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In the future, we may see more continent-sized dust storms like the one nicknamed Godzilla, which crossed the Atlantic ocean in 2020. And since then, researchers have been looking into what caused such a colossal storm. If we can predict them more accurately, we can better prepare for the next Godzilla!
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Just out of curiosity, who is behind Wren? Something tells me its BP given they were the ones who started the whole "Personal Footprint" thing to try and push the issue into the private sector. Me taking the car to the store instead of the bike means absolutely nothing to the globe as a whole. Corporations literally setting the ocean on fire due to oil spils is the problem here, not what you personally do.
This is corporatised rent seeking at its finest. What a brilliant business plan, make parasitism look like charity, then again they wouldn't be the first to do that would they. :-)
Yes... it happened...
*BECAUSE IT WAS COLDER THAN NORMAL.*
What is excess CO2 supposed to do again?
I'm incredibly disappointed that Sci show would take sponsorship from a company that's acting like consumers are the issue when the majority of climate change is caused by industry. Carbon footprints is a model that was created to shift blame to consumers rather than those actually responsible. Do better.
@@Evila7 Yeah me too it's basically greenwashing. "Net zero" carbon emissions are a joke. Basically every industrial process has to be redesigned and restructured and rebuild. These kind of non-solutions are propaganda that will lead to non-action and therefore increased chances of genocide.
Alright! Looks like we’re getting the Mad Max apocalypse!
Straya🇦🇺: "yeah, we know. ya point?"
🤣
thats the apocalypse i was hoping for!!!
Researchers from Kansas studied Dust in the Wind. Hmm.
🔥me☝️Hahahahaha
That's all we are, really.
Okay but. They called it Godzilla. When "MOTE-RA" was **right there**
do sites like wren contribute to childhood anxiety, blaming themselves and those around them for damaging the planet, especially if not also alerted that 100 companies are responsible for 70% of all emissions? i also wonder if placing the focus on the individual takes away potential action that can create significant positive change, like political activism.
Indeed. Actions funded by these organizations aren't necessarily bad, (planting trees, etc.) However they seem like a mostly fearmongering marketing move by NGOs to instill guilt in westerners, and ship money and resources across the country or across the world.
If you want your kids to care about the environment, maybe plant a garden? Or talk to your local watershed or extension service. Help plant some trees locally, help clean up a wetland.
Good point. But I doubt very much if it will get past the point on their collective heads.
I don't think the point of wren is to let large companies off the hook. Though I think its important that individuals know how their actions effect the environment. Like the story of the guy who waters their driveway every morning because they think it gets too dusty overnight.
Wren is a "company" at the end of the day. I can only assume they're not running a charity program. They make money making certain people feel guilty. This is a very common practice in corporations. I'm not trying to bash on wren since they're at least doing some good - but never forget at the end of the day it's a company which exist to make money. Something tells me wrens own eco footprint isn't too good either. Wren just feels like a gimmicky idea but like I said at least some good comes out of it hopefully.
Not to mention that the entire idea of an individual carbon footprint was literally originally marketed by oil company BP to shift the blame to individuals, and away from companies.
So you’re telling me dust is doing world tours while im still confined in my home
This was so well explained and so interesting! THANK YOU
Coincidence this was released the same day as Dune?
careful not to confuse Graboids for the Spice Wyrm.
try to avoid assblasters
Lol
This begs the question - how often historically has this happened? Drilling cores in the seabed, off the west coast of Africa, may reveal years and centuries which have experienced more of these storms. Possibly even large scale events related to dust storms. Nice video!
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@@HELLO7657 we could look at 50 years of evidence gathered from every branch of science from tree rings, ice cores, sediment drilling, fundamental physics, historical records, genetics, meteorology, computing, astronomy and many more. All of which point in the same direction.
Or we could throw out a vague question without doing any research and because you're not knowledgeable enough to come up with an answer conclude that it's all still up in the air and no one actually knows anything...
At least in my country I've never seen this before but this year we had 2
@@HELLO7657 Dude, It's your proposition, you substantiate it. It's not my job to spend my time and energy hunting through academic journals to disprove a random comment on youtube. If you have a point to make then gather the evidence or demonstrate its absence yourself, or shut up
@@HELLO7657 They provided data that the effect in question relies on temperature gradients to happen. And thus put forward the hypothesis that increases in temperature gradients will lead to more extreme events. Corroborated by the most extreme such in 50 years happening as recorded temperature gradients have increased. You made the claim that there was no historic data on Saharan ash deposits and that such data might show something different. Where is your proof that no historic data exists? Frankly, I would be amazed if it didn't in some form. Go looking, you'll probably find what you want to see. You'll probably find research on it corroborating the hypothesis in this vid. If no data exists, then come back and make your argument. Dont just wildly speculate and then challenge everyone else to prove your speculations wrong
Interstellar has given me dust storm ptsd without ever being in one
I get a little nervous since watching Hiladgo when the cowboy was racing across the desert and all of a sudden there was a sandstorm from out of nowhere chills and I knew about the dustbowls from the 30s even more scary
Fascinating. So often videos just show cloud cover or perhaps a swirl of clouds and give a 5-second description of what it is, but even if they show cloud movement they don't tell you where or how those clouds are formed and their wider influence. This one video taught me more about weather patterns that almost all of the ones I have seen and whets my appetite for more detailed descriptions. Thanks so much for brighten up a rather dreary morning here in New Orleans.
Need a carbon footprint calculator for companies
When I lived in Puerto Rico, we had the Sahara dust yearly. You felt it on your skin and on your teeth. It also meant we dusted more often. Now I live in Arizona with haboobs
I am from Puerto Rico…and I remember the dust storms growing up
Dust storms are Awsome events. I love to watch them!
Couldn't imagine dying in a dust storm, would be terrible
_another one bites the dust_ 🎵 But yeah it must feel terrible
0/10 wouldn't go again
suffocating and blinded while being sandblasted. cover your head and curl up in a ball and spend some time communing with whichever Other will hear your prayers
Fascinating 🌎💛
brazil has been seeing dust storms quite frequently now
Yes, but that's due to desertification caused by uncontrolled and underfiscalized farming
@@marcos11vinicius16 facts!
Well with the upgraded deforestation for illegally hunting for gold one can only guess why.
I thought this was about the weird dust storm in central Brazil
Same
Make more weather content. This was super interesting
Dust storms seed ocean blooms. Depending on what is in the dust, it may be an important step of natural carbon sequestration.
The video did mention that "usually most of the dust falls into the ocean, but this time a lot of it reached land" - depending on total dust volume, this may still have been a net positive but without numbers, who knows.
Only if the blooms don't die and release the carbon again...
@@MrNicoJac
A lot of the organic material sinks to the ocean floor, thus sequestering the carbon.
Hopefully this is still being taught in high school biology. It used to be.
@@MrNicoJac building on the other comment, this is how you get most oil deposits; sinking biomass buried by sediments.
Sooo - like, a coupla days back, a huge-ass dust storm, completely uncharacteristic of where I live, hit town, leaving my home with only partial electricity for two days, and I think to myself, "Gee - climate change to blame, no doubt" - and lo and behold, _this_ lands in my notification box. If I didn't know better, I'd take that to mean the Universe is telling me I'm a climatologist.
Get to studying!
@@Direblade11 Climatology? No thanks - as it is, GR/gravitation has been keeping me busy enough...
Universe hinting that you might find uni interesting
@@KristiContemplates And it'd be even more interesting, had it decided to leave my electricity alone
Sci Show: here's some more information on climate change.
Me: yeah, but why does my mattress move away from the wall?
You gotta level your floor
@@whysocurious7366 NO that’s not considering if he has restless leg syndrome...don’t make fun of disabilities it’s not CooL... hahahahaha JOKE!!!! SmileMore🤣😂🤣😘✌️
@@PuFFerTV98368 what
*Sigh* 2020., the gift that keeps on giving. X__X
It got here just in time for my bday on the 27th
meteorologists and their abbreviations. in the Philippines, we have a local weather system dubbed ITCZ or intertropical convergence zone which causes isolated rain showers and thunderstorms.
Have a look over the Atlantic on visible satellite right now. There is one heck of a rotating sand storm moving westward.
I suppose with all that dust it feeds the diatomes and oxygen is increased just like the carboniferous (?) when bugs were huge..?
Dust storms are saving the planet from a lot of hurricanes forming
Who pays for these videos? I love them!
Patreons
@@hop-skip-ouch8798 Wren. They sponsored it. Paid propaganda.
@@richardk5246 Propaganda how? It's just reporting on research.
The thumbnail looks like that doggo meme! Lmao
Yawaaa
Parts of this reminded me of sports commentary
Thanks god the dust didn't drop in the Atlantic ocean! Sargassum is already a big problem in the Caribbean so with that amount of nutrient, their blooms would've been devastating.
I had COVID at the time. So, I only vaguely remember this.
HABOOBS! Grew up with these back in AZ!
We've never had them in Brazil, this is the first year and happens once every week now. Thanks for destroying the forest, Bolsonaro.
what a cool name.
Where are Beavis and Butthead when you need em?
Bro same! I remeber getting caught in one walking from the library 😂
Ah yes godzilla
"History has shown us time and again how Nature points up the folly of Men: GODZILLA!
Blue Oyster Cult; "Godzilla".
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Flimburwinter is comming and we need the warmt...
Pensei que fosse sobre São Paulo.
Can we put five tungsten robots on five super fast, also heavy into the eye of the storm? They would go counter rotation to the winds and possibly slow down the storm?
"If you want to move dust across the Atlantic"
Can we find a way to hold large corporations accountable for the damage they do to the planet since they are responsible for the vast majority?
Nope.
They are legally people, until it comes to consequences.
It will be suggested that we simply blame the individuals within the organizations.
So corporation's personhood will not be effected.
Like if we put guns in jail because of consequences of the people that shoot them.
Not legally, but I'll aquit if I end up on the jury.
@@hhiippiittyy good question and good answer. So is it something like following?
- say we sue CEO of company then they say its company
- we try to sue company it says nope if you want to sue me i lose my personhood so you cant sue me
And on and on it goes?
@@neelroy2918
Well, what I meant was more like... sue CEO, maybe win, maybe decisively. Company gets new CEO and nothing changes.
CEOs get nervous about personal responsibility, get fat compensation and a labyrinthine network of deniability, etc. etc, but nothing changes because the company remains relatively unscathed.
CEO compensation in lieu of actual public accountability is prefered by stock holders as one is negotiable in private and another is imposed in public.
@@hhiippiittyy so, that means we cannot sue companies because they are not person\individuals when it comes to suing and suing CEOs wont help.
If we allow ourselves to dream a little bit and assumed we _could_ sue company *and* win, would it be fair to assume that either it wouldn't make a dent (like those cigarette monsters) or the cost will be passed on to customers (if there is such a case till date for reference)?
Great video
Is it just me or the audio is worse?
Hey maybe the sand will add to the islands and make them bigger!
Cyberpunk duststorms here we go
What if we make it rain on the dust storm over the ocean? Would that stop it from reaching us?
Actually stopping the storms would hurt the Amazon forest..the phosphorus from the dust is what fertilizes it.
@@duanesamuelson2256 oh cool didn’t know that, I always assumed dust storms were bad for crops and plants. And lungs
How likely is North America Dust Bowl ?
So, if ancient geologies in the same geography don't fit each other, prehistoric ginormous transcontinental dust storms?
I would like to see more dust. I might get to use my vacuum cleaner more often.
Lately, it just sits there collecting dust.
Ok, they might become more frequent... But what are the consequences of them being more frequent?
More fertilizer for the Amazon basin...the dust is what brings phosphate to the forest
Idk guys. No one's ever been prepared for Godzilla in the past.
🥺
One advantage is that Sahara dust inhibits the development of Atlantic hurricanes.
Funnily enough, I know of at least one more person from Kensas who learned about a storm
what the hell happened 42 years ago?
Yeah, you can't tell us two of the three of these was the strongest in 42 years without telling us what happened 42 years ago.
The guy really said Sahara desert.
Has someone made a solar-powered machine to convert co2 to graphite and oxygen?
I know what your new hobby needs to be this winter...however I hope you do know the dangers of building “free energy devices” and the inventor having a “mysterious accident” with the Technology being back shelf by some big company and all that other conspiracy theory stuff that actually turns out to be true....dondondon...donnnnnee Hahahahaha ✌️
wait till those African coffee killing fungus spores start hitching a ride across the ocean on the regular.
Phuq'd
If this happened historically, you dont suppose it acted as a microbe migration to other continents?
Anomalisly strong? Well, better get ready for the amnestics, because the scp foundation is gonna want to know more
Take a shot everytime he says NASH
Like Interstellar?
Interstellar or Mad Max, make your pick.
How many takes did it take to get through "anomalously"? Cause that was impressive.
Hi
I can't wait to watch the planet swallow humanity
Post humanity the world will heal.
That's dark af.
It is not going to happen, the entire video is a form of advertising and you are being manipulated into feeling bad. IMHO it is a form of psychological abuse and any form of marketing based on "fear mongering" should be banned from platforms where children could be exposed to it.
take me im ready
@@DanielSMatthews I don't think your right. The video was more informative with a somewhat click baity title
dont measure your own carbon footprint, just look at big industry footprints, and make them clean up their act
Big industry is supported by the individual. If individuals stopped using their services or products, there wuld be no need for the industry.
@@dwaynowilli6822 : lol, you cant live in a cave. the only way is by policies.
@@Chris-op7yt what does living in a cave and not consuming a companies products have to do with each other?
Your comparison makes absolutely no sense.
@@dwaynowilli6822 : good luck choosing not to use any petrochemicals, fuel, electricity, etc.
@@Chris-op7yt its a pretty simple concept. Instead of trying to regulate what a company does, juat dont support their company, on an individual level by not paying for their product.
Here's a simple example...
Cariuma uses sustainable and ethical practices to produce their skate shoes. Nike does not.
If everyone on an individual level bought cariuma rather than nike sb then nike sb would go out of business, and there would be no need for policy or regulation to reduce their carbon footprint.
That would be many individuals making an environmental choice.
And in the long run, we would end up paying less in taxes, because we wouldn't need an extra authoritative branch to enforce policy or regulation. Win win.
So, where does the Sahara get all its dust??
From the dried old forest and lake beds that used to be there.
NASH
Everyone talking about the Sahara moving into Sub-Saharan Africa, but what about the Sahara moving into the Americas?😬🤔
This reminds me of interstellar
Plant corn 🌽
They should have called it dustzilla or sandzilla. Dunezilla? Gotta be more creative
How All other diseases or health affects went down in 2020
Masks, social distng, hand washing, vaccination
and those sand winds are a sign of the earth turning into a dust bowl as global warming worsens over time.
Earth roasted😂 good joke!
@@LuigiCotocea there is no joke, its actually rather serious.
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Y’all. We KNOW that corporations emit more carbon than the average consumer. Wren isn’t denying that. But for individuals who want to (and can afford to) personally buy off their carbon emissions anyway, Wren is an easy means to do that. Yes. Corporations and governments need to reduce their enormous footprint. But progress on those massive emitters are slow and sometimes initiatives fail. Wren is providing individual people a way way to recoup their emissions in the meantime.
Honestly, I don't give a damn about my carbon footprint. Just so long as I can live cheaply and comfortably
Name of the song please
Save Our Planet
Why not put sucker fish in the saltine sea
I bet they sold a lot of new vacuum cleaner bags & filters then... :P
Darude
Interesting
Lol topic is a bit of a no brainer
but what is the problem with this? you guys completely glossed over what the problem is here.
Darude Sandstorm
Summary: all the climate changes combined to build a perfect (dust) storm
I'll see myself out now.
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The United States isn't a continent, it's a country. North America is a continent
US is a Corporation. America is the land. Hence US of A.
It's really scary how many people subscribed to and/or watch a channel dedicated to science can have such anti-science viewpoints.
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"climate"?
Not climate change? Not anything more specific? Just "climate"? Aren't sand storms and dust storms already a part of climate?
"How does climate contribute to rain"
"How does climate contribute to temperature and humidity" "How does climate contribute to climate" lol
AEJ, NASH and CLLJ are all "climate", they just happened to all be stronger than usual at the same time. Climate change could and probably does factor in, but lacking any actual evidence it would be rash of them to say it is because of it
And that's how we got ebola in America!
Does this dust storm pose any kind of threat to human or nature? It's just dust right? For some cases the dust might be a good fertilizer.
If we all breathe to our nose and carpool to work we'll save the world, right??...looking at you big companies, governments and business-flying communities.
I feel humans are taking credit for things they understand so little they think it's because of them.
I wonder if HAARP had anything to do with this
Hwhwha
Iam sorry, we're not paying more taxes to change the weather
laughs in arab
Can we talk about the genius implementation of the word "Godzilla" to represent our generation's tendency to freak out over everything? I mean... **Pandemic and Climate Change excluded** Those will totally kill you..
Maybe show the beneficial effects to the annual movement of the dust such as spreading nutrition and minerals across the Atlantic and into the gulf which ties into many spontaneous events that happen year to year. Or instead just relate it to global warming without going into details and saying buzz words like "studies show" and "scientist think". The study you linked also lists benefits such as reduced cyclone formation around Africa due to the dust presence. Also stating that the cause is unknown but a correlation between similar events was a low in Arctic ice at the end of the summer. Your videos have become more click bait and less valuable information and your hosts come across like ignorant mouthpieces. This channel used to be great.