The strangest summer in recorded history - David Biello
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Dig into geoengineering, which uses technology to manipulate Earth’s environments to counteract climate change.
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In 1815, Mount Tambora erupted and its emissions spread across the globe, blotting out the sun for almost an entire year. This wreaked havoc on agriculture, leading to famines all across the Northern hemisphere. It was the year without summer- one of the darkest periods in human history. So why are some modern researchers considering repeating it? David Biello digs into geoengineering.
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Before eruption, Mt. Tambora height was around 4500m, among the tallest peak in Indonesian archipelago, and after eruption the height of rim of its caldera is 2800m. An eruption so massive that erased >1500m of the mountain height and left caldera with ~5 miles diameter.
😮 wow!
now I have to convert miles to meters thx :/
It's possible that the great painter William Turner captured the atmospheric changes from the eruption of Mt.Tambora, in his paintings of foggy, spectacular and bounderless sunsets during that period.
Volcanoes are stronger than i thought. That's crazy.
Well ig
@@bruhh3759 Wdym you guess?
It's literally the earth's guts spilling out. Ofc it's strong.
Seems like you haven't been thinking much 💀
My coffee is pretty strong
There are 3 kingdoms that "disappeared" after Tambora explosion.
Those are Tambora Kingdom, Pekat Kingdom, and Sanggar Kingdom. Two of them truly lost to the earth, only 1 that still left some remains.
Europe: Now that we've finally gotten rid of Napoleon, there's no way things can go wrong!
Mt. Tambora: (erupts)
Europe:
Europe be like: bruh can we HAVE ONE PEACFUL YEAR
godDAMN you actually got hearted by teded
@@Sokker_ I never thought the day would come.
@@kevin8712 🫡
@@unamedperson9249 In the face of crop failures, food shortages, spreading diseases, food riots, and abnormal weather changes?
I almost got a heart attack after seeing the title and "1815" in the description,because I've recently become obsessed with a song about a man who doesn't want to leave his farm,even though him and his family are close to starving,because he believes that winter is going to end soon. And the story takes place in the early 1800s,during the year without summer.
This video was definitely a nice surprise lol
Edit: in case anyone is curious,the song is "July" by American Murder Song
Which song is?
We need the name of the song
@@elchavodelocio It's July by American Murder Song,I'll edit my comment and add it
The entire album is about that year, i love it dearly (it's why i decided to watch the video. Not what I expected)
@@user-yr7dp5du5l Oh I didn't know there was an album (lol)! Gonna check it out,thanks for commenting about it
My German and French ancestors have left my family with lots of documents stating what was happening in Europe at the time and what was happening in eastern North America. Tamboura and Krakatoa were two eruptions that are linked to the idea of “westward expansion” in North America as the climate wasn’t effected as bad over there. It’s crazy how volcanoes can completely change history. Just imagine the next big eruption and what it’ll do with our modern world. Definitely will create a new world history.
The idea of blocking out the sun to combat global warming is both intriguing and unsettling. It's like playing with fire, quite literally! While we must explore all options to save our planet, we should prioritize reducing emissions and transitioning to renewable energy sources. Geoengineering could be a last resort, but let's focus on prevention rather than trying to fix the problem after it's worsened 🙏
You're so right
Eating plant based will also help extremely much the earth❤🌍
I think small-scale use of this would perhaps be useful as a companion project as we implement more long-term stable solutions.
Whenever I hear about tinkering with the world I think of the man who introduced rabbits in Australia.
Imagine covering the world with a giant sheet and then it catches on fire
@@michaelrowe8115 That's certainly a scary thought! We need to be aware of the risks and make sure that safety measures are in place 💯
I truly hate to be the "Negative Nancy" here, but does anyone consider that if a country had this ability, they wouldn't weaponize it? In this day and age when so many countries are desperate for power, this scares me!.....(bracing for responses...)
Yeah it seems apocalyptic to purposefully block out the sun for whatever duration of time. I wouldn't trust something like that. Next they would be forcing us regular folk to pay for sunlight.
The United Nations already banned it but of course how helpful is that really.
Weaponized? Not likely. It would be too slow to be useful (takes years to take effect) and they’d likely harm themselves too if they tried it.
Why do that when you can just throw a nuclear bomb and get the same effect
I think we can call in a positive Paul here and say that’s not going to happen
Started to plant one mango tree every year in 2020.. Trying my best to reduce global warming..
If you guys don't have enough resources like land, water and time for a tree..just plant small plants in a pot like aloe vera or Tulsi in your surroundings..they will do the best..
I will be a lot happy person if someone planted even a plant after reading this line..
Let's work together for this..❤
up!
I want to paraphrase someone about geoengineering, “we are more willing to fight the sun then fight capitalism”!
I mean capitalism is an idea you can’t kill an idea. You can kill the sun
@@user_8982 an impersonal idea neither lives nor dies. It doesn't exist. CapitalISTS on the other hand.... Those are very real people that can live & die. #eat #the #rich
@user that’s what the peasants used to say about feudalism
@@user-nv5sn3tb4e and viola, the French invented ✨The Guillotine✨ Chop Chop ✨
@@salemsaberhagan the rich aren't really the problem. They have a bigger influence and the effects of their actions can be felt by many ,yes, but people with far less still do far worse with what they have. If you ever work in any public establishment, you'll see that anyhow you flip it, people are just gonna ... people.
Thank you for introducing me what "geoengineering" is. Ted-Ed I truly appreciate the effort.
I can't believe the strength of volcanoes, and how it can be beneficial to our Earth.
they are nit entirly beneficial, they emit sulphur oxides which are harmful pollutants
Volcanoes are a two-edged sword - they can destroy, but in the longer term they can also reap.
@@yodorobyes you right, the Tambora and Krakatoa eruption at that time erase three kingdom from earth, but in the long term it provide a fertile land and attract more diverse culture group to resettle there
_“It’s April 10th, 1815-”_
It is?!
_”-and in just a few moments, the sun is going to disappear.”_
IT IS?!?
Solar radiation management also doesn’t address ocean acidification
Thank you for this video. My instinct was to be dismissive of things like huge solar shades, it doesn't fix the underlying problem. But on smaller scales, geoengineering can work hand in hand with solutions we're already trying. More heat-efficient buildings can reduce our need for air conditioning that is energy-intensive and contributes to CO2 emissions, protecting the Great Barrier Reef directly preserves environmental health. Can't ignore a potentially important way protect our world.
the liability of doing this would be insane. imagine litigations of every natural disaster after this.
i wonder how blocking solar would affect my... solar power?
There is also a justice/rights conversation around this. Do we think of the Earth as something we own (albeit temporarily) or something we have borrowed? If the latter is the case, we will need to learn about the long-term impacts that these projects could have over many lifetimes.
It would be good if we could fit both the 'borrowed' and 'owned' idea together, as each has benefits. A sense of ownership raises the stakes and investment someone has, which is a good source of motivation to improve it. Likewise, if we imagine that it is 'borrowed,' we acknowledge that others will come after us to 'borrow' it from us, which should be a consideration of the scope of any human endeavor- so as to avoid forcing the future generations to account for our lack of consideration.
I'm an American. Many of us take and use to the detriment of our contemporaries, with no consideration for future generations. Of course, that can change. But I don't expect to be able to overcome centuries of dysfunction anytime soon. That's especially true with our infotainment bubbles and entities promoting and exploiting the dysfunction.
In either case, it's the only inhabitable planet we know of. The only one that even comes close is something we've recently found 12 million lightyears away. And it's just a guess that it's habitable. Whether we own the planet or not, there is no Planet B.
@@salemsaberhagan better don't let the people fanatic about terraforming mars spot you. One constant I know about human innovation is that there's always a drawback we don't see until much later that's usually slightly catastrophic, but at the same time , we can't stop innovating because we can't just go back to before either, so we have to fix the problems of today, to create the problems of tomorrow to repeat. But we do a know a lot more now , and we can gather information faster than ever, so maybe one day, we'll be able to successfully balance the scales between innovation and not disrupting nature's laws. And when we get to that, we'll have one final hurdle, if we'll care about the disruption and just go ahead anyway because there's no one else to tell us stop or not ,lol. But until these huge scientific breakthroughs occur, I'll keep doing the little I can.
I agree!
This was a great video, very enlightening! I hope a lot of people see this.
Geoengineering is the type of radical idea that will cause the apocalypse with a single misstep. Knowing that humans constantly make mistakes, this is probably a terrible idea
Also totally unnecessary - there is no crisis and CO2 has next to bugger all to do with controlling earth's temperature!
I would put it on par with nuclear war.
apocalypse is already baked-in to your future
Bees’ll buzz
Kids’ll blow dandelion fuzz
And I’ll be doing whatever snow does in summer
Olaf😭
Im going to tell him
@@berdwatcher5125 dont you dare......
Humans have been so advanced as to think up potential projects that affect the whole planet. Amazing.
Amazing in a bad way*
It was hotter during the Roman era, look it up.
@@amicableenmity9820 Yes, in the small Mediterranean region. So? What are you trying to say?
@@amicableenmity9820 and that is why they mixed sea water in their concrete, not fresh water. It keeps things cooler.
@@amicableenmity9820 The Roman Warm Period was a regional phenomenon, not a globally-coherent episode, that wasn't warmed than today, just similar to the temperature around 2000, which probably wasn't that pleasant back then. Also, Europe isn't suffering that much from climate change compared to other regions in the world.
The problem with this is that WE don't know when to stop... And that is EXACTLY what we need to do.
Wow that's scary and fascinating at the same time. I wish i could go back in time and spend atleast a day or week in that time. How cleaner the earth was back then and how this single phenomenon must have made a drastic change.
Cleaner? Lesser pollution? But the the toilets and personal hygiene back then😅
Trust me, You'd wish you hadn't.
@@86jollygood even vikings bathed regularly. Latrines were fine. the population density was small enough for pooping in the forest to not cause issues
@@marios1861vikings weren't around in the 1800s, pollution and hygiene were big concerns during this period :)
We've just had a year without summer down in New Zealand, Aotearoa.
Plus, two Cyclones.
Its been a wild start to the year.
Wow, sorry for that, I didn’t know about it being on the other side of the world. And… damn, “Aotearoa” sounds just soo beautiful, really, Maori names are out-of-this-world beautiful…!
@Lucy Shnyr thanks very much!
I think most of us in the Pacific's are hoping it's just a freak year and not our new normal 😅
This 5 min Ted Ed summed up 4 hours of lecture in my global climate class. Really great information.
The gloomy weather born from the eruption birthed Frankenstein. A particularly bad storm shuttered Mary Shelley and her friends indoors in 1816 for a while. To pass the time they decided to do a horror story competition and the scifi horror classic was born.
Can't have a world without sunsets, and plants wouldn't grow... we should not contain the bad fumes but completely reverse the effects
Maybe we should be addressing the root cause of climate change... like transport, deforestation instead. Its more reliable but would take long.
Love from england
Where if there is summer u can expect 40 plus degrees and where there is rain u can expect inches upons of it
These are great examples of trusting the climate to private industry. As was pointed out at the end, the crisis we are in is from climate engineering done by these industries. Private industry’s answer to extreme CO2 is to pollute the atmosphere more to block sunlight. It just follows.
Oooh!!! I never thought I would see Tambora Eruption in one of TedEd video
I hope you will make one about Tambora Eruption for history video,
I really like studying Tambora Eruption because it was such a bizzare phenomen
The weather in Asia is crazy hot now. I have never seen an extreme summer like this.
I'm sure there were extreme summers like that during previous Holocene warm periods, like during the Medieval or Roman or Minoan Warm Periods.
you'll remember 2023 of the coolest year of the rest of your life
Cant imagine life without summers
Yeah that's what im thinking to
in tropical climates like here, summer is soo dreaded. right now as i am typing this, i have at least sweat like 2 buckets lmao
@@dionjohn1744 sweat is good. It cools you down. Or just hang up some thick jute or hemp curtains & spray some water on them. I guarantee you'll feel cooler than if you had an air conditioner.
@@dionjohn1744 plus, it's sustainable & it doesn't pollute the environment
The way things are headed right now, we may soon have the first year without a winter
A boom can be heared over 2000 kilometers away!
BIG WOOOOW 😮😮😮
It’s so cool and scary seeing how much impact volcanoes have on this planet
It's funny that something that is famous for being super hot made the year without summer.
Summer is the best time of the year and the worst.
The good and the bad.
By the way I am from India
You can literally experience any season throughout the country if you want to.
I'm curious as to how during the Vietnam war that they did cloud seating affected the overall climate change if it was anything that we should be trying to repeat or not. I know certain areas can't handle huge amounts of rainwater because of long-term drought and having erosion taking place but it might help with solving the freshwater problem we have.
Please don't do it in Indonesia. We can't afford the cost of disaster. Anyway, i'm now enjoying some days without rain. Sun shine brightly, i can enjoy riding my bike. This summer only last like 2 or 3 months. Because it's like, rain almost everyday here in Garut.
If any of you are interested, I’d recommend watching Extrapolations, which is an anthology series that focuses on the effects on climate change if we don’t take the initiative to decrease and regulate carbon emissions as well as to care for our environment seriously. A couple of episodes depict the use of geo engineering and its impact
Brings to mind the Geo engineering that keeps being brought up in the series Extrapolations
This is how I feel the weather in the US is rn , no summer only storms
Maybe someone already mentioned it - another interesting fact is that the eruption of Mt.Tambora ultimately led to the invention of the bicycle.
The crop failures and regional famines were the reason a lot of horses had to be slaughtered. In 1817, a German nobleman named Karl von Drais who had already worked on the concept of (a predecessor of) the bicycle, started promoting his 'Draisine', which became quite popular, because people needed a mode of transport that didn't rely on horses. Of course a lot of other inventors added to his original idea, but that's more or less the origin of bicycles.
Summer is the best season, you can't change my mind.
Come to India. We’ll talk then😅
Love to see so many Indians agreeing with this🤭
@@VS_ryt ruclips.net/user/shortswRwUIaurtlo?feature=share
Yea amigo, come here it’s 50 C at 11 AM
its 47 degrees here soon to be 49 in a few days and in a month the humidity is gonna reach 90%
Quite probably you haven't experienced real summer in all your cozy life
@@VS_ryt I came here just to say that😂
We need a day called Environment Day where (almost) all airlines and factories will shut down for 24 hours... This will be so helpful to support the planet's healing process from all the poison humans have gave it
Anyone planning to intentionally block out the sun ,should be jailed.
Teded: The Year Without Summer
Phineas and Ferb: No Way!!!!???
Ted ed must make a video about David bamberger who restored a wasteland to beautiful forest in Texas ❤
What could go wrong?
I didn't even realize how impactful Pinatubo was in 1991
I love it! Creatures trying to avoid the inevitable!
Mr Burns was ahead of his time
The original narrator is back 🎉
they have different ones for each video
@@urbanzs nah, they only have new people coming in for special features like cultural or social stuff. TED Ed is originally a scientific education oriented channel & this guy has been there from the very beginning.
Climate change is also natural. Canada Illinois used to have a glacier on top of it. Then it changed.
Phineas and Ferb’s worst nightmare
that sucks for the Kids, no summer break
Au contraire. This means longer summer breaks. Kids are especially vulnerable to heat stroke. You should heat water in the sun & use it to give babies a sponge bath. Leave a bucket on the terrace or in the garden or something for an entire day. Helps the baby acclimatise to the heat. We do that often where my grandparents live.
I was born when Mt Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines
So to fight climate change due to pollution, the big idea we came up with is putting more stuff in the atmosphere.....
kinda mad at ted ed for putting this on their platform. Geoengineering shoudln't be considered as a legitimate solution to global warming right now
@@finitecurve I guess it could be a good way to buy us some time till all the humans figure out a new and more reliable solution...
We can only postpone the inevitable not avoid it...
Silly me, I thought the video would be about the event named in the title. Really wasn't though, was it?
Now there’s so much carbon in the atmosphere, it’d probably just be the Year Without Wildfires.
me who plants trees : i am lorax i speak for the trees
Geoengineering is no longer a taboo topic. That confirmed my nihilism.
Doesn't more CO2 in the atmosphere increase plant growth?
And besides which, CO2 was much much higher in Earth's distant past.
Europe: Finally, Napoleon is defeated. Now there can be peace
Mt Tambora erupting: say sike right now
Greece aready paints a lot of their buildings white to lower temperatures and it works great
One moment, you're trying to save the world. Next moment, you find yourself hanging upside down in a wampa's ice cave...
Maybe think about what you were doing that caused you to get swallowed up in a wormhole & turned into a bat.
Geo-engineering of weather systems to slow down global warming is giving shades of the events in the novel/movie/ TV show Snowpiercer. We don't want humanity to be stuck inside a segregated, self sustaining perpetual motion train navigating a completely frozen over planet Earth!
Nice lesson! Just a question: "without government approval" - which government? The US government? Why do they get to decide the climate that effects everybody? A deep dive into these questions would be important too.
Sounds interesting they published this video exactly the same day we had a huge flood never seen before in northern Italy, after a strange spring with continuous rain (and on the opposite, kinda dry previous years)...
That's what I was wondering - I asked a couple of friends last week when we were having days on end of torrential rain in spring, in May which is normally the sunniest month of spring in central Europe, if they thought that it was possible that the weather had been manipulated to create rain because the global warming fanatics believe or hope that this year will be "the hottest summer on record" ...
A friend from Italy sent me photos of the same kind of weather, even on the Mediterranean coast, in Istria, too, torrential rain. Not normal.
I dare say there were periods like that before in history, way before any one of us was alive.
kinda mad at ted ed for putting this on their platform. Geoengineering shouldn't be considered as a legitimate solution to global warming right now
There are too many conquences and we're not advanced enough nor unified enough for this to work. Large scale Geological Engineering could backfire in a way that could easily accelerate the problem.
Modern day eruption of this kind: Other countries would start discriminating Indonesia, calling it the "Indo fume" and calling them to pay for the economic loss suffered, and blaming them for not predicting and suppressing Earth from erupting.
Year 2123
Old man to his grandchild “Back in my day we had bright blue skies, and the sun was so brilliant you would go blind staring at it.
Kid = “Grandpa why did the sky go grey and hazy?”
Old man = “Because we couldn’t resist money from Oil industry. They invested in Giant Haze machines that blanketed the world all so they could continue to pump out more carbon in our atmosphere”
Such a good video. Challenged my thinking in just the right way.
Valuable knowledge
Mt. Pinatubo of Philippines ❤
Insane idea that never should be tried. Who wants to cause famines and flooding!?
A more moderate version could possibly prevent famines and flooding. For instance, cooling a summer down enough that crop failure is less common or slowing the melting of glaciers.
The fact that two of the largest eruption in recorded history is from the same country 😮
Not to mention the Toba super-eruption of 75,000 years ago - much more powerful than even Tambora. Indonesia is more vulnerable to volcanic eruptions big and small than just about any other country.
@@yodorobAlso remember that the most devastating earthquake and tsunami were happened in Indonesia in 2004. Eventhough Japan known for their frequent tsunami. In fact Indonesia got hit a lot by tsunami, more than Japan post 20's.
Indonesia is geologically nightmare.
Right. Humans have a record of good ideas that go bad. This is another one of those.
This video felt different for some reason.
The messaging was more aggressive,
and the art in the video was a little underwhelming.
It all felt a bit off...
Listen, I'm down. It's September and we have +30 in UK. Do what you have to do, just make this stop.
I think they should do it in some form or another right now, not when all glacial would melt. There's no way we could cut carbon emissions in acceptable timeline.
Geoengineering sounds an interesting concept for real life adaptation of movie geostorm .😅
And to think a volcano on one side of the world that cause storms near a villa near Lake Genova that force a group of writers to have a writing contest that resulted in the first science fiction and morden horror stories.
Mt. Pinatubo is in the Philippines 💯
BTW great pronunciation of Pinatubo.
Awesom ted ed❣️❣️
5:28, that's edgy. The guy just had a heat stroke I love how every ted-ed video concludes with a final statement like summer will never be the same again.
В нас немає літа вже як два роки
The people pushing these «solutions» are mostly fossil fuel interests. They handily forget that reduced solar input would reduce crops, like Tambora led to widespread starvation in the early 1800s
Do you want a Snowpiercer? Because that's how you get a Snowpiercer!
Sounds like the plot from Highlander 2 movie.
#1 tambora, #2 krakatoa, both are in indonesia :(
Türkçe çeviri için teşekkürler 🫡
I can only dream about it. The heat is killing me.
I thought this video was going to be about Laki erupting...I had no idea it happened with another volcanoe as well.
I’m fairly certain the idea of combating climate change in a way like this was the basis for the movie/show “Snowpiercer”. If you haven’t seen it…let’s just say it didn’t work well
Choo choo!!!!!
I believe this was one of the loudest sounds ever recorded
Think size is impacted by precision of measurement over time?