These Islands Shouldn't Exist

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  • Опубліковано 27 лис 2024

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  • @mikek2617
    @mikek2617 27 днів тому +508

    So many of these islands aren't shrinking atoll.

    • @noahpollard9713
      @noahpollard9713 27 днів тому +2

      Source or nothing you say matters

    • @jeffwei
      @jeffwei 27 днів тому +55

      @@noahpollard9713 it's a pun

    • @adamgreen9548
      @adamgreen9548 27 днів тому +23

      @@noahpollard9713 Calm down

    • @88marome
      @88marome 27 днів тому +6

      @noahpollard9713 LoL

    • @lenwecalmcacil
      @lenwecalmcacil 27 днів тому +17

      ​@@noahpollard9713 swoosh

  • @TheMrbox07
    @TheMrbox07 27 днів тому +434

    Coral Biologist here. You did a great job acknowledging the importance of conservation/restoration efforts, but i think the confidence that the coral machine will just keep going is unfounded. There is serious debate whether coral reefs will continue to exist through the middle of this century in a form the provides benefits to humans.
    Im not an expert on islands and erosion, so my next ideas is pure speculation, but I wonder if the shifting balance towards reef erosion on reefs (climate change induced bleaching and other factors) generates more sediment and therefore provides a limited time frame when atolls can grow even if no reef means more coastal erosion in the long term.
    I appreciate your excellent informative videos!

    • @stephenlangsl67
      @stephenlangsl67 27 днів тому +7

      Got it. If I ever purchase a private island that turns out to be a Coral Reef Atoll, I'll make sure to put concrete blocks around the island and have them cemented together.

    • @xiphosura413
      @xiphosura413 27 днів тому +34

      Yeah, it all clicked when he reminded me that ultimately the sediment is sourced primarily from dead coral and other reef life, suddenly it makes sense that these islands are growing considering the amount of coral dying and being smashed up by storms each year is skyrocketing.

    • @midgetsow
      @midgetsow 26 днів тому +9

      This is exactly the concern I have. Unfortunately, climate change deniers will see this video and cry that it's all a hoax and that's why they aren't shrinking.

    • @usz-i7x
      @usz-i7x 26 днів тому +2

      That's exactly what I was thinking!

    • @mousers21
      @mousers21 26 днів тому

      Guess that sea level rising from global warming is overexagerated BS. Oh no, let's ignore this obvious sign of sea rising not happening.

  • @normansuenaga6741
    @normansuenaga6741 27 днів тому +245

    great to see Hank again.

    • @MourninGullTheLostTribeswoman
      @MourninGullTheLostTribeswoman 27 днів тому +2

      Commented 9 minutes ago and only TWO likes⁉️⁉️ WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE ⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️ 👻

    • @TheMooseNextDoor
      @TheMooseNextDoor 27 днів тому +1

      9 hours ago and only 105 likes
      3 weeks ago and only 241 likes

    • @PunishedKrab
      @PunishedKrab 27 днів тому +2

      Jesus, Marie! They're minerals!

    • @JM-cf9xy
      @JM-cf9xy 5 днів тому

      No it isnt he’s a lying dork

  • @zachary37
    @zachary37 27 днів тому +356

    "let's say a wave hits the western edge of an atoll" the wave hits the eastern edge of the atoll on screen, lol

    • @joshbeverly
      @joshbeverly 27 днів тому +31

      Yeah, not sure the person making the graphic read the script or vice versa.

    • @jeremypippen
      @jeremypippen 27 днів тому +16

      this mishap gave me a small headache lol

    • @jantjarks7946
      @jantjarks7946 27 днів тому +10

      My right hand points to the west, while my left hand points to the west too.
      😳

    • @ksyodeb
      @ksyodeb 27 днів тому +10

      @@dasstigma Any map that's oriented with north at the top, will show east on the right and west on the left.

    • @dasstigma
      @dasstigma 27 днів тому +5

      @@ksyodeb Yes I am aware how reality works, I just did not see the compass at first.

  • @jforce91
    @jforce91 27 днів тому +108

    you forgot their foundations- volcanic seamounts. about 3/4 of the world's atolls form over long dead volcanic islands, hence why they are found in close proximity to active oceanic subduction zones or hotspots.
    We can even see this process at work in places like french polynesia and samoa, where the volcanic islands are fringed by reefs, and these reefs will continue to grow even as the volcano dies off.
    Reefs love shallow water with lots of sun- as the seamount erodes, it deposits more sediment, raising the average height of the seabed around the island, which promotes reef growth, which in turn stabilises and traps sediment, so coral is able to grow at even shallower depths.

    • @andrewcorbin4538
      @andrewcorbin4538 14 днів тому +1

      Look at the Hawaiian island chain. They are volcanic in origin. New islands are created and the oldest islands are destined to eventually disappear beneath the waves.

  • @fosibro4951
    @fosibro4951 27 днів тому +204

    Im a maldivian 😮😮
    I feel like there are some points you really shouldve talked about. While sand deposits help build up islands, the our reefs are relatively young and not as extensive as, say, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, which has been forming for over 20 million years, our reefs are only a few thousand years old and cover a much smaller area.
    With global warming killing corals through bleaching and heat stress, sand production will also start slowing down. While in the short term our islands may grow in size massively, eventually the rate kf sea level rise will overwhelm sand production.
    Even with sand deposits, it won’t be enough to keep up with the rising sea levels forever. Even with sea level rise of just 2 to 3 meters we're honestly just f*cked.

    • @Hexamath
      @Hexamath 27 днів тому +19

      Yeah as another Maldivian, the only real way to stop our country from disappearing in a hundred years is to actually stop global warming as it is now. We have to solve the problem head-on, not go around it.

    • @malavoy1
      @malavoy1 26 днів тому +7

      I wonder if you could set up a station off shore and slowly drip some sodium bicarbonate into the water flowing towards the reef to neutralize the acidity in the water that is killing the coral.

    • @fosibro4951
      @fosibro4951 26 днів тому +11

      @malavoy1 there have been discussions about stuff like that, as well as artificially cooling the water on top of coral reefs. The thing is it's too expensive to do at scale and will only be done at a few vital reefs and resort house reefs.

    • @derekboeshans8806
      @derekboeshans8806 26 днів тому +4

      I am really surprised and frankly disappointed that they didn't talk about these aspects in the video.

    • @ceeemm1901
      @ceeemm1901 26 днів тому

      @@malavoy1 LOL! Good one, I love gallows humor!

  • @gatorbait9385
    @gatorbait9385 27 днів тому +59

    I'm in Florida, and I've been telling people for years the beaches and barrier islands are supposed to move

    • @ceeemm1901
      @ceeemm1901 26 днів тому +1

      And you wonder why they ignore you and move away quickly.....

    • @gatorbait9385
      @gatorbait9385 25 днів тому +7

      @ceeemm1901 I wish I had to power to cause people to move away

    • @culwin
      @culwin 23 дні тому +9

      They are supposed to move, but as humans we might prefer them not to move, especially if we build houses on them. And maybe we shouldn't build houses on them, but anyhow.

    • @gatorbait9385
      @gatorbait9385 22 дні тому +2

      @@culwin agreed. Humans have just done a really good job at rebuilding the beaches and barrier islands after every storm for over 100 years to make it look like they're not moving. Eventually it will catch up to us and we'll realize we've ruined the the barrier island system and should've let them move where they needed to be.

    • @dr.floridaman4805
      @dr.floridaman4805 14 днів тому

      ​@@gatorbait9385idiotic
      As long as we maintain the coast line it will remain an intercoastal waterway.
      It is only when we stop maintaining that the holes pop through.
      Go play in the swamp

  • @-Katastrophe
    @-Katastrophe 17 днів тому +23

    member when they said the maldives would stop existing by 2000? by 2020? I member.

    • @garydurandt4260
      @garydurandt4260 8 днів тому

      I do, and the people who spend millions of $$'s building new hotels on the islands must be the dumbest people on earth, either that or they think that the 2000/2020 deadline has probably been pushed out to 2080?

    • @Spratdragon
      @Spratdragon 4 дні тому +1

      I'm sick of the BS. Greta said we would be done by 2023 lol

  • @chrisk283
    @chrisk283 7 днів тому +3

    The optimistic view depends on the “coral factories” continuing to thrive, which they are not due to temperature related bleaching; and, reef restoration will not be successful if the sea temperatures continue to rise beyond a survivable range for corals.

  • @dank_69_420_memes
    @dank_69_420_memes 27 днів тому +66

    The country of Tuvalu is entirely on low lying atolls and they're going to be the first country to become unlivable because of climate change via sea level rise. They're working on digitizing as much of their culture as they can to preserve it once the country is no more. 🇹🇻

    • @RobertCampsall
      @RobertCampsall 26 днів тому +16

      Unfortunately, they've already relocated thousands of Tuvaluan from some of the smaller islands that go completely under water during storms and the salt water is only a centimeter or two below the surface, destroying their very limited fresh water sources and even an maximum tide (don't recall what that's called, it's when the solar and lunar tides sync up) will put them a few centimeters under water.

    • @firelunamoon
      @firelunamoon 25 днів тому +12

      It's heartbreaking to think that an entire nation of people have to digitize their country to preserve it for future generations because one day the whole place will probably be gone.

    • @who-nobody-never
      @who-nobody-never 23 дні тому

      @@firelunamoon At least most of human history wasnt on the coastlines where 90%+ of all humans had ever lived and that 12,000 years ago got submerged in major melt water events.
      Oh wait, most human history IS underwater, and had nothing to do with CO2. nvm. Maybe it's just a thing that can happen to people because the earth isn't here to give us blow jobs and pizza.
      idk, maybe break your heart over all of that, and not some random group of people that found a cool island group to live on for a while that is now going out of time.

    • @smalltime0
      @smalltime0 17 годин тому

      @@RobertCampsall There is sort of a plan to have (almost) the entire population relocated to Australia and New Zealand over the next couple of decades.

  • @platorocks842
    @platorocks842 18 днів тому +7

    Extra point - Atolls sit on top of coral reef platforms. These coral reefs are the product of polyps that grow best at a particular depth. The polyps will grow upwards towards that depth in rising sea-level environments. Reef-forming polyps can grow at up to 20mm a year and thereby the reefs from which they are made will keep pace with current and predicted sea-level rise of maybe 4mm a year. The danger is of course that bigger storms, sea warming, ocean acidification & silting may stunt coral growth.

  • @kevinmanan1304
    @kevinmanan1304 27 днів тому +22

    I went to the Pink Beach near Komodo island. It’s crazy how red coral can blanket the beach a tad pink.

  • @sushantmanandhar1387
    @sushantmanandhar1387 27 днів тому +30

    2:42 that wave's heading west

    • @TaLeng2023
      @TaLeng2023 27 днів тому

      The West is never gonna stop flooding

    • @_Ben___
      @_Ben___ 26 днів тому +1

      Wrong hemisphere

    • @stegsteg6494
      @stegsteg6494 25 днів тому

      duuuurrrr

  • @gmllama
    @gmllama 27 днів тому +31

    I expected to hear more about coral bleaching in an episode about climate change and its effects on small islands/atolls -- will that not have an impact on the ability for these land masses to maintain steady growth patterns based on corals?

    • @MrWombatty
      @MrWombatty 27 днів тому +1

      Was asking myself the same question!

  • @texaspineywoods3879
    @texaspineywoods3879 27 днів тому +20

    Love you for what you do here, Hank. 👍🏻💪

  • @AaronGeo
    @AaronGeo 27 днів тому +422

    *UA-cam slaps climate change tab the second the video releases* (i know it's to combat misinformation, but dear god it's annoying)

    • @katyusha9319
      @katyusha9319 27 днів тому +34

      Not rlly

    • @OzarksWildman
      @OzarksWildman 27 днів тому +31

      It’s like a nanny nobody asked for.

    • @eduardonoriega8667
      @eduardonoriega8667 27 днів тому +2

      Dear God how annoying 😂

    • @VeteranVandal
      @VeteranVandal 27 днів тому +29

      The ads are way, way more annoying. Sometimes this video pulls 6, with at least half a minute being impossible to plainly skip, in a six minute video. That's approximately 7.7% of the about 390 seconds of info.

    • @iffyfox9749
      @iffyfox9749 27 днів тому +50

      ​@@VeteranVandalYeah I couldn't care less about UA-cam citing information that can teach people. I'm more upset about the amount of ads they are throwing at us now

  • @DomyTheMad420
    @DomyTheMad420 27 днів тому +42

    1:55 the hilarious part is that this actually would also happen for your potted plant (if you use certain filler compounds)
    fully saturated soil takes up significantly more space then dry soil.

    • @goosenotmaverick1156
      @goosenotmaverick1156 27 днів тому +7

      Watching substrate do exactly that when bottom watering is a fascinating thing to watch. Even if it is slow 😂

  • @ivanrodriguez268
    @ivanrodriguez268 7 днів тому +1

    the palms def help to prevent erosion as well, have you seen the way their roots grow? they are like anchors

  • @billydagarin
    @billydagarin 9 днів тому +2

    With climate science, I think it’s really important to be humble and honest when we make mistakes. We can’t predict what the impacts of climate change will be on the biosphere in 10 years, let alone 100. It’s best to talk about these findings, and reform our predictions. Great work, Hank!

  • @SarvyShibau
    @SarvyShibau 27 днів тому +6

    Today I learned something insane about where I've lived for nearly 3 decades now. Crazy stuff that our "local experts" are barely scratching the surface on...

    • @aleenaprasannan2146
      @aleenaprasannan2146 3 дні тому

      How much research using remote sensing happen there? If you guys don't have direct access for that data, then it's understandable that local experts might not have noticed this first

  • @Ab_Bea
    @Ab_Bea 27 днів тому +4

    Thank you so much for making the tone more casual. Very much appreciated!

  • @ramonarjona4928
    @ramonarjona4928 27 днів тому +20

    This is a great video and I am always grateful to see attention focused on the island nations of the Pacific.
    That said, in a future video you might consider the impact of ocean acidification and temperature rise on the coral factories, as this is likely to have an important impact on the ecology of the atolls and islands of the Pacific region.

  • @Em4gdn1m
    @Em4gdn1m 27 днів тому +9

    Who you callin an atoll?

  • @abcde_fz
    @abcde_fz 2 дні тому

    THANK YOU FOR SEAMLESSLY INCLUDING
    AN ACCURATE DESCRIPTION/DEFINITION
    OF THE WORD "ATOLL".
    Knowledge is power. Use your head.

  • @aerynsunx
    @aerynsunx 26 днів тому +4

    "Surprise dead bodies." Caitlin Doughty enters the chat.

  • @jamessmithson-br7rm
    @jamessmithson-br7rm 25 днів тому +1

    Nice video, am going to the Maldives in December. Looking forward to staying on an atoll. I’m not convinced they will be there forever and want to go in case they start disappearing

  • @johnsquires387
    @johnsquires387 2 дні тому +1

    Do you guys (like PBS) get sliding scale grants based on the number of times you use the phrase “climate change “?

  • @caleschley
    @caleschley 13 днів тому +1

    Didnt that diagram depict deposits on the Eastern shores, even though you said Western?

  • @mariais85
    @mariais85 9 днів тому

    Great topic for sedimentology final exams: carbonate factories, carbonate sequence stratigraphy, Walther's Law... you name it!

  • @jpt9328
    @jpt9328 27 днів тому +32

    FL has spent more than $2B on beach replenishment since the early 1900s to keep the barrier islands exactly where they are - a literal Sisyphian task.

    • @magnemoe1
      @magnemoe1 27 днів тому +4

      Because people use up the ground water so the land sinks as ground water was part of it. Yes seas has been rising a couple of cm.
      Simply use less ground water and it stops. Ground water is like game animals you can hunt so many and fine 3x it and they get rarer and rarer.

    • @jpt9328
      @jpt9328 27 днів тому +1

      So you're saying drought is causing subsidence? Otherwise average rainfall over time should correct for this. (Sand ain't great at holding groundwater in the absence of soil, and generally the only soil on atolls and barrier islands is in the interior. So why would there be subsidence where there is no soil?)

  • @nununaeem6039
    @nununaeem6039 27 днів тому +2

    Omgggg he’s talking about my country Maldives!! I saw the thumbnail and legit freaked out 😂

  • @AhmedTholaal-s5w
    @AhmedTholaal-s5w 3 дні тому

    Fun fact, I'm from the Maldives and I haven't left the Maldives and have never set foot on any of the continents.

  • @nathanphillipsgo
    @nathanphillipsgo 4 дні тому +1

    So nothing to worry about

  • @auldfouter8661
    @auldfouter8661 25 днів тому +4

    I remember when a huge elm less than a mile from my farm began to die in about 1993. We didn't have all that many in that part of Ayrshire so it took that long for the disease to reach it. It would not have survived anyway as it was growing directly on the route of a new bypass that was built just after that time. All I have left is a photograph.

  • @petergaskin1811
    @petergaskin1811 11 днів тому +1

    Fun fact: Atoll (Atolhu) is the only Dhivehi (Maldivian) word that made in into English.

  • @ThunderApache
    @ThunderApache 27 днів тому +2

    4:51 Can the changing pH of the ocean water due to climate change hamper the process of producing new sand from the coral factory?

  • @whitegryphon2022
    @whitegryphon2022 27 днів тому +2

    This may be regional, but i have heard it said this way for all 50 plus years

  • @rcjones9260
    @rcjones9260 23 дні тому

    The animation at 2:43 was confusing, because the verbal description didn't match what was happening in the image. Until at least half way through the animation it was unclear whether the leading or trailing shore was where the sand was picked up.

  • @anerioone
    @anerioone 7 днів тому

    This will work out fine as long as rising sea level does not kill the coral.

  • @coltonmccuan7518
    @coltonmccuan7518 27 днів тому +2

    Did I hear correctly? Atoll sand is plain Tums powder?

  • @TeeganLee
    @TeeganLee 27 днів тому +7

    I am not a great plant parent and the soil does in fact rise up when I water them sometimes. It dries out so much it becomes hydrophobic and will float.

    • @FirstnameLastname-db5pp
      @FirstnameLastname-db5pp 27 днів тому

      It doesnt become hydrophilic just the water alone can not take the air out of the dried soil that why it rises then the dryed soil has air inside hydrophilic 🤣🤣🤣

    • @deek791
      @deek791 27 днів тому

      The organic material in the soil also expands as it soaks up and retains water, leading to an increase in volume.

    • @TeeganLee
      @TeeganLee 27 днів тому +2

      @@FirstnameLastname-db5pp I said hydrophobic, not hydrophilic, that’s literally the exact opposite. And soil can absolutely become hydrophobic.

    • @TeeganLee
      @TeeganLee 27 днів тому +1

      @@deek791 that’s not what I’m talking about though.

    • @TaLeng2023
      @TaLeng2023 27 днів тому

      ​@@TeeganLeetrue. I've had some pots I forgot to plant anything and it hasn't been watered for quite a while that now it won't absorb water.

  • @mellissadalby1402
    @mellissadalby1402 27 днів тому +6

    I honestly believe that a good portion of all that white sand is from Parrot fish poop.
    They nibble off the buts of coral and poop out much white sand, I've seen videos of that behavior.
    Plus, they are at work in that way all the time.

  • @Bakasan16
    @Bakasan16 27 днів тому +38

    Obviously its because Islands float on the water

    • @colin-nekritz
      @colin-nekritz 27 днів тому +10

      It’s true, and birds aren’t real.

    • @YeenMage
      @YeenMage 27 днів тому +2

      Only in the Greek myth where the titaness Leto gave birth on a floating island and others.

    • @jasongrundy1717
      @jasongrundy1717 27 днів тому +7

      That also explains why Manhatten isn't under water like was supposed to be 2 decades ago. Because continents float too!

    • @alexshinxs3605
      @alexshinxs3605 27 днів тому +4

      ​@@jasongrundy1717 that they unironically do

    • @lysandroabelcher2592
      @lysandroabelcher2592 27 днів тому +2

      Yeah I heard one guy said something on that like lately at DJT rally in MSG, about Puerto Rico. And still he'd be voted because his name has the right letters on it... #WeeklyWorldNews becoming real 🤦‍♂#OyVey

  • @rosiefay7283
    @rosiefay7283 18 днів тому

    2:16 Extraordinary. The story that something like this was happening to San Serriffe was told as a *joke* --- and here it is for real.

  • @gijsvanlieshout
    @gijsvanlieshout 19 днів тому

    Around 3:00 you talk about ẃaves from the West. The animation shows them coming from the East though (with my assumption that North is up).

  • @madeinfoxtrap5539
    @madeinfoxtrap5539 25 днів тому +1

    Mont Ste. Michel has been a tidal island for all of recorded history…..

  • @KafkaShoppe
    @KafkaShoppe 23 дні тому

    The surprise inspirational science video I needed today.

  • @edg8535
    @edg8535 7 днів тому

    Many years ago I read several articles concerning the raising height of the Pacific ring due to the shift of the earth's plates. In the several past years I only saw one reference to this. To me, this would create the rise of some land and also a rise of the Pacific itself or should.

  • @crimsonraen
    @crimsonraen 27 днів тому

    Huh, that's really neat! It makes sense, but is also super cool. :)

  • @Salsuero
    @Salsuero 25 днів тому

    My geography degree says your description of the "west" is actually the "east" -- but details are a tricky thing, I hear.

  • @kellydalstok8900
    @kellydalstok8900 27 днів тому +1

    Can you make a video about the Waddeneilanden? It’s not just tropical islands which are interesting.

  • @akashbhardwaj948
    @akashbhardwaj948 10 днів тому

    Damn. These buggers just won’t sink do they.

  • @Aluenvey
    @Aluenvey 27 днів тому +1

    Oh dude that sounds like a way to make small islands regenerate lost land mass. That or they're made out of Oatmeal.

  • @timnicholls19
    @timnicholls19 16 днів тому +1

    Them let's grow more reefs...... then there's me. Let's plant mangroves

    • @raclark2730
      @raclark2730 13 днів тому

      Lets have a party and do both. 🎉

  • @DavidTonner
    @DavidTonner 15 днів тому

    Thanks!

  • @648Roland
    @648Roland 27 днів тому +5

    Acidification of the oceans plus water temperature are the tipping points.

  • @baomao7243
    @baomao7243 26 днів тому

    Reminds me sand dunes in great deserts - wind creates dunes and then dunes interact with wind, and …

  • @johanalpas8146
    @johanalpas8146 19 днів тому

    Most melting ice , increased water mass is mostly at the equator. The Earth's rotation causes water mass to bulges in the equatorial regions, they are the ones to suffer ocean rise.

    • @TheScandoman
      @TheScandoman 14 днів тому

      Well, since "most" only means 50.1%, it might appear that this could be the case, HOWEVER, since, technically, the width of the Equator is ZERO, it cannot contain any water, whatsoever, so, it cannot contain MORE water!
      If you want to claim that some 'equatorial zone' is getting "most" of the additional water, you must first define "equatorial zone", and then, show some math* to prove that your equatorial zone is not "most" of the surface area of the planet, to begin with!
      ...And showing how much of the extra would go there.
      * or, at least, someone's math!
      My rough calculations indicate that about 73% of Earth's surface lies between the Tropic of Cancer (~23° N), (i.e. just south of Key West Florida) and the Tropic of Capricorn (~23° S).
      So, just for the purpose of general conception, you could be approxatimg that half of the world's surface would be between about 17° N and 17° S...so, not a big surprise that half of the 'extra' water would go there, because half of the 'normal' water is there!
      NOTE: this ignores the fact that much more of Earth's land mass is located in the Northern Hemisphere, and there is much more water area in the Southern Hemisphere...
      What's probably more important is the effect of adding significant extra water to the oceans will have on salinity, temperature, evaporation, and the prevailing ocean currents. 😮

  • @arenomusic
    @arenomusic 23 дні тому

    I thought this was gonna be a video specifically about the Maldives :(

  • @krakhedd
    @krakhedd 9 днів тому

    We'll see how long this persists, considering corals are dying off due to carbonation of seawater causing acidification, "eating" their calcium structures. That will provide excess sediments for some time as growth of new corals dwindles.

  • @matthewkeating-od6rl
    @matthewkeating-od6rl 25 днів тому

    Great vid

  • @ProjectNOTOS
    @ProjectNOTOS 27 днів тому +9

    INTERESTING VIDEO! We will do a video about the smallest island ever

  • @TheStickCollector
    @TheStickCollector 27 днів тому +9

    "I'm still standing" -Them

  • @sequoyayosemite2771
    @sequoyayosemite2771 8 днів тому +1

    What about Vanuatu?

  • @jasonspeeds1
    @jasonspeeds1 27 днів тому +1

    So, are only the coastlines of these islands going to stay above sea level, while the interiors remain at their previous height? Or are the raising the interior, buildings and infrastructure as the sea rises?

  • @Tea_and_Crafts
    @Tea_and_Crafts 23 дні тому

    Now I wanna know about the forgotten burial....

  • @iceman9678
    @iceman9678 12 днів тому

    Who knew reefs would keep growing?!?

  • @InimicalWit
    @InimicalWit 26 днів тому +6

    I like the people in the comments who are suggesting climate change isn’t real, by way of the evidence we have of how often the climate on the planet has changed. Y’know, in its lifetime.
    Like … the antihero gaslighting the hero by telling them their idea is awful and then pretending to come up with it in the next moment.
    That and I like how people think that billions of people doing things on a planet aren’t going to have an effect on it.
    We weren’t here. And now we are. Yes. That’s going to change things.
    Like … yes, the climate is going to shift SOMEHOW.
    Are we going to accurately predict it?
    That’s only maybe

  • @paulinemoira8442
    @paulinemoira8442 27 днів тому

    Since you mentioned fresh ground water; where does ground water on small islands even come from? Rain alone doesn't seem to be enough.

    • @aleenaprasannan2146
      @aleenaprasannan2146 3 дні тому

      Sedimentary Carbonate rocks are very good aquifers. So they'd have sufficient ground water reserves and unlike inland regions, there would be commercial extraction of these to supply to another overcrowded region

  • @txaggievet
    @txaggievet 5 днів тому

    Why are islands not sinking? Because sea levels are NOT rising, most of the issues on coasts are due to developments which allow the sand to be eroded without replacement and no drainage allows flooding.

  • @MawdyDev
    @MawdyDev 27 днів тому +2

    I thought there was a skidmark in the thumbnail...

    • @Hexamath
      @Hexamath 27 днів тому +1

      LMAO that is the funniest reaction to my country being in the thumbnail I've seen so far.

    • @MawdyDev
      @MawdyDev 27 днів тому +1

      @Hexamath I'M SORRY

  • @General12th
    @General12th 26 днів тому

    Hi Hank!

  • @ceeemm1901
    @ceeemm1901 26 днів тому

    I don't think "Hey look at the Maldives, they're growing!" is gunna help to rebound confidence and positivity in the Florida real estate market.......

  • @dibaterman
    @dibaterman 10 днів тому

    Science is about why things happen, politics is about how to keep it a way.

  • @markojotic
    @markojotic 9 днів тому

    You should have mentioned that the white sand is parrot fish poop sand.

  • @key099able
    @key099able 25 днів тому

    Yeah, been wondering why Åland Islands seems to have lower water than higher.

  • @TheMooseNextDoor
    @TheMooseNextDoor 27 днів тому

    This is a very interesting video

  • @cht2162
    @cht2162 27 днів тому +1

    Is this Nothing Atoll?

  • @KingOfGamesss
    @KingOfGamesss 27 днів тому

    What's the deal with the Star-Shaped sand on a few certain beaches?

  • @timmallette1888
    @timmallette1888 26 днів тому

    Atoll is a word that was totally fine until i heard it so many times and now it sounds super weird.

  • @genovo
    @genovo 15 днів тому

    Dr Doolittle has something to do with it.

  • @benja1378
    @benja1378 15 днів тому

    Pretty reckless and dangerous assumptions tbh

  • @Piemasteratron
    @Piemasteratron 25 днів тому

    I thought it was that water sloshes around the gyre at the edge not in the middle, where I thought the islands are

  • @geoffmorgan2794
    @geoffmorgan2794 День тому

    Kiribati was supposed to have been underwater by 2014!!

  • @st-ex8506
    @st-ex8506 11 днів тому

    At the end of the last glaciation, sea level rose some 120 meters in 11'500 years... that's a good meter per century on average... but up to 5-6 meters in a single century during what is called "melt-water pulses". And, despite such incredibly fast sea level rise, coral reefs and coral islands kept existing. Could it be that coral reefs can grow even faster than the sea-level rise of the worst melt-water pulse?
    After all, the Maldives existed as coral islands at the time of the last glaciation maximum (LGM), as demonstrated by Anderson et al, in 1998, at a time sea level was 130 meters lower than today! Furthermore, there are evidences that sea level was 50-60 cm HIGHER than today in the Madives, only a few centuries back. This seemingly weird behavior is made possible by the so-called "Indian Ocean geoid low". BTW, that geoid depression is worth looking up on Wikipedia and other sites... it's most surprising!

  • @wintermath3173
    @wintermath3173 23 дні тому

    How will the coral conveyor belt continue after all the corals bleach?

    • @PeterMcInnes-ti8ou
      @PeterMcInnes-ti8ou 14 днів тому +1

      All corals dont seem to bleach only some the rest seem to survive just like the barrier reef, reputed to be dying for many years but not complying with the narrative

  • @normhagen1913
    @normhagen1913 26 днів тому

    Love the show … great to see Hank back…climate change we are all doomed. ✔️✔️ and ✔️

  • @montanausa329
    @montanausa329 15 днів тому +2

    Glaciers are the biggest ever the Great Barrier Reef is super healthy polar bears are tripled since the 1070s but they never seem to mention it.

  • @sophigenitor
    @sophigenitor 19 днів тому

    The planet always finds a way

  • @ksyodeb
    @ksyodeb 27 днів тому +7

    OK, the wave graphic shows waves coming in from the east and striking the eastern shore....not the west. Unless it's upside down.

    • @jantjarks7946
      @jantjarks7946 27 днів тому +2

      No, it was from the north to the south, but he didn't notice that it was turned sideways.

  • @jursamaj
    @jursamaj 27 днів тому

    Of course, if the waves are bad enough, they don't just push the sediment around, but wash it away from the island entirely…

  • @dqdq4083
    @dqdq4083 5 днів тому +1

    Maldives shouldve been gone by now tho

  • @Veer-x4o
    @Veer-x4o 25 днів тому

    Perhaps they move eastward around Sri Lanka and slowly move up the bay of Bengal and then towards China before being annexed by the two faced dragon

  • @theorganguy
    @theorganguy 13 днів тому

    ok, so there is accumulation of sediment; doesn't explain how these islands lift up thru the rise of sea level...

  • @tanjavandermeer3522
    @tanjavandermeer3522 26 днів тому

    So, basically atolls are dunes IN the sea?

  • @xpndblhero5170
    @xpndblhero5170 27 днів тому

    Sand being sneaky asf.... 😂

  • @kylerussell1942
    @kylerussell1942 20 днів тому

    I think you buried the lead there. Poseidon uncovered mass graves?

  • @bufordmaddogtannen5164
    @bufordmaddogtannen5164 9 днів тому

    Storms happen and raise the water.. been happening forever

  • @scoobiusmaximus9508
    @scoobiusmaximus9508 27 днів тому +2

    So how does all the coral dying from warmer oceans affect this process?

  • @bearlemley
    @bearlemley 26 днів тому

    Yea, they have been promising that California would break off… I’m still waiting.