warming' which is childish. A little bit of gas isn't going to stop vast, titanic, ASTRONOMICAL forces that drive the Ice Age cycles.
These eco warriors need to watch this kind of education. Very excellent!! I spent a while in Canada and saw what the ice age did at carving that country out. I remember seeing a round boulder at the side of the road with a plaque by the side of it. The sign stated that this huge boulder was left by the last ice age. I love this kind of stuff and really appreciate the amount of time and energy that these educated people put into it. Fantastic Tony!!!
I was 7 when compiled a dozen childish rock examples for a school project, specimens I can remember today were the glacial polished granite's that most intrigued me and made sense as explained by my geologist dad... 'machined' wavy glossy rock you'd not normally expect. That was the sort of rock we'd love to drive our Matchbox Cars on. :D
Yes. I tried to teach my ecology class about them, but many of my students found it too confusing. Of course, with climate change caused by human activity, these cycles are also being disrupted. We do not really know what the outcome will be over the next 10,000 years.
The Brits are a mix of metric and Imperial measurements... When you are driving, the longer distances on the road signs are measured in miles, the shorter distances (like to the next exit) are measured in yards, and bridge clearances are measured in meters. And beer is mandated to be sold in Imperial pints (20 oz per imperial pint, but each ounce is slightly smaller than a US pint which results in a beer of just slightly over 19 US ounces). Some things get measured in kg, but people might refer to their weight in stones and pounds. Although the metric system tried to be based on some sort of natural constants, in the end, it is just another arbitrary system of measurement. As an engineer, I can deal with either of the systems. Even in the US system, we sometimes use decimals instead of fractions for certain types of measurements. Our gasoline is dispensed in decimal gallons. Machinist use decimal measurements (1/1000ths of an inch) for tolerances and other sizes measurements on lathes and milling machines. When I'm reloading ammo for my firearms, I measure the length of the brass cartridges and overall length of the reloaded cartridges with a caliper that measures in 1/1000ths on an inch. The powder charges are measured in 1/10ths of a grain (7000 grains per pound). With the metric system, you might measure powder in grams, but to get the same sort of accuracy, you'll need to measure in more than 1/100ths of a gram since 1/100th of a gram is about twice what 1/10th of a grain would be. The Brits usually use the Celcius temperature scale, but sometimes they use Fahrenheit. To maintain a similar level of granularity with the Fahrenheit scale, you need to use half degrees in Celsius. There's nothing magical about the metric system, it's just another arbitrary system of measurement.
@@cruisepaige -- I think the UK miles are the same as the US miles. Their gallons are larger which is why you see cars over there quoted as getting better gas mileage than the same car here.
…and then, without mankind adding CO2 somehow the planet warmed up all by itself. It was a sort of magic. CO2 values in this period varied between a 180 and 300 ppmv (all by itself). Now even more magic occurs. The 97% of the naturally occurring CO2 doesn’t raise the Earth’s temperature but the 3% anthropogenic CO2 does. Amazing stuff.
Unfortunately "Chris" doesn't know much about drumlins. He's very wrong about how they form. They don't just form egg shaped mounds from the pressure of the ice. As the glacier moves forward it pushes and gathers boulders, dirt, rocks, sand, organic debris, etc. When there was a large/heavy enough bunch of material, it would settle out of the glacier. It is well known that drumlins are composed of rocks, boulders, dirt, sand, and silt, among others. A pile of that stuff doesn't just appear because of a mile high glacier's weight as "Chris" suggests.
6100 BC is when the final portion of land bridge (what was left of Doggerland) to Europe was enveloped by the Channel and submerged, after a shelf slide off the coast of Norway. This video ends with misinformation, Doggerland is well known beneath the depths.
I watched another show that said the loch was formed when a hunk of North America ran into Scotland. The valley, discounting the silt sediment at the bottom, does not have the classic U-shaped valley, but rather a V-shaped valley.
I first met up with Tony when he was part of the Time Team. Now I have the opportunity to expand my knowledge base. He is a very interesting individual.
Superb. Educational. Wonderfuy presented. Great examples to paint a picture of glaciation. Britain's landscape is so beautiful and full of hidden historical treasures. Great episode. I think Tony Robinson is a national treasure. He deserves recognition for his role in teaching, presenting and showing us all about archaeology, history and the natural environment.
David Fraser... I know what you mean but it was ever thus. The English always say sing "For the sake of old lang syne" instead of "Auld lang syne." They think that 'Scotch Eggs" are from Scotland instead of 'scorched eggs.' They don't realise that the Scots language is not 'English spoken with a Scots accent" but a separate language drawing on some (SOME) common roots! I'm 5/6 generations English but from Caledonian origins related to Lord George Murray of Blair Atholl and I have the same surname. My brother's forenames are Neil Fraser... David.. I hope that you enjoy strawberries. I know that you will understand that strange remark when English folk don't. Lang may yer lum reek! From: A bum Englishman, who married a lassie frae Glesgae tae top up the Scottish blood!
MauriatOttolink It's not just the English that can't pronounce syne correctly but the majority of folk apart from Scots. They tend to say "zyne" as opposed to "sign" though. Also Your correct in saying Scots is a different language rather than English with a Scottish accent. They both share a common ancestor. Scots is a northern variant of Anglo Saxon just as Anglo Saxon was a northern German variant of the old Germanic language that so many Northern European languages come from. I love strawberries but I'm missing your meaning here. Lol.
The conclusion is a bit premature. The changes of climate in the past were much more severe than predicted for the next 100 years. A new ice age is likely and is not being prevented by humans. It is just uncertain when the next ice age will start. It cannot be just CO2 that controls climate because water vapour has a vastly greater effect on temperature. And, in the past, it is temperature that rises first and then CO2 rises. Besides the fact that the rest of nature produces CO2 more than we ever could, and that vegetation needs CO2. CO2 is not a pollutant. It is plant food.
The video is very good. The background music is dreadful. Why can't the editors blend in softer background music that doesn't overwhelm the show.Sometimes it was difficult to understand the narrative.
We found the clay line in Romford as kids nearly 60 years ago in the sand and gravel pits that were extensive around the East of London . I live at the bottom of one of the terminal moraines from the Ipswichian glaciation period , a series of parallel mounds of sands and gravels that created the river courses that flow West to East from the Thames to the Orwell at Ipswich . What was missed in this episode was the ancient forest exposed on the North and South banks of the Thames near Purfleet and Erith which were probably killed off by the low temperatures that were present during that last age . Don't be fooled by this 10000 year cycle thing and the planet should be getting colder . Historically it never happened like that and the Earth , ancient writings , early recordings and continuous record keeping since the 17th Century has shown that along the way we have had mini dips and peaks in temperatures , with much smaller dips and peaks within those that may last 50-100 years that take part in that extremely gradual cycle . The last period of major cooling was in the 17th century when the great Thames itself froze over with Ice so thick , bonfires and fairs were held on it and it was used as a highway and crossing . Harbours froze and summers very cold and wet . Climate change caused by industrial activity , not a bit of it . UK had very little industrial output up until that time and was mainly agricultural with ' as green as you can get ' technology wind and watermills driving heavy machinery such as cannon boring machines and a population much much smaller than today , that the recorded death toll at the Battle of Naseby in the Civil War of around 880 in a total of some 28 000 participants was huge and made headline news in the ' Chapman ' papers , the early newspapers of the time sold by tradesmen and journeymen all over the nation . I'm no " Climate Change Denier ".how can I be I've just spoke of climate change in geological and historical record terms , I just haven't seen the evidence that we are in a long period of global warming caused by population growth or industry because , to put it simply the science doesn't go back that far . At the beginning of the ' Age of Enlightenment ' also in the 17th C , there were just as many scientists with crackpot and crazy theorists in order to try to gain from fame , as good ones that were entitled to enter the hallowed halls of the Royal Society . Now that science has spread from the Old World around the globe , I'm guessing the same is as true today as it was 350 years ago . Human nature is just simply that and unchanged in the homo sapiens species for millennia .
I remember hearing about the skeletons of monkeys and lions a third bigger than anything we have today found in the railway cuttings near Romford. According to the natural history museum in London Earth is below its average temperature now but in the rising phase
At last common sense . Thank you . Unfortunately it’s now being used as a hammer to tax and restrict peoples movement . It has become the religion of business and government propped up by media lying by omission .
So you don't think that pumping gigatons of CO2 and other shit into the air and water is having ANY effect at all? Riiight....(backs away slowly keeping eye contact)
Hi Ian, ( roll my eyes lol) I think your taking what was said a bit out of context, I don’t believe George R was saying our pumping out billions of tons of carbon didn’t or doesn’t have an effect, I thought he was making his own observations and thoughts known and good on him. As for carbon…. Well throughout the history of this planet there have been many times when carbon in the atmosphere was way higher then now, some era’s 6x some 8x. Those stages in Earths history are referred to as “green Earth” periods and for 85% of earths history the Earth was hotter and greener than now, so there where forests etc on both the (ice free) Artic and Antarctic land masses. We are currently in an ice age (defined when there is ice at both poles) and are in an interglacial of that ice age. An interglacial is a period of warming during an ice age and we are (maybe not now lol) going back into the ice age proper, should take another 8,000 years to get back to ice covered Europe and a mile of ice on top of New York (maybe not now though). With all the carbon we have been pumping out we’ve managed to raise the earths temp by 1.5 degrees in 150 years, well during the green earth periods earths atmosphere was on average 6 degrees warmer then now so we’ve a way to go yet. So we stop carbon pumping and go into to an ice age, doesn’t sound like fun to me. We keep on pumping out carbon and end up with higher sea levels but have freed from ice all the land currently under ice. As in Earths history only 15% of the time has it been gripped in ice ages being a lot greener and warmer is actually more the “normal” then what we have now. As for pollution etc, fully agree that we should be a lot more responsible in our undertakings, we should aim for more renewables, recycle, reduce waste etc etc but carbon is not the enemy people are led to believe. Patrick Moores “planet of the humans” is worth a watch or the BBC has IN OUR TIME “The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum”. Both on TH-cam Cheers,
@@iandennis7836 In the previous episode, we watched volcanoes spewing millions on cubic metres of dust and smoke and lava into the air. That surely would have made a difference to the climate. I'm all for pollution control, but no, I don't think we're entirely responsible for the climate change we've been experiencing.. I also saw a documentary in the 1970's which calculated that if every car was replaced by a horse, pollution would be worse. Who knows who to believe?
Very interesting. Thank you. For what it is worth my house is on the side of a hill made of Morrains and at about 300 feet above the fjord that was left by the glacier. So this really hit home even though I live in eastern Canada.
Drumlins were created by the water rushing underneath the ice and held their under pressure by the ice not by the ice bringing them off otherwise they would have been flat
Question…if during the ice age the ice around the earth was a mile thick about where the men were standing at Loch Ness , then where did all the water go ? Surely all land must have been covered by thick ice so why aren’t we all covered by water now ?? Genuine question…
The sea level was much lower when the ice sheets advanced, when the ice retreated the meltwater flowed into the sea and raised the sea level. The land will also have risen (isostatic rebound) when the ice melted
The glaciers and ice sheets that covered the northern U.S. during the last ice age were thousands of times larger. I live at one end of a moraine that stretches from just North of St. Louis clear up past the Great Lakes. That means the Glacier was over 700 miles long. And that was one of the small ones. The entire Great Plains were formed by such glaciers.
@Adam, just south of me in Ohio there is a long chain of small lakes and gravel pits, marking the most recent limit of the ice sheets here. Sometimes an ordnance survey map can give you sufficient evidence to plot the extent. Lake Erie has a number of raised shorelines that are quite distinct. On the western part of the state, it went further south, to a town called, fittingly, "Moraine".
Really glacier envy/competition? This is a documentary about the ice age in Britain. What the hell has glaciers in America got to do with anything. There are glaciers today in Antarctica, Greenland and the Arctic bigger than anywhere else, but no one felt the need to mention them as their relevance to the Ice age in Britain is zero. Ok well done America had big glaciers thousands of years before it was America. You win 😩
The ice sheet that covered Britain also covered the entire North Sea, Scandinavia, northern Germany, Poland, the Baltic the Baltic Sea and western Russia. There were once massive glaciers flowing from the Norwegian mountains into then dry North Sea creating massive deposits of Moraine that when the ice melted and the North Sea filled up with water took several thousand years to flood over again.
@@RicTic66 They are very insecure, bless em. New kids on the block, so they have to boast about everything. And the rest of us go ' Yeah, right, you keep chewing on that teething ring!'
I found this weird little Britcom a while back. I can't remember what it was called, but it was set in Ancient Rome. And Tony made a guest appearance and the best part, he played and archeologist.
The South Coast is sinking, at the rate of 1 inch/100 years, as Scotland rises, due to a return to pre Ice Age conditions. Is the supposed current warming, in anyway related to a change in Earth's orbit?
No. Changes in the Earth's orbit happen over cycles of tens of thouands of years. Current climate change is happening over a couple of hundred years and has been established to be caused by the increase in greenhouse gases.
"Excuse me Mr. MacDonald, follow me ....yes just stand there whilst I push that rock". "We've known for ages that climates change regularly" - tell Greta.
It is the rate of change and the ability to adapt that matters, which is the major issue with anthropogenic climate change. Transitions to ice ages and interglacials take place over many thousands of years, not a couple of hundred, and even then there are mass extinctions.
Talk 'bout Ice Age! Here in US,GNWest we had the same, 3 miles thick in Seattle, then the Missoula floods, the Bonneville floods 12,000 years ago. Voila! The famous Columbia River Gorge.
At 3:00, Adrian Shine is so cagey about what he's seen at the bottom of the loch! Instantly does the verbal equivalent of a squid's ink cloud with the answer and changes the subject! Adrian! What have you seen? Brother Shine! What have you seen?
Records from India from the Ramayan show that people from India had visited Europe and found it fully covered in Ice, and to dangerous to travel, that shows that the Ramayan was more than 9000 BC old. Dewali is celebrated because of the victory of good over evil at that time.
It’s so amusing to see how he avoids even to mention the other half of the story: what happened to that 2000ft thick ice sheet? He explained how was formed, but nothing about what melted the ice sheet and made it retreat 3-4000 miles north to the Arctic sheet? The stone agers roasting their deers on fires?
Tony Robinson could talk about arthritis in the knee joints of the common cockroach and make it seem fascinating. His choice of words, his humour make any subject come alive. I absolutely adore his programmes. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Weirdly enough I would find this interesting!
I'm all ears👂 tell me more...
Yes he is renowned for his rhetoric
Best comment. So true.
I suspect that finding a common cockroach who was willing to appear on television might be difficult
As an american, I'd only ever known Tony Robinson as Baldrick, and never bothered to look beyond that role. Wow, I am so impressed with these docs and his brilliance as host...bravo Sir Tony!
you need to watch the time team serious then. also the one where he walks the paths of ancient brits.
@@joannmay-anthony1076 I've seen the ancient paths episodes...my favorites so far
The man is undeniably a genius. To turn interests and passions into a completely different career and taking a large number of people along for the ride can only be described as genius.
Thank you, Sir Tony, you definitely earned your "gong". Bravo!
I love how Sir Tony doesn't just talk about the glaciers but also about how geologists discovered their effects. He is such a great communicator. And, of course, a National Treasure!
Tony-brilliant as always. A force to reckon with himself. Well done.
AWSOME, Tony Robinson that was interesting. I'm being to think of you as instructor Robinson. Between Time Team, and your documentaries I am enjoying all the new information about old stuff. Nature, History, Archeology, and Geologically. Topics that are rewarding to learn about.
Thank you!
He is our national antiquities teacher, for sure. He left school with four O-levels: English language, English literature, history and - interestingly - geography.
Bristol uni gave him an honorary MA 'for services to drama and archaeology', but - to be honest - I reckon he earned that. You see - he studied archaeology in the uni's extra-mural studies department.
Seattle sits between Puget Sound to the west and Lake Washington to the east, both of which were carved deeply by glaciers. That's why Lake Washington has two floating bridges because of its silty depths.
Being able to go from the likes of Baldrick to hosting deeply scientific documentaries shows how versatile and brilliant Sir Tony is. Thanks so much for your good humor and clarification of Britain's geology!
I really love Sir Tony...whether history..science,he has an unique talent for communicating information...
he has a unique talent for remembering a script !
Alas, he has to tell us we MUST have a 'natural' ICE AGE meaning 90% of us will die. This phobia about it being warm puzzles me.
Emsnews Supkis we would rather have global warming than global cooling at least you can grow food when it’s warm
I like him too his voice is good for telling you things
Special subject, turnips.
I really enjoy Tony Robinson. Between Time Team and his historical documentaries I think he's really fabulous.
Come a long way from Baldric
You are a fine story teller Tony. I enjoy everything you produce!
Sir Robinson, I love you documentaries and I learned more about Great Britain's history from these documentaries than in school.
Well thats just it school teachs us the basics the rest we have to figure out ourselves
Wow. Danielle Schreve is in this presentation. When still working on fossil molluscs in the Geological Survey of the Netherlands we met each other several times. I visited several outcrops with interglacial to interstadial deposits containing non-marine molluscs. The Strait of Dover and the Channel were formed during the last stage of the Saalian during a catastrophic event when the landbridge at the South of the North Sea breached.
Oh, was that when Doggerland was drowned? It's so fascinating that Mesolithic artefacts are dredged up from the sea bed there, it must have been such a rich place for our ancestors to live. How sad that it's all gone. Those were the times when what became the UK was literally joined to Europe. Maybe, one day, we will again be metaphorically joined together. (Yes, I'm from the UK.)
Outstanding doc, thank you very much.
Hey Tony Tony,Tony Tony Tony Tony Robinson. Love his work.
That altar stone at Stonehenge HAD to be a glacial erratic. Bronze age folks, to whom I give a lot of credit, did not move a six tonne stone 500 miles.
Thank you once again for this very interesting video, full of information on our history.
One of the coolest things i've seen in my life, is in Canada. I won't disclose its location at the bequest of the guide, but coming down a former glacier's path, was shown a smooth, but gouged exposed section of bedrock. Not even a km from it, in the exact orientation, the rock that must've carved it. A stone as big as a double decker bus, with half of its flat edge visible from beneath, in what was a small cave of erosion. It felt so surreal, to see a process that was older than anything you could see at a human scale, because everything else is macro to us.
Love to know more please?
Ever hear of Mike Alder?
I've seen what you describe; maybe from the same location?
London was certainly not the most southerly glaciated area of Britain, Tunbridge Wells in Kent & the Chilham valley in Kent were both glacially carved & deposited with huge rocks, both well south of London. Tunbridge High rocks is still a spectacular tourist attraction today.
Great show and loved it thank you,Did you notice how the drum hills looked like the tear drop shaped island in rivers, goes to show that a few mtr of ice cold water was shaping the land.
I could listen to Adrian Shine (of Loch Ness fame) all day ... what a voice and what an interesting chap.
Epic beard.
I Have a huge crush on him.
He certainly is a unique man. I would love to take a long vacation and learn about Loch Ness and the geological history of Scotland from him.
I live in Toronto Canada. Those ice sheets were also here. Moraines, glacial valleys and the Great Lakes were formed in all of Canada. Lake Superior, formed by the motion of glaciers, is big enough to hold the island of Ireland.
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@@kimstyles4006 -- The last time we had an Ice Age, Texas and Florida actually had acceptable climates. :)
Massive glaciers flowed into the North Sea from the mountains of Norway flattening the whole area, a line of Moraine under water several hundred miles long created Dogger Bank which took thousands of years to flood over, these glaciers would have covered over 100,000 square miles
What a great episode! I love the way scientists concentrate on learning from the past to be able to help us predict and plan for our futures. (if we live that long!) 🙂
This is an excellent science program. We get to the point very quickly rather than the dragged out narrative that we often get in so-called preeminent science and technical video stories.
Always amazes me how they manage to find so few people with Scottish accents when they come to Scotland.
They are speaking posh Scottish, so they basically sound like the English.
be thankful, cuz the thick brogue can be really hard to understand.
There was another HUGE factor, not mentioned, that formed the division of Britain from the Continent-the events re: the Storegga landslide and the subsequent drowning of Doggerland. I wish that had been discussed.
When I was a teenager in the 90's, I remember scientists talking about how we were coming out of a mini ice age.
we are between ice ages
Now they try to make you believe global warming is real
Tony does such great documentaries, you learn a lot about geology.
And we know that normal Interglacials last..10,000 years which is about how long our own Interglacial is at this point in time.
Naturally, they end the story with 'global warming' which is childish. A little bit of gas isn't going to stop vast, titanic, ASTRONOMICAL forces that drive the Ice Age cycles.
POV: school sent you here
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Imaging your teacher send you the link of this video and gave you some qs to do base on this video
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@@jw_4321 Gee, poor you!
These eco warriors need to watch this kind of education. Very excellent!! I spent a while in Canada and saw what the ice age did at carving that country out.
I remember seeing a round boulder at the side of the road with a plaque by the side of it. The sign stated that this huge boulder was left by the last ice age. I love this kind of stuff and really appreciate the amount of time and energy that these educated people put into it. Fantastic Tony!!!
I was 7 when compiled a dozen childish rock examples for a school project, specimens I can remember today were the glacial polished granite's that most intrigued me and made sense as explained by my geologist dad... 'machined' wavy glossy rock you'd not normally expect. That was the sort of rock we'd love to drive our Matchbox Cars on. :D
me just wanting to push that 'rocking rock' into the loch xDD
❤ me too👍👍
Fabulous. Thanks so much for these!
Milankovitch Cycles are a bit more involved than was depicted. It's actually three cycles overlapping each other.
Yes. I tried to teach my ecology class about them, but many of my students found it too confusing. Of course, with climate change caused by human activity, these cycles are also being disrupted. We do not really know what the outcome will be over the next 10,000 years.
Mr Tony Robinson is a fantastic teacher good orator has a very high knowledge of history geography and know how
Miles, feet ... yeah. Sounds like not all the rest of the world has gone metric 😃 love your shows Mr. Robinson.
You moron.
The Brits are a mix of metric and Imperial measurements... When you are driving, the longer distances on the road signs are measured in miles, the shorter distances (like to the next exit) are measured in yards, and bridge clearances are measured in meters. And beer is mandated to be sold in Imperial pints (20 oz per imperial pint, but each ounce is slightly smaller than a US pint which results in a beer of just slightly over 19 US ounces). Some things get measured in kg, but people might refer to their weight in stones and pounds. Although the metric system tried to be based on some sort of natural constants, in the end, it is just another arbitrary system of measurement. As an engineer, I can deal with either of the systems. Even in the US system, we sometimes use decimals instead of fractions for certain types of measurements. Our gasoline is dispensed in decimal gallons. Machinist use decimal measurements (1/1000ths of an inch) for tolerances and other sizes measurements on lathes and milling machines. When I'm reloading ammo for my firearms, I measure the length of the brass cartridges and overall length of the reloaded cartridges with a caliper that measures in 1/1000ths on an inch. The powder charges are measured in 1/10ths of a grain (7000 grains per pound). With the metric system, you might measure powder in grams, but to get the same sort of accuracy, you'll need to measure in more than 1/100ths of a gram since 1/100th of a gram is about twice what 1/10th of a grain would be. The Brits usually use the Celcius temperature scale, but sometimes they use Fahrenheit. To maintain a similar level of granularity with the Fahrenheit scale, you need to use half degrees in Celsius. There's nothing magical about the metric system, it's just another arbitrary system of measurement.
We have miles in the US but they are different from UK miles!
@@cruisepaige -- I think the UK miles are the same as the US miles. Their gallons are larger which is why you see cars over there quoted as getting better gas mileage than the same car here.
Grumpy OldMan oh yeah it’s gallons!!
Sir Tony: you are a treasure talking about treasure. What could be a more wonderful way to spend the minutes? Thanks.
super interesting series. i wish there was more docos of this quality available. thanks for posting ;]
Our area of Michigan is called The Irish Hills.
Glaciers carved Hills, valleys and lakes.
Exactly the same as in the Missoula valley where Glacial Lake Missoula formed with the ice dam in what is now Sandpoint, Idaho.
Lost Lake , Montana follows the Loch Ness features. In the Sierra Desert they continually find remains of sea life.
There is an interesting series of lectures on this topic on the Central Washington University youtube channel.
…and then, without mankind adding CO2 somehow the planet warmed up all by itself. It was a sort of magic. CO2 values in this period varied between a 180 and 300 ppmv (all by itself). Now even more magic occurs. The 97% of the naturally occurring CO2 doesn’t raise the Earth’s temperature but the 3% anthropogenic CO2 does. Amazing stuff.
Can't stop seeing him as Baldrick :)
While on a cruise to Alaska I read a book about glaciers, and the first sentence was, "Give a glacier enough time and it will move mountains."
Great show, thank you 🙂
love your uploads Reijer thank you so much
made me more worried about global cooling than anything.
Unfortunately "Chris" doesn't know much about drumlins. He's very wrong about how they form. They don't just form egg shaped mounds from the pressure of the ice. As the glacier moves forward it pushes and gathers boulders, dirt, rocks, sand, organic debris, etc. When there was a large/heavy enough bunch of material, it would settle out of the glacier. It is well known that drumlins are composed of rocks, boulders, dirt, sand, and silt, among others. A pile of that stuff doesn't just appear because of a mile high glacier's weight as "Chris" suggests.
I could just listen to Tony say "Glacier" all day!
Glassier
you dont
31:43 Oh my goodness. I wonder if Tony fell and ripped the knee of his trousers? I hope he did not get hurt.
Well spotted. He seems in good spirits for that bit anyway.
6100 BC is when the final portion of land bridge (what was left of Doggerland) to Europe was enveloped by the Channel and submerged, after a shelf slide off the coast of Norway. This video ends with misinformation, Doggerland is well known beneath the depths.
I watched another show that said the loch was formed when a hunk of North America ran into Scotland. The valley, discounting the silt sediment at the bottom, does not have the classic U-shaped valley, but rather a V-shaped valley.
14:28 “ The Earth’s climate isn’t always the same “ .. like Tony , I knew that .
Tell Chris he missed a drumland hill, He has to recount them,,,,,,lol.
Where was this hiding it's excellent 👌❤
I first met up with Tony when he was part of the Time Team. Now I have the opportunity to expand my knowledge base. He is a very interesting individual.
We have to do this for school. It’s gonna take ages.
I knoww
Were these your questions???
Which processes does the video happen?
What does the video show about the evidence for an Ice age in the UK?
@@derpyto3z yes
Have you finished yet?
@Amanda Jane 🌹 alright grandma let's get you back into bed
Superb. Educational. Wonderfuy presented. Great examples to paint a picture of glaciation. Britain's landscape is so beautiful and full of hidden historical treasures. Great episode. I think Tony Robinson is a national treasure. He deserves recognition for his role in teaching, presenting and showing us all about archaeology, history and the natural environment.
Savage Britain! Just look at what happened to Tony's pant leg at 31:42!
like no scientist in this series can keep a straight face i bet its cause they feel like theyre talking to baldrick
It's all part of his "cunning plan".
Sir Robinson is the best tv presenter of all time imo.
Bludclot...Well . a bit stretched but I know what you mean..Good Guy!
He's good , but he can't say Loch, keeps calling it a lock, which it isn't , It's not a lake either.
David Fraser...
I know what you mean but it was ever thus.
The English always say sing "For the sake of old lang syne"
instead of "Auld lang syne."
They think that 'Scotch Eggs" are from Scotland instead of 'scorched eggs.'
They don't realise that the Scots language is not 'English spoken with a Scots accent" but a separate language drawing on some (SOME) common roots!
I'm 5/6 generations English but from Caledonian origins related to Lord George Murray of Blair Atholl and I have the same surname. My brother's forenames are Neil Fraser...
David.. I hope that you enjoy strawberries.
I know that you will understand that strange remark when English
folk don't.
Lang may yer lum reek!
From: A bum Englishman, who married a lassie frae Glesgae tae top up the Scottish blood!
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It's not just the English that can't pronounce syne correctly but the majority of folk apart from Scots. They tend to say "zyne" as opposed to "sign" though. Also Your correct in saying Scots is a different language rather than English with a Scottish accent. They both share a common ancestor. Scots is a northern variant of Anglo Saxon just as Anglo Saxon was a northern German variant of the old Germanic language that so many Northern European languages come from. I love strawberries but I'm missing your meaning here. Lol.
Syne just means Then, my grandads generation used it all the time
Thanks for these videos Very very interesting
I still have Boldrick in my head. I have never seen this series before.
Pauldjreadman He has a very cunning plan for Captain B. It was the beast Blackadder.
really? he's made so many documentaries. great presenter.
I know him as Fat Tulip first and foremost.
I guess if I ever get to go visit Loch Ness I should consider myself forewarned since I am a MacDonald.
Your Hamburgers are too small.
That rock looks so precarious it probably would only take a couple of chaps to send it hurtling down the cliff side!
The conclusion is a bit premature. The changes of climate in the past were much more severe than predicted for the next 100 years. A new ice age is likely and is not being prevented by humans. It is just uncertain when the next ice age will start. It cannot be just CO2 that controls climate because water vapour has a vastly greater effect on temperature. And, in the past, it is temperature that rises first and then CO2 rises. Besides the fact that the rest of nature produces CO2 more than we ever could, and that vegetation needs CO2. CO2 is not a pollutant. It is plant food.
Wow very interesting.....Well done baldrick, I mean Tony
A perfect geohistorical documentary. And glimpse of the near future, too, as our interglacial comes to an end.
Why has the comment about Climate Change been added to this by the UN? The melt started 15,000 years ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am in Ontario, Canada. All of the developments in Toronto have to take into account the rebound of bedrock when designing a tall structure.
Thank you for your uploads
The video is very good. The background music is dreadful. Why can't the editors blend in softer background music that doesn't overwhelm the show.Sometimes it was difficult to understand the narrative.
Great video! Keep it up.
Who else here in lockdown
For 2nd time now!
second lockdown lol
3rd time
@@willgreen3109 ballbag
Nope. I'm From the Future.
It must have been a very gradual process, enough time for people to adapt.
Having lived in or near the Canadian Rockies, much of the scenery from the highlands looks familiar.
So Glasgow was formed when a glacier laid some eggs!
as i said already in part 1,looking forward to see part 2!
Leans bike against a Glasgow lamp post and walks away----cut! Crew rush and put bike in a van before someone else rides away on it.
We found the clay line in Romford as kids nearly 60 years ago in the sand and gravel pits that were extensive around the East of London . I live at the bottom of one of the terminal moraines from the Ipswichian glaciation period , a series of parallel mounds of sands and gravels that created the river courses that flow West to East from the Thames to the Orwell at Ipswich .
What was missed in this episode was the ancient forest exposed on the North and South banks of the Thames near Purfleet and Erith which were probably killed off by the low temperatures that were present during that last age .
Don't be fooled by this 10000 year cycle thing and the planet should be getting colder . Historically it never happened like that and the Earth , ancient writings , early recordings and continuous record keeping since the 17th Century has shown that along the way we have had mini dips and peaks in temperatures , with much smaller dips and peaks within those that may last 50-100 years that take part in that extremely gradual cycle . The last period of major cooling was in the 17th century when the great Thames itself froze over with Ice so thick , bonfires and fairs were held on it and it was used as a highway and crossing . Harbours froze and summers very cold and wet . Climate change caused by industrial activity , not a bit of it . UK had very little industrial output up until that time and was mainly agricultural with ' as green as you can get ' technology wind and watermills driving heavy machinery such as cannon boring machines and a population much much smaller than today , that the recorded death toll at the Battle of Naseby in the Civil War of around 880 in a total of some 28 000 participants was huge and made headline news in the ' Chapman ' papers , the early newspapers of the time sold by tradesmen and journeymen all over the nation .
I'm no " Climate Change Denier ".how can I be I've just spoke of climate change in geological and historical record terms , I just haven't seen the evidence that we are in a long period of global warming caused by population growth or industry because , to put it simply the science doesn't go back that far . At the beginning of the ' Age of Enlightenment ' also in the 17th C , there were just as many scientists with crackpot and crazy theorists in order to try to gain from fame , as good ones that were entitled to enter the hallowed halls of the Royal Society . Now that science has spread from the Old World around the globe , I'm guessing the same is as true today as it was 350 years ago . Human nature is just simply that and unchanged in the homo sapiens species for millennia .
I remember hearing about the skeletons of monkeys and lions a third bigger than anything we have today found in the railway cuttings near Romford. According to the natural history museum in London Earth is below its average temperature now but in the rising phase
At last common sense . Thank you . Unfortunately it’s now being used as a hammer to tax and restrict peoples movement . It has become the religion of business and government propped up by media lying by omission .
So you don't think that pumping gigatons of CO2 and other shit into the air and water is having ANY effect at all? Riiight....(backs away slowly keeping eye contact)
Hi Ian, ( roll my eyes lol) I think your taking what was said a bit out of context, I don’t believe George R was saying our pumping out billions of tons of carbon didn’t or doesn’t have an effect, I thought he was making his own observations and thoughts known and good on him.
As for carbon….
Well throughout the history of this planet there have been many times when carbon in the atmosphere was way higher then now, some era’s 6x some 8x.
Those stages in Earths history are referred to as “green Earth” periods and for 85% of earths history the Earth was hotter and greener than now, so there where forests etc on both the (ice free) Artic and Antarctic land masses.
We are currently in an ice age (defined when there is ice at both poles) and are in an interglacial of that ice age.
An interglacial is a period of warming during an ice age and we are (maybe not now lol) going back into the ice age proper, should take another 8,000 years to get back to ice covered Europe and a mile of ice on top of New York (maybe not now though).
With all the carbon we have been pumping out we’ve managed to raise the earths temp by 1.5 degrees in 150 years, well during the green earth periods earths atmosphere was on average 6 degrees warmer then now so we’ve a way to go yet.
So we stop carbon pumping and go into to an ice age, doesn’t sound like fun to me.
We keep on pumping out carbon and end up with higher sea levels but have freed from ice all the land currently under ice.
As in Earths history only 15% of the time has it been gripped in ice ages being a lot greener and warmer is actually more the “normal” then what we have now.
As for pollution etc, fully agree that we should be a lot more responsible in our undertakings, we should aim for more renewables, recycle, reduce waste etc etc but carbon is not the enemy people are led to believe.
Patrick Moores “planet of the humans” is worth a watch or the BBC has IN OUR TIME “The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum”.
Both on TH-cam
Cheers,
@@iandennis7836 In the previous episode, we watched volcanoes spewing millions on cubic metres of dust and smoke and lava into the air. That surely would have made a difference to the climate. I'm all for pollution control, but no, I don't think we're entirely responsible for the climate change we've been experiencing.. I also saw a documentary in the 1970's which calculated that if every car was replaced by a horse, pollution would be worse. Who knows who to believe?
Very interesting. Thank you. For what it is worth my house is on the side of a hill made of Morrains and at about 300 feet above the fjord that was left by the glacier. So this really hit home even though I live in eastern Canada.
No mention of Doggerland & the UK being connected to Denmark?
I was looking forward to that!
They did mention being joined to France.
there is a time team special dedicated to just that :)
you missed it,look again..
That was the last episode
I believe that the next Ice Age will begin when the Gulf Stream Drift stops flowing.
Drumlins were created by the water rushing underneath the ice and held their under pressure by the ice not by the ice bringing them off otherwise they would have been flat
Question…if during the ice age the ice around the earth was a mile thick about where the men were standing at Loch Ness , then where did all the water go ? Surely all land must have been covered by thick ice so why aren’t we all covered by water now ?? Genuine question…
Ice melted into the ocean and is why doggerland is underwater.
i got same question but cant get answer
The sea level was much lower when the ice sheets advanced, when the ice retreated the meltwater flowed into the sea and raised the sea level. The land will also have risen (isostatic rebound) when the ice melted
The glaciers and ice sheets that covered the northern U.S. during the last ice age were thousands of times larger. I live at one end of a moraine that stretches from just North of St. Louis clear up past the Great Lakes. That means the Glacier was over 700 miles long. And that was one of the small ones. The entire Great Plains were formed by such glaciers.
@Adam, just south of me in Ohio there is a long chain of small lakes and gravel pits, marking the most recent limit of the ice sheets here. Sometimes an ordnance survey map can give you sufficient evidence to plot the extent. Lake Erie has a number of raised shorelines that are quite distinct.
On the western part of the state, it went further south, to a town called, fittingly, "Moraine".
Really glacier envy/competition? This is a documentary about the ice age in Britain. What the hell has glaciers in America got to do with anything. There are glaciers today in Antarctica, Greenland and the Arctic bigger than anywhere else, but no one felt the need to mention them as their relevance to the Ice age in Britain is zero. Ok well done America had big glaciers thousands of years before it was America. You win 😩
The ice sheet that covered Britain also covered the entire North Sea, Scandinavia, northern Germany, Poland, the Baltic the Baltic Sea and western Russia. There were once massive glaciers flowing from the Norwegian mountains into then dry North Sea creating massive deposits of Moraine that when the ice melted and the North Sea filled up with water took several thousand years to flood over again.
@@RicTic66 They are very insecure, bless em. New kids on the block, so they have to boast about everything. And the rest of us go ' Yeah, right, you keep chewing on that teething ring!'
@@RicTic66 Always seems to be Americans that have to prove they have something bigger and better. Behind the bravado they must be deeply insecure.
I found this weird little Britcom a while back. I can't remember what it was called, but it was set in Ancient Rome. And Tony made a guest appearance and the best part, he played and archeologist.
Absolutely brilliant 👍
The South Coast is sinking, at the rate of 1 inch/100 years, as Scotland rises, due to a return to pre Ice Age conditions.
Is the supposed current warming, in anyway related to a change in Earth's orbit?
No. Changes in the Earth's orbit happen over cycles of tens of thouands of years. Current climate change is happening over a couple of hundred years and has been established to be caused by the increase in greenhouse gases.
"Excuse me Mr. MacDonald, follow me ....yes just stand there whilst I push that rock". "We've known for ages that climates change regularly" - tell Greta.
It is the rate of change and the ability to adapt that matters, which is the major issue with anthropogenic climate change. Transitions to ice ages and interglacials take place over many thousands of years, not a couple of hundred, and even then there are mass extinctions.
Talk 'bout Ice Age! Here in US,GNWest we had the same, 3 miles thick in Seattle, then the Missoula floods, the Bonneville floods 12,000 years ago. Voila! The famous Columbia River Gorge.
Love this historian and enjoy his videos
POV your here in a geography lesson :)
At 3:00, Adrian Shine is so cagey about what he's seen at the bottom of the loch! Instantly does the verbal equivalent of a squid's ink cloud with the answer and changes the subject! Adrian! What have you seen? Brother Shine! What have you seen?
Sasquatch.
He is God.
He would not denounce the myth, it would be economically damaging to the tourism industry of the area.
Thanks for these; might you also have the third episode?
who else is here watching the video because the teacher set it as work because we are in lockdown
Nice assignment! Your teacher sounds like a good instructor.
great presenter
Records from India from the Ramayan show that people from India had visited Europe and found it fully covered in Ice, and to dangerous to travel, that shows that the Ramayan was more than 9000 BC old. Dewali is celebrated because of the victory of good over evil at that time.
Dr. Christina Bell,.....yum. SOLD! Where do I sign?
Second that, she didn't get much air time did she ?
Where would the ice bellow the level of Glen Coe have moved to.
How can you say the ice carved the loch to seven hundred feet?
Big up my man tony
So the ice isn’t a true indication of man’s use of fossil fuel influencing the climate.
It’s so amusing to see how he avoids even to mention the other half of the story: what happened to that 2000ft thick ice sheet? He explained how was formed, but nothing about what melted the ice sheet and made it retreat 3-4000 miles north to the Arctic sheet? The stone agers roasting their deers on fires?