I'm from Greenland and live here. One of the reasons I somewhat support Danish rule is because I don't trust our own Greenlandic politicians. I'm afraid that some politician - if we ever become fully independent - will recieve a lot of money from some Russian, American or Chinese mining business and then suddenly agree to sell the rights to our underground minerals. At least when the Danes rule us, they (probably) won't just sell our country's resources off to some foreign company.
I don't trust our own Greenlandic politicians. As an American, I don't trust our current crop of politicians either. If Trump had purchased Greenland the current president is likely to sell your interests to China for a small bribe, like he is doing to the rest of us here.
All governments are corrupt, regardless of the size. Where there's people involved, there's greed. The only government you can trust are those that fear the people's response to their decisions.
Dude there's no way. I remember being obsessed with Greenland back in Middle school because of its massive size and mysteries. This video really brought that back all of these years later so thank you for making this and congrats on 6 million subs!
@@ketunky3056 Maybe this is the BEST thing about it. -> _"Need is the mother of invention"_ It could lead to actual practical research & development of self_contained recyling systems to support human life in extreme conditions. . The high yield of local uranium ores refined into low grade U235 for compact thermal nuclear reactors (instead of electricity, the hot steam is used directly to heat buildings & streets, keeping them snow_free all year). . Enclosed greenhouses make food locally. . Natural Gas powers electrical systems & transportation. etc
the effect of latitude in the climate has more to do with the angle in which sun light hits the surface of the planet than due to the thickness of atmosphere being crossed. This is because sun light on a oblique angle is spread out, while vertical or near vertical sun light is less spread out, or more concentraded. The difference of thickness between different latitudes is quite irrelevant in comparisson to the effect of angle irradiation.
That's not true. Well part of it is true. It's both the angle of incident and the fact it has to travel through more atmosphere to reach the ground. Even without the atmosphere planetary bodies have called the temperatures towards the polar regions simply due the angle of incident.
@@supernoodles908 90% of the Earth's atmosphere mass is concentraded in the Troposphere, which is the last 10 km or so of the atmosphere. While the the thickness of the entire atmosphere can vary between 100 to 300 km depending on what scientists actually believe the ionspehere is actually atmosphere or not. Whatever the case, on a oblique angle, those 10 km won't become much thicker. It just doesn't have a big enough effect to even compare to angle irradiation.
Simple geometry tells us, that at a latitude of 60 ° N or S the energy per area through radiation is half of what it is at the equator (in spring/fall, obviously higher/lower in summer/winter). That is, before any reflective/absorbtive effects of the atmosphere are included. At 70 ° (roughly at the arctic circle) the intensity is just 35 % of that of the equator, quickly dropping to zero. I would argue, that this is the main contributor. Also, due to the fact that the relationship between angle of incidence and energy density is nonlinear (~cos(latitude)), the annual cycle has a way bigger effect on energy density than on the equator. I.E 50 ° between summer and winter make no difference close to the equator, but have a giant effect on the arctic, leading to almost no radiation in winter.
@@supernoodles908 The atmosphere absorbs little of the Sun's energy which is mostly visible light, your point stands more strongly for UV light. The atmopshere is almost half the thickness at 60°N as it is at the Equator, greatly mitigating the effect you're talking about, and also radiation absorbed by the atmosphere doesn't disappear, it becomes heat so somewhat irrelevant
It's not so much the distance from the sun, but rather the angle. At the equator, the sun is directly above (on average), so you're getting maximum sunlight. At 45th latitude, you're only getting 70%. In the Arctic circle, it's less than 50% or 60% even during arctic summer.
I was just about to post this exact point. Also, the greater distance traversed through the atmosphere has a small effect but nothing compared to the incident angle, as you have said.
enough is enough dude Even if i were a greatest physicist of all time, i won't post the same thing on here that had already posted by other zillions time
Spent a year in an American airbase called Sondestrom when I was in the USAF in 1971/72. For two weeks that winter we hit record low temperature of -102F. The amazing thing was that the air was so clear and clean. Only place allergies did not bother me.
I was at Sonderstrom also in 62/63. Experienced -70F with 35 mph wind. Still have nightmares about that God forsaken place. Next duty was Tyndall, Panama City, Fla. Sent there to thaw out.
LOTS OF BIG TIME OXYGEN BLOWING~ IN YOU'er Face~ The most of what You Breath There With Pure Oxygen~ THAT IS PACKED IN ICE~ BIG ICE~ HAVIG THE ONLY CLEAN WATER LEFT ON THE PLANET IN THE Poles Of North & South!~
Wait, did your allergies really stopped fully? Say if I get easy colds due to allergies (it starts as an allergy most times caused by dust or some else) and such, will it still be way easier there?
I've travelled the west coast of Greenland about 15 years ago, it was incredible. One odd thing that stood out for me was how clean the air is, it makes it impossible to estimate distances correctly. A little green hill behind our campside, it looked like you could walk up there in 10 minutes, but after an hour of hiking I was barely halfway up. Same goes for the glaciers, it is hard to really understand the size of these walls of ice. I really hope the Greenlandic ice sheet will survive some more centuries!
I doubt that it will last, since most of the world’s population does not feel responsible enough to curb global warming, which will surely melt Greenland’s glaciers this century. It’s true. Just do the math on the accelerating melt each decade.
@@corryjookit7818 He merely suggested of this off top of his head . Don’t just people that you know nothing about and instead concentrate your energy on criticizing the clown running the american economy into the ground and on the verge of leading it into WW3. Get over Trump and stop living in the past and stop using youtube channels that talks about nature to perpetrate hate around the world for the new world order that will probably kill you before 2030 jeezus stop voting these people your digging your own grave.
1:32 Two different physical effects are being conflated here. The greater travel distance through the atmosphere means that more light and heat from the Sun gets absorbed or scattered. Also, the fact that the angle of incidence is more acute means that the incoming radiation is spread out over a larger surface area. Both have the same root cause that the latitude is high and hence the angle of incidence is low, but the physics between the two effects are vastly different.
Did you study geology or physics or meterology? It is an honest question because as someone that studied two of these subjects I couldn't stand to watch this through. Way too many errors and way too much alarmism and hysteria regarding the melting of the ice (shield) in the northern polar region. NASA has other research on their page saying that they don't know if the shield is shrinking or increasing and that in the inner and western parts more snowfall has occured in the last decade (which does not automatically mean that the ice shield is increasing)
@@carlbenz9807 I didn't think there was too much alarmism and hysteria. The disadvantages of the flooding of coastal plains of many countries was balanced by the advantages that would occur if there was any melting of the ice.
I was most amazed at how continuously the narrator could make himself sound amazed. I wish they wouldn't. It is very tiring to listen to. And I wish that, instead of, most of the time, describing the numbers by just millions and millions, they would compare it with something.
You forgot to mention that ice penetrating radar studies shows that 50 to 70% of the ice in Greenland has formed since the end of the Holocene Thermal Maximum, which at this latitude occurred around 8,000 years ago.
Just flew over Greenland a few weeks ago while coming back from Paris. Saw some of the most incredible views looking outside my window. It’s amazing how vast the snowy mountains and frozen lakes and rivers are Edit: For the people that think I’m lying or just don’t know what I’m talking about for some reason, look up why planes fly over Greenland when going to and from Europe. It’s a thing and it’s because it’s the shortest distance due to the curvature of the earth. Enough comments telling me what I did and didn’t do. Thanks.
@@andrehof7876 that is absolutely, 100% not true. How are you going to tell me where I flew? There was even a flight map that clearly showed the plane was over Greenland. Make sure you know what you’re talking about if you’re gonna tell people what they did and didn’t do.
@@andrehof7876 It went to SF and in any case I don’t have to explain it to you. If you really want to think there’s “no commercial flights from Paris over Greenland” then go for it, but don’t tell me what I did and didn’t see/did and didn’t do. You just sound dumb.
Even without the atmospheric effects (which do contribute, of course, just in a minor way), it's just the incident angle of the sunlight that causes the temperature differences between the equator and the poles. Celestial bodies without atmospheres have similar temperature gradients along their latitude
Greenland is just one of those places full of beauty but too expensive and hostile for most people to effectively explore anything that isn't already a well trodden path. From a travelers perspective the more isolated parts of Greenland and the scenery (mountains, ice, kayaking further up the coast, etc) remain a dream for the future.
Well said! I am also here to learn how to invest after listening to a lady on tv talk about the importance of investing and how she made 7 figure in 3 month, somehow the video taught me nothing and left me even more confused, I'm a newbie and I'm open to ideas on how to invest for retirement
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It has not always been untouched by humans. You need to do a bit of research on why they call it Greenland. Hint: Not long ago, lots of Vikings and Norse lived and farmed here. The weather used to be much warmer there, and it was indeed a green land. Check out the evidence. It's out there for all brave people who are not afraid of the current narrative. You can even visit Greenland, and visit the ruins of the farming communities. The locals know...
I too have been fascinated by Greenland, my dream coming true having visited for 3 months. The local people have helped me more than any other country. Greeting from Australia 🇦🇺.
Of course, theyll help you because theyre so isolated, lonely, dont have much else to do, little space to expand, little food of course they will. Lolol!!
@jakejackson2669 Who would pay for expensive bio-domes? he food grown in these domes would be away more expensive than simply flying it in. Iceland can do it, because they have free heat.
The P-38 was part of a small squadron that totaled 6 P-38's and 2 B-17's. They lost their way on the Greenland to Iceland leg and turned around, running out of fuel and landing all together on the cap. Everyone was eventually rescued via sled dog party. The 1992 expedition found one of the B-17's as well but was too crunched up to bother retrieving. The restored P-38 is currently air worthy and renamed 'Glacier Girl'. There's a great book with tons of photos from 1994 on this called 'The Lost Squadron'.
I now know why the Marvel myth of Captain America being discovered beneath the arctic ice is a thing. These lost planes being found in Greenland are probably at least some of the basis for that story. That's literally the first place that my brain went to, when RLL started talking about the lost flights over Greenland.
But how did they manage to get it running again after being in a heavily oxidizing environment (basically just water) for 50 years, and with tons and tons of weight crushing it?
@@LuisC7 Lots and lots of refurbishment. I reckon that literally the only salvageable part was the airframe. Everything else, especially the electronic components, would have to have been completely replaced by the same, or similar, components.
@@LuisC7 you obviously know nothing about aircraft restoration and refurbishment. Legally all you need to restore an airplane is to recover the identification data plate. That being said, the P38 Glacier Girl used much of it's original parts.
Isostatic rebound wouldn't be limited to Greenland, as the weight of that water would be offset to the oceans where it would push down on much thinner and more flexible places like the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which will push up the surrounding lands as well, which would likely offset some of those projected sea level rises.
The other interesting thing is all that mass will relocate to the oceans, Will the change the rotation of the earth, like a suspended trapeze artist spinning rapidly, extends their arms and slows their rotation rate. Also would all this mass moving from the poles change the inclination of the rotation of the earth?
I've lived in Nuuk my entire life and never knew that we had a forest down south, thanks for educating me :). Also when pronouncing Nuuk, you stretch the U a bit more than what you said in the start ;)
In 1960 my Air Force family moved from USA to the UK. I was 5 and our plane landed at Thule to refuel. I remember seeing fishermen off the coast as we came down through the clouds.
You are mixing 2 factors up. 1. Sunlight travels longer through the atmosphere causing a smaller percentage to make it through to the surface. 2. The angle at which the sun shines on the surface becomes smaller the closer you get to the poles (because the earth is a sphere), thus spreading the same amount of energy over a larger surface area. Less energy per square meter equals less heat to warm the surface.
The reason there is weaker/less light this far north is because the sun strikes the earth at more of an angle at these latitudes, as opposed to more or less straight on at the equator, therefore, the suns rays are spread out over a larger area. It is not because they have to travel through "more atmosphere". You can see in the picture in the video the much larger area over which the suns rays are spread out over, compared to at the equator. The video also greatly exaggerates the thickness of the atmosphere. The atmosphere wouldn't even be visible on the scale of the images in the video. It would be less than a hairs thickness so the picture misrepresents reality, but unfortunately that misrepresentation could influence the understanding of these concepts. In fact, the atmosphere is thicker/higher at the equator than at the poles but that isn't mentioned in the video, and that certainly doesn't diminish the strength of the suns rays at the equator. As they are so far north there are also months of the year when there is no sunlight at all, again due to the angle of the earth, and has nothing to do with the atmosphere.
You are half right. Yes the angle of earth's surface does matter. But the sun's rays DO have to travel through more atmosphere at high latitudes and this DOES have a cooling effect. Why do you think * direct * sunlight in early morning and late day is less hot? Hello?? It doesn't matter if you orient a surface to be 90 degrees to a low sun. It will still be cool because the sun's rays are traveling through more atmosphere.
@@ewthmatth no. If you orient a small surface into a 90 degree angle at early morning or late evening that's a NEGLIGIBLE impact compared to how much the sun's rays are spread out over a larger area per unit at that time. You may get a fraction more on it (and it will feel slightly warmer) but the photons are already so spread out in the area as a whole that it cannot compensate for it. Earth is a globe (or technically geoid) so it doesn't matter if the effect is in a North-South or East-West direction, the effect still happens. The atmosphere is so thin it doesn't come close to the impact of the photons-per-square-meter effect.
It’s not about the time sunlight spends travelling through the atmosphere. It’s the angle of incidence. The same number of rays are spread across a much larger surface area on the ground.
thats because this guy isnt pointing out "climate change" in good faith hes peddling the same talking points as every other leftist talking head with a following its why i use ad block and skip past the propoganda ;p
"It’s not about the time sunlight spends travelling through the atmosphere. It’s the angle of incidence. The same number of rays are spread across a much larger surface area on the ground." And of course, the longer the sunlight travels through the atmosphere the more the atmosphere diffuses the sunlight and the much larger surface area it is spread across. So actually, it IS about both.
@@oldtimefarmboy617 nope. You can calculate the solar intensity based on angle of incidence at different latitudes and it lines up with observation. Atmospheric diffusion has a negligible effect.
@@sonofawil And yet it does have an effect and also helps determine which wavelength of light will be most prominent at the surface. After all, the moon is still clearly visible during a lunar eclipse even though the Earth has completely blocked the sunlight from shining directly on the moon. The light that reaches the moon is mostly red because that is the wavelength that makes it through the Earths atmosphere. So, yes, to get an accurate measurement, the diffusion caused by the atmosphere must be taken into account so you know how much of one and how much of the other is responsible. If you care do be that accurate. Minute differences in solar radiation can have large effects over time.
Great video! BTW, some stats are mentioned at 16:24 and the attributed source is Greenland Minerals (stock code GGG - since then changed name to Energy Transition Minerals), a mining/exploration company. It's interesting to note that the company has discovered a great deposit of rare earth and other valiuable minerals but was blocked by the local government from developing it. The reason is that the ore contains a small amount of uranium, the mining of which is not allowed by law. Of course, there could very well be (likely to be) some political machinations in the background. The company offered some solutions for the handling of uranium but quoting the decision: "...the Company's exploitation licence application cannot be granted because it would involve exploitation of an ore body that contains more than 100 ppm of uranium (the threshold that was introduced in Greenland Parliament Act No. 20 of 1 December 2021 to ban uranium prospecting, exploration and exploitation, etc ('Act No. 20')". This was followed by a leagal bunfight which is still continuing but for now, it looks like the company all but lost the case. It wil be interesting to see what will happen in the future with the exploitation of some minerals in Greenland if uranium is a blocker.
Man, Greenland really does make you feel small in this world. A few hundred years does not sound like alot of time, especially for a geographic feature but I realize I will be long gone before I ever get to witness any major change in it. All I have is this little window to view the world, and I will never get to see that great canyon or the ice melt simply because of time.
Oddly there was no mention of the 2 giant asteroid impact craters discovered on Greenland that likely contributed to the last short ice age and may have been the reason large mammals like the Mastodon went extinct. These were discovered when the mapping was done that discovered the giant canyon on Greenland.
dude those videos nowadays only push the climate change agenda propaganda, climate change is here since earth existed... even the dutch president said during the WEF that they plead to push the climate change agenda with propaganda and paying journalists and media outlets a lot of money to push this...
Minor correction to the physics in the beginning of the video - the basis for lower solar energy in the Arctic Circle isn’t because of the distance light has to travel in the atmosphere (although it is indeed longer, but not the primary effect), the the flux density being so much smaller. Basically imagine taking a “cylinder” of the same light aiming straight at something versus that something being at a really sharp angle to the light. The shape of the light spot will be much larger in the second scenario, which means the energy is distributed over a larger area… or said another way, the same area receives less energy than its counterpart.
thats because this guy isnt pointing out "climate change" in good faith hes peddling the same talking points as every other leftist talking head with a following its why i use ad block and skip past the propoganda ;p
@@divingstag Appreciate the supportive comment, but I don’t know if I would say it that harshly. I mean, he wasn’t wrong about the longer travel length in the atmosphere. It’s just that it is not the dominant affect, probably by many orders of magnitude.
The longer the sunlight travels through the atmosphere the more the atmosphere diffuses the sunlight and the much larger surface area it is spread across. So actually, it IS about both.
A man from Iceland recently purchased a farm in Greenland with the idea of reindeer farming. When hearing of Greenland having rare earth minerals, he did some in-depth research into the minerals on his land. He found there was over a billion dollars of rare earth minerals on his land. Amazing!
contary to the US in the Nordic you only get to claim the surface land and water ditto, using or selling your mineral rights demands some very tough *Negotiations* IE Take or leave it, with the Government.
@@bentalexranebundgaard4867 True, I worked for a mining industry CEO - they will literally r*pe and scar the earth and leave a poisoned mess behind that will taint everything for miles around for centuries- hope that man chose Reindeer farming rather than harming that beautiful land.
rare earth minerals are not rare at all, there are many known deposts on all continents. The only reason they are so expensive is, that it takes a lot of energy to retract the minerals from the ore. With cheap electricity from huge coal plants in Manchuria China was able to outcompete everybody else on the planet and became the monopolist for those minerals. So if you don't have a huge powerplant next to your deposits, they are almost worthless.
There is an episode of What on Earth on travel channel, season 3. The military is missing an atomic bomb there. While looking for it with LiDAR, they found a huge underwater canyon, 3 times bigger than the Grand Canyon. They found prehistoric fossils.
Ive worked in Greenland at Nuuk airport...we did major overhauls on the Bell 212 helicopters and C checks on dash 7s and dash 8 aircraft...stayed in a little cabin right opposite the hospital...really enjoyed my time there, went to Santa's Grotto but he was out 😁...tried local cuisine, whale blubber 🤢 was interesting! and a cool guy called Renè brought me reindeer steaks and fresh halibut ..was awesome! people were so friendly
Whale blubber doesn't sound like it could be my kind of thing but how are the reindeer steaks? I'm assuming it's like other venison in that it's gamey and delicious.
My hometown of New Orleans is already a soup bowl. You gotta be crazy to buy a home down here. I find it utterly insane that after the catastrophic flooding of Katrina(as well as other hurricanes) home prices have soared much much higher than pre-Katrina levels and they still continue to climb. New Orleans no longer looks or feels the same so I’m already saying my good byes. It’s projected that New Orleans will be underwater by 2050, which sucks big time but Post-Katrina Nola already ruined it for me.
Who knows if that would actually happen I remember news media and scientists in the 1980s saying new York would be 40 ft under water by the 2000s and that never happened and how they said in the early 2000s most of Antarctica would be melted by 2020 and that also never happened in fact it grew by like 1 percent so I don't really trust these scientists that much
They're probably gonna build massive sea walls to keep New Orleans from flooding which still makes it insane to live there when imagining the massive amount of Taxes that are gonna be demanded.
I love how Greenland and Iceland uses geothermal energy in their systems. I wish we could use that all over. (Have you seen this huge sand battery 🔋 in Norway that currently runs a public swimming center and they are going to experiment with other methods with that energy storage source. It takes solar panels energy to convert electricity to heat the sand tower to 500° and they say you can get heat energy out of it for months before having to repower it up.)
Does Greenland really have geothermal resources that they use? I've only heard about Iceland with all their volcanoes. Also regarding solar I would expect they are too far North to take advantage of that as they get barely any daytime during the winter months, and the sunlight they do get is weaker than even we get through most of North America. It does seem to get plenty of wind however and could exploit that as a clean energy source.
Can you do a video about the Amazon rainforest, specifically Vale do Javari, the most unexplored part of the Amazon? Apparently the lost civilization there built its city out of wood, not stone, so we don’t see how massive it was.
I’ve always had 1 question for historians, because the Viking Norsemen (🇩🇰Danes + 🇳🇴Norwegians) had already ‘discovered’ 🇬🇱Greenland by Leif Erikson ~ 1000 CE (half a century before Columbus in 1492) - doesn’t that make Erikson the first European to ‘discover’ America (as Greenland is part of the North American continent - both physically by plate tectonics, as well as demographically as Greenlandic is a Native American language)?
Fun fact: What we call "rare earth minerals" are in fact quite common. China, and Brazil, are the top exporters 'cause extracting them causes a lot of pollution. And they simply don't care. But you could find them nearly anywhere. They put that name in the XIX century 'cause they really thought were rare. So, no need to kill millions of people and flood thousands of cities to extract "rare earth minerals" from Greenland. Also, we now know how to extract them better. It's just that we don't do it 'cause it's expensive and the impact of doing so (even without polluting the surrounding environment) is quite great. Nobody wants a big open mine close to home in the western world.
Not that the maker of this channel will say it, but thank you for pointing out the truth. Seriously, I never heard someone talk about trashing a place with so much enthusiasm before watching this video.
Yes, rare earths are not that rare, only their refinement is very messy and polluting. That's why the west doesn't bother refining their own. They'd rather buy it refined from China who doesn't care much about the environment and the people there can't say much. Many nations actually export the ore to China and buy back refined rare earths. But even if it's a dirty business China has monopolized it and the day it decides to punish the west, it surely has a big card in it's hand.
I was also in doubt why china is they claimed the biggest exporter of rare earth elements. How come that rare earth can only be found in their lands and not on other continents? Now that explains it. You need to destroy an entire forest and mountains, pollute your city just to produce one.
@@kvineet631 They can't do that because chinese economy is very reliant to export. If they "punish" the west, the west will just sanction them by banning imports from China until their economy falls which will cause a massive revolution. The west can dig their own rare earths if they commit.
I don't know why but arctic nature has always been one of the most fascinating things for me, even more than rainforest wildlife, because of how monotone they are, and I think they look way more beautiful and colourful than rainforests
You should go there an visit. The size is so Hard to tell. You can go in the fjort. Then look over the area an think your alone. But chances are there is reindeer and other animals right beside you. It looks emty but it realy isent.
Greenland was green when it was found. Medieval Warming period and such. Plenty of frozen viking settlements under the glacier. Also Iceland was ice, the geothermal activity didn't pick up until a few hundred years later.
The atmosphere has nothing to do with why it’s colder at the poles. It’s because the angle the ground is tilted at relative to sun causes the light to be spread out over a larger area
@@frareanvidal he said that sunlight travels a longer distance through the atmosphere and is spread out through a larger surface area the further away from equator. He didn't say it was only because of the atmosphere
The light having to travel through more atmosphere isnt why there's less solar energy. It's because of the angle that Greenland is relative to the photon's paths. The solar energy is less dense per unit area at steep angles.
You are correct. Actually, I'm not even sure why he tried to explain why higher latitudes are colder. This is pretty much widely understood and did not add much value to the discussion.
@@samiraperi467 If you hit the atmosphere at 90 degrees, most of it will power through. If you hit the atmosphere at a 20 degree angle... some will reflect off back into space.
Dutchie here, we are already preparing for rising sea levels. Expecting it will happen anyway. Although 7m is a lot! I am very curious what’s underneath Greenland and Antarctica from a historical perspective once it has melted and hope they can preserve what’s found in the ice. And they should leave Greenland alone or make good deals instead of shady deals. Denmark should be heavily supported by all Europe to make their own decisions.
Hey RealLifeLore! I've been loving your videos for a long time now, and I just want to tell you that THIS is our favorite content, along with everything else about the world itself(eg. islands, the oceans, the most remote places in the world etc.) thank you RLL we love you!!
I'm surprised you didn't mention the meteor that landed on Greenland around 50,000 years ago, or the guy who found the meteor and turned it into some cool arrows. It's really kind of a bizarre story.
Greenland’s physical geography and the hidden landscape have always been fascinating to me. Thank you for this amazingly informative video. 💯🤩 And congrats on the 6M subscribers! 🥳
At the current rate of melting of ~300 km^3 per year, it will take approximately ten thousand years for the whole 2.85 m km^3 of ice sheet to melt. Of course the rate of melting is increasing, but we are still nowhere near to melting all of Greenland ice.
Also if the Gulf Stream were to alter and make Europe colder wouldn’t that just make Greenland colder as well and the ice would stop melting and start increasing again meaning the sea levels would stop rising and instead start falling again. The climate is very complicated and one system affects another in unknown ways. It’s not all going to melt and we are not in an climate emergency. Economic emergency… yes, climate emergency… no.
@@robertbailey2284 the melting ice would reveal the darker land underneath as well as potentially release more carbon into the atmosphere. And all that warm water would pool around Greenland.
17:37 keep in mind, Greenland is very willingly part of Denmark. Even today. Even if it were to become financially indipendant, Greenland has stated its desire to remain part of Denmark. Both of them have good relations with eachother afterall.
Indeed. The way I think of it is, the average person doesn’t know Greenland was and mostly still is a colony of Denmark. Why? Because they do a good job so there’s nothing to say about it. The “no news is good news” principle, if you will.
@@brianmessemer2973 yep. If anything a switch will happen where people will consider Denmark part of Greenland in the future. Yet, they habe always been the same one nation.
Agreed 100%. Not all forms of "colonizations" are bad for the indigenous people. As much as i adore Greenland, their culture and most of all their people, Denmark, and formerly Norway is the reason they have a modern civilization today. Denmark are in no way exploiting them for their own gain. It is a fact that Greenland has benifited infinitely more from being in the kingdom, than Denmark has. infinitely
@@kbh1715 Another difference is that the Danes (well, Norse) were there first. The Inuit didn't move in until over a hundred years after Erik established the colony. So it's less of a case of "we're going to take your land away and make you second-class citizens" so much as "oh hey, you moved into this land we're not using? Guess we need to set up some government services for you, then." (There were other Inuit tribes that lived in Greenland before Erik, but the Inuit that are there now aren't related to them.)
Love the channel. However the reason the poles are colder is not “longer distance” which you can see is relatively négligeable longer. It is the angle at which it hits the earth and photoelectric density across the same area. As the earth curves same solar energy is distributed over a much larger land area. This explains seasons as well as solar panel efficiency. Worth a correction. Be well. EDIT: im his son wow he got fricking 18 replies also sorry i know its only 4:50 and i need 10more minutes of pytthon until i get to the ps4
Good to see some people using their own critical thinking skills to notice the errors and speculative nature of their video used in this video. The other interesting note I made is the ability of life itself to overcome some severe conditions to operate as it does elsewhere on earth.
From a quick drawing in GeoGebra I can see that at the point where the arctic circle begins, solar radiation have to travel 2.37 times as long through the atmosphere at equinox as at the equator at solar noon. Even when the north is tilted directly at the sun (summer solstice) it still has to travel 1.35 times as long as when the sun is not at an angle. That is hardly a negligible amount, and as you probably know that will reduce much of the radiation. Also do you mean solar irradiance (W/m^2), which is how much energy per second (equal to power) per unit area received from the sun, as I have never heard the term photoelectric density before? In case you want to replicate my equinox drawing, just create a circle with the radius of the earth (I just divided by 1000 as that worked better, so it was 6.371 units). Create another circle that is the radius of the earth plus atmosphere (6.371 + 0.1). Now make a point at an 66-degree angle, which would be at the start of the arctic circle. Then make a horizontal line from that point. Create a segment between the point on the earth circle and where the horizontal line intersects the atmosphere circle. The length of that segment will be 0.237, and that is 2.37 times longer than 0.1 which is the length at the equator. You can probably figure out how to do it at summer solstice. You will need to know that the earth is at an 23.4-degree angle.
He literally referred to what you are describing by discussing how much further light has to travel through the atmosphere in Greenland versus near the Equator.
Angularity does indeed present a much thicker atmosphere than simple math using concentric values. Between that and earths orbit around the sun being somewhat egg shaped, the two poles present somewhat different features for study. For example, it would likely take record breaking solar output to make an ozone hole appear at the north pole, because the planet is further from the sun during N. hemisphere summer than during the souths. The tangential aspect of polar atmosphere presented to solar output means higher probability of all kinds of reactions [even fast neutron, which is near to nil at the equator], but distance changes the density of all. I like the radio antenna analogy: the further from the tower you are, the lower watts per square meter-seconds drops. We've all [at least those over 40] been on a road trip to know that first hand as a radio station starts dropping out as we drive.
1:20 that is a tiny part of the reason, the main reason is that due to it's tilt, trough basic trigonometry the same cross section from the perspectiveo f the sun contains more surface area
1:20 you make it sound like the longer distance of light traveling through the atmosphere is what causes the light to spread out over a larger area. In reality both phenomena are caused by the lower angle of light rays relative to the surface
the plane they dug out of the ice was one of only a squadron of planes that crashed there due to lack of fuel.. I believe also there are several B17s under the ice as well as more P38s. it's just that the plane the became known as glacier girl was the most intact.
One of the things I find most fascinating about Greenland, is that it is the place where the humans that went east after leaving Africa first met the humans that went west again.
@@gigachad6885 No it isn't. First, the theory remains the best explanation of the origin of humans and gets stronger with every discovery. Second, the theory wasn't made by one "guy". It is the combined work of a vast number of scientists over the course of the last 150 years.
@M M Every single human (H. sapiens sapiens) that has ever lived is a descendent of a small population (hence our relatively low genetic diversity) that lived in East Africa. We are all from Africa.
Has Greenland ever considered some kind of mega project to capture the fresh water rather than it escaping into the ocean? It would help with water issues in places and, albeit not by a great amount, stave off some desalinization and sea level rise?
Honestly I think just capturing the rain water around the world as much as possible is the easiest way, though there might a few good hotspots for capturing the ice as it melts
Thule's got all kinds of amazing rocks, though. And they have lapidary equipment that anyone can use. If you're going to pick up rockhounding, Thule's the perfect place for it. Source: that's how I got into rocks. We'll be bidding on a job up there soon and I hope I get to go back. I live in the great plains - not much for rocks around here.
Consider this: An island is a land mass that is 1. entirely surrounded by water 2. not bigger than a continent Since Australia is already a continent, it fails to meet criterion 2. This arbitrary definition is necessary to demarcate where islands end and continents begin. Because if we ignore (2), what are continents if not ginormous islands?
The difference between Greenland and Australia is that Australia has its own plate tectonic. In fact, it is the core land mass of its plate, therefor, it is a continent. Greenland is an island because it is not the main body of land mass of the North American plate.
Dude your voice sounds so much different than your older videos, weirdly relaxing and nostalgic to me. Im just typing this like 15 seconds into the video so im gonna finish it now but keep up the grewat work, I've been interested in your content for years and I've never been bored of a single video. Your ability to entertain while teaching about the most niche shit is awe inspiring and drives my curiousity!
I love all his old stuff but after being off of RUclips for a year or so, he seems like a Globalist Shill now. I'll stay subscribed, but without the bell notifications. Focusing more on the older videos I missed. Used to love his work but he must have been given an offer he can't refuse.
Hey just want to thank you for another excellent video, I cant imagine the amount research needed to deliver such an informative clip nor the effort to keep the production as entertaining as they are.... Wow!!! Kudos to you and keep up the great work....
Wouldn't be the first time. Florida was under water and the Georgia coast was 50 miles inland from where it is now. You can still find sharks teeth around Orlando and many miles inland of Georgia to this day.
Flying over Greenland and looking at the vast expanses of ice, and thinking about being marooned down there is, to me, one of the most terrifying ideas possible. Total desolation, total isolation, complete terror.
15:24 "America, Europe and other western nations have largely no other choice..." I would say 'no other cheaper choice'. When enough money paid this metals would be found also in other places. As he mentioned at 15:02 "once upon a time it was the United States who was the largest producer of these rare earths...", and they stopped because getting them from China was cheaper.
Yes. Rare earths are not that rare, only their refinement is very messy and polluting. That's why the west doesn't bother refining their own. They'd rather buy it refined from China who doesn't care much about the environment and the people there can't say much. Many nations actually export the ore to China and buy back refined rare earths. But even if it's a dirty business China has monopolized it and the day it decides to punish the west, it surely has a big card in it's hand.
@@kvineet631 dude the u.s has so much manufacturing power and you don’t even know it If we draft workers to do certain jobs in an economic war it’ll get done Draft people to mine and refine Draft the billionaires and force them to cut profits for war time and coordinate with the government in an economic effort to win the war It’s the only way we can beat China without nuclear war
At Thule, it's so dry you can be comfortable at much lower temperatures than you can at most places. I wear a T-shirt (I'm not a shorts guy) outside during the Thule summer, where it's usually just above freezing.
1: 25, the sunrays traveling thru more atmosphere is one reason for Greenland receiving less sun. The other is the steep angle the rays come in at, making them more spread out, so less of them per given area. Thanks for the Greenland information.
amazing videos. and your modern conflict series on nebula is absolutely sick! so informative and interesting. thank you for being such a great creator!
19:10 Interesting tidbit but back in 2005 it was predicted that the arctic would be ice free during the summer months by 2013. That day went and passed. 100-200 years is much more realistic, especially if we can curb emissions and limit or even invent tech to reverse it
Checked that up and what I could find is that in 2009, following explorer Pen Hadow's mission there, scientists informed us that the ice sheet would be gone in “20 to 30 years", but it could take much less to make room for a safe passage.
Very interesting video. We could do without the over-dramatic emphasis and hyperbolic tone-of-voice though. This actually distracts from the presentation. (Or should I say/write: “This…”actually”…REEEEEALLY distracts from. The. TOTal! Presentation of the AB-so-LOOOOT-ly aMAAAAZZZZing video…”) You don’t have to sell it so hard…the content speaks for itself.
Personally, I think Greenland is going to be a blessing and a curse. On one hand, Vast resources and rare earth elements would fuel the technological revolution we are experiencing in the 21st century, as well as a major boom to the economy of whoever mines the minerals, including greenland itself. However, this comes at the cost of worsening global climate change, the flooding and sinking of various major cities, interruption of the gulf stream, extinction of animals that rely on the arctic ice, the lost of the traditions and culture of the Inuits, and sparking geopolitical tensions between nuclear powers. In short, I don't think the short term gains are worth the devastating long term consequences.
This is why outer space development needs to be a priority, and people need to increase awareness. We have the potential to move heavy industry OFF OUR PLANET and onto the moon, other planets, and asteroids. All of our needs to survive are out there apart from organic material, and we could heavily reduce or even remove most pollution by putting factories on the moon and transporting the finished materials from there to earth (which wouldn't require burning anything in atmosphere because you could literally just use gravitational forces to "push" loads of materials in capsule containers from the orbit of the moon, and they'd basically "fall" through atmosphere and land with a parachute). Until we have this, there really isn't any good way to prevent a lot of the disasters you mention
Denmark has commited to STOP it's production of oil. Going into Greenland and taking it's ressources without permission would be a direct violation of Danish territory.
@@tevarinvagabond1192 I'm assuming that you're talking about these heavy industries on the moon being unmanned since the moon is not terraformed for life. Because the cost to support human workers there would be more expensive than supporting them here which they already don't do. So expecting them to do it on the moon is probably too high of an expectation unfortunately.
@@tevarinvagabond1192 Do you know how much it cost in ressources, money, and how much waste is produced by sending large amounts of stuff in space ? Do you realize the amount of political and internatinal cooperation would your "solution" require. To hold on hope through such a pathetic and for now unviable solution is so terribly sad...
@@tevarinvagabond1192 Move heavy industries off planet and ship goods back to Earth? That sounds like such a safe and inexpensive solution to a problem that doesn't really exist. LOL
Wouldn’t it take a really long time for such a huge ice sheet to melt completely? 🤔 Even with rising temps if it takes maybe a century for these elements to become available, the geo political climate of the world may have changed a lot. Many things can happen in just 100 years 😅 (eg. 2022 vs 1922 is a huuuuge difference)
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His explanation actually is inaccurate bc it's less about the distance light travelles through the atmosphere and more about the angle to the surface and thus the amount of radiation recieved per area.
@@IngTomT That's literally what he said. The important thing is that he talked about the surface area, which is the key information that most explanations miss.
@@d_dave7200 You're right, he mentioned radiation per surface area in the end, in a minor sentence (which is easy to miss) but to me his explanation seemed primaraly focussed on the distance through atmosphere argument instead of the angle in which light hits the ground
@@IngTomT yeah, he said the "Sun's rays have to travel a longer distance through the atmosphere to reach it, which means that . . . [it's spread out over a larger area and less concentrated]" which implies the atmospheric part is causing the lower concentration which is very wrong
I'm from Greenland and live here. One of the reasons I somewhat support Danish rule is because I don't trust our own Greenlandic politicians. I'm afraid that some politician - if we ever become fully independent - will recieve a lot of money from some Russian, American or Chinese mining business and then suddenly agree to sell the rights to our underground minerals. At least when the Danes rule us, they (probably) won't just sell our country's resources off to some foreign company.
good point!
Yes, this happens in Africa a lot in recent history. I hope you can avoid this.
That's exactly what is going to happen history has shown that
I don't trust our own Greenlandic politicians.
As an American, I don't trust our current crop of politicians either. If Trump had purchased Greenland the current president is likely to sell your interests to China for a small bribe, like he is doing to the rest of us here.
All governments are corrupt, regardless of the size. Where there's people involved, there's greed. The only government you can trust are those that fear the people's response to their decisions.
Dude there's no way. I remember being obsessed with Greenland back in Middle school because of its massive size and mysteries. This video really brought that back all of these years later so thank you for making this and congrats on 6 million subs!
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@Luca Fortunato thats called killing people by your look
Its cant support human life.
Yo
@@ketunky3056 Maybe this is the BEST thing about it.
-> _"Need is the mother of invention"_
It could lead to actual practical research & development of self_contained recyling systems to support human life in extreme conditions.
. The high yield of local uranium ores refined into low grade U235 for compact thermal nuclear reactors (instead of electricity, the hot steam is used directly to heat buildings & streets, keeping them snow_free all year).
. Enclosed greenhouses make food locally.
. Natural Gas powers electrical systems & transportation.
etc
the effect of latitude in the climate has more to do with the angle in which sun light hits the surface of the planet than due to the thickness of atmosphere being crossed. This is because sun light on a oblique angle is spread out, while vertical or near vertical sun light is less spread out, or more concentraded. The difference of thickness between different latitudes is quite irrelevant in comparisson to the effect of angle irradiation.
That's not true. Well part of it is true. It's both the angle of incident and the fact it has to travel through more atmosphere to reach the ground.
Even without the atmosphere planetary bodies have called the temperatures towards the polar regions simply due the angle of incident.
@@supernoodles908 90% of the Earth's atmosphere mass is concentraded in the Troposphere, which is the last 10 km or so of the atmosphere. While the the thickness of the entire atmosphere can vary between 100 to 300 km depending on what scientists actually believe the ionspehere is actually atmosphere or not. Whatever the case, on a oblique angle, those 10 km won't become much thicker. It just doesn't have a big enough effect to even compare to angle irradiation.
Simple geometry tells us, that at a latitude of 60 ° N or S the energy per area through radiation is half of what it is at the equator (in spring/fall, obviously higher/lower in summer/winter). That is, before any reflective/absorbtive effects of the atmosphere are included. At 70 ° (roughly at the arctic circle) the intensity is just 35 % of that of the equator, quickly dropping to zero. I would argue, that this is the main contributor. Also, due to the fact that the relationship between angle of incidence and energy density is nonlinear (~cos(latitude)), the annual cycle has a way bigger effect on energy density than on the equator. I.E 50 ° between summer and winter make no difference close to the equator, but have a giant effect on the arctic, leading to almost no radiation in winter.
@@supernoodles908 The atmosphere absorbs little of the Sun's energy which is mostly visible light, your point stands more strongly for UV light. The atmopshere is almost half the thickness at 60°N as it is at the Equator, greatly mitigating the effect you're talking about, and also radiation absorbed by the atmosphere doesn't disappear, it becomes heat so somewhat irrelevant
With green house gases wouldn't a thicker atmosphere result in a hotter rather than colder climate because the heat gets trapped?? :)
It's not so much the distance from the sun, but rather the angle.
At the equator, the sun is directly above (on average), so you're getting maximum sunlight.
At 45th latitude, you're only getting 70%.
In the Arctic circle, it's less than 50% or 60% even during arctic summer.
I was just about to post this exact point. Also, the greater distance traversed through the atmosphere has a small effect but nothing compared to the incident angle, as you have said.
However, if the Earth's crust undergoes a predicted Pole Shift, the latitude of many lands will be altered radically.
enough is enough dude
Even if i were a greatest physicist of all time, i won't post the same thing on here that had already posted by other zillions time
The earth isn't flat 😮
Yup. He got that wrong to. It is not the distance, but rather the suns angle. This guy is more of a propagandist than a scientist.
Spent a year in an American airbase called Sondestrom when I was in the USAF in 1971/72. For two weeks that winter we hit record low temperature of -102F. The amazing thing was that the air was so clear and clean. Only place allergies did not bother me.
All allergy-generating lifeforms have been frozen solid. 🥶
I was at Sonderstrom also in 62/63. Experienced -70F with 35 mph wind. Still have nightmares about that God forsaken place. Next duty was Tyndall, Panama City, Fla. Sent there to thaw out.
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Wait, did your allergies really stopped fully?
Say if I get easy colds due to allergies (it starts as an allergy most times caused by dust or some else) and such, will it still be way easier there?
I've travelled the west coast of Greenland about 15 years ago, it was incredible. One odd thing that stood out for me was how clean the air is, it makes it impossible to estimate distances correctly. A little green hill behind our campside, it looked like you could walk up there in 10 minutes, but after an hour of hiking I was barely halfway up. Same goes for the glaciers, it is hard to really understand the size of these walls of ice. I really hope the Greenlandic ice sheet will survive some more centuries!
I doubt that it will last, since most of the world’s population does not feel responsible enough to curb global warming, which will surely melt Greenland’s glaciers this century. It’s true. Just do the math on the accelerating melt each decade.
@@corryjookit7818 He merely suggested of this off top of his head . Don’t just people that you know nothing about and instead concentrate your energy on criticizing the clown running the american economy into the ground and on the verge of leading it into WW3. Get over Trump and stop living in the past and stop using youtube channels that talks about nature to perpetrate hate around the world for the new world order that will probably kill you before 2030 jeezus stop voting these people your digging your own grave.
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ That is your comment on Greenland, its resources and climate change? Very insightful
@@rolandmdill probably a bot that says something about Jesus every time someone says something about trump.
@@gingersteelman8126 I know 😉
1:32 Two different physical effects are being conflated here.
The greater travel distance through the atmosphere means that more light and heat from the Sun gets absorbed or scattered.
Also, the fact that the angle of incidence is more acute means that the incoming radiation is spread out over a larger surface area.
Both have the same root cause that the latitude is high and hence the angle of incidence is low, but the physics between the two effects are vastly different.
Yes, a very garbled explanation in the video. Anybody not already knowing the answer will be more confused and ignorant than they were before.
Did you study geology or physics or meterology? It is an honest question because as someone that studied two of these subjects I couldn't stand to watch this through.
Way too many errors and way too much alarmism and hysteria regarding the melting of the ice (shield) in the northern polar region.
NASA has other research on their page saying that they don't know if the shield is shrinking or increasing and that in the inner and western parts more snowfall has occured in the last decade (which does not automatically mean that the ice shield is increasing)
@@carlbenz9807 I didn't think there was too much alarmism and hysteria. The disadvantages of the flooding of coastal plains of many countries was balanced by the advantages that would occur if there was any melting of the ice.
@@felixadams7365 You'll find this is a common thread throughout the channel.
I was most amazed at how continuously the narrator could make himself sound amazed. I wish they wouldn't. It is very tiring to listen to. And I wish that, instead of, most of the time, describing the numbers by just millions and millions, they would compare it with something.
You forgot to mention that ice penetrating radar studies shows that 50 to 70% of the ice in Greenland has formed since the end of the Holocene Thermal Maximum, which at this latitude occurred around 8,000 years ago.
Source ?
@@reuireuiop0youre annoying as fuck
I seen that the ice is between 2 to 18 million years old.
Were done guys lol
Just flew over Greenland a few weeks ago while coming back from Paris. Saw some of the most incredible views looking outside my window. It’s amazing how vast the snowy mountains and frozen lakes and rivers are
Edit: For the people that think I’m lying or just don’t know what I’m talking about for some reason, look up why planes fly over Greenland when going to and from Europe. It’s a thing and it’s because it’s the shortest distance due to the curvature of the earth. Enough comments telling me what I did and didn’t do. Thanks.
There is no commercial flights over Greenland from France. You likely saw parts of Canada, the hebredies or maybe Iceland.. But likely not even that.
@@andrehof7876 that is absolutely, 100% not true. How are you going to tell me where I flew? There was even a flight map that clearly showed the plane was over Greenland. Make sure you know what you’re talking about if you’re gonna tell people what they did and didn’t do.
@@vanessavarela01 where did your flight go to..
@@andrehof7876 It went to SF and in any case I don’t have to explain it to you. If you really want to think there’s “no commercial flights from Paris over Greenland” then go for it, but don’t tell me what I did and didn’t see/did and didn’t do. You just sound dumb.
@Dawson Davis you arent helping being on a phone/computer.
Even without the atmospheric effects (which do contribute, of course, just in a minor way), it's just the incident angle of the sunlight that causes the temperature differences between the equator and the poles. Celestial bodies without atmospheres have similar temperature gradients along their latitude
Why are all these comments so wise theyre 2 wise for my brain to understand
Yup beat me to it and with that easy fail so early in the video wonder what coming up in the next 20 min.
Came here to say just this. Luckily you already said it better than I would.
@@barsukascool I always aim to educate 😉
@@dancoroian1 yeah cool👍
Greenland is just one of those places full of beauty but too expensive and hostile for most people to effectively explore anything that isn't already a well trodden path. From a travelers perspective the more isolated parts of Greenland and the scenery (mountains, ice, kayaking further up the coast, etc) remain a dream for the future.
Well said! I am also here to learn how to invest after listening to a lady on tv talk about the importance of investing and how she made 7 figure in 3 month, somehow the video taught me nothing and left me even more confused, I'm a newbie and I'm open to ideas on how to invest for retirement
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Financial management is a crucial topic that most tend to shy away from, and ends up haunting them in the near future
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I haven’t been to Greenland, only flown over it but it was so beautiful. So much land is completely untouched by humans.
Same flew over en route to Italy 🇮🇹
It has not always been untouched by humans. You need to do a bit of research on why they call it Greenland. Hint: Not long ago, lots of Vikings and Norse lived and farmed here. The weather used to be much warmer there, and it was indeed a green land. Check out the evidence. It's out there for all brave people who are not afraid of the current narrative. You can even visit Greenland, and visit the ruins of the farming communities. The locals know...
@@SternDrivewhat is wrong with you
Can only imagine all the persevered things hiding in the ice. Also the canyon looks like one of the most fortified places in the world
yes
The only thing hiding there is Wakanda.
kinda is, yup
@@thecarlob_007 😂
Look up Camp Century..... you are certainly correct- and if the ice melts......which it will
I too have been fascinated by Greenland, my dream coming true having visited for 3 months. The local people have helped me more than any other country. Greeting from Australia 🇦🇺.
Of course, theyll help you because theyre so isolated, lonely, dont have much else to do, little space to expand, little food of course they will.
Lolol!!
@jakejackson2669 Who would pay for expensive bio-domes? he food grown in these domes would be away more expensive than simply flying it in. Iceland can do it, because they have free heat.
The P-38 was part of a small squadron that totaled 6 P-38's and 2 B-17's. They lost their way on the Greenland to Iceland leg and turned around, running out of fuel and landing all together on the cap. Everyone was eventually rescued via sled dog party. The 1992 expedition found one of the B-17's as well but was too crunched up to bother retrieving. The restored P-38 is currently air worthy and renamed 'Glacier Girl'. There's a great book with tons of photos from 1994 on this called 'The Lost Squadron'.
I now know why the Marvel myth of Captain America being discovered beneath the arctic ice is a thing. These lost planes being found in Greenland are probably at least some of the basis for that story. That's literally the first place that my brain went to, when RLL started talking about the lost flights over Greenland.
But how did they manage to get it running again after being in a heavily oxidizing environment (basically just water) for 50 years, and with tons and tons of weight crushing it?
@@LuisC7 Lots and lots of refurbishment. I reckon that literally the only salvageable part was the airframe. Everything else, especially the electronic components, would have to have been completely replaced by the same, or similar, components.
@@jacob4920 well then it's not the same plane, it's 99% a different plane. But yeah still good to see the airframe flying again
@@LuisC7 you obviously know nothing about aircraft restoration and refurbishment. Legally all you need to restore an airplane is to recover the identification data plate. That being said, the P38 Glacier Girl used much of it's original parts.
Isostatic rebound wouldn't be limited to Greenland, as the weight of that water would be offset to the oceans where it would push down on much thinner and more flexible places like the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which will push up the surrounding lands as well, which would likely offset some of those projected sea level rises.
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Exactly
As big as Greenland is, it is miniscule compared to the combined size of the Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Atlantic Ocean.
@@gabrielrockman lol, you forgot the Artic Ocean north of Greenland.
The other interesting thing is all that mass will relocate to the oceans, Will the change the rotation of the earth, like a suspended trapeze artist spinning rapidly, extends their arms and slows their rotation rate. Also would all this mass moving from the poles change the inclination of the rotation of the earth?
I've lived in Nuuk my entire life and never knew that we had a forest down south, thanks for educating me :).
Also when pronouncing Nuuk, you stretch the U a bit more than what you said in the start ;)
Is there any use of greenhouses and new tech to grow food?
In 1960 my Air Force family moved from USA to the UK. I was 5 and our plane landed at Thule to refuel. I remember seeing fishermen off the coast as we came down through the clouds.
Is it like one very long 'u' or two 'u' pronounced one after another?
you would say Nuuk, not Nook.
Like you would know how to pronounce Nuuk
RealLifeLore: talks about rising sea levels
The Netherlands: "ah shit, here we go again"
The Dutch: *angrily shakes fist at the sea* "how many times to a have to teach to the same lesson old man?"
@@somethinglikethat2176 Poseidon: I love the young people.
Mama Mia.... XD
They'll probably need to dam the North Sea and English channel at this point.
Don't use that words
Big ups on 6 MILLION Subs! Deserved and always have videos I never knew I needed until you upload them!
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more like 250,000 6mil is a lie
You are mixing 2 factors up.
1. Sunlight travels longer through the atmosphere causing a smaller percentage to make it through to the surface.
2. The angle at which the sun shines on the surface becomes smaller the closer you get to the poles (because the earth is a sphere), thus spreading the same amount of energy over a larger surface area. Less energy per square meter equals less heat to warm the surface.
False shit overlaying it on Europe the same principle Europe nearly 5 times larger than Greenland
The reason there is weaker/less light this far north is because the sun strikes the earth at more of an angle at these latitudes, as opposed to more or less straight on at the equator, therefore, the suns rays are spread out over a larger area. It is not because they have to travel through "more atmosphere". You can see in the picture in the video the much larger area over which the suns rays are spread out over, compared to at the equator. The video also greatly exaggerates the thickness of the atmosphere. The atmosphere wouldn't even be visible on the scale of the images in the video. It would be less than a hairs thickness so the picture misrepresents reality, but unfortunately that misrepresentation could influence the understanding of these concepts. In fact, the atmosphere is thicker/higher at the equator than at the poles but that isn't mentioned in the video, and that certainly doesn't diminish the strength of the suns rays at the equator. As they are so far north there are also months of the year when there is no sunlight at all, again due to the angle of the earth, and has nothing to do with the atmosphere.
Thanks for pointing this out as I was going to post the same info to correct his inaccuracies.
I was about to write the same thing 😎
You are half right. Yes the angle of earth's surface does matter. But the sun's rays DO have to travel through more atmosphere at high latitudes and this DOES have a cooling effect. Why do you think * direct * sunlight in early morning and late day is less hot? Hello?? It doesn't matter if you orient a surface to be 90 degrees to a low sun. It will still be cool because the sun's rays are traveling through more atmosphere.
@@ewthmatth no.
If you orient a small surface into a 90 degree angle at early morning or late evening that's a NEGLIGIBLE impact compared to how much the sun's rays are spread out over a larger area per unit at that time. You may get a fraction more on it (and it will feel slightly warmer) but the photons are already so spread out in the area as a whole that it cannot compensate for it.
Earth is a globe (or technically geoid) so it doesn't matter if the effect is in a North-South or East-West direction, the effect still happens.
The atmosphere is so thin it doesn't come close to the impact of the photons-per-square-meter effect.
It’s a diagram and not an actual representation of reality. In addition, technically photons travel through the atmosphere.
It’s not about the time sunlight spends travelling through the atmosphere. It’s the angle of incidence. The same number of rays are spread across a much larger surface area on the ground.
Shut up
thats because this guy isnt pointing out "climate change" in good faith hes peddling the same talking points as every other leftist talking head with a following its why i use ad block and skip past the propoganda ;p
"It’s not about the time sunlight spends travelling through the atmosphere. It’s the angle of incidence. The same number of rays are spread across a much larger surface area on the ground."
And of course, the longer the sunlight travels through the atmosphere the more the atmosphere diffuses the sunlight and the much larger surface area it is spread across.
So actually, it IS about both.
@@oldtimefarmboy617 nope. You can calculate the solar intensity based on angle of incidence at different latitudes and it lines up with observation. Atmospheric diffusion has a negligible effect.
@@sonofawil
And yet it does have an effect and also helps determine which wavelength of light will be most prominent at the surface. After all, the moon is still clearly visible during a lunar eclipse even though the Earth has completely blocked the sunlight from shining directly on the moon. The light that reaches the moon is mostly red because that is the wavelength that makes it through the Earths atmosphere.
So, yes, to get an accurate measurement, the diffusion caused by the atmosphere must be taken into account so you know how much of one and how much of the other is responsible. If you care do be that accurate. Minute differences in solar radiation can have large effects over time.
I have a friend from Greenland. Met him in school in Norway. Had to click on this video. Kalaallit Nunaat! 🇳🇴🇬🇱
Great video!
BTW, some stats are mentioned at 16:24 and the attributed source is Greenland Minerals (stock code GGG - since then changed name to Energy Transition Minerals), a mining/exploration company. It's interesting to note that the company has discovered a great deposit of rare earth and other valiuable minerals but was blocked by the local government from developing it. The reason is that the ore contains a small amount of uranium, the mining of which is not allowed by law. Of course, there could very well be (likely to be) some political machinations in the background. The company offered some solutions for the handling of uranium but quoting the decision: "...the Company's exploitation licence application cannot be granted because it would involve exploitation of an ore body that contains more than 100 ppm of uranium (the threshold that was introduced in Greenland Parliament Act No. 20 of 1 December 2021 to ban uranium prospecting, exploration and exploitation, etc ('Act No. 20')". This was followed by a leagal bunfight which is still continuing but for now, it looks like the company all but lost the case. It wil be interesting to see what will happen in the future with the exploitation of some minerals in Greenland if uranium is a blocker.
Man, Greenland really does make you feel small in this world. A few hundred years does not sound like alot of time, especially for a geographic feature but I realize I will be long gone before I ever get to witness any major change in it. All I have is this little window to view the world, and I will never get to see that great canyon or the ice melt simply because of time.
Not unless we bomb it.
That is exactly what i was thinking about while watching the video
Seriously, can we bomb it? Bikini Atoll 2.0?
@@TheDiscordNet the way I see it, if your problem isn't solved by a bomb, you should use a bigger bomb. 💥😎💥
@@TheDiscordNet no, but a damn good bit can be
Oddly there was no mention of the 2 giant asteroid impact craters discovered on Greenland that likely contributed to the last short ice age and may have been the reason large mammals like the Mastodon went extinct. These were discovered when the mapping was done that discovered the giant canyon on Greenland.
dude those videos nowadays only push the climate change agenda propaganda, climate change is here since earth existed... even the dutch president said during the WEF that they plead to push the climate change agenda with propaganda and paying journalists and media outlets a lot of money to push this...
Wondering... are these perhaps the origin of the large deposits of rare-earth minerals?
This channel won’t give you information like that
@@kf9926 but they will mislead you into thinking poles are cold because of the thickness of the atmosphere
@@leandrrob Yes my thoughts also lol. Lack of sun and indirect rays that bounce off the atmosphere and ice is imho the real reason for its cold air.
Minor correction to the physics in the beginning of the video - the basis for lower solar energy in the Arctic Circle isn’t because of the distance light has to travel in the atmosphere (although it is indeed longer, but not the primary effect), the the flux density being so much smaller. Basically imagine taking a “cylinder” of the same light aiming straight at something versus that something being at a really sharp angle to the light. The shape of the light spot will be much larger in the second scenario, which means the energy is distributed over a larger area… or said another way, the same area receives less energy than its counterpart.
Did you watch the video? I just saw literally what youre saying here
@@Querientje He showed the image but apparently didn't understand it, listen to what the video says
thats because this guy isnt pointing out "climate change" in good faith hes peddling the same talking points as every other leftist talking head with a following its why i use ad block and skip past the propoganda ;p
@@divingstag Appreciate the supportive comment, but I don’t know if I would say it that harshly. I mean, he wasn’t wrong about the longer travel length in the atmosphere. It’s just that it is not the dominant affect, probably by many orders of magnitude.
The longer the sunlight travels through the atmosphere the more the atmosphere diffuses the sunlight and the much larger surface area it is spread across.
So actually, it IS about both.
The view at 4m46s is just breathtaking
You can also type it like this 4:46 and you can click it to view later
A man from Iceland recently purchased a farm in Greenland with the idea of reindeer farming. When hearing of Greenland having rare earth minerals, he did some in-depth research into the minerals on his land. He found there was over a billion dollars of rare earth minerals on his land. Amazing!
contary to the US in the Nordic you only get to claim the surface land and water ditto, using or selling your mineral rights demands some very tough *Negotiations* IE Take or leave it, with the Government.
@@bentalexranebundgaard4867 True, I worked for a mining industry CEO - they will literally r*pe and scar the earth and leave a poisoned mess behind that will taint everything for miles around for centuries- hope that man chose Reindeer farming rather than harming that beautiful land.
rare earth minerals are not rare at all, there are many known deposts on all continents. The only reason they are so expensive is, that it takes a lot of energy to retract the minerals from the ore. With cheap electricity from huge coal plants in Manchuria China was able to outcompete everybody else on the planet and became the monopolist for those minerals. So if you don't have a huge powerplant next to your deposits, they are almost worthless.
Source??
Always...money people!
Imagine the fossils potentially under Greenland
Must've been Glowbull warming then...
Why the hell not?
By then the rest of the world will be a shell of what it was anyway.
There is an episode of What on Earth on travel channel, season 3. The military is missing an atomic bomb there. While looking for it with LiDAR, they found a huge underwater canyon, 3 times bigger than the Grand Canyon. They found prehistoric fossils.
d i n o s a u r s
no, even *before* the dinosaurs.
@@billhosko7723 back millions of years ago CO2 levels were much higher so yes it was global warming lol
Ive worked in Greenland at Nuuk airport...we did major overhauls on the Bell 212 helicopters and C checks on dash 7s and dash 8 aircraft...stayed in a little cabin right opposite the hospital...really enjoyed my time there, went to Santa's Grotto but he was out 😁...tried local cuisine, whale blubber 🤢 was interesting! and a cool guy called Renè brought me reindeer steaks and fresh halibut ..was awesome! people were so friendly
Whale blubber doesn't sound like it could be my kind of thing but how are the reindeer steaks? I'm assuming it's like other venison in that it's gamey and delicious.
Is it true that there is a massive UFO 🛸 under the ice in greenland? I heard that a couple days ago and it peeked my interest 🤔
I heard a couple days ago that there is a massive UFO under the ice in Greenland 🛸🤔
Your explanations and your graphics are consistently superb! Should be some kind of award for this quality of presentations. Gold medal to you!
ok mark twain
except for the fact that "solar radiation" graphic is completely incorrect science and illustration
My hometown of New Orleans is already a soup bowl. You gotta be crazy to buy a home down here. I find it utterly insane that after the catastrophic flooding of Katrina(as well as other hurricanes) home prices have soared much much higher than pre-Katrina levels and they still continue to climb.
New Orleans no longer looks or feels the same so I’m already saying my good byes. It’s projected that New Orleans will be underwater by 2050, which sucks big time but Post-Katrina Nola already ruined it for me.
Commiserations. It must be hard to lose a beloved hometown to natural forces.
Who knows if that would actually happen I remember news media and scientists in the 1980s saying new York would be 40 ft under water by the 2000s and that never happened and how they said in the early 2000s most of Antarctica would be melted by 2020 and that also never happened in fact it grew by like 1 percent so I don't really trust these scientists that much
I hope for you the best. If global warming continues as is projected, eventually what you are saying would happen
Please N.O. Was supposed to already be under water, but now it is pushed out another 30 years. Stop being so gullible.
They're probably gonna build massive sea walls to keep New Orleans from flooding which still makes it insane to live there when imagining the massive amount of Taxes that are gonna be demanded.
it's always this guy with some random topics that grab my interest somehow, keep it up
Oh they are not random trust me.
It's the topics we didn't know we needed hah
I love how Greenland and Iceland uses geothermal energy in their systems. I wish we could use that all over. (Have you seen this huge sand battery 🔋 in Norway that currently runs a public swimming center and they are going to experiment with other methods with that energy storage source. It takes solar panels energy to convert electricity to heat the sand tower to 500° and they say you can get heat energy out of it for months before having to repower it up.)
Link please. Never ever read about that here in the newspapers.
@@robertkiss7003 If you like learning, then i 'randomly' recommend Forrest Valkai, Bluejay, Tier Zoo,
Professor Dave, Sci Man Dan and Some-More-News.
Does Greenland really have geothermal resources that they use? I've only heard about Iceland with all their volcanoes. Also regarding solar I would expect they are too far North to take advantage of that as they get barely any daytime during the winter months, and the sunlight they do get is weaker than even we get through most of North America. It does seem to get plenty of wind however and could exploit that as a clean energy source.
You do realize geothermal is all around the world right? We have it all over Canada...
The earth is the same all around the world. If you dig deep enough. You will have access to geothermal energy lol
Tbh this is probably my favourite of your videos. It's just so interesting
Can you do a video about the Amazon rainforest, specifically Vale do Javari, the most unexplored part of the Amazon? Apparently the lost civilization there built its city out of wood, not stone, so we don’t see how massive it was.
Leave it alone . . .
I’ve always had 1 question for historians, because the Viking Norsemen (🇩🇰Danes + 🇳🇴Norwegians) had already ‘discovered’ 🇬🇱Greenland by Leif Erikson ~ 1000 CE (half a century before Columbus in 1492) - doesn’t that make Erikson the first European to ‘discover’ America (as Greenland is part of the North American continent - both physically by plate tectonics, as well as demographically as Greenlandic is a Native American language)?
yes. there is also evidence of viking influence on the eastern coast of the americas.
yes but Columbus's discovery is more popular
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More than anything we should say that Columbus discovery was more consequential. The world changed in ways unimagined.
Leif Erikson actually got to North America proper. Look up "lance aux meadows"
Fun fact: What we call "rare earth minerals" are in fact quite common. China, and Brazil, are the top exporters 'cause extracting them causes a lot of pollution. And they simply don't care. But you could find them nearly anywhere. They put that name in the XIX century 'cause they really thought were rare.
So, no need to kill millions of people and flood thousands of cities to extract "rare earth minerals" from Greenland. Also, we now know how to extract them better. It's just that we don't do it 'cause it's expensive and the impact of doing so (even without polluting the surrounding environment) is quite great. Nobody wants a big open mine close to home in the western world.
Not that the maker of this channel will say it, but thank you for pointing out the truth. Seriously, I never heard someone talk about trashing a place with so much enthusiasm before watching this video.
Great comment, one which really changes the perspective of the whole conversation. I hope this comment gets noticed.
Yes, rare earths are not that rare, only their refinement is very messy and polluting. That's why the west doesn't bother refining their own. They'd rather buy it refined from China who doesn't care much about the environment and the people there can't say much. Many nations actually export the ore to China and buy back refined rare earths. But even if it's a dirty business China has monopolized it and the day it decides to punish the west, it surely has a big card in it's hand.
I was also in doubt why china is they claimed the biggest exporter of rare earth elements. How come that rare earth can only be found in their lands and not on other continents? Now that explains it. You need to destroy an entire forest and mountains, pollute your city just to produce one.
@@kvineet631 They can't do that because chinese economy is very reliant to export. If they "punish" the west, the west will just sanction them by banning imports from China until their economy falls which will cause a massive revolution. The west can dig their own rare earths if they commit.
The most cheerful reading of the apocalypse ever.
How much emphasis do we need?
RealLifeLore: Yes.
I don't know why but arctic nature has always been one of the most fascinating things for me, even more than rainforest wildlife, because of how monotone they are, and I think they look way more beautiful and colourful than rainforests
You should go there an visit. The size is so Hard to tell. You can go in the fjort. Then look over the area an think your alone. But chances are there is reindeer and other animals right beside you. It looks emty but it realy isent.
That's beauty of life vs beauty of nature, none is more beautiful than the other, it's like yin yang, life is more fascinating tbh
Where do you source the beautiful stock footage for this channel?
@Don't Read My Profile Photo i will not but i will report you
no clue
@Don't Read My Profile Photo
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6:40- for reference. By the time you reach the end of the video- enough ice has melted to fill 2,480 Olympic sized swimming pools.
Chicken little.
@MediaLieDetector go back on 4chan neckbeard
I´m from Greenland, and seing this being so informative was amazing! Loved it as i have loved all your other vids!
Friend GR going home to VISIT soon 🤗
I bet your fingers fell off while typing this
Liar
@@unenthusiasta LOL I doubt he is from the sheet.
you are not
The whole "Greenland" "Iceland" gag they pulled was always hilarious to me. Climate humor is a small niche.
I'd be happy if Earth froze into a giant ice ball. The sun is evil just like Republicans
XD
It was those Vikings who wanted to keep their real base of operations a secret
Greenland was green when it was found. Medieval Warming period and such. Plenty of frozen viking settlements under the glacier. Also Iceland was ice, the geothermal activity didn't pick up until a few hundred years later.
@@SaanMigwell wha interesting
The atmosphere has nothing to do with why it’s colder at the poles. It’s because the angle the ground is tilted at relative to sun causes the light to be spread out over a larger area
He said that tho.
Refraction 🤨
@@maxdavis7722 he didn't say that, he said the reason it was spread out was because it had to travel a longer distance, which isn't the case
@@frareanvidal he said that sunlight travels a longer distance through the atmosphere and is spread out through a larger surface area the further away from equator.
He didn't say it was only because of the atmosphere
He said exactly that
Love how you deliver horrific news with a cheery music and a bubbly voice totally unbothered
Haha
The light having to travel through more atmosphere isnt why there's less solar energy. It's because of the angle that Greenland is relative to the photon's paths. The solar energy is less dense per unit area at steep angles.
Thats essentially what he said in much more simple wording
@@ieatbees2725 Incorrect. Atmosphere thickness is largely irrelevant. It's the *tilt of the ground* wrt the Sun that matters.
You are correct. Actually, I'm not even sure why he tried to explain why higher latitudes are colder. This is pretty much widely understood and did not add much value to the discussion.
@@samiraperi467 If you hit the atmosphere at 90 degrees, most of it will power through. If you hit the atmosphere at a 20 degree angle... some will reflect off back into space.
I saw Greenland from an airplane window, definitely the most breathtaking view I’ve ever seen.
me too lol, the flight attendants were mad at me for keeping my curtains open but damn, it was so beautiful!
@@mikkicarr5717. Why
Did they get upset with you for leaving your window shade open?
@@tazkrebbeks3391 Because people on the plane were trying to sleep, but I was making it too bright because it was sunny out.
@@mikkicarr5717. Oh. Well that makes sense.
Merry Christmas.✌️
@@tazkrebbeks3391 Merry Christmas to you too!
The problem with rare earth isnt finding them its the dificulty in extracting them with out too much environmental damage
and one simple fuck up can have locals stressed over that damage
And as we know, they usually don't give a thought on that, and try to bend laws at their will.
Yep, the US could continue being the #1 extractor but they'd rather the chinese ruin their own environment instead.
Yah... kinda like what was need to create your computer... geez... u r all such hypocrites...
Dutchie here, we are already preparing for rising sea levels. Expecting it will happen anyway. Although 7m is a lot!
I am very curious what’s underneath Greenland and Antarctica from a historical perspective once it has melted and hope they can preserve what’s found in the ice.
And they should leave Greenland alone or make good deals instead of shady deals. Denmark should be heavily supported by all Europe to make their own decisions.
Good for you. Way to adapt and not just despair to the conditions.
Hey RealLifeLore! I've been loving your videos for a long time now, and I just want to tell you that THIS is our favorite content, along with everything else about the world itself(eg. islands, the oceans, the most remote places in the world etc.) thank you RLL we love you!!
I agree but he sonetimes goes off-topic
@@barsukascool Yeah he litteraly took almost 10 minutes to get to the point of the title
@@Namelss that's the fun part.
You get 3x knowledge that you came for 🔥
@@ZOCCOK Yeah I’m not complaining at all but I can imagine it being a bit of an issue for some people idk
@@Namelss its not an issue for me but yes it could be for someone
I'm surprised you didn't mention the meteor that landed on Greenland around 50,000 years ago, or the guy who found the meteor and turned it into some cool arrows. It's really kind of a bizarre story.
I got this wacky ability which allows me to stop time! ain't that crazy?
Greenland’s physical geography and the hidden landscape have always been fascinating to me.
Thank you for this amazingly informative video. 💯🤩
And congrats on the 6M subscribers! 🥳
greenland is a huge country, size-wise, but a tiny country people-wise. there's a lot of stuff there that no one interacts with.
You would like our Ice Museum in Ilulissat. There's a lot of focus on the underground landscape.
Dont forget Antarctica, but that will take longer..Greenland and Antarctica. The last unspoiled places on Earth/ Tellus/ Gaia/ Terra...
Greenland is definitely where I would dissapear to, because you don't hear too many people talks about it this days! Great job on this video brother!
At the current rate of melting of ~300 km^3 per year, it will take approximately ten thousand years for the whole 2.85 m km^3 of ice sheet to melt. Of course the rate of melting is increasing, but we are still nowhere near to melting all of Greenland ice.
So nothing will change. Typical fear mongering
Thank you
What if we nuked it? That would certainly speed up the process.
Also if the Gulf Stream were to alter and make Europe colder wouldn’t that just make Greenland colder as well and the ice would stop melting and start increasing again meaning the sea levels would stop rising and instead start falling again. The climate is very complicated and one system affects another in unknown ways. It’s not all going to melt and we are not in an climate emergency. Economic emergency… yes, climate emergency… no.
@@robertbailey2284 the melting ice would reveal the darker land underneath as well as potentially release more carbon into the atmosphere. And all that warm water would pool around Greenland.
Talks about Greenland:
Most people: "Interesting."
Plague Inc players: *Hellish screams of agony*
17:37 keep in mind, Greenland is very willingly part of Denmark.
Even today.
Even if it were to become financially indipendant, Greenland has stated its desire to remain part of Denmark.
Both of them have good relations with eachother afterall.
Indeed. The way I think of it is, the average person doesn’t know Greenland was and mostly still is a colony of Denmark. Why? Because they do a good job so there’s nothing to say about it. The “no news is good news” principle, if you will.
@@brianmessemer2973 yep.
If anything a switch will happen where people will consider Denmark part of Greenland in the future.
Yet, they habe always been the same one nation.
Agreed 100%. Not all forms of "colonizations" are bad for the indigenous people. As much as i adore Greenland, their culture and most of all their people, Denmark, and formerly Norway is the reason they have a modern civilization today. Denmark are in no way exploiting them for their own gain. It is a fact that Greenland has benifited infinitely more from being in the kingdom, than Denmark has.
infinitely
i thought Greenland is a country
@@kbh1715 Another difference is that the Danes (well, Norse) were there first. The Inuit didn't move in until over a hundred years after Erik established the colony. So it's less of a case of "we're going to take your land away and make you second-class citizens" so much as "oh hey, you moved into this land we're not using? Guess we need to set up some government services for you, then."
(There were other Inuit tribes that lived in Greenland before Erik, but the Inuit that are there now aren't related to them.)
It took 11 minutes to get to the part of the video that I thought this entire video was going to be about the Topography of Greenland under the ice.
Love the channel. However the reason the poles are colder is not “longer distance” which you can see is relatively négligeable longer. It is the angle at which it hits the earth and photoelectric density across the same area. As the earth curves same solar energy is distributed over a much larger land area. This explains seasons as well as solar panel efficiency. Worth a correction. Be well.
EDIT: im his son wow he got fricking 18 replies
also sorry i know its only 4:50 and i need 10more minutes of pytthon until i get to the ps4
Good to see some people using their own critical thinking skills to notice the errors and speculative nature of their video used in this video. The other interesting note I made is the ability of life itself to overcome some severe conditions to operate as it does elsewhere on earth.
From a quick drawing in GeoGebra I can see that at the point where the arctic circle begins, solar radiation have to travel 2.37 times as long through the atmosphere at equinox as at the equator at solar noon. Even when the north is tilted directly at the sun (summer solstice) it still has to travel 1.35 times as long as when the sun is not at an angle. That is hardly a negligible amount, and as you probably know that will reduce much of the radiation.
Also do you mean solar irradiance (W/m^2), which is how much energy per second (equal to power) per unit area received from the sun, as I have never heard the term photoelectric density before?
In case you want to replicate my equinox drawing, just create a circle with the radius of the earth (I just divided by 1000 as that worked better, so it was 6.371 units). Create another circle that is the radius of the earth plus atmosphere (6.371 + 0.1). Now make a point at an 66-degree angle, which would be at the start of the arctic circle. Then make a horizontal line from that point. Create a segment between the point on the earth circle and where the horizontal line intersects the atmosphere circle. The length of that segment will be 0.237, and that is 2.37 times longer than 0.1 which is the length at the equator. You can probably figure out how to do it at summer solstice. You will need to know that the earth is at an 23.4-degree angle.
Yep, came to see if anyone else would call that out. Where did he that from???
He literally referred to what you are describing by discussing how much further light has to travel through the atmosphere in Greenland versus near the Equator.
Angularity does indeed present a much thicker atmosphere than simple math using concentric values. Between that and earths orbit around the sun being somewhat egg shaped, the two poles present somewhat different features for study. For example, it would likely take record breaking solar output to make an ozone hole appear at the north pole, because the planet is further from the sun during N. hemisphere summer than during the souths. The tangential aspect of polar atmosphere presented to solar output means higher probability of all kinds of reactions [even fast neutron, which is near to nil at the equator], but distance changes the density of all. I like the radio antenna analogy: the further from the tower you are, the lower watts per square meter-seconds drops. We've all [at least those over 40] been on a road trip to know that first hand as a radio station starts dropping out as we drive.
“Cities in the Central Valley like Stockton will sink!” So there is a plus to all this.
1:20
that is a tiny part of the reason, the main reason is that due to it's tilt, trough basic trigonometry the same cross section from the perspectiveo f the sun contains more surface area
OK WE GET IT
The archeological findings in that ancient canyon will be so great
I would love it if you covered South America's Geography not many people do it, and it's full of awesome features.
1:20 you make it sound like the longer distance of light traveling through the atmosphere is what causes the light to spread out over a larger area. In reality both phenomena are caused by the lower angle of light rays relative to the surface
the plane they dug out of the ice was one of only a squadron of planes that crashed there due to lack of fuel.. I believe also there are several B17s under the ice as well as more P38s. it's just that the plane the became known as glacier girl was the most intact.
Love your episodes keep it up!!!!!
Always wondered how the landscape looked underneath. Thanks a lot for the video!
If you like learning, then i 'randomly' recommend Forrest Valkai, Bluejay, Tier Zoo,
Professor Dave, Sci Man Dan and Some-More-News.
Hello from Ireland! As always, amazing content. You have more subscribers than the population of my country, that's insane!!! Congrats!!!
One of the things I find most fascinating about Greenland, is that it is the place where the humans that went east after leaving Africa first met the humans that went west again.
That is most intriguing. Any authors or videos you can share on that subject?
I hope you aren't referring to the nonsense Solutrean hypothesis.
The "out of Africa" theory is outdated and debunked by the same guy who made it in the first place
@@gigachad6885 No it isn't.
First, the theory remains the best explanation of the origin of humans and gets stronger with every discovery.
Second, the theory wasn't made by one "guy". It is the combined work of a vast number of scientists over the course of the last 150 years.
@M M Every single human (H. sapiens sapiens) that has ever lived is a descendent of a small population (hence our relatively low genetic diversity) that lived in East Africa. We are all from Africa.
Great video! I am addicted to this channel! So good!
I've never been to Greenland but have flown over it and saw the massive ice sheet and glaciers please don't let this gem melt
But there’s so much oil to be had under there! Equal to the total amount of oil in Iraq!!!
Has Greenland ever considered some kind of mega project to capture the fresh water rather than it escaping into the ocean? It would help with water issues in places and, albeit not by a great amount, stave off some desalinization and sea level rise?
yes, i placed by God almighty
It would be kinda hard tracking all the water escaping, seeing the vastness of the G- land, but like u mentioned, a mega project might do something.
Honestly I think just capturing the rain water around the world as much as possible is the easiest way, though there might a few good hotspots for capturing the ice as it melts
lol no i think they understand that’s a pipe dream.
The population and economy of Greenland is tiny, they wouldn't be able to finance a megaproject like that themselves
You know its a great day when RRL uploads
RealRifeLore? xD
I had a buddy stationed at Thule. It's definitely not "major" lol, but it is important.
The dude was so bored there, he got into collecting rocks 😆
Thule's got all kinds of amazing rocks, though. And they have lapidary equipment that anyone can use. If you're going to pick up rockhounding, Thule's the perfect place for it.
Source: that's how I got into rocks.
We'll be bidding on a job up there soon and I hope I get to go back. I live in the great plains - not much for rocks around here.
Nice to see my little country get attention 🇬🇱❤️
@@frostbyte1987 a country, part of danish kingdom, not owned..
@@frostbyte1987 still a country
As an Australian, I object to Greenland being dubbed the "largest island on Earth." :((
Consider this:
An island is a land mass that is
1. entirely surrounded by water
2. not bigger than a continent
Since Australia is already a continent, it fails to meet criterion 2.
This arbitrary definition is necessary to demarcate where islands end and continents begin. Because if we ignore (2), what are continents if not ginormous islands?
As a North American I object too.
@Neodymium we are an island continent
All land on Earth is an island since it is all surrounded by water ;)
The difference between Greenland and Australia is that Australia has its own plate tectonic. In fact, it is the core land mass of its plate, therefor, it is a continent. Greenland is an island because it is not the main body of land mass of the North American plate.
Dude your voice sounds so much different than your older videos, weirdly relaxing and nostalgic to me. Im just typing this like 15 seconds into the video so im gonna finish it now but keep up the grewat work, I've been interested in your content for years and I've never been bored of a single video. Your ability to entertain while teaching about the most niche shit is awe inspiring and drives my curiousity!
I love the longer videos! Been watching RLL since 1m subs and love to see how far you've come over the years. Congrats on 6 mil!!
I love all his old stuff but after being off of RUclips for a year or so, he seems like a Globalist Shill now. I'll stay subscribed, but without the bell notifications. Focusing more on the older videos I missed. Used to love his work but he must have been given an offer he can't refuse.
Hey just want to thank you for another excellent video, I cant imagine the amount research needed to deliver such an informative clip nor the effort to keep the production as entertaining as they are.... Wow!!! Kudos to you and keep up the great work....
Greenland is such an underrated country
Not a country, it's a part of Denmark. But I am all for independence!
@@mar754 Ain't gonna happen.
@@mar754 -- Greenland is a part of the Danish Realm but not a part of the country of Denmark. Big difference.
Greenland belongs to Norway
@@Sander00 ? No
What's hidden under the ice?
Oh, just oil? I was hoping it would be a dragon.
I mean, there MIGHT be a dragon... it's just that looking for dragons isn't all the profitable so we spend our money looking for oil instead.
Wouldn't be the first time. Florida was under water and the Georgia coast was 50 miles inland from where it is now. You can still find sharks teeth around Orlando and many miles inland of Georgia to this day.
AT THE TOP of the Davis Mts in Texas are marine fossils......so.....yes...has happen before. Climate change is CYCLICAL....
@shawn ..what was debunked??
Flying over Greenland and looking at the vast expanses of ice, and thinking about being marooned down there is, to me, one of the most terrifying ideas possible. Total desolation, total isolation, complete terror.
Even more fun: the closer you get to the edge, the more likely you are to fall into an ice ravine!
15:24 "America, Europe and other western nations have largely no other choice..." I would say 'no other cheaper choice'. When enough money paid this metals would be found also in other places. As he mentioned at 15:02 "once upon a time it was the United States who was the largest producer of these rare earths...", and they stopped because getting them from China was cheaper.
Yes. Rare earths are not that rare, only their refinement is very messy and polluting. That's why the west doesn't bother refining their own. They'd rather buy it refined from China who doesn't care much about the environment and the people there can't say much. Many nations actually export the ore to China and buy back refined rare earths. But even if it's a dirty business China has monopolized it and the day it decides to punish the west, it surely has a big card in it's hand.
@@kvineet631 China economy heavily depends on the West - it cannot simply "punish the west" without that punishing itself.
@@kvineet631 dude the u.s has so much manufacturing power and you don’t even know it
If we draft workers to do certain jobs in an economic war it’ll get done
Draft people to mine and refine
Draft the billionaires and force them to cut profits for war time and coordinate with the government in an economic effort to win the war
It’s the only way we can beat China without nuclear war
9:58 - a shirtless dude casually digging in a snow. I bet he's wearing shorts and flipflops as well
At Thule, it's so dry you can be comfortable at much lower temperatures than you can at most places. I wear a T-shirt (I'm not a shorts guy) outside during the Thule summer, where it's usually just above freezing.
Congrats on 6 million!
I've really enjoyed that your videos have generally been longer lately. I hope you continue doing so!
-Golly Gosh!!!!
@@doctorcraptonicus7941 ?
I can't believe they brought that plane back into flying. That's insane
It was in deep freeze, so it was well preserved.
1: 25, the sunrays traveling thru more atmosphere is one reason for Greenland receiving less sun. The other is the steep angle the rays come in at, making them more spread out, so less of them per given area.
Thanks for the Greenland information.
amazing videos. and your modern conflict series on nebula is absolutely sick! so informative and interesting. thank you for being such a great creator!
"Stockton, CA would be submerged." That is a relief.
19:10 Interesting tidbit but back in 2005 it was predicted that the arctic would be ice free during the summer months by 2013. That day went and passed. 100-200 years is much more realistic, especially if we can curb emissions and limit or even invent tech to reverse it
Checked that up and what I could find is that in 2009, following explorer Pen Hadow's mission there, scientists informed us that the ice sheet would be gone in “20 to 30 years", but it could take much less to make room for a safe passage.
And then in 50 years it gets another 268+ feet of snow..
This year it’s summer melt is the least in 10 yrs…
Who made that prediction?
Emissions have nothing to do with the earth warming. All of this is climate alarmism.
Very interesting video.
We could do without the over-dramatic emphasis and hyperbolic tone-of-voice though. This actually distracts from the presentation.
(Or should I say/write: “This…”actually”…REEEEEALLY distracts from. The. TOTal! Presentation of the AB-so-LOOOOT-ly aMAAAAZZZZing video…”)
You don’t have to sell it so hard…the content speaks for itself.
Greenland is quite vulnerable. I hope we can fix that, it’s also beautiful.
Greenland doesn't need 'fixing'... good grief... Earth has been a snowball in the past and ice-free in the past...
Becoming part of Canada would solve Greenland's vulnerability.
Personally, I think Greenland is going to be a blessing and a curse. On one hand, Vast resources and rare earth elements would fuel the technological revolution we are experiencing in the 21st century, as well as a major boom to the economy of whoever mines the minerals, including greenland itself. However, this comes at the cost of worsening global climate change, the flooding and sinking of various major cities, interruption of the gulf stream, extinction of animals that rely on the arctic ice, the lost of the traditions and culture of the Inuits, and sparking geopolitical tensions between nuclear powers. In short, I don't think the short term gains are worth the devastating long term consequences.
This is why outer space development needs to be a priority, and people need to increase awareness. We have the potential to move heavy industry OFF OUR PLANET and onto the moon, other planets, and asteroids. All of our needs to survive are out there apart from organic material, and we could heavily reduce or even remove most pollution by putting factories on the moon and transporting the finished materials from there to earth (which wouldn't require burning anything in atmosphere because you could literally just use gravitational forces to "push" loads of materials in capsule containers from the orbit of the moon, and they'd basically "fall" through atmosphere and land with a parachute). Until we have this, there really isn't any good way to prevent a lot of the disasters you mention
Denmark has commited to STOP it's production of oil. Going into Greenland and taking it's ressources without permission would be a direct violation of Danish territory.
@@tevarinvagabond1192 I'm assuming that you're talking about these heavy industries on the moon being unmanned since the moon is not terraformed for life. Because the cost to support human workers there would be more expensive than supporting them here which they already don't do. So expecting them to do it on the moon is probably too high of an expectation unfortunately.
@@tevarinvagabond1192 Do you know how much it cost in ressources, money, and how much waste is produced by sending large amounts of stuff in space ? Do you realize the amount of political and internatinal cooperation would your "solution" require.
To hold on hope through such a pathetic and for now unviable solution is so terribly sad...
@@tevarinvagabond1192 Move heavy industries off planet and ship goods back to Earth?
That sounds like such a safe and inexpensive solution to a problem that doesn't really exist.
LOL
I absolutely love this channel. Well done brotha. Keep it up, I look forward to learning from your work
This channel is my favorite channel of all time!
Wouldn’t it take a really long time for such a huge ice sheet to melt completely? 🤔 Even with rising temps if it takes maybe a century for these elements to become available, the geo political climate of the world may have changed a lot. Many things can happen in just 100 years 😅 (eg. 2022 vs 1922 is a huuuuge difference)
Did we ask?
@@user-nk7fr1dx6r why? do you have any sources for that (which are not youtube)?
@@user-nk7fr1dx6r so there will be more sunspots because scientists fly around in private jets?
Common Sense - The World makes Major changes every 144,000 Years (12 x 12) the Portals on a Zodiac Wheel That Never Ends.
But this is the Ending of this Period, the 12th Home .... Has already ended
As we Are ascending into the 13th Portal reversed from Death to A New Birth
Folks were not paying attention to all the warning Signs of Change ... like
2YK
911
2012 ending of the Myan Calendar & 2021 whenEvery Thing was being unveiled
All words were designed from Numbers by deceivers - which has kept Us Divided with Disagreements...
The Awakening is Now Visible - as the 11th House is the Portal into the New House Backwards
Earth is being Cleansed by The Powers of Numbers
While A New Earth Appears in another Dimension after Our Vehicle Dies.
We Are currently judging Ourselves before our next Life Begins
@@CLM2204 I do not believe everything I think!
As a physics/astro person, I appreciated your accurate explanation of why it's cooler near the poles. So many people share an incorrect one.
what's the incorrect one?
His explanation actually is inaccurate bc it's less about the distance light travelles through the atmosphere and more about the angle to the surface and thus the amount of radiation recieved per area.
@@IngTomT That's literally what he said. The important thing is that he talked about the surface area, which is the key information that most explanations miss.
@@d_dave7200 You're right, he mentioned radiation per surface area in the end, in a minor sentence (which is easy to miss) but to me his explanation seemed primaraly focussed on the distance through atmosphere argument instead of the angle in which light hits the ground
@@IngTomT yeah, he said the "Sun's rays have to travel a longer distance through the atmosphere to reach it, which means that . . . [it's spread out over a larger area and less concentrated]" which implies the atmospheric part is causing the lower concentration which is very wrong