Understanding Climate Part 1: Orbital Variations and the Sun

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  • @Simon-fg8iz
    @Simon-fg8iz 11 месяцев назад +45

    Just a heads up - the elliptical orbit at 2:20 is fundamentally wrong. The aphelion and perihelion are opposite to each other (180°), not at 90°, because the sun is not in the center, but at the *focus* of the ellipse (as per 1st Kepler's law). This is a significant difference, as it gives wrong predictions. The earth is closest to the sun once, not twice per year - currently during winter in northern hemisphere. As orbital speed is faster at closer distances (second Kepler's law), the cold two seasons in the northern hemisphere are shorter if you count the days on the calendar.

    • @glennpearson9348
      @glennpearson9348 11 месяцев назад +9

      Your correction on how to graphically depict the aphelion and perihelion of an elliptical orbit is correct. Good catch. A slight correction to your correction, though. The sun is at one of the two foci of the ellipse (and an ellipse with only one focus is, of course, a circle).

    • @rickkwitkoski1976
      @rickkwitkoski1976 11 месяцев назад +7

      True. But I highly doubt that Dave made the graphic. Also look at the moon size and distance, never mind the distance to the sun.
      TOTALLY out of scale.
      So this is just an illustration and not an accurate depiction.
      However, I concur that perihelion and aphelion should be shown at opposite sides of the orbit.

    • @vforwombat9915
      @vforwombat9915 11 месяцев назад +1

      " the cold two seasons in the northern hemisphere are shorter if you count the days on the calendar."
      that damn groundhog lied!

    • @M4RC90
      @M4RC90 11 месяцев назад +3

      @@rickkwitkoski1976 He likely didn't make it, but he used it. Of course it is not to scale, a graphic showing the sun, earth and the earth's moon is pretty much never to scale. Try using a to scale graphic showing the three of them without one of them being too large to fit or smaller than a pixel, while fitting on a screen that's not 16,000:9.
      However, it can be out of scale and still show the correct orbital parameters. There's no excuse for that.

    • @edubbya
      @edubbya 11 месяцев назад

      @@rickkwitkoski1976imagine being a schill for a lying yt “scientist”

  • @CordobesErrante
    @CordobesErrante 11 месяцев назад +82

    Flat Earthers are going to love this video xD

    • @KoRntech
      @KoRntech 11 месяцев назад +11

      Oh no doubt they're getting the marching orders to start trolling.

    • @Idrinklight44
      @Idrinklight44 11 месяцев назад +1

      Is their whole world 1D?

    • @rimbusjift7575
      @rimbusjift7575 11 месяцев назад +4

      ​​@@Idrinklight44No, that would be the line-earthers.

    • @elfishmoss1457
      @elfishmoss1457 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@rimbusjift7575lol, don't even believe in 2 dimensions

    • @algladyou
      @algladyou 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@rimbusjift7575lmao

  • @glennpearson9348
    @glennpearson9348 11 месяцев назад +44

    Fantastic video, Professor Dave! Now, when we hear climate change deniers claim that we can't discern human impacts on climates versus natural changes, all we have to do is point them to this video. I've tried explaining it to others, but I struggle to make the argument as plainly and simply as you have here. Thanks!

    • @PremierCCGuyMMXVI
      @PremierCCGuyMMXVI 11 месяцев назад +10

      Honestly I think they maybe a good thing. Each kind of Science Professor Dave talks about, some denier comes out and says whatever they say but we can address those deniers and people can learn from it and why those myths are false. If you know what I mean?

    • @glennpearson9348
      @glennpearson9348 11 месяцев назад +3

      @@PremierCCGuyMMXVI I do, indeed.

    • @_Reagan
      @_Reagan 11 месяцев назад +1

      Yes, professor Dave talks about actual science. That's why he didn't mention "existential threat" doomsday prediction.

    • @brianstrutter1501
      @brianstrutter1501 11 месяцев назад +2

      But we still don't have exact data to know for certain humans are having a significant impact on Earth's temperatures. It's likely we do but again no exact temps going back hundreds and thousands of years. We see significant changes but not detailed minor changes. So the average temp going up a couple degrees is difficult to see. We just weren't here yet or didn't have the science to do the studies needed. But it is obvious we are having some kind of impact on global warming. How much is to be determined

    • @PremierCCGuyMMXVI
      @PremierCCGuyMMXVI 11 месяцев назад

      @@brianstrutter1501
      🤦‍♂️
      Just because you don’t know anything about climate science doesn’t mean scientists don’t know
      We know humans are causing global warming entirely. That’s unequivocal. I have no idea where you are getting your info from, but this global warming is far from natural and looking at paleoclimatology global temperature reconstructions it’s unprecedented.
      Have you even looked through the scientific literature if I may ask?

  • @clemensbock7434
    @clemensbock7434 11 месяцев назад +21

    Dear Dave,
    I really love your content. I am going to start studying biochemistry in Oktober, and I often watch your educational videos and your videos debunking pseudoscience. Can i get a comment heart?

  • @apedanticpeasant1447
    @apedanticpeasant1447 11 месяцев назад +22

    Brilliant as always. Thank you for your service.

  • @erregete
    @erregete 11 месяцев назад +26

    Because of your tutorials, I’m able to get into my ADHD-fueled, obsessive rabbit holes about cool space facts. Thank you, Professor Dave.
    Real random question: I love looking at pictures of nebulae taken with MIRI/NIR/Ultraviolet cameras to see each detail (unseen stars in the background unobscured by dust, particles, etc). Out of curiosity, What would those nebulae look like from a naked eye POV if hypothetically we were in a spacecraft close to those nebulae? Would we see a lot of dust surrounding those nebulae and light from forming stars lighting up the dust in their centers? I apologize if this question is confusing but I’ve always wondered.

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  11 месяцев назад +9

      I dunno! I think it wouldn't look like much of anything if you were very close.

    • @erregete
      @erregete 11 месяцев назад +3

      @@ProfessorDaveExplains Thanks so much for the reply!
      I had always imagined that I’d see something similar to this picture of the Eagle Nebula seen in the link below (Starless version of the Eagle Nebula seen on Wikipedia)
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Nebula#/media/File%3AM16_Eagle_Nebula_-_Pillars_of_Creation.jpg
      Looks super scary, but if there’s ANY possibility that we’d get some sort of naked eye natural color POV picture of any nebulae with a probe, I’d love to see it.

    • @vforwombat9915
      @vforwombat9915 11 месяцев назад

      if you like astronomy, a real good channel to subscribe too, if you haven't is anton petrov
      there's a couple others too, but he covers astronomy, physics, and biology with about 1 ten minute video per day.

    • @DeepSpace145
      @DeepSpace145 11 месяцев назад +2

      The density of the pillars of creation Nebula is about 4000 - 5000 particles per cubic centimeter. For comparison, on earth at a 0 altitude : there are about 10 million trillion particles per cubic centimeter (as you can see, many orders of magnitude) ... so if you are inside the Nebula, you wouldn't see anything. Even here on earth, we only obtain those impressive pictures using telescopes and through a long exposure to extract as much light as possible. Besides, this Nebula is between 4 - 5 ly long, to put things into scale, remember that the closest star (after the sun) is about 4.2 ly away ...
      So, you wouldn't see the Nebula if you are inside it. I mean we are already inside the Oort cloud, we can't see it.

    • @EricBurns1
      @EricBurns1 11 месяцев назад +1

      It depends on how close you want to be and what type of nebula/star cluster you want to be in. If you're in a dense area of dust like the pillars of creation you may not see much. If you're on a planet in a globular cluster like the Beehive Cluster, all of the gas has been "used up" so you'd see as far as we can. The difference would be that there are a lot more stars closer to you, so a lot of stars would appear very bright in the night sky. There are many different possibilities, which is 1 reason why astronomy is so fun to me.

  • @TundeEszlari
    @TundeEszlari 11 месяцев назад +19

    I love your contents, can I get a comment heart?

  • @KoRntech
    @KoRntech 11 месяцев назад +8

    Oh my 1:08 I never thought id be the one to find an error of Professor Dave's videos. Its National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. I even double checked before commenting because maybe i misremembered because it happens.

  • @richardb7495
    @richardb7495 11 месяцев назад +4

    Thank you once again, Professor Dave, for making a complicated subject, very palatable and understandable

  • @thomasbellerive7382
    @thomasbellerive7382 11 месяцев назад +2

    This is another video series I'll be watching all the way through, thank you Dave.

  • @TheKirapwner
    @TheKirapwner 11 месяцев назад +2

    Love the concise, informative presentation. Looking forward to part 2, very interesting!

  • @kwokhardy2512
    @kwokhardy2512 11 месяцев назад +2

    It's amazing how complex Earth's climate is. Factors from orbital shift to volcanic eruptions are all connected to influence our world.

  • @DzIVDzAN
    @DzIVDzAN 11 месяцев назад +2

    Milutin Milankovic also made calendar called New Julian calendar (Revised Julian calendar) or Milankovic Calendar which is more precise then Gregorian Calendar.

  • @rickkwitkoski1976
    @rickkwitkoski1976 11 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you, Prof Dave. Good as always. Informative and to the point.

  • @user-fh9zg9rd2t
    @user-fh9zg9rd2t 11 месяцев назад +8

    I'd like to have a comment heart too!

  • @handelsimperium3506
    @handelsimperium3506 11 месяцев назад +47

    I always wondered how you cope with the amount of sheer ignorance, insignificance, stupidity and spite found in youtube comments. I just dropped by to let you know that I appreciate your videos as they make me understand finer details of already assimilated broad concepts and theories. Thanks for your effort.

  • @VaughanMcCue
    @VaughanMcCue 11 месяцев назад

    Beautiful graphics that explain the situation so well. Thanks.

  • @Kichacid
    @Kichacid 11 месяцев назад +1

    Awesome, very glad you're covering this topic.

  • @DahPigIsAround
    @DahPigIsAround 11 месяцев назад +1

    Wonderfully done

  • @striker851
    @striker851 11 месяцев назад

    Haven't even watched it yet, but I appreciate this series. For my boomer parents, please incorporate info about anthropogenic climate change and what we have done and need to do in order to right through ship. I use your videos in my classes andove your debates with creationists. Keep up the awesome work.

  • @reaperofinnocence7782
    @reaperofinnocence7782 11 месяцев назад +2

    Thank you so much for making these videos. You have taught me everything high school failed to.

    • @AlbertaGeek
      @AlbertaGeek 11 месяцев назад +1

      I see this sort of stupid comment all the time, and I really have to wonder exactly what the commenter thinks high school was supposed to teach them.

    • @jursamaj
      @jursamaj 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@AlbertaGeek Worse, in my experience, most high schoolers *were* taught a lot of things… and taught them again each year, because they completely forgot what they were taught the year before. No doubt many of them forgot most of it after graduating too. Then then come on YT, amazed that "they weren't taught this stuff".

  • @DeepSpace145
    @DeepSpace145 11 месяцев назад

    Thank you Professor Dave for the video ! Best

  • @TalonSilvercloud
    @TalonSilvercloud 11 месяцев назад +1

    Easy and concise.

  • @prrrincic3493
    @prrrincic3493 10 месяцев назад +1

    Hey professor Dave, love the videos keep em coming. I would just like to ask you if it were possible to post in description the scientific articles from which material was taken (so we can dive even deeper in the topic). Don't know if you will even see this but if you will and you manage to do that thanks a lot!

  • @pepperVenge
    @pepperVenge 11 месяцев назад

    The charts in these videos are fascinating. I often pause so I can study them.

  • @holistichumanperformance
    @holistichumanperformance 11 месяцев назад

    Thank you for an awesome, scientifically accurate video.

  • @aizensosuke5081
    @aizensosuke5081 11 месяцев назад +5

    Thanks teach 🙋🙋🙋

  • @secularidiot9052
    @secularidiot9052 11 месяцев назад +3

    The amount of people in the comment section who've already pointed out the error with NOAA and the aphelion/perihelion reaffirms my trust in this channel. The viewers and commentors aren't mindlessly noddihg their heads; they're actively correcting the creator on what they got wrong. You'd never see this on creationist/flat earth channels.

  • @jellevanalthuis5289
    @jellevanalthuis5289 11 месяцев назад +1

    very nice video!

  • @Urrarg
    @Urrarg 11 месяцев назад

    That little opening song/intro is top notch sir.

  • @andrewjones6693
    @andrewjones6693 11 месяцев назад

    Thanks, Dave. The question I had about Earth's eccentricity, obliquity and precession you answered around the 7:00 mark - that our current climate change cannot be attributed to those factors.

  • @majorleeuseless
    @majorleeuseless 9 месяцев назад

    Superb, Dave.

  • @PremierCCGuyMMXVI
    @PremierCCGuyMMXVI 11 месяцев назад +2

    Really great video Professor Dave. I’ve always been interested in Geology, Paleoclimatology, and how it relates to Human caused Global Warming. So this was nice to watch.
    Although I would personally change one thing, and anyone can correct me on this, I think it makes more sense to call those “ice ages” glacial cycles with those warmer periods as interglacial periods. With these cycles taking place in an overall ice age. As there have been five major ice ages in Earth’s geologic history (Huronian, Cryogenian, Andean-Saharan, late Paleozoic, and the current one: the Quaternary Ice Age).
    But I could be getting my terminology confused but I just wanted to address that. Just so it prevents confusion when talking about different types of climate changes in larger geologic time scales. 👍
    Edit: Just a small tweak I would make at 1:11
    I think it would make more sense to show the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s climate normals change from using 1981-2010 to 1991-2020 averages for mean annual temperature and annual precipitation and not just look at 1991-2020 absolute values for mean Temperatures and Precipitation for only the month of April.
    Either way the point still comes across.

    • @Stratosarge
      @Stratosarge 11 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah Dave used the colloquial term at one point there. Ice age instead of glacial.

    • @vforwombat9915
      @vforwombat9915 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@Stratosarge "Ice age instead of glacial."
      probably didn't want to slow down the video to a glacial pace.

  • @pyros6139
    @pyros6139 11 месяцев назад +3

    Hey Dave, I think there is a small mistake in the diagram at 2:50. I'm pretty sure the perihelion and aphelion are opposite from each other, as in 180 degrees apart, rather than 90 degrees. It's confused me in the past because depictions are often from a skewed perspective, but for an eliptical orbit, the object being orbited lies on one of the _foci_ of the elipse, rather than at the center of the ellipse: so, the earth is closer to the sun than average for an entire continuous half of the year, and farther than average for the other half. Wikipedia seems to agree. The names and definitions are correct otherwise.
    It's probably also worth noting that what causes the seasons is mainly the tilt of the Earth, because the change in the distance between the Earth and the sun (over a single year at least) is very slight in comparison as are its effects, although that might be a bit off-topic.

    • @M4RC90
      @M4RC90 11 месяцев назад

      It is fairly easy to see that the tilt is the major factor for the seasons, since the earth is closest to the sun during the northern hemisphere winter.

  • @Dustmadeout
    @Dustmadeout 10 месяцев назад +1

    Would be cool to see a real temperature graph from the space station or a satellite.

  • @HakuCell
    @HakuCell 11 месяцев назад +3

    7:08+ current global warming is not due to orbital variations nor solar variations.

    • @PremierCCGuyMMXVI
      @PremierCCGuyMMXVI 11 месяцев назад +1

      He did address this later in the video but yes you are correct

  • @UltraXan
    @UltraXan 11 месяцев назад +3

    Look at this! A coherent model that explains several different phenomena ALL AT ONCE! My my, I know some gents who would LOVE to have such a thing lol.

    • @vforwombat9915
      @vforwombat9915 11 месяцев назад

      " A coherent model that explains several different phenomena ALL AT ONCE! My my, I know some gents who would LOVE to have such a thing lol."
      i know i would.
      sadly, all the models i know generally only care about makeup and fashion.

  • @Zaylic
    @Zaylic 11 месяцев назад +1

    wow this guy knows a lot about the science stuff

  • @MAZakir2
    @MAZakir2 11 месяцев назад +6

    I find it fascinating how these little changes in the Earth's tilt and orbit around the sun can change the climate accordingly, even if I'm not studying them in-depth these little tidbits are always fun and useful to know!
    _plus I can already hear the flerfers and climate change deniers typing in the comments section XD_

    • @PremierCCGuyMMXVI
      @PremierCCGuyMMXVI 11 месяцев назад +2

      Well it’s these little changes in tilt and orbit that is than amplified by co2 changes thanks to feedback loops. Sort of like a domino effect.

    • @AlbertaGeek
      @AlbertaGeek 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@PremierCCGuyMMXVI The tilt and orbit has not changed appreciably in the last 100 years. Carbon dioxide emissions, OTOH, most definitely have.

    • @PremierCCGuyMMXVI
      @PremierCCGuyMMXVI 11 месяцев назад +3

      @@AlbertaGeek I wasn’t talking about current global warming which is human caused. I was talking about how during glacial-interglacial transitions, the Milankovitch cycle changes Earth’s position in a bit, which warms the climate, than that warming allows co2 to be degassed from the oceans causing a more significant second warming. And leads to a feedback loop. A domino effect.
      And current global warming could also lead to feedback loops and tipping points.
      Yes, the Milankovitch cycles aren’t causing global warming today, they are too slow to actually be causing warming and according to them, Earth should be cooling very so slightly, not a dramatic increase in 150 years.

    • @vforwombat9915
      @vforwombat9915 11 месяцев назад

      @@PremierCCGuyMMXVI " causing a more significant second warming. And leads to a feedback loop."
      the planet has multiple feedback loops, most of which are buffers to keep temperatures stable.
      so most often a change in one factor- say, CO2, would leaf to a chance in another to maintain an equilibrium [for example, increased carbon uptake by plants]
      the thing is, these equilibrium systems, they tend to act as buffers. buffers keep things the same now matter up you add, up to a point. then adding just a LITTLE bit more can lead to massive changes until a new equilibrium is added.
      which is why the total amount of carbon we are adding to the atmosphere is very tiny compared to what's already there, but is enough to trigger a massive chnage in equilibrium.

    • @PremierCCGuyMMXVI
      @PremierCCGuyMMXVI 11 месяцев назад

      @@vforwombat9915 yes! What did I say that was wrong? The Milankovitch cycles alone aren’t enough to get earth out of a glacial cycle. The cycles allow Earth to warm a bit, than when co2 is degassed from the oceans, earth warms up even more starting a feedback loop that continues until earth’s energy budget reaches stable equilibrium.
      Yes, the total amount of co2 we are putting in the air is just 3% of the amount of co2 our planet produces. But the system was in balance due to the carbon cycle. Now because we have off setted that balance a little, it’s caused a massive increase in the overall concentration of co2 in the atmosphere by 40%+ in 150 years after being stable for 10,000+ years.

  • @richardaitkenhead
    @richardaitkenhead 11 месяцев назад +1

    Love dave

  • @waakca
    @waakca 11 месяцев назад +4

    NOAA is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ADMINISTRATION, not Association. It is a government agency, not an association. Please lend validity to your presentation by referencing your sources correctly.

    • @SamIAm-kz4hg
      @SamIAm-kz4hg 11 месяцев назад

      "Please lend validity to your presentation by referencing your sources correctly."
      Please stop being on the douche police task force.

    • @PremierCCGuyMMXVI
      @PremierCCGuyMMXVI 11 месяцев назад +4

      Mistakes are made, we are human

    • @TheDarkSide11891
      @TheDarkSide11891 9 месяцев назад

      It's literally a single word man, everyone makes mistakes and I'm pretty sure nobody got confused by a slight mix up of words that mean - in essence - nearly the same thing

  • @babotond
    @babotond Месяц назад

    just wanna point out that one of the earths on the excentricity diagram should be INSIDE the circle.

  • @davidosullivan9817
    @davidosullivan9817 11 месяцев назад +3

    Milankovitch cycles need to be a container

    • @Adrena1in
      @Adrena1in 11 месяцев назад +2

      I always keep my cycle in a container to protect it from the elements.

  • @Hecarim420
    @Hecarim420 11 месяцев назад +1

    Understandment likes useful informations ツ

  • @livingcodex9878
    @livingcodex9878 11 месяцев назад +4

    おはようございます

  • @TomHarrisICSC
    @TomHarrisICSC Месяц назад

    Nice video except that you should have included how the solar variations are on various times scales, some quite long and powerful, not the just the 0.1% short cycle. Also, you do not include the feedback effect of how the Sun's variation influences the influx of cooling galactic cosmic rays (cooling because they lead to more low level clouds which reflect incoming sunlight). Taken into account, these two factors can account for much of the warming of the past century.

  • @betelgeusex3865
    @betelgeusex3865 10 месяцев назад

    @professor dave explains Hey Dave! Glad to see you address some of these points. One point I've heard from critics of "the climate agenda" is that the earth has had 3x higher proportions of carbon dioxide than current levels in the atmosphere through several times in Earth's history. They note that these times were also associated with an increase in global flora, and they basically argue that this warming cycle is far better for promoting the health and diversity of life on earth compared to a cooling cycle of freezing. What would you say to people who argue that global warming is a good thing?

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  10 месяцев назад +3

      This has nothing to do with comparing heating to cooling. We need to maintain the climate as it was prior to industrial emissions. We don't want an ice age either. Nobody who studies climate for a living says anything absurd such as this. Rising average temperatures are having catastrophic effects on weather patterns and sea level rise.

    • @betelgeusex3865
      @betelgeusex3865 10 месяцев назад

      @@ProfessorDaveExplains Thanks for the response! It would be a great privelage to get your response to this podcast episode starting at the 12 minute mark ruclips.net/video/-T14Xzfeltw/видео.html
      where they discuss carbon having an overall beneficial impact on the global environment. Maybe you could do a video on it?

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  10 месяцев назад +3

      I think a better idea would simply be for you to ignore unqualified contrarian grifting assholes you find on the internet. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. Industrial emissions of it are raising global temperatures, which is having catastrophic effects. There is zero controversy about that within the scientific community, period.

  • @Ben-X2
    @Ben-X2 11 месяцев назад

    What would be interesting to know is what is the more powerful effect: global warming or the earths distance from the sun? I doubt this has an actual answer, but it is an interesting thought (for me at least).
    Also is a runaway greenhouse effect, like what apparently happened with venus, possible on earth or would these changes in orbit counter this?

    • @House_Stark
      @House_Stark 11 месяцев назад +2

      *"what is the more powerful effect: global warming or the earths distance from the sun"*
      By global warming, are you referring to human(Co2) induced?
      *"Also is a runaway greenhouse effect, like what apparently happened with venus, possible on earth"*
      Yes, it is. But not due to human activity or what happened to Venus. A few billion years from now, the Sun will become larger and hotter as it goes thru it's natural cycle and burns thru most of it's Hydrogen and starts burning Helium. When this happens, Earth will become too hot and life on Earth will become extinct!
      Venus is a different situation as it's much closer to the sun and has no carbon cycle to sequester carbon out of it's atmosphere like Earth does. It's odd rotation may also have had a role in this!

    • @NinjaMonkeyPrime
      @NinjaMonkeyPrime 11 месяцев назад +1

      _"What would be interesting to know is what is the more powerful effect: global warming or the earths distance from the sun?"_ You can just look at the historical data to see that.

    • @PremierCCGuyMMXVI
      @PremierCCGuyMMXVI 11 месяцев назад

      The Earth’s distance from the Sun has changed very little to have any meaningful impact on the Climate over the past 150 years. The rise in Global Temperatures in the past few decades is due to carbon dioxide. End of story.
      A runaway greenhouse effect is unlikely. Humanity doesn’t have enough fossil fuels to turn Earth into Venus. Venus is much close to the Sun and is ~98% CO2 in its atmosphere so it’s hellish.
      Earth on the underhand has only 0.04% of Co2 in its atmosphere (that my seem
      tiny but the Earth’s climate is very delegate so just a small rise can have huge impacts as we have seen throughout Earth’s geologic history).
      The worse Humanity can do to the Earth’s climate is turn it into a hothouse comparable to the PETM 56 million years ago or the Late Permian 252 million years ago.

  • @davidpawson7393
    @davidpawson7393 11 месяцев назад +1

    Solar cycle: 12 years
    Primary school: 12 years
    Coincidence? Truvago

  • @Luigi2262_
    @Luigi2262_ 11 месяцев назад +1

    And before this video becomes the new “how we know the Earth is not flat”

  • @mr8966
    @mr8966 21 день назад

    disappointing to see most descriptions of the Milankovitch cycles have been cleansed to promote global warming, or I meant the rebranded ‘climate change’.

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  21 день назад

      This is just basic astronomy information, kiddo. Learn something or don't. Nobody cares.

  • @latarribell4152
    @latarribell4152 11 месяцев назад +11

    Doing nothing to stave off man made climate change because climate change occurs naturally is equivalent to doing nothing about gun deaths because “we’re all gonna die someday”. My grandkids are gonna be so mad when(if?) they get older.

  • @fbiagentmiyakohoshino8223
    @fbiagentmiyakohoshino8223 11 месяцев назад +1

    actually its “national oceanic and atmospheric administration”

  • @tmtmtlsml
    @tmtmtlsml 11 месяцев назад +13

    When having a discussion about the effects of humans on climate, my father tried to make the claim that the planet gets warmer and cooler naturally in an attempt to downplay human involvement. I showed him a graph similar to that at 7:50 that went back even farther to show how incredibly gradual such natural fluctuations are compared to the obviously rapid jump in temperature we've seen in the past century, and he had no response.
    Check in with your older family members every once in a while. The damage that organizations like Fox News have done to people cannot be overstated. Come armed with easy to understand graphs like this and fight the propaganda wherever you can.

  • @jursamaj
    @jursamaj 11 месяцев назад

    Hmm. Both at 2:37 and 4:00, the elliptical orbit, and thus where more or less sunlight hit Earth, are drawn as if the Sun were at the center of the ellipse, causing 2 perihelia and 2 aphelia per orbit, every 90°. This is inaccurate. The ellipse is off-center. There is 1 perihelion 180° away from 1 aphelion. The drawings at 6:05 get it right.
    Regarding those last drawings, it should be made clear that the summers & winters marked on them are for the Northern Hemisphere.

  • @skankhunt-yt2mo
    @skankhunt-yt2mo 11 месяцев назад

    Ur looking forward to watch Oppenheimer brah?

  • @asorlokirunarsson9864
    @asorlokirunarsson9864 11 месяцев назад +10

    Are climate change deniers next on your debunk list?

    • @KoRntech
      @KoRntech 11 месяцев назад +3

      Well they are well funded by Koch and Wilkes and many many other fossil fuel corporations. I'm sure PragerU is working on a response video right now.

    • @Power_to_the_people567
      @Power_to_the_people567 11 месяцев назад +3

      I sure hope so!

  • @Superalex2134
    @Superalex2134 11 месяцев назад +1

    Flat earthers are bout to descend again

  • @aaronmeives4496
    @aaronmeives4496 11 месяцев назад +1

    Here before the wrath of David Weiss 😂

  • @alexanderconrad669
    @alexanderconrad669 5 месяцев назад

    your temperature reconstruction of the last 2000 years is wrong for most of the time period. Did you only use selected tree ring data?

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  5 месяцев назад +1

      It is not. No, ice cores, and other techniques. Stop fighting basic science.

    • @alexanderconrad669
      @alexanderconrad669 5 месяцев назад

      @@ProfessorDaveExplains I am not trying to fight science, I want to understand it properly. I also agree with 99% of you content. Please send me the name of the paper your curve was published in. Here is one I recommend you to read: Lüdecke, Horst-Joachim, and Carl-Otto Weiss. "Harmonic analysis of worldwide temperature proxies for 2000 years." The Open Atmospheric Science Journal 11.1 (2017). In you record the roman and medieval warm period is not visible, although most reconstructions, including ice core records show them clearly. I also agree that the 11yr Schwabe cycle has very little impact on imcoming solar radiation. But there are far more and more powerful solar cycles than the 11yr cycle apart from the Mylancovic cycles that you haven`t mentioned and are caused by other orbital variations. Furthermore the strength of the suns magnetic field has increased, not decreased since the last decades as an indicator for solar activity. You would also expect a small delay between the highest solar irradiance and themperature spike due to he large heat capacity of the oceans. How dou you explain the Atlantic multidecadal oscilation or the temperature decline during the 1940s?

    • @alexanderconrad669
      @alexanderconrad669 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@ProfessorDaveExplains I am not trying to fight basic science, I want to understand it. I agree with 99% of your conent. In this case however your graph appears to be far off reality. It does not show any sign of the roman or medieval warm period, or the dark age in between. Please provide me with the source of the paper your the graph is from. It contradicts too much other data, including ice core data from greenland. Here is an examle: Lüdecke, Horst-Joachim, and Carl-Otto Weiss. "Harmonic analysis of worldwide temperature proxies for 2000 years." The Open Atmospheric Science Journal 11.1 (2017). Furtermore I disagree with you by thinking that changes of solar irradiation have a large influence on climate change caused by other strong orbital cycles beside the Milancovic cycles or the very weak 11 yr Schwabe cycle. A decrease of the strength of the 11 yr cycle during the last decades doesnt necessarily mean that total solar irradiance or the strength of suns magnetic field has decreased. How do you explain changes in the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscilation and land temperature decrease in the 1950s with the CO2 record?

  • @briankane6547
    @briankane6547 11 месяцев назад +1

    NO chance lad, I'm "Boracic" (skint)

  • @taycanair4108
    @taycanair4108 11 месяцев назад

    Day 1 of requesting Dave to debunk Cross Examined (RUclips channel led by Frank Turek)

  • @shassett79
    @shassett79 11 месяцев назад +5

    _bUt wHaT aBoUT vOlcAnOeS!!?_ /s

  • @CaptainFights
    @CaptainFights 10 месяцев назад +1

    Discuss Earths magnetism. Down 30% since 1800.

  • @House_Stark
    @House_Stark 11 месяцев назад +9

    Prepare for the comment section to be flooded with AGW deniers!!!

  • @gibbybtw280
    @gibbybtw280 11 месяцев назад +2

    WdYm tHe EaRtH iS fLaT sO tHiS ViDeO WrOnG

  • @TheDZHEX
    @TheDZHEX 11 месяцев назад +1

    alright, this topic really requires some coverage and reasonable dumbing down (no offense intended) for the average folks

    • @jursamaj
      @jursamaj 11 месяцев назад

      It's been dumbed down for the public for decades. None of this is hard to understand. But when their favorite politicians & talking heads are telling them it's all a hoax, none of that matters.

  • @desillusionas7919
    @desillusionas7919 5 месяцев назад

    If sun is in space, why there is light on earth but not in space?

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  5 месяцев назад +2

      There is light in space. There's just no atmosphere to scatter it.

    • @rqmiii6869
      @rqmiii6869 5 месяцев назад +1

      Wtf are you guys not going to school??? Im scared of the stupidity of some flerfs

  • @John-ii4si
    @John-ii4si 5 месяцев назад

    You little smart man. You should have said that cities and technology are the main couse. But you chosed a word "human"..

  • @EricBurns1
    @EricBurns1 11 месяцев назад +2

    Looking at the "newest comments first" I'm surprised no one has been given the pin of shame yet

  • @bharatshah7271
    @bharatshah7271 11 месяцев назад +7

    I anticipate trolls

  • @waitingfornetwork4989
    @waitingfornetwork4989 11 месяцев назад

    You should debate jon zherka about the flat earth. Nobody challenges his stupid points and he is very popular making a lot of people belive in the flat earth

    • @NinjaMonkeyPrime
      @NinjaMonkeyPrime 11 месяцев назад +1

      Does Jon have a functional map?

    • @waitingfornetwork4989
      @waitingfornetwork4989 11 месяцев назад

      @@NinjaMonkeyPrime ofc not but like i said people just listen to him and don’t challenge his ideas

    • @hor80
      @hor80 11 месяцев назад +1

      whats the point? they only accept their own „truths“ and ignore every real proof. Because they are crazy con-men. That is all there is to it.

    • @PremierCCGuyMMXVI
      @PremierCCGuyMMXVI 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@waitingfornetwork4989honestly what’s the point? He’s already made tons of videos debunking Flat Earth. Besides we have other science conspiracies that are more pressing such as climate denial or the anti-vaccine movement.

    • @waitingfornetwork4989
      @waitingfornetwork4989 11 месяцев назад

      @@PremierCCGuyMMXVI the point is a very large audience

  • @waelfadlallah8939
    @waelfadlallah8939 11 месяцев назад +1

    Don christie

  • @robertellis1504
    @robertellis1504 11 месяцев назад

    Always pronounced it ap-helion lol

  • @delboy7264
    @delboy7264 11 месяцев назад +2

    Look into weather control if you still can ? & think what you phone can do & if they gave you that , what can the military industrial complex do ????? think of this when U think of man made climate change & just how little carbon is in the atmosphere ????

    • @GeoRyukaiser
      @GeoRyukaiser 11 месяцев назад +5

      You do realise that 'how little' carbon is a meaningless argument right? 0.05% Blood alcohol is enough to impair judgement and make you a hazard while driving, 0.0006% of the atmosphere (Ozone) blocks 99% of UV radiation, etc. I could go on, but the point is tiny amounts of stuff can have massive effects.

    • @delboy7264
      @delboy7264 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@GeoRyukaiser & if it gets below .2 the plants die & who's after that ? us ! my point is it's a control job that they can make look real by weather control !!!! i don't expect you to get it because you think that the government is there to fix the world but all our governments have been infiltrated by secret societies , just ask J F oh my mistake ! they , Well you know ! bang ,bang !

    • @davidwatson2399
      @davidwatson2399 11 месяцев назад +1

      Sod off Noddy 😟
      Watch and listen before posting your stupidity.

    • @TasTheWatcher
      @TasTheWatcher 11 месяцев назад +1

      What percentage of the atmosphere do you think is made of 'chemtrails'?
      And how come _that_ is enough to control the weather globally?

    • @delboy7264
      @delboy7264 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@TasTheWatcher Well my friend they are chem-trailing everyday and the % must be very high ! have u seen the documentary called the dimming? great stuff ! i was out watching the sky on the last full moon & the light of that all so lit up the chem-trails and its a blanket covering the sky !!! i think they are manipulating the high and low pressure systems and they wanted total control of the weather by 2025 ! i think they have it now ! the tornados in the U.S is a red flag for me !

  • @drunkillumi5170
    @drunkillumi5170 11 месяцев назад +2

    First 🎉🎉🎉

  • @blindvisionary415
    @blindvisionary415 11 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for sharing your knowledge! Hard to gas light people, when they understand the science. Appreciate you!

  • @edubbya
    @edubbya 11 месяцев назад +3

    a guy w 2.5 million subs gets less than 1% of that in views, explain the probability of that.

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  11 месяцев назад +14

      The probability is extremely high, since this is an educational channel with a database of academic tutorials that students watch only when they need to for class. Got it, champ?

    • @NinjaMonkeyPrime
      @NinjaMonkeyPrime 11 месяцев назад +6

      How often do you watch a tutorial?

    • @TheDarkSide11891
      @TheDarkSide11891 9 месяцев назад +1

      Because these videos are designed to be educational and aimed at students. They aren't algorithm abusing shitposts intended to rake in as much money as possible.

  • @JohnDoe009
    @JohnDoe009 11 месяцев назад

    Professor DAVE please have a debate with Jeranism on FLAT EARTH!!

    • @hor80
      @hor80 11 месяцев назад +3

      whats the point? they only accept their own „truths“ and ignore every real proof. Because they are crazy con-men. That is all there is to it.

    • @EricBurns1
      @EricBurns1 11 месяцев назад

      I want to know how fast Bro Sanchez would rage quit on Dave but I know it will never happen and flerfs shouldn't get more time than they're already given

  • @celestialsatheist1535
    @celestialsatheist1535 11 месяцев назад +1

    First

  • @petersteenkamp
    @petersteenkamp Месяц назад

    I can not take seriously any "science" lecture that takes Michael Mann's hockey stick and presents it as factual, sorry. Easy to spot as it stops in the year 2000, making it both false and obsolete.

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  Месяц назад

      Huh?

    • @petersteenkamp
      @petersteenkamp Месяц назад

      ​@@ProfessorDaveExplains Michael Mann's hockey stick graph is visible at 7:53. It is well known that Mann used a large number of dirty tricks to manipulate this graph. There are many analyses on the net of the tricks Mann used, and I refer to those. The obvious intention of this graph is to remove the Little Ice Age and the medieval warming period, which were well-established in science before Mann erased them.
      The stated excuse was that those happened only in Europe (hard to deny Europe as there is a lot of historical written evidence that they occurred there).
      However, the medieval warming period and the Little Ice Age happened in other parts of the world, too. For example, there have been climate reconstructions in China based on O-16/O-18 in stalactites, which showed that the medieval warming period and little ice age happened there, too.
      Mann worked together with Al Gore, and the obvious intention was to create a myth that the climate only changed slowly before humanity started carbon-sinning.
      Anyway, the graph is quite old now (the graph ends at about the year 2000) and was the basis of Al Gore's climate scare movie. But worse, this graph is very wrong, and wrong deliberately.

    • @drrocktopus5137
      @drrocktopus5137 12 дней назад

      ​@@ProfessorDaveExplains Thank you for adding the coloration to show the medieval warming period and the little ice age in response to the above comment.

  • @goldfishi5776
    @goldfishi5776 11 месяцев назад +1

    So over this current political leadership, the climate averages were 'adjusted' outside the frame of responsibility. By a factor of 3 decades.. hmmm...

    • @byrnemeister2008
      @byrnemeister2008 11 месяцев назад +9

      Err what? The climate normals are set for every decade once we have a decade of data. This is based on measurement not political party.

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  11 месяцев назад +7

      Huh?

    • @AlbertaGeek
      @AlbertaGeek 11 месяцев назад

      Move along folks, nothing to see here - just a sad RWNJ trying to implicate Joe Biden in some sort of conspiracy.

    • @SapphireScroll
      @SapphireScroll 11 месяцев назад +2

      What is "by a factor of three decades" even supposed to mean?

    • @PremierCCGuyMMXVI
      @PremierCCGuyMMXVI 11 месяцев назад +6

      No, they just update the climate norms. That’s all.
      And the climate normal from 1991-2020 across the US was warmer and wetter on average overall climatologically speaking than the 1981-2010 average. Which indicates the US is getting warmer (as well as the rest of the globe)
      Data is freely available on NOAA National Centers for Environmental information

  • @cygnustsp
    @cygnustsp 11 месяцев назад

    Fire, the element by which the sun exerts its energy, needs what to burn? Oxygen."

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  11 месяцев назад +15

      How did you pack so much wrongness in one sentence?

    • @cygnustsp
      @cygnustsp 11 месяцев назад +6

      @@ProfessorDaveExplains it's a classic meme from flat earther jm truth 🌚

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  11 месяцев назад +12

      @@cygnustsp Ah gotcha. Yeah they do be saying dumb shit like that.

    • @DeepSpace145
      @DeepSpace145 11 месяцев назад +2

      That and the Electric Universe, where the sun needs a battery :D

    • @paulslund1
      @paulslund1 11 месяцев назад

      LOL.. I see what you did here..

  • @buildingproject7199
    @buildingproject7199 11 месяцев назад +3

    Dave stop acting like you know ... tell everyone what your qualifications are and where you gained a phd as a astrophysicist 😂😂😂

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  11 месяцев назад +21

      This is freshman 101 ecology as written by an ecologist. Try and learn something while you’re here, moron.

    • @NinjaMonkeyPrime
      @NinjaMonkeyPrime 11 месяцев назад +13

      You find this topic difficult to understand? Is that why you think the Bible is a science book?

    • @midlander4
      @midlander4 11 месяцев назад

      @buildingproject stop pretending you got a science degree. It's sad.

    • @EricBurns1
      @EricBurns1 11 месяцев назад

      @@ProfessorDaveExplains Some of this is also freshman astronomy 101. Atmospheric science is necessary if you're going into the planetary side of astronomy.

    • @buildingproject7199
      @buildingproject7199 11 месяцев назад

      Dave and the muppets Science is the obsevation and testing of a subject matter proposing theories along with testing of those theoretical hypothesis. NOW tell me for the sake of these idiots who don't know.. how did the dust particulars come together to form planetesimals since they were to small for gravity to have an effect? How come evolution astronomers models say earth should have no water but we have seas? And lastly why does earth still have a magnetic field if it's billions of years 🧐🤣🤣

  • @matereo
    @matereo 11 месяцев назад +3

    How can Dave who constantly is wrong who put out images and slides that almost all are wrong have so many followers. Are people tht brainwashed?

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  11 месяцев назад +14

      Name one thing I’m wrong about, sweetie. Or just shut up forever.

    • @NinjaMonkeyPrime
      @NinjaMonkeyPrime 11 месяцев назад +9

      Timestamp of the error?

    • @Richardj410
      @Richardj410 11 месяцев назад +4

      matereo please show what is wrong and then give your evidence not just "I just don't believe it".

  • @guycohen4419
    @guycohen4419 11 месяцев назад

    how can anyone know everything you talk about and not believe in God? the sheer intellect in designing such a complex and effective universe within a universe within a universe - it's unparalleled! HalleluYah!
    Repent and give your life to the Lord!

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  11 месяцев назад +16

      It's the process of learning science that makes one realize that there is in fact no need to believe in god. Sorry.

    • @NinjaMonkeyPrime
      @NinjaMonkeyPrime 11 месяцев назад +8

      Sounds great. Where's your evidence?

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  11 месяцев назад +6

      @@Talita2006 Cool story, bro! Whatever you need to tell yourself to feel special.

    • @Richardj410
      @Richardj410 11 месяцев назад +4

      Hey guycohen do you have any evidence for your god besides a book tells me so.

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  11 месяцев назад +6

      No, it does not. That's a lie you tell yourself because you know zero things about science and you're afraid to die. Sorry, kiddo.