Yes, experience is seeing the lies getting bigger and brainless people who have never fought a fire in their lives, have changed laws around control burning and reduction burning of forest and bushlands, causing firers to burn so hot, this causes more mass extinction of a species than any other reason, on those extreme hot windy days!!!
As a keen gardener for many years, I thought it was simply my age that had affected my very sensitive sense of smell. Aside from certain flowers and the scent of Autumn leaves, I used to be able to 'smell' rain on the way. Perhaps the reason is an environmental one after all.
Sorry, but it is age. My other family members were able to smell oncoming storms as of a few years ago. Due to allergies, I have problems smelling cut onions, but I could still feel the humidity and ozone of the storms as of this summer.
I'm not sure about the effect of age, but a viral infection a few years ago took away part of my sense of smell. Covid-19 Delta took away the rest of it a few months ago. I hope I get something back.
As a sensory science researcher with a focus on olfaction, this tickled all my science bones. I (and my entire team) usually focus on smell in human health, eating behavior and wellbeing (e.g., I'm currently working on a project researching long-term smell and taste loss after Covid-19 infection). I've never looked at smell in environmental terms in this manner - which makes sense as I am in nutrition science and not environmental/animal science - so this is incredibly interesting to me and something I will consider in my future as a researcher. Thanks so much for making this video Simon!
Ahhh, I really need more to come out about COVID taste/smell changes. I'm 8 months out and can't stand a lot of the foods I used to love. The GP said that I could just wait or try taking zinc but it seems like I'm stuck like this. I'd love to know more
@@arcadia4558 > .. [I] can't stand a lot of the foods I used to love. Do *not* take this as a medical advise in any sense. This is result of 5 minutes of search with phrase "covid taste change". Having said that, there *is* an article with exact title "Post-COVID-19 Side Effect Alters Sense of Taste and Smell". *Perhaps* relevant.
My mum lost her sense of smell for almost a decade. After proper attention from an ENT she's largely regained her sense of smell. My dad can't smoke weed in the house anymore.
In the meantime, stinky candles, sprays, plug-ins & essential oils assault our senses. Fragrance goes beyond perfumes and is in EVERYTHING, overpowering our natural sensitivity to appreciate a single flower. Instead of making things smell "like" something, maybe just stop making those things go extinct. I love the smell of a pine forest, I don't need a candle or a cardboard tree in my car to mimic it.
Those artificial pine-smelling cardboard tree things used to be massively popular because old cars stank to high heaven of oil and petrol and stale upholstery. I remember my mother used to drive an Austin Maxi and a Ford Capri, and each of those cars had a really strong mechanical smell of their own. Modern cars don't smell so strongly. Personally the mechanical smells of a car give me nostalgia, but I know that some people find them a bit sickening.
When they replaced all the deciduous forests with pines around my village, so many different smells just disappeared. It's all pine now. So many plants that grew near those trees have gone since those pines grow so quick and take up the sun all year round and nutrients. There's a lot fewer birds, squirrels, bees and deer now too. Haven't seen a badger since I was a kid. Even though it's on the village emblem, they pretty much made them extinct. Along with the vipers. Now I have to go through a 45m bikeride to find a native forest to get that scent I loved as a child. And even there I can't venture too deep not to disturb the few patches of wildlife we still have left...
So we’ll have a sad, scentless, quiet world, stripped of anything small and fragile, with air that’s hard to breathe, a barren ocean you probably can’t swim in, full of hungry, tired people who never experienced it how it was before. Great, glad a few folks got to be mega rich and a few million got to taste what being rich was like.
This is a rather alarmist presentation. There is no way to know that nature will not find another way to organise itself. The calculations upon which climate change (and all its dire predictions) are based include some huge assumptions. :)
"There is the very real possibility that ocean biodiversity will collapse as a result of this climate change-driven ocean acidification, all it would take would be a few species to go extinct due to these sensory pressures, and the ripples would be felt throughout the ecosystem." This hit me hard.
@@darthmaul216 Bio-diversity recovery if it occurred, would do so on on vast timescales, but is not guaranteed. Also, the specific varieties of adaptations, and the quantities of variations would be lost forever. Of course their intrinsic value as unique would be unrecoverable, but so to would their as yet unknown contribution to the web of life. Perhaps they contain a secretion that provides a blueprint for medicine, or maybe their evolutionary branch is the basis of future human level intelligence. It is arrogant to destroy lifeforms for our own overconsumption. However, it is also naive to assume life has an abundant future on this planet, as its emergence and growth should be understood as arbitrary and accidental. There is no cosmic or divine guarantee for the triumph of life. It could very well be that once sufficiently threatened and certain circumstances are met it ceases to exist at the only place it ever occurred in the history of the universe.
@@darthmaul216 ofcourse environmental factors are in constant flux, but normally changes take place significantly slower and right now a deluge of different changes are happening all at once- thus giving natural selection no time. When large changes did happen quickly, it ended up in a mass extinction event
0:04 Using that line in the beginning from Galadriel is a very refreshing piece to include. One of the major themes in Lord of the Rings is how the age of magic and the elves is ending, and how it is being replaced by the age of men. In Tolkien’s works, humans are significant in their ability to shape their own destinies, and shape the world in return. I really think that the usage of that line is a good representation of what we as humans have the power to change the world, both for better or worse.
These videos, as informative and interesting as they might be, make me want to unsubscribe because of how depressed they make me feel. Nice job though, people need to hear this.
@@SimonClark Are you a big Lord of the Rings fan? And any thoughts on how future science fiction and fantasy works can depict or reflect climate chanfe pr how our senses including smell might change due to climate change maube something akin to Dune with tje Blue eyes aliens due tonl the Spice..maybe our smell will evolve somehow due to both the pandemic and climate change..the temperature, much like the spice, must flow..hopefully downwards..
I fail in finding any positive in climate change. Each time something seems positive, when you look into the details in fact it is not. It is imperative to stay positive in the mind, to stay productive; but this positivity must be artificially created, love helps a little, but we must be active in creating happiness from nothing too.
Talking about smells.. My mom moved us down to mexico to live for a while. After 3 years my grandmother came to visit from the US. She hugged me as soon as she saw me and ,sorry to say, the stench was overwhelming! Everything about her was scented in some way. Her clothes, make up, hairspray, deodorant, etc. I had gotten used to people not having so many different scents on them. To this day certain perfumes are offensive to my nose because they smell like chemicals rather than something natural. Can't imagine why someone would like to smell like that.
@HoboGardenerBen I was only a kid at the time. But no one else around smelled bad like that. I imagine dogs and cats think people smell pretty strong too.
@HoboGardenerBen At least one version (or in some people: aspect) of old person smell is that they take on the smells of the things around them. Those things, in turn, smell in part because they've taken on the smells of the things around them. If you live among the same things for up to decades, you live among things that accumulate more and more smells.
As a PhD student studying plants, I can relate to this a lot. I study how broccoli chemicals reduce cellular stress. The big problem is that the vegetables we eat are not as effective in fighting diseases due to their reduced production of the beneficial chemicals, which can be attributed to climate change and in addition to many factors too. At my lab, we grow our own broccoli plants under controlled optimum conditions. I assume that growing crop will be a challenge in the future, if not already. Although broccoli can tolerate harsh conditions, there is a limit to everything, and soon we might not be able to grow good quality food anymore. I think there should be more collaboration between scientists from different disciplines. We should sit down, with a cup of tea or coffee or whatever you like, and have a serious intellectual conversation. I mean, that would be so much fun too!!! Great video @Simon Clark! Love from Chicago!
I'm vaguely aware of how climate change and of course rising temperatures makenit harder for plants tom grow and tbrive simply because of excess heat and if not then wild temrpature fluctuations..but I'm curious as a specialist what have you learned beyond that exactly is it that contributes to hindering vegetable growth like broccoli or hinders or inhibits the reduced production of beneficial chemicals in broccoli or other veggies as you mentioned? Thanks for sharing your insight.
@Leif: Although I’m not an expert in climate science, I can tell you that drastic changes in our climate is worrying. Although changes in temperature may have a significant effect on plants, change in climate can change other aspects of our ecosystem, or to be more specific, the microsystem of plants. The rate of Infection for example may rise due to change in climate. Plants rely on defense mechanisms to protect themselves from infection and cellular damage. Damage can come in the form of environmental ( UV radiation) or biological ( bacteria and viruses). So you can imagine if such defense mechanisms that play an important role in producing very important chemicals ( like the bitter sticky sap) due to significant disruption done by climate change and pollution, plants will struggle. This applies to growing our food. If broccoli or kale or any other veggies are not able to grow and produce a healthy amount of such good chemicals, we will be affected too because we will not be ingestion enough of the good nutrients to help us fight disease.
@@Jay_Johnson Plants like us, share similar kind of cells. When we get sick, our body tries to fight the infection and luckily successfully does so. But sometimes it fails, that’s when we get more serious diseases. In plants, defense mechanisms prevent plants from getting “sick” too, but if these are disrupted, the cells will be overwhelmed with damage from sources such as too much UV radiation (will get worse due to climate change). Damage by UV causes an accumulation of factors that causes stress to cells. Plants overproduce defense chemicals to reduce the accumulation and heal the cells. But again, if that process is disrupted, then that’s not possible. Many have tried synthesizing such chemicals or at least extract them from plants. In fact, you can buy plant extract over the counter pills. The problem is that these pills are not as effective for many reasons. Second, we still don’t fully understand what these chemicals are doing in animals and us, as in the mechanisms. Until we know how they work in our body, we cannot synthesis the best chemicals for our own benefit, and we haven’t figured out the best way to produce these chemicals yet.
God, we're just making an absolute mess of this beautiful planet. I find it so deflating. I try my best to do my part but I mean it just doesn't feel like enough. I wish countries just came together and said "okay guys this is extremely serious, let's take drastic action rn and implement drastic changes to ensure the future of our species".
Whatever happens, we can't give up. No matter how bad it looks or how bad it gets, we can't afford to not fight for justice. The way I'm trying to help is by getting involved with various movements, writing to my representatives, voting, talking with my friends and family, being vegan and trying to buy more locally, and I'm hoping to get an apprenticeship in solar panel installation. I think one of the best ways to get the change we want is through radical frequent nonviolent protests. Extinction Rebellion has been ramping up more which is awesome.
The research that your picture comes from in time stamp 3:34 has been shown to be totally unrealistic given how the experiments were carried out. The experiments use sea water and added hydrochloric acid to increase the acidity, there has been an experiment carried out where CO2 was bubbling through sea water to get the exacted acidity and the findings were completely different, in fact the crustaceans used had increased in size by around 50%.
Kudos for including a "stylized for emphasis" disclaimer, but honestly any ball and stick model of a molecule should have that disclaimer tagged on automatically.
Hahah well done Simon! Loved the drama of the video! It actually manages to put things in perspective! I love your videos! I got into my PhD because of what you have showed us that can be done to contribute towards a more sustainable world! It is at Uni Exeter btw!!! Thank you for all!
I love that you used your passion for fantasy, and Lord of the Rings in particular, to establish both the tone of a scientific video and the stakes of climate change and how the smallest of alterations in such a complex system can have catastrophic knock-on effects. I also appreciate your use of the LOTR bookends to tell a story that starts with a lamentation for what has been lost, but ends with hope. This video is entertaining, does a great job of presenting complex and novel information, and is emotionally engaging. You should be really proud of this one, Simon! ♥🖖 P.S. I've been having some health issues and don't comment as much as I used to, but you've been on a roll lately. Keep up the great work!
I find in recent years that summers have this overpowering sweet smell to the point of being almost sickening, but I seem to be the only one noticing it. No idea what's going on there, if it's some nose disease or if I'm particularly sensitive to it or what.
Ocean pH is measured as an average from several readings. Sensed odours are not averaged, changing from sniff to sniff. Your coffee loses its odour as soon as you taste the coffee. If the smell is unpleasant at point A, I can choose to move to a more pleasant spot B. It is one of the benefits of being motile, and a member of the animal kingdom. The "smells less" as climate changes as a speculation is an odd conclusion. More volatiles are released with rising temperatures, and would increase as the temperature rises. Scented candles and vaping, and back to freshly roast coffee as examples. My world has changed for the worse since Covid-19 changed my sense of smell, and not the miniscule change, up, or down in global temperatures, since the beginning of the pandemic.
Due to less light hitting the earth the temperature will decrease but the amount of CO2 added to the atmosphere from the rockets would increase the temperature more in the short term
I’ve always had a keen sense of smell, and yeah, flowers haven’t been the best these days- I still remember smelling a bunch years ago and I’ve never quite been able to get the same intensity since.
I guess the most important thing to do with preserving smells is to go after the sort of smells that pollenators would be looking for. No matter how fast we tackle climate change, we're going to be placing those ecosystems under stress for some time now, so if there's a technological way to give them a little helping hand in the interim, that'd be great (so long as we're also tackling the problem)
For myself, In the last 4 years the world's air has degraded from fresh to a mixture of car exhaust and filthy barbeque grill and on days with high ozone or No2 it just smells like poison.
Went to a lecture by Professor Callum Roberts about 12 years ago where he said there are already acidic parts of the sea where shells are already dissolving. .Also talked of sea scum blowing along at some places.
Two things: nitrogen oxide and ozone are significantly lower now than have been for decades in western countries due to pollution regulation, and will further drop dramatically with electric cars. Second: that plants produce less smell in hotter weather looks like a feature, not a bug, as smell molecules evaporate and diffuse more quickly the higher the temperature (i.e. hot stuff smell more, that's how perfumed candles work!)
I propose as a contingency plan we archive the most important smells the ones deemed important for pollinators and not only archive these but attempt to create automatic sent releasing machines that we would place in the middle of say a flower field so that the smell of the flowers can then be artificially amplified with a smell that's the same but slightly more concentrated to combat the effect pollutants have on reducing that smells range I hope what I just said was understandable LOL
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them, In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
It hasn't! For most of the changes, Humans weren't even on the Planet. For the others, well there have been about 4 major extinction events, and thousands of minor ones.
Time tends to do that. The human-caused mass extinction will probably be like the others. After many millions of years, life will evolve to fill the niches that were emptied during the great die-off. That doesn't mean much to humans, though. Such timescales are well beyond us & might as well mean that these destructive changes are permanent from the human perspective.
Eighty percent of the time since the Precambrian has been in a non-Ice Age environment, including most of the Cenozoic until the Pleistocene, about 2.6 million years ago. Expecting huge extinctions from what most genera would view as a Return To Normalcy is ridiculous.
A similar alteration is occurring with sounds. Much of my work deals with bioacoustics and tracking changes in sounds (including bird songs) in different ecosystems. For example, locally, we have 15 years of data from the same locations; even with that limited set we still can detect changes in abundance and species of birds even in the sites that are in remote boreal forest where there is minimal human disturbance. Other folks have sound archives going back quite a few decades and the differences are even more pronounced.
@Chris Connors Oh how sad! I live near a woodland and pond in Western NY State, and over the 15 years I've been here the birds have nearly disappeared. Insects, too. Thank you for your work.
The brain and body acclimate to new conditions. We will just get used to the new smells/lack of smells. Animals will adapt or die to detect the scent molecules better in changing conditions. Life in general evolved through multiple major extinctions and can make needed changes often fairly quickly.
I think that when the poles melt the water spreads over the earth. Thus it must surely decrease the distance between the earth and sun by a insignificant amount for us but actually a significant amount for the other daily climate routines which is due to the spreading of water from poles evenly on the ocean layer the sun's gravitational effect on earth must increase on earth resulting in the phenomenon. [In short this is due to the change in earth' angular momentum and centripetal force acting on earth] I want to mention here the pollutive layer in the atmosphere must rise higher [including the differential density concepts of different components] due to oxygen layer reduction thus allowing the lower pollutive layer to rise much higher thereby depleting the last protective layer and hence helping more in the phenomenon. Which further rises the concept of 'dry rains' and 'dirty sponges[clouds]' I also want to add that it would then become difficult for the space communications systems also due to change in atmospheric density. layman astronomical persons can also add up that it will become difficult for the manned space missions as the return will become difficult due to overheating. Please correct me If I am wrong...
I'm 37, and, I think, probably five years away from thinking that, at least for me, things should be over soon-ish. Doesn't help anybody else, but at least that one single person that is me. A very, very faint comfort.
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*I walked into a games workshop this week and let me tell you the world smelt different in seconds... Climates are changing super fast these days*
Let's exploit this in some balanced way
@@reahs4815 As God (or developers) intended
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Yes, experience is seeing the lies getting bigger and brainless people who have never fought a fire in their lives, have changed laws around control burning and reduction burning of forest and bushlands, causing firers to burn so hot, this causes more mass extinction of a species than any other reason, on those extreme hot windy days!!!
@@darrylrowe8193 Your complaint is like 30, maybe 40 years out of date. Yeah, there are some dumb old fire policies in some places, but they are OLD.
As a keen gardener for many years, I thought it was simply my age that had affected my very sensitive sense of smell. Aside from certain flowers and the scent of Autumn leaves, I used to be able to 'smell' rain on the way. Perhaps the reason is an environmental one after all.
Sorry, but it is age. My other family members were able to smell oncoming storms as of a few years ago. Due to allergies, I have problems smelling cut onions, but I could still feel the humidity and ozone of the storms as of this summer.
I'm not sure about the effect of age, but a viral infection a few years ago took away part of my sense of smell. Covid-19 Delta took away the rest of it a few months ago. I hope I get something back.
@@Egilhelmson Might be both.
@@driveasandwich6734 it does tend to be a mix
yes, I am young and live in tropical australia, you can smell the storms because of the atmospheric pressures and the water in the wind.
As a sensory science researcher with a focus on olfaction, this tickled all my science bones. I (and my entire team) usually focus on smell in human health, eating behavior and wellbeing (e.g., I'm currently working on a project researching long-term smell and taste loss after Covid-19 infection).
I've never looked at smell in environmental terms in this manner - which makes sense as I am in nutrition science and not environmental/animal science - so this is incredibly interesting to me and something I will consider in my future as a researcher. Thanks so much for making this video Simon!
Stephen Fry would become hopeful about internet again after reading this comment.
Ahhh, I really need more to come out about COVID taste/smell changes. I'm 8 months out and can't stand a lot of the foods I used to love. The GP said that I could just wait or try taking zinc but it seems like I'm stuck like this. I'd love to know more
@@arcadia4558 > .. [I] can't stand a lot of the foods I used to love.
Do *not* take this as a medical advise in any sense. This is result of 5 minutes of search with phrase "covid taste change". Having said that, there *is* an article with exact title "Post-COVID-19 Side Effect Alters Sense of Taste and Smell". *Perhaps* relevant.
My mum lost her sense of smell for almost a decade. After proper attention from an ENT she's largely regained her sense of smell. My dad can't smoke weed in the house anymore.
@@arcadia4558 See a specialist!!!
In the meantime, stinky candles, sprays, plug-ins & essential oils assault our senses. Fragrance goes beyond perfumes and is in EVERYTHING, overpowering our natural sensitivity to appreciate a single flower. Instead of making things smell "like" something, maybe just stop making those things go extinct. I love the smell of a pine forest, I don't need a candle or a cardboard tree in my car to mimic it.
Those artificial pine-smelling cardboard tree things used to be massively popular because old cars stank to high heaven of oil and petrol and stale upholstery. I remember my mother used to drive an Austin Maxi and a Ford Capri, and each of those cars had a really strong mechanical smell of their own. Modern cars don't smell so strongly. Personally the mechanical smells of a car give me nostalgia, but I know that some people find them a bit sickening.
When they replaced all the deciduous forests with pines around my village, so many different smells just disappeared. It's all pine now. So many plants that grew near those trees have gone since those pines grow so quick and take up the sun all year round and nutrients. There's a lot fewer birds, squirrels, bees and deer now too. Haven't seen a badger since I was a kid. Even though it's on the village emblem, they pretty much made them extinct. Along with the vipers.
Now I have to go through a 45m bikeride to find a native forest to get that scent I loved as a child. And even there I can't venture too deep not to disturb the few patches of wildlife we still have left...
The world is getting better but also to shit
So we’ll have a sad, scentless, quiet world, stripped of anything small and fragile, with air that’s hard to breathe, a barren ocean you probably can’t swim in, full of hungry, tired people who never experienced it how it was before. Great, glad a few folks got to be mega rich and a few million got to taste what being rich was like.
fuck capitalism we could be doing better with our time
This is worrying. Didn't know smell was such an important part to this world
This is a rather alarmist presentation. There is no way to know that nature will not find another way to organise itself.
The calculations upon which climate change (and all its dire predictions) are based include some huge assumptions. :)
I know it's scary. But so is the wrath of God (especially if you're christian). And it's very real. Assuming you're christian.
@@kenunderwood8621 ew
@@luizquevedo6580 no, this is our own doing
@@kenunderwood8621 Yours is rather a cynical view. With so much evidence, your pov is very worrying.
"There is the very real possibility that ocean biodiversity will collapse as a result of this climate change-driven ocean acidification, all it would take would be a few species to go extinct due to these sensory pressures, and the ripples would be felt throughout the ecosystem."
This hit me hard.
This has happened to the oceans before. Life will recover. Hard to say how long it will take though
@@darthmaul216 It will probably take millions of years to recover if the collapse is severe. Maybe even tens of millions.
@@darthmaul216 Bio-diversity recovery if it occurred, would do so on on vast timescales, but is not guaranteed. Also, the specific varieties of adaptations, and the quantities of variations would be lost forever. Of course their intrinsic value as unique would be unrecoverable, but so to would their as yet unknown contribution to the web of life. Perhaps they contain a secretion that provides a blueprint for medicine, or maybe their evolutionary branch is the basis of future human level intelligence. It is arrogant to destroy lifeforms for our own overconsumption. However, it is also naive to assume life has an abundant future on this planet, as its emergence and growth should be understood as arbitrary and accidental. There is no cosmic or divine guarantee for the triumph of life. It could very well be that once sufficiently threatened and certain circumstances are met it ceases to exist at the only place it ever occurred in the history of the universe.
And our leaders will do nothing until it is far too late.
@@darthmaul216 ofcourse environmental factors are in constant flux, but normally changes take place significantly slower and right now a deluge of different changes are happening all at once- thus giving natural selection no time. When large changes did happen quickly, it ended up in a mass extinction event
0:04 Using that line in the beginning from Galadriel is a very refreshing piece to include. One of the major themes in Lord of the Rings is how the age of magic and the elves is ending, and how it is being replaced by the age of men. In Tolkien’s works, humans are significant in their ability to shape their own destinies, and shape the world in return. I really think that the usage of that line is a good representation of what we as humans have the power to change the world, both for better or worse.
These videos, as informative and interesting as they might be, make me want to unsubscribe because of how depressed they make me feel.
Nice job though, people need to hear this.
Comment for the algorithm, and for your mental health 😃
Thats their aim, fear pays.
Such a great video Si!
Aw thank you Maddie!
@@SimonClark Are you a big Lord of the Rings fan? And any thoughts on how future science fiction and fantasy works can depict or reflect climate chanfe pr how our senses including smell might change due to climate change maube something akin to Dune with tje Blue eyes aliens due tonl the Spice..maybe our smell will evolve somehow due to both the pandemic and climate change..the temperature, much like the spice, must flow..hopefully downwards..
I fail in finding any positive in climate change. Each time something seems positive, when you look into the details in fact it is not. It is imperative to stay positive in the mind, to stay productive; but this positivity must be artificially created, love helps a little, but we must be active in creating happiness from nothing too.
So I'm not crazy?! I noticed that our lilacs, my favorite flowers, only smell if you go right up to them the last few years. Scary.
This commentary had expanded my perspective on climate change. Thank you Dr. Simon
This is the first time I've heard the effects of climate change on smells. Thanks Dr. Simon Clark.
I can barely smell anything but pollution in London nowadays…
Keep us informed man. The work doesn't go unnoticed
So glad to have another thing to be concerned about
Talking about smells..
My mom moved us down to mexico to live for a while. After 3 years my grandmother came to visit from the US. She hugged me as soon as she saw me and ,sorry to say, the stench was overwhelming! Everything about her was scented in some way. Her clothes, make up, hairspray, deodorant, etc. I had gotten used to people not having so many different scents on them. To this day certain perfumes are offensive to my nose because they smell like chemicals rather than something natural. Can't imagine why someone would like to smell like that.
@HoboGardenerBen I was only a kid at the time. But no one else around smelled bad like that.
I imagine dogs and cats think people smell pretty strong too.
@HoboGardenerBen At least one version (or in some people: aspect) of old person smell is that they take on the smells of the things around them. Those things, in turn, smell in part because they've taken on the smells of the things around them. If you live among the same things for up to decades, you live among things that accumulate more and more smells.
As a PhD student studying plants, I can relate to this a lot. I study how broccoli chemicals reduce cellular stress. The big problem is that the vegetables we eat are not as effective in fighting diseases due to their reduced production of the beneficial chemicals, which can be attributed to climate change and in addition to many factors too. At my lab, we grow our own broccoli plants under controlled optimum conditions. I assume that growing crop will be a challenge in the future, if not already. Although broccoli can tolerate harsh conditions, there is a limit to everything, and soon we might not be able to grow good quality food anymore.
I think there should be more collaboration between scientists from different disciplines. We should sit down, with a cup of tea or coffee or whatever you like, and have a serious intellectual conversation. I mean, that would be so much fun too!!!
Great video @Simon Clark! Love from Chicago!
I'm vaguely aware of how climate change and of course rising temperatures makenit harder for plants tom grow and tbrive simply because of excess heat and if not then wild temrpature fluctuations..but I'm curious as a specialist what have you learned beyond that exactly is it that contributes to hindering vegetable growth like broccoli or hinders or inhibits the reduced production of beneficial chemicals in broccoli or other veggies as you mentioned? Thanks for sharing your insight.
in reference to reduced production of the right chemicals why is that? can we not breed/modify them to do so or if not produce them synthetically?
@@leif1075 Hi Leif, I welcome your question!
@Leif: Although I’m not an expert in climate science, I can tell you that drastic changes in our climate is worrying. Although changes in temperature may have a significant effect on plants, change in climate can change other aspects of our ecosystem, or to be more specific, the microsystem of plants. The rate of Infection for example may rise due to change in climate. Plants rely on defense mechanisms to protect themselves from infection and cellular damage. Damage can come in the form of environmental ( UV radiation) or biological ( bacteria and viruses). So you can imagine if such defense mechanisms that play an important role in producing very important chemicals ( like the bitter sticky sap) due to significant disruption done by climate change and pollution, plants will struggle. This applies to growing our food. If broccoli or kale or any other veggies are not able to grow and produce a healthy amount of such good chemicals, we will be affected too because we will not be ingestion enough of the good nutrients to help us fight disease.
@@Jay_Johnson Plants like us, share similar kind of cells. When we get sick, our body tries to fight the infection and luckily successfully does so. But sometimes it fails, that’s when we get more serious diseases. In plants, defense mechanisms prevent plants from getting “sick” too, but if these are disrupted, the cells will be overwhelmed with damage from sources such as too much UV radiation (will get worse due to climate change). Damage by UV causes an accumulation of factors that causes stress to cells. Plants overproduce defense chemicals to reduce the accumulation and heal the cells. But again, if that process is disrupted, then that’s not possible. Many have tried synthesizing such chemicals or at least extract them from plants. In fact, you can buy plant extract over the counter pills. The problem is that these pills are not as effective for many reasons. Second, we still don’t fully understand what these chemicals are doing in animals and us, as in the mechanisms. Until we know how they work in our body, we cannot synthesis the best chemicals for our own benefit, and we haven’t figured out the best way to produce these chemicals yet.
God, we're just making an absolute mess of this beautiful planet. I find it so deflating. I try my best to do my part but I mean it just doesn't feel like enough. I wish countries just came together and said "okay guys this is extremely serious, let's take drastic action rn and implement drastic changes to ensure the future of our species".
Country leaders do say those things in climate conferences, but sadly they don't follow their targets. Thanks for doing your part!
Whatever happens, we can't give up. No matter how bad it looks or how bad it gets, we can't afford to not fight for justice. The way I'm trying to help is by getting involved with various movements, writing to my representatives, voting, talking with my friends and family, being vegan and trying to buy more locally, and I'm hoping to get an apprenticeship in solar panel installation.
I think one of the best ways to get the change we want is through radical frequent nonviolent protests. Extinction Rebellion has been ramping up more which is awesome.
So frightening, thank you for sharing this with us.
The research that your picture comes from in time stamp 3:34 has been shown to be totally unrealistic given how the experiments were carried out. The experiments use sea water and added hydrochloric acid to increase the acidity, there has been an experiment carried out where CO2 was bubbling through sea water to get the exacted acidity and the findings were completely different, in fact the crustaceans used had increased in size by around 50%.
A reference or google search term would be useful.
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This was a very interesting topic i have never heard of before. Thank you Simon Clark!
Kudos for including a "stylized for emphasis" disclaimer, but honestly any ball and stick model of a molecule should have that disclaimer tagged on automatically.
What an amazing video, I never thought about this.
Keep up the amazing work Simon we love your content!
Hahah well done Simon! Loved the drama of the video! It actually manages to put things in perspective!
I love your videos! I got into my PhD because of what you have showed us that can be done to contribute towards a more sustainable world!
It is at Uni Exeter btw!!!
Thank you for all!
we need to stop the problem at it's root as well as well as classic green efforts, the root being capitalism.
Thank you Simon, I havn't considered how smells will change with climate change before, I learnt something new today.
Yezz Simon! always love your videos and they've been doing so well recently, happy for you.
Liked commented and subbed because of the appropriate LOTR intro.
I love that you used your passion for fantasy, and Lord of the Rings in particular, to establish both the tone of a scientific video and the stakes of climate change and how the smallest of alterations in such a complex system can have catastrophic knock-on effects. I also appreciate your use of the LOTR bookends to tell a story that starts with a lamentation for what has been lost, but ends with hope. This video is entertaining, does a great job of presenting complex and novel information, and is emotionally engaging. You should be really proud of this one, Simon! ♥🖖
P.S. I've been having some health issues and don't comment as much as I used to, but you've been on a roll lately. Keep up the great work!
Great video. This really opened my mind to the massive breadth of climate change impacts. Pervasive indeed.
This is so sad :( I wish we'd get to taking this seriously already.
Sometimes, I think back to smells from my childhood. Unidentifiable, or at least indescribable, scents that seemingly disappeared.
Great video. Very interesting. Yes, these subjects aren’t easy, but I think very important to spread knowledge about. Thank you!
thanks for the heads up simon.
preserving smells is one of the most dystopian thing i've ever heard
Huh, so Grandma was really right when she said the flowers used to smell from much farther away; I thought she was just old. It's caused by society.
I find in recent years that summers have this overpowering sweet smell to the point of being almost sickening, but I seem to be the only one noticing it. No idea what's going on there, if it's some nose disease or if I'm particularly sensitive to it or what.
Interesting video, never thought about those aspects before. But also that was a really good creative opening scene you picked here.
Although I don't miss times where a pub would stink of cigarettes... I like good village pubs, but I've no nostalgia for that particular stink.
Yup. And we don't miss the concentrated smell of horse manure in the cities either.
Sometimes the history of smell is just the history of pollution.
Very good if somewhat depressing video, these less immediately obvious impacts of climate change are very alarming
Your content is informative Simon. I admire it.
A great illustration on how everything is connected.
Again incredibly informative! Something I will bring up in future conversations about climate change! Thanks! :)
Salmon rely on the scent of their home waters to find their way back to spawn. #knockoneffects
Soon the aliens won't be able to smell our juicy planet. Rip
Thanks for the video :)
wait, why does this video only have 60k view????!!
THIS DESERVES WAYYYYY MORE VIEWS
Ocean pH is measured as an average from several readings. Sensed odours are not averaged, changing from sniff to sniff. Your coffee loses its odour as soon as you taste the coffee. If the smell is unpleasant at point A, I can choose to move to a more pleasant spot B. It is one of the benefits of being motile, and a member of the animal kingdom. The "smells less" as climate changes as a speculation is an odd conclusion. More volatiles are released with rising temperatures, and would increase as the temperature rises. Scented candles and vaping, and back to freshly roast coffee as examples. My world has changed for the worse since Covid-19 changed my sense of smell, and not the miniscule change, up, or down in global temperatures, since the beginning of the pandemic.
The editing is *cheff's kiss*
Yes correct... In the west it suddenly smells like "Shit"... I wonder why?
Boaty McFecal People anyone? 🤷🏻
LotR will forever be a masterpiece
If by hypothesis we use a dysonsphere around the sun how will this affect our climate ??
Due to less light hitting the earth the temperature will decrease but the amount of CO2 added to the atmosphere from the rockets would increase the temperature more in the short term
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us...
I’ve always had a keen sense of smell, and yeah, flowers haven’t been the best these days- I still remember smelling a bunch years ago and I’ve never quite been able to get the same intensity since.
I enjoy your content! :)
I guess the most important thing to do with preserving smells is to go after the sort of smells that pollenators would be looking for. No matter how fast we tackle climate change, we're going to be placing those ecosystems under stress for some time now, so if there's a technological way to give them a little helping hand in the interim, that'd be great (so long as we're also tackling the problem)
Fearfully And Wonderfully Made.
New sub. Great info. Great videos.
For myself, In the last 4 years the world's air has degraded from fresh to a mixture of car exhaust and filthy barbeque grill and on days with high ozone or No2 it just smells like poison.
You have done a video about TeamTrees, now can you do another one about TeamSeas? And what effect will occur when both of them are combined?
Hey! This video was awesome!
Went to a lecture by Professor Callum Roberts about 12 years ago where he said there are already acidic parts of the sea where shells are already dissolving. .Also talked of sea scum blowing along at some places.
We all have to make this video get in everyone's youtube home page
Two things: nitrogen oxide and ozone are significantly lower now than have been for decades in western countries due to pollution regulation, and will further drop dramatically with electric cars. Second: that plants produce less smell in hotter weather looks like a feature, not a bug, as smell molecules evaporate and diffuse more quickly the higher the temperature (i.e. hot stuff smell more, that's how perfumed candles work!)
Your woor is awesome and great.
Take care and have a great week
I feel like this should've had a more clear call to action
I propose as a contingency plan we archive the most important smells the ones deemed important for pollinators and not only archive these but attempt to create automatic sent releasing machines that we would place in the middle of say a flower field so that the smell of the flowers can then be artificially amplified with a smell that's the same but slightly more concentrated to combat the effect pollutants have on reducing that smells range I hope what I just said was understandable LOL
I almost cried when I heard the Lord of the rings Intro.
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them,
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
Wow, that was surprising and interesting
I love the LOTR references!
So how has the world managed to keep ticking through every other change in temp?
It hasn't! For most of the changes, Humans weren't even on the Planet. For the others, well there have been about 4 major extinction events, and thousands of minor ones.
@@dnomyarnostaw Do you have any good references for a mass extinction caused by a major warm period? I'm curious to know more about the topic.
Time tends to do that. The human-caused mass extinction will probably be like the others. After many millions of years, life will evolve to fill the niches that were emptied during the great die-off.
That doesn't mean much to humans, though. Such timescales are well beyond us & might as well mean that these destructive changes are permanent from the human perspective.
"We're destroying the planet" actually means "We destroy the planet as we know it: As this place where humans can live."
0:24 Well yeah, because one is the main cause, the main line of evidence, and one of the main relevant worries of the other
didn't know mimosa trees had such a pretty bloom
this is really interesting :D
Electromagnetic pollution means that bees often can't navigate back to the hive. That means colony collapse. Not about smell ,but people should know.
Eighty percent of the time since the Precambrian has been in a non-Ice Age environment, including most of the Cenozoic until the Pleistocene, about 2.6 million years ago. Expecting huge extinctions from what most genera would view as a Return To Normalcy is ridiculous.
A similar alteration is occurring with sounds. Much of my work deals with bioacoustics and tracking changes in sounds (including bird songs) in different ecosystems. For example, locally, we have 15 years of data from the same locations; even with that limited set we still can detect changes in abundance and species of birds even in the sites that are in remote boreal forest where there is minimal human disturbance. Other folks have sound archives going back quite a few decades and the differences are even more pronounced.
@Chris Connors Oh how sad! I live near a woodland and pond in Western NY State, and over the 15 years I've been here the birds have nearly disappeared. Insects, too. Thank you for your work.
Joke on you! After Covid i cant smell anything anyway
I felt this....but I thought it was just illusion.
The brain and body acclimate to new conditions. We will just get used to the new smells/lack of smells. Animals will adapt or die to detect the scent molecules better in changing conditions. Life in general evolved through multiple major extinctions and can make needed changes often fairly quickly.
hurt grass warns unhurt grass bout danger?
why?
tf the grass gonna do, run?
Make it’s self taste less appetizing
I love chemistry! 🧑🏿🔬
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please add captions.
I think that when the poles melt the water spreads over the earth. Thus it must surely decrease the distance between the earth and sun by a insignificant amount for us but actually a significant amount for the other daily climate routines which is due to the spreading of water from poles evenly on the ocean layer the sun's gravitational effect on earth must increase on earth resulting in the phenomenon. [In short this is due to the change in earth' angular momentum and centripetal force acting on earth]
I want to mention here the pollutive layer in the atmosphere must rise higher [including the differential density concepts of different components] due to oxygen layer reduction thus allowing the lower pollutive layer to rise much higher thereby depleting the last protective layer and hence helping more in the phenomenon.
Which further rises the concept of 'dry rains' and 'dirty sponges[clouds]'
I also want to add that it would then become difficult for the space communications systems also due to change in atmospheric density.
layman astronomical persons can also add up that it will become difficult for the manned space missions as the return will become difficult due to overheating.
Please correct me If I am wrong...
Haven't smelt anything in over 10 years, i wouldnt know.
We're begging for it we're dying for it
I smell different today, is it because I went to shower, or because I did not go to shower
i am begging you to mention other pollinators alongside bees. they're like a weird cultural hybrid of panda and dairy cow.
Something fishy is going around the world.
Nice! Another reason to be scared about the future of our planet!
I'm 37, and, I think, probably five years away from thinking that, at least for me, things should be over soon-ish. Doesn't help anybody else, but at least that one single person that is me. A very, very faint comfort.
Yes, I did notice the stench of corruption...
Sad world
Nice shirt, simon.
who knew all those cow farts would end up changing how the world smells.