BC’s giant landslide serves as warning for other parts of the world
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- No one saw a massive landslide in a remote valley on B.C.’s central coast back in late 2020, but it was detected as far away as Australia.
In a few seconds, 50 million tonnes of rock dropped from a mountainside into Elliott Lake.
The results of a new study show it triggered a tsunami 100 metres tall. The study also has some startling findings including how fast that wave was moving.
Glaciers in central B.C. are melting faster than almost anywhere else in the world.
As Ted Chernecki reports, researchers fear the event is a red flag for any region where glaciers are melting.
For more info, please go to globalnews.ca/...
Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: bit.ly/20fcXDc
Like Global News on Facebook HERE: bit.ly/255GMJQ
Follow Global News on Twitter HERE: bit.ly/1Toz8mt
Follow Global News on Instagram HERE: bit.ly/2QZaZIB
#GlobalNews #BCLandslide #BCGlaciersMelting
It amazes me that people forget that we are at the END of an ice age. Things like this are going to happen yet people ignore this fact and build places to shop and live right next to these things. Thankfully not this time.
That's why there are so many floods in Australia so many of our towns and cities grew up around river flood plains in the 19th century when the rivers were the roads, by they only effect about 1% of the population. The trouble is that they are such lush and fertile places to live that it is worth putting up with the floods and the people in those regions make such great friends and neighbors.
I don't think majority realize just how much water is about to be displaced. What isn't permenantly flooded is still going to be flood plains. Mass earthquakes. Everywhere. Techtonic Plates in tension will release that tension, water pressure on land (inland and coastal) will pop volcanoes like pimples. 100 meter tsunamis if not bigger, Steam mass methane extremely Inhospitable environment. EVERYWHERE. Really the stuff of nightmares and if the hostel environment doesn't get you the hostles will.
@@cavelvlan25 and that will be nothing compared to the disaster of the military madness that is currently engulfing the world. Not to mention that the world economy is all primed up to go Mad Max at any moment.
kind of wrong. we are in the 10k ish year space between ice ages.
its been literally thousands of years sense the ice sheets retreated and the glaciers began melting....
100 meters tall traveling that fast, that sounds terrifying and like something that only happens in a disaster movie. People living in mountainous regions from Norway to Nepal should take note of this...
Yeah, pretty sure thats a big exaggeration......more like 20
@@will7its Likely not an exaggeration. It's a simple question of volume. If you don't have a wide enough basin, like the video said, the only direction to displace the water is vertically. Theres a great precedent for massive landslides into bodies of water causing mega-tsunamis, especially when that water is confined.
@@jr1648 Its the news, look at the trees, 20 meters at most
@@will7its Its difficult to get an idea from just looking at the footage. You have to remember that sediment fills the channels that have been carved by the flow. Also, floodwaters dissipate in capacity and depth over time, so when they say 100M, thats likely the peak wave height at the point where the landslide hit the water. So unless you're familiar with the geography of the entire valley, just looking at the video, it's impossible to tell what part of the valley they were recording (with the exception of the landslide area which was obvious). It's very likely that by the time the flow reached the base of the valley, it's height had greatly subsided.
I'm just saying that a 100M flood in a confined valley isn't unheard of.
How many glaciers between Norway and Nepal???
That would have been an incredible sight to see. Thankfully no one was injured
Only for, a few seconds, it would have.
how do you know no one was hurt
@@jimw4337 it said in the report that no one was in the area
@@canadaclub8920 and how would there know....
@@jimw4337 through inductive reasoning
There was similar damage in Northern Italy caused by a rock slide at the Vajont dam in 1963. The resulting wave killed approximately 2000 people.
Yes that was caused by the poor sighting of that dam, which caused underlying ground water to push The Valley side up. In an attempt to alleviate the problem the reservoir behind the dam was ‘drained’ which basically undermined any support The Valley sides had and caused them to collapse into the reservoir. Such was the force of the landslide the whole reservoir was emptied in matter of seconds..
@@malcolmyoung7866 I used to live in Montreale Valcellina and would drive by the dam on the way to ski or kiteboard. Incredible area for both beauty, and the devastation it caused.
Lituya bay had a 1720 ft fall mega tsunami back in 1958.
It’s almost like this has been happening for 10000 years.
Only difference is science offers a unique understanding of human involvement in regards to the frequency of these events over time. This human history has difficulty seeing science as science, rather than magic.
@@melioristicone333 humans also seem to have difficulty seeing their arrogance at the thought they have something major to do with climate change. They don’t.
@@1Nanerz they don't? I am so tired of hearing this. So many in this world dedicate their finances and time in this life to become doctors, or legitimately obtain multiple degrees to make a difference in this world. And then there is people such as yourself, engaging in public discourse under RUclips videos to push a false narrative, whether you know it or not to be a false narrative is moot. Enjoy all the technological and scientific wonders that are sold to you. Just don't listen to the people who absolutely know better. Thanks for sharing your opinion, that's all it is. An opinion. It's unfortunate Dunning Kruger effect simpletons dominate the planet and the narrative.
@@melioristicone333 lol! We’ve all seen how the term “expert” is useless over the last two years. For climate we need to be looking at 1000 year windows and larger. CO2 emissions have been way higher on this planet numerous times and it was just fine. Pollution on the other hand? Yes it’s a problem. But government taxation to force reduced consumption will not cure the problems you seek to cure. Green tech is not green either. Abundant cheap energy will cure many of these problems but the environmental nutbars are trying to stop that. It’s like these fools want to go back to an agrarian society. It’s not going to happen.
@@1Nanerzwhat is this we stuff you speak of. It appears to me that you're under the impression everyone has the same perspective, you're far from correct. Our conversation should prove that to you, otherwise we wouldn't be having it. Enjoy your cognitive dissonance. We simply don't see the world the same. Nor do we have to
As an avid hunter and outdoorsmen in the AB BC area, how do they know nobody was out there? I don't tell anybody where I go or when. That's why I go. Solitude. There very well could have been a hiker, hunter or mountain dweller present when that landslide took place.
lol fair point
Is it really going to ruin your "Solitude" to let a relative, friend, partner or even park rangers / officials know you're approx whereabouts? I mean c'mon guy.
And if no one was there how do they know how high was the tsunami
@@mellee3045 the water and mud line that's all along the valley walls.
Just letting one person know that if you don't call them in a certain time to look for you I a certain location is a better life saving tool thN most of what you carry in the woods.
The only amazing thing about this, is that we happen to be in existence at the moment to know it has happened. Unlike millions of years ago.
A Dinasaur farted. And made a mountain move..
The earth has been warming since last ice age.. man is but a Fart..
I don't know. I think it's amazing regardless.
@@graemejohnson9025 The planet is a tiny ball in space. If you can't see all the manmade environmental degradation all around then it is you who is a fart.
Why are there so many pre-emptive comments about how this has always been happening? Did anyone ask? Like we know it's been happening over the billions of years the earth has been around...lmao we're not slow. It's because climate change is making it happen faster, but big oil propaganda has you brainwashed it isn't, so you feel the need to say "it's always been happening" on every video that threatens your brainwashed mind. Wake up.
Erosion. A perfectly natural occurrence despite the spastic reactions of environmentalists and news people.
Erosion is a constant and ongoing process on slopes. it is usually accelerated by rainfall which increases the fluidity of soil. This is not about global warming.
It is always accelerated by rain.
and how do you think faster melting glaciers effect erosion?
@@stiimuli Glaciers are part of the erosion process. Either as frozen rivers of ice that grind the rocks to powder or by melting as rivers that wash the rocks down the mountain while grinding them together to make sand.
For the last several million years we have had 100,000 year cycles of ice ages with 80 thousand years of ice followed by 20 thousand years of global warming.
We are currently reaching the end of a warm period and heading back into an ice age.
@@stiimuli Glaciers are an exceptionally poor indicator for a "global" weather phenomenon. A glacier is the result of melting factors and factors that add frozen material. "Accelerated" melting of glaciers in the Himalayas has started in the 1500s, while in the 1800s the glaciers in the Alps were growing so fast that they endangered settlements that had never before seen any ice. Each glacier has it's own set of rules / factors determining its development. If a glacier is accelerating or slowing down erosion depends largely on the local topology and the type of rock involved.
@@f.d.6667 You might have a point if scientists were only looking at a single glacier or group of glaciers over a short, isolated time period rather than all ice bodies on the entire planet over very long time periods. Not to mention all the other data points being tracked like direct surface and satellite measurements of land, ocean and atmospheric temperatures over time, chemical composition and isotope ratios, ecological trends etc.
Yes, each glacier is influenced by differing local factors but they are also influenced by global ones. There's a reason for the worldwide scientific consensus about what is happening.
Now Imagine the size being 1000x or larger. That is what is being found out what happened around 12.5k years ago in North America, due mostly to the last ice age and a huge impact from a comet or meteor that melted a huge swath of those glaciers. This was a tiny scale compared to that and seeing the amount of debris that was displaced here. imagine that on a titanic level back then and you can see how such an event shaped The United States as we see it today. That also can be said about the European glaciers that most likely melted around the same time frame. the one shining light is that prospectors can go up there and probably score big if permitting allows, and not use machinery while doing so.
I don't think majority realize just how much water is about to be displaced. What isn't permenantly flooded is still going to be flood plains. Mass earthquakes. Everywhere. Techtonic Plates in tension will release that tension, water pressure on land (inland and coastal) will pop volcanoes like pimples. 100 meter tsunamis if not bigger, Steam mass methane extremely Inhospitable environment. EVERYWHERE. Really the stuff of nightmares and if the hostel environment doesn't get you the hostles will
That is unreal. Can you imagune seeing that !
So ice age 2 is real?
@@7XHARDER yes, look up Graham Hancock
Wasn't it a huge ICE DAM that eventually failed? I don't think a comet or meteor had anything to do with it, but yes, it happened. Dropped a giant meteor from Canada into Oregon. AND we want it back. !!!!
Reminds me of the flooding in 1997 in the Sierras, Mother Nature is fully in control here with out a doubt....
1:45 'unstable rock literally hanging in the air' wouldn't even need a little push to send it on its way!
true, it is my experience that anything solid will drop on its own, once it has the foundation it is resting on, removed.. 0.0
In the 1800's, in Maine, there were two years (not in a row) where it froze every day. No summer. People starved. It was not human caused. Government couldn't stop it. Cyclical climate change. Too many " pointy headed experts" giving us their apocalyptic hypothesis.
When you get cancer, do you go see a specialist?
Ya know that trumpet sound parents made in Charlie Brown? Yea, all I’m hearing from you.
So, you are saying that because a volcano caused that disaster, that we couldn't possibly be causing another one?
The earth is dynamic. Natural events don't need to be spun into a guilt trip.
100% 2 thumbs up. Many of these events will have happened even if humans never existed.
We can always strive to do better, but somethings are simply beyond our control. - Cheers
They have to please their masters in the Liberal party.
Imagine all the fossils and bones that got moved around
and now they'll probably conveniently find a whole lot of new fossils and bones. they can fabricate a whole bunch up and place them out there lol
Ya I've heard similar stories lol
And the GOLD.
@@tonymo819 yuppp
@@tonymo819 every seen that Alaskan show where they dig the mountains for gold?
Wow. I am so impressed with Climate Change and is ability to be responsible for everything. What caused landslides prior to climate change? I theorize climate change is now capable traveling through time in wormholes. Or string theory for climate change. 🤔
lol gary, i think gravity and instability may have something to do with it more than goebbel warming.
This is common looking at the situation from a million year perspective. Our planets average Temperature is somewhere around 9 degrees higher than what we are living in today. That means the planet usually doesn't have glaciers.
Yes. And climate change is normal, it's just half these wack jobs refused to believe it.
Totally irrelevant and inaccurate.
And sea levels have been both higher and lower than they are today.
Our time here is short, just don't litter, try not to be wasteful, and limit your overall personal pollution.
Should be fine.
@@globalsolidarity55 it must be a peaceful existence being a simpleton.
@@dougdavis8986 ouch, buds.
Uncalled for.
Omg thank you for sharing. We just had a similar event happened in Baybay city, Philippines. Thousands are still burried by tons of mud. It competely wiped out one community.
@Ambotsa Imo 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 my condolences to all the lost.
Thousands?
"...April 10 landslide incident that killed at least 128 people with over a hundred missing." -Philippine News Agency
@@juanofthecross
Maybe I'm wrong but I found out this is not the first time it happened in Leyte. I remember there's a school burried with hundreds of students in it and some were even texting to save them cuz they're burried in the mud inside the school. That was a couple years ago. We should open our eyes to climate change. In one video it shows the island sliced and gradually eroding and melting. I grew up in Panay surrounded by mountains. There's some landslides but no casualties because people don't build their houses at the footpart of the mountain. I warned my own sibling cuz he literally build a mountain resort on top of the mountains with tall hotels and swimming pools. He told me don't worry our mountains is rocky and built by strong foundation. But for me no one is immuned to climate change.
From the 13th to the 19th century was an event climatologists refer to as "The Little Ice Age", this was a glaciation event. The disappearance of these glaciers is what we are now seeing.
That’s completely wrong. The regional cooling in the 17th Century was less the 1c, and it did not form glaciers. The contemporary glacial melting is caused by the additional heating from human emissions of green house gasses. Look at the data. This is just more parroting climate change denialism, expressed out of a psychological need to deny reality because the solutions are not compatible with perceived interests and political preferences.
@@Rnankn Yes, well then I guess you better go tell the archaeologists in Norway, that the artefacts that they found under the glacier are much older than the thirteenth century date they have put on them.
You should take a look at "Unsettled" by Dr. Steve Koonin. It is a discussion about climate change, what is, and what isn't happening. Dr.Koonin was a member of the Obama administration.
@@leighchristopherson2455 @Leigh Christopherson You know I wouldn't take Koonin too seriously on the matter of climate change, he worked for BP oil for a few years prior to working during Obama's administration. Bit of a conflict of interest and seemingly left him prone to bias thereafter.
He also has no formal specialization in climate science being more specialized in theoretical physics, computational physics and alternative energy/nuclear energy where he is quite knowlegable from what I've seen but as for climate change has taken a staunch contrarian approach which is fine and can be healthy except he cherry picks data when doing so, ignores wider contexts and contributing factors, skews statistics and makes large leaps in logic to reach conclusions or just leaves things vague, and has since been debunked by his peers on the topic and his booked panned by critics for cherry picking data as I mentioned while ignoring replicable studies.
Also beyond being the undersecretary of science for the Secretary of Energy during Obama's administration where he was more of an advisor again specializing more in alternative energy than climate change itself. In 2019 he was going to be on Trumps administration for a presidential committee where koonin was co selecting committee members for a public "adversarial" debate on climate change but later had it changed to an advisory group not as subject to public disclosure, none of that panned out in the end I believe but still left a massive impact on how that administration handled the issue.
All in all without dissecting the book he can be a brilliant scientist but isn't intellectually honest when it comes to climate change and I personally suspect that has something to do with his original position at BP oil and energy sectors but that's merely me guessing to be fair. The science on climate change is ever expanding and broadening our understanding of its effects and scope and while it's not "settled" like Koonin claims the overwhelming consensus is that it is real, it is impacted by humans and the effects can be severe, with review studies of published scientific papers finding between 99%-100% of all papers studied to conclude in favor of climate change rather than sceptical.
Sorry for the long reply I couldn't really condense it much more, while still hitting my main points.
@@UndeadGary tldr
The glacier melted and sent a goodbye wave.
This type of thing has been happening on earth for many millions of years the only difference is now we’re here with helicopters and TV camas to see what happened
Hi de ho! So right you are!
Humans werent hurt but wildlife fish etc were. 🥺
Maybe the body of a bigfoot could be found there.
"...Salmon Spawning Streambeds..." He nailed it. lol
I was very relieved to learn that all wildlife escaped injury when you reported that no one was hurt in the landslide.
No one was injured
No one was injured
This happens All the time and has been happening for millions of years and will continue to happen Long after we're gone
Thank you. Does my soul good to hear an intelligent voice.
Thanks for telling us in a terrifying movie like script way about what's been happening on earth for millions of years and now that humans can monitor every part of the world at anytime, literally every single natural event will be seen and made out as if it's increasing, any educated person can use common sense on this.
It's Ok you'll be dead before the food and water wars start.
You should try common sense and actually listen to what is being said.
@@Abby1952 the planet is doing the same thing it does every few million years we are just along for the ride. You can listen to them and live in fear if you want. I'll use my common sense and know these things are beyond my control and keep doing what I do enjoying my life not listening to the fear mongering worring about stuff that is just nature. Smdh oh yeah the hole in the ozone layer got fixed a long time ago too. Smdh
You sound like you don’t use common sense, yes things like this has been happening for millions of years but we are making it speed up so much from all the unnatural pollution, it used to be forest fires and volcanoes doing the pollution but now you have millions if not billions of people burning plastics, dumping toxic waste into the ocean, factories, cars and so many other things that are releasing toxic gasses into the ozan layer that are unnatural causing it to break down faster, witch exponentially speeds up the process of earths cycle witch is called climate change
Tell em brother..bidens handler is a f-n bunny..crickets..ukraine commits war crimes...crickets....cnn+ shuts down..headline news..i pray for armageddon..were done
I never knew a glacier can cause tsunami.
It displaces the water...
The glacier itself didn't. A landslide in the absence of a usually supporting glacier did.
That said, there are plenty of videos on RUclips showing how glacial calving can cause really big waves.
You think this is bad? Look up a video recreation of the Glacial Lake Missoula floods that carved out the channeled scablands. Fascinating stuff.
@@BestKCL Yes, it is fascinating. Or, they are, better said. We weren't around to watch the Missoula floods rip up the Channeled Scablands, but we get some of the immediate visuals of this one. Compelling, that sensors in Australia picked it up.
lots of videos of these things . its nothing new. it happens
BC had a similar mountian-silde in the early seventies. Half a mountain came down, rolled up the opposite side of the valley, and slide back to settle in the valley. Cut off the trans-Canada highway and either the CN or CPR railroad tracks.
Same thing happened in the M7.5 Yellowstone earthquake in 1959.
Kept saying No One was in the area. Well How do you really Know that no one was in the area. Cause You CANT know. There could have been someone. There are alot of people that have decided to call the Forest Home and Live Off Grid from everything. So Its impossible to Know Someone hasnt Died cause of This incident
And we can assume that there were plenty of animals there, they didnt even get a mentioning.
@@Goldenhawk583 Poor critters.....
It's nice to be reminded we live on a very dynamic planet ....
Thank God we do....
Why should 'god' get all the credit......
@@joeshmoe7967 Okay 👍
Thank mother nature we live on a dynamic planet.
Does that make more sense to you Joe ?
@@1badcrow463 Sure, that works. I just like to poke fun at 'god'. 'He' works in mysterious, no scratch that, ridiculous ways.
Yes, the exclamation 'thank god' is very common, one I use myself often, even though I am not a believer. - Cheers
I would appreciate a map. BC is big.
Finally an answer to the age old question..."if a tree falls in the forest does it make noise?". The answer is you can't see that tree through the forest you live in. Take a step back and look at the big picture sometimes. Media also needs to stop peddling fear.
Peddling fear? It is only fear if you choose to be afraid....
I think you're the only one afraid here... your generation seems to go "LALALALA NOTHING'S HAPPENING IT CAN'T HURT ME" over the slightest hints of existential discomfort.
@@BestKCL Huh???
@@will7its They're dishing out accusations of "fearmongering" because what they're hearing makes them afraid. And instead of dealing with that fear in a healthy way, they throw out what's causing said fear, and tell themselves it can't be valid or real in any way. It's a defense mechanism to shield their psyche from an unpleasant stimulus.
If you've ever seen the Avatar series, a good allegory for what I'm saying is the infamous line,
"There is no war in Ba Sing Se."
Poor animals 😢
Poor trees
Poor lake
The salmon
@@joesiph8021 what about the birds. They have feelings too!
And you thought Koalas are real.animals
Well if you put the wrong data in you must get the wrong data out. In Australia they build 120 foot dam. In less than 40 years it was completely filled to the brim with silt. And cattle now feed right up to the edge of the dam wall. And that was built in granite area. You see granite is eroding away much much much faster than we have been told it's not millions of years it's only hundred of years. The coastlines around the world are also shrinking. Erosion is happening much much faster than we have been led to believe because they put in the wrong modelling. John Gould one of the greatest naturalist stated and I quote it is a miracle we still have the fossil record, at the present rate of erosion". You see John Gould realised that the data didn't match what he was saying in the real world. He estimated that the fossil record should have been wiped out at least six times. The lost squadron in World War II landed on ice. 70 years later they had an expedition to go and find them, they were told by the scientist that there should only be a foot of ice and snow on them. But when they actually located the squadron they were 270 feet down. The same depth as what the scientist said was at least 10 million years old. Funny my grandfather actually was one of the mechanics that serviced one of these planes I didn't know he was that old. If you put the wrong date Ahryn you'll get the wrong data out simple
Was it a hydroelectric dam? I wonder how much money it cost to build and how useful it might have been.
@@BlackJesus8463 no the dam was not hydroelectric dam was simply there for irrigation and water supply for the Township and gold prospecting. It cost an enormous amount of money at the time it was very well made because the structure is still there today. With cattle feeding on the grass where the water should be right up to the dam wall the cows can actually look over the wall when they are eating the grass. Because the people were told it took millions of years for the granite to wear down. This is absolutely incorrect as a friend of mine had a huge granite boulder put in his front yard and they bolted a letterbox to it within 10 years it had already broken into pieces
@@brianholloway1451 Must be some of the best soil around huh.
@@BlackJesus8463 sometimes landslides do not have the best material as you need quite a lot of clay usually to have a good landslide or rocks. But yes if it's in the right place you certainly would have some nice soil as long as it lands on your place.
@@brianholloway1451 You said silt not landslide. It's ok though I've heard enough.
You know in northern bc there are fossils of palm trees and deserts were once forests? Climates just change over time.
🤣🤣🤣🤣I love how people didn’t get what climate change means and likely they live in those dangerous area. Digging their own graves. The solution is the reduction of human population. Thank you for volunteering
@Mark Twain anyways iota is imaginary difference , i want real difference 😅
@Mark Twain correct paying a tax will in no way alter the climate cycles that have gone on for billions of years!
@@mujkocka is that why may of the elites are buying up ocean front properties , including Obama and climate change Guru , Al Gore?
Dumbest thing I heard today.
Hello to my fellow inhabitants of Alberta and British Columbia.
After viewing this footage and making my way through BC from October 30th to December 2021, during the Floods.
As a friendly warning ⚠️, I feel landslides, Floods and heavy rain 🌧 will seriously affect BC and AB this spring 2022.
Please prepare my friends
Oh no geology in action. Like this has never happened before.
Some people actually find stories like this interesting. Besides many natural disasters have happened before and now are happening more often. Such as extreme drought, flood, forest fire, hurricanes, heat waves, etc. Except now the cause is primarily the human burning of fossil fuels which is warming the planet causing glaciers to melt and avalanches like this happen more often as well increasing the likelihood of all those other things that I mentioned.! Now imagine one of these disasters directly affecting you!! Get the picture now?
None of this is new . The whole north west coast is somewhat fragile . The small town of Frank in Alberta was virtually wiped out back in 1903 when the adjacent mountain collapsed on it . Check out the 1958 Lituya Bay Eartquake . And as others have said nothing compares with the "gradual" collapse of much of the north american ice age .
this happened to a bay in Alaska in like1958 and it was way bigger.....
On Harrison lake in BC, mt Breakenridge is at risk of a landslide up to 200 million cubic meters (80 Egyptian pyramids) in the future which is absolutely massive. That landslide would fall into the lake creating a large Megatsunami. Back in 2007, there was a 3 million cubic meter landslide on chehalis lake, BC which caused a tsunami exceeding 40 meters in height.
Let’s talk about the next big event the looming food shortages
Plant a garden now
Your government doesn’t love you
I don't have a government speak for yourself please.
Glaciers are growing in places. But msm won't tell you that.
Glaciers.... riiiiiiggghhhtttttt 👌👌👌
You don't believe glaciers exist? O-o
I get a kick out of people who cry "We are destroying the planet!" If we get to the point where we really are harming the planet, we will be wiped out by nature itself.
Well, that’s stating the obvious. We are at that point, and trying to prevent it. People don’t want us to harm the biosphere, and as a consequence save ourselves.
It's a valley between the mountains what do they think happens in places like that lol
Mountains crumbling… inevitable
What about covid tho? Anything else we should worry about? Guns? Cars? Stairs?
Reeee
soap in the bathtub
Rainbows and unicorns.
The garbage
Sun spots
Something similar happened that diverted water that use to flow into Lake Kluane. Now the water flows in a different direction and Lake Kluane is much lower.
the source fed two rivers at a fork, the slims and the kaskawulsh, but yes it only feeds the kaskawulsh as it stands now, beautiful area, been into the donjek twenty years back, even there you are on the continental divide and from the toe of the glacier one river goes south and one north, the glacier there surged back in the seventies i believe and plowed right across the valley in one day.......
The planet will be fine. we're going away.
Whew!! That's a relief. I was all worried about the planet. Who cares if life on earth goes extinct?! 🙄
So why reported now.
Wake up call ! That's funny... We missed that call thirty years ago ! Good luck.
180 kilometer per hour sounds incredibly fast, but don't be fooled. It's only 110 mph.
Fall of a motorcycle 'only' doing 110mph....you may view the speed differently....
sorta like the entire midland plains of the USA... Miles high multi state sized glacial burst smashing into the ground... Explains a lot.
Glaciers aren’t melting abnormally anywhere.
How do they know for sure that nobody was hurt? Someone may have been hiking and could be buried in all that debris.
Well it's been over a year now 🤷♀️ no family members claiming lost loved ones hiking in that area.
I guess if someone was stupid enough to go out and not tell anyone where they were, there could be 1 or 2 dead in there.
Oh, brother--what causes landslides is water pooling up in a land mass that is prevented from draining by frost blocking drainage ways. The resulting hydrostatic pressure lubricates the slip surface and there goes the mountain!!!
0:42 a tsunami means harbour wave. No harbours were harmed during this landslide.
I think in general the use of tsunami, simply indicates wave caused by earth movment.
Every wave that comes into a harbour, would be a harbour wave....tsunami is caused by a fault shift. I would agree that we usually would reserve tsunami for an ocean event, but the gist is a massive wave with a cause that is not wind/weather related.
When large boulders are found in the US that were actually from Canada. Nature is a powerful entity.
It is not raining or snowing enough to make glaciers. They are drying out.
I wonder who took all those fascinating measurements...wow
That was a lame set of graphics and photos.
It’s isn’t a tsunami if it’s in a lake. It’s called a seiche wave.
If half a mountain falls and nobody sees it, does it make any noise?
The earth has been warming for the last 10,000 years or so. Thats what melted the glaciers in the first place. I realize the young folks are taught something far different then reality but the glaciers were 3 to 4 miles thick and covered the northern half of north America. There'll be many more ice ages before this planet is gobbled up by the sun in 6 billion years. Don't fret about it.
The climate has been stable for 10000 years, and abrupt warming is a recent phenomenon. Removing the atmospheric carbon and restoring the ice will take hundreds of thousands of years. So future ice ages aren’t really relevant, when the planet is now hotter than it has ever been in the entire existence of our species.
@@Rnankn so you're saying" in the future ice will form at a higher temperature then what its done in the past." Yeah no, sorry I'm not buying into the scam a few old ultra rich white dudes drummed up to extort money from everybody. Western Europe and the West has transferred most of their heavy industry to China so they can stand on their soap box and lecture the world about how clean and green they are, meanwhile China is building coal fired powerplants at a record pace.
crazy because history suggests this isnt the first, so it wont be the last.
I was there, but I was afraid to say anything. First and last time I'll ever try yodeling.
I needed your humor. Thank you!
Does anyone have a location on this? Google maps, places Elliot Lake, at 105 mile house, area.
What will become of lake Louise when it’s glacier melts and a massive hotel on the other side of the lake ? We have cabins hotels towns hwys all within reach of melting glaciers … My poor beautiful backyard how depressing
what does records SHOW FOR temp.
Propaganda
Don't let them pull the climate lockdowns.🍁🍁🍁
Are you practicing willful ignorance? I'm doing a survey to ask why people post dumb comments.
It needs to warm up a bit in B.C, thank God.
No one was hurt? Well if anyone was around, they are buried under forty feet of muck, sand and flora.
And what caused the Frank slide back when all of the glaciers were growing? Weren't they both cause by rain soaking into the rock?
Kinda - sorta. It took a long deep freeze to freeze all the water in the fissures and cracks of Turtle mountain. All the pressure of the expanding ice within the mountain is what caused it to break apart. That wouldn't be the mechanism of the 2020 slide shown here.
@@fattymcbastard6536 in 2000 they drilled back 1000feet into the rock wall along the sea to sky hyway to prevent the exact same thing from happening!
@@fattymcbastard6536 but the frank slide took place in April 1903 and the temperature had not been below freezing in 3 months and it was one of the warmest winters on record for that region?
@@terenceiutzi4003 There was more snow than usual in the winter of 1902-1903, and April was unusually warm. The snow melt filled all the cracks and fissures in the mountain before temperatures dipped below freezing again.
@@fattymcbastard6536 yes but it was one of the warmest winters but more water because it was the start of a minimum just like the past few years in BC! When the climate cools like it is now the first line is massive precipitation and about 5 years later we see a major temperature drop just like thousands of times before! And now we are starting now and people are all ready starting to die in Europe! Eastern Canada will be next! Just the normal progression! The equatorial oceans started cooling 8 years ago!So
speaking like a politician. how about we poor more concrete, more black tar roof tops, more asphalt roads, oh and lets alter the rain clouds by shooting salt into them, what else can a politician do to you know speed things up a little.
other than for it's fertility, Sgt. York can keep the bottom land
And put up more signs........
Spring time glaciers melt
When talking about a geological event, it is NOT Science to ignore what other scientists can say about it; Weather is very complicated; lets listen to Scientists and NOT only Media.
You just listened to a 2:28 clip of what science has to say. Not sure I get your point.
"tsunami, (Japanese: “harbour wave”) also called seismic sea wave or tidal wave, catastrophic ocean wave, usually caused by a submarine earthquake, an underwater or coastal landslide, or a volcanic eruption. The term tidal wave is frequently used for such a wave, but it is a misnomer, for the wave has no connection with the tides." Britannica
Never heard anyone call a wave in a lake a "Tsunami."
A tsunami is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake.
Or Oxford:
an arrival or occurrence of something in overwhelming quantities or amounts.
Sometimes the literal translation of a foreign word doesn't carry through to all uses in a different language.
Further, if we are being pedantic, "harbour wave" could mean literally any wave that occurs in a harbour... which obviously isn't how the word is ever used in English. Hell, that literal sense isn't even how the word is used in Japan
Do you have a special name that fits better for a landslide on the coast of a lake that caused a 100 metre tall catastrophic wave to emanate from that lake and continue downstream where it was previously just streams? Because tsunami fits perfectly as a descriptor of what happened if you have the cognitive capacity to get over that one word in the definition that didn't fit, and update the definition accordingly.
@@dawggonevidz9140 I suggest you contact Encyclopedia Britannica to update their definition.
@@picksalot1 Think I might. For the lulz.
@@dawggonevidz9140 the one word in his cherrypicked definition, mind you.
Because most definitions don't limit the concept to harbours or salt water.
180kilometets per hour that's like 10 parsecs or 7.362 scalar movements
😆😅🤣
You know Canada is huge when...
Scary times. I think these next decades are going to be something else....
100 meters=100 meters. Very few people are familiar with lionsgate bridge height.
100 metres ? How about a more realistic 20 metres high that washed up 100 metres on some banks ?
You were a witness?
Media exaggerating by a factor of five ....... that's about right.
@@pinetree2473 Why blame the media? That 100 m high wave was based on computer modeling by researchers. You know, in science? You have heard of science haven't you and how they investigate local disasters like this?
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 Of course I have. And I'm also old enough to have seen many times when "scientists" with the use of "models" are able to publish (even peer reviewed) the most outrageous rubbish that common sense itself rightly ridicules.
@@pinetree2473 Just because you have heard of scientists that published false claims is no reason to discount this claim. Each scientific claim needs to be evaluated on its own merits. This video is too short to address any of the actual data from this disaster thus I find it presumptuous to condemn it outright.
But hey you are entitled to your opinion so have at it.
Just imagine if Whistler or Vancouver was in its path?
There's been landslides ever since there was land and rain ffs.
Dude you just haven’t found the crazy 😜 guy who was camping 🏕 by the lake
I saw this in a movie once, issue is that yellow stone also erupted in it.
And me without my surfboard
The man in the glasses has such a nice haircut.
How much flow does this river have compared to the Columbia. It took an estimated 6 months 500 years ago for the bridge of the gods to overflow when the same thing happened.
6.8 miles is 11 kilometers....
Oh wow 😳. Glad no one was hurt
2020 November. How are we just hearing about it now.
Where was the ice ?
I didn't see any .
OMG this is worse than that time when ....
It's way too late for a ' wake up call ' .
Whoa... didn't know this happen ??
That would really suck. I just couldn't imagine going to bed one night only to wake up dead.😬
That’s probably how most people go.
How a boat that Eh! When it was done it obviously said, “Oh sorry.”
Water seeks a low point. It’s not a red flag. It’s nature doing what nature has done for millennia.
Imagine a pipeline was there.
Some glaciers are growing around the world. Explain that