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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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.
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?
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.
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. 🇹🇻
It is well known fact that you will typically have depositional shores on land that is sinking and erosional shores where it is rising. As an example the northern part of Denmark with dunes and spits that grow, opposed to the cliffs the European Mediterranean coast that are eroded by waves and rockfalls.
At around 3:00 your eastern/western directions are swapped, "let's say a big wave heading east hits the western edge of an atoll...." but the animation on-screen shows those directions swapped. This could easily be fixed by mirroring that chunk of video across a vertical axis.
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.
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...
Funny how Google virtue-signals so hard while their AI (like many other tech companies AIs) gobbles energy like crazy leaving significant negative environmental impact.
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.
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.
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 🤣🤣🤣
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?
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.
3:06 Okay, real talk, I vibe with this east/west mixup. Like, I fuckin’ know what east and west are, but one thing that keeps happening in 4+ decades of life, now, is I will open my mouth to say one and the other comes out. 💙
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
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.
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?)
So based on the same idea that a tolls are going to remain because history was constantly providing with new decay; what would science show have to say about the theory that oil is not really a scarcity because of the same reason.
Scarcity is not the major reason why everyone is trying to move away from it, though. It is definitely a factor as finding new well locations and setting up is costly. Also, it is not a universal resource, so some countries make money while others become dependent on them.
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
@@oscarmedina1303 and what is the cause of that? He mentions around three times the rise. If this was the case then the sea level rise of three times at the equator would also be relevant backwards in time, and the oblique sphereoid that is the earth would almost be the disk that the flat earthers go on about. Also, three times what? If the average sea level rise is 20cm, and the sea has already risen by 60cm to 70cm around the equator, that means that the areas further away from the equator have not risen at all, and therefore would be causing the earth to flatten.
Gosh AI is terrible at nuance and sarcasm. I get these disclaimers from the noble YT producers counteracting the flat earth and the anti-vaxx narrative.
So, as usual, the "ironclad predictions" given over the years have proven to be wrong. But, we're still operating under the rather arrogant assumption that we understand these systems. The feedback loops and poorly understood mechanisms are proving to confound all the expert predictions.
Why have half the commentators acc's numbers at the end and their profile pics all are empty? Seems like a botwave. Have seen a lot of this recently on YT, everywherer. kinda sus
Look at pictures of beaches and harbours and the status of liberty from 1900s to 2020s there's no evidence of rising sea levels. Many examples the ground is actually sinking.
@@josephrockey2000These are institutional issues that need to change. Individual civilian actions are a very small cause of climate change. The vast majority of climate change is caused by businesses. So try again.
I presume that when you mention 'climate change' you are referring to 'global warming'. If that is the case thee is a problem - The globe is not warming. Certainly i have not observed it warming in the last four and a half decades where I live. Nor have others that I talk to. Certainly if I do witness actual global warming in the future I might change my ideas. And even if I can bear witness to it I would be reluctant to attribute it to the actions of human kind with out seeing verifiable scientific proof.
But I thought coral reefs were declining as a result of global warming, how could they therefor be reinvigorating atolls? You kinda buried the lead here as well, since the dawn of the global warming freakout, not one inhabited atoll/island has disappeared nor will any as a result of this phenomena.
Manhattanite here. Since those predictions, much of lower Manhattan has been built up, especially the western end. You can put your head in the eroding sand but you know who isn’t? Big insurance and the military, both who not only believe in science and the data trends. Especially insurance who has less and less interest in helping coastal Floridians.
You are in the US as far as I'm aware. Why do you use the metric system only? You make me STOP the video so I can Google the equivalent in inches. That is so freaking annoying! If you want to have all ages and countries be interested in watching your videos, please please please, at least, put the English system equivalent on the screen in writing. THAT IS ALL!
"Step foot" has been around since the 19th century and is commonly regarded as an eggcorn of set foot as as become more prominent, particularly in the US.
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!
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.
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.
great to see Hank again.
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Jesus, Marie! They're minerals!
So many of these islands aren't shrinking atoll.
Source or nothing you say matters
@@noahpollard9713 it's a pun
@@noahpollard9713 Calm down
@noahpollard9713 LoL
@@noahpollard9713 swoosh
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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.
I'm in Florida, and I've been telling people for years the beaches and barrier islands are supposed to move
"let's say a wave hits the western edge of an atoll" the wave hits the eastern edge of the atoll on screen, lol
Yeah, not sure the person making the graphic read the script or vice versa.
this mishap gave me a small headache lol
My right hand points to the west, while my left hand points to the west too.
😳
@@dasstigma Any map that's oriented with north at the top, will show east on the right and west on the left.
@@ksyodeb Yes I am aware how reality works, I just did not see the compass at first.
2:42 that wave's heading west
The West is never gonna stop flooding
I went to the Pink Beach near Komodo island. It’s crazy how red coral can blanket the beach a tad pink.
Love you for what you do here, Hank. 👍🏻💪
Thank you so much for making the tone more casual. Very much appreciated!
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?
Was asking myself the same question!
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.
Watching substrate do exactly that when bottom watering is a fascinating thing to watch. Even if it is slow 😂
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. 🇹🇻
Acidification of the oceans plus water temperature are the tipping points.
It is well known fact that you will typically have depositional shores on land that is sinking and erosional shores where it is rising. As an example the northern part of Denmark with dunes and spits that grow, opposed to the cliffs the European Mediterranean coast that are eroded by waves and rockfalls.
At around 3:00 your eastern/western directions are swapped, "let's say a big wave heading east hits the western edge of an atoll...." but the animation on-screen shows those directions swapped. This could easily be fixed by mirroring that chunk of video across a vertical axis.
Never Eat Soggy Weet-Bix, Hank 😂
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.
Who you callin an atoll?
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...
What a bunch of atolls.
🥁🥁 🥁
*UA-cam slaps climate change tab the second the video releases* (i know it's to combat misinformation, but dear god it's annoying)
Not rlly
It’s like a nanny nobody asked for.
Funny how Google virtue-signals so hard while their AI (like many other tech companies AIs) gobbles energy like crazy leaving significant negative environmental impact.
Dear God how annoying 😂
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.
Omgggg he’s talking about my country Maldives!! I saw the thumbnail and legit freaked out 😂
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.
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 🤣🤣🤣
The organic material in the soil also expands as it soaks up and retains water, leading to an increase in volume.
@@FirstnameLastname-db5pp I said hydrophobic, not hydrophilic, that’s literally the exact opposite. And soil can absolutely become hydrophobic.
@@deek791 that’s not what I’m talking about though.
@@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.
1:31 quantitive analisys speeded up
2:45 - Think you have your East and West mixed up!
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?
Can you make a video about the Waddeneilanden? It’s not just tropical islands which are interesting.
This may be regional, but i have heard it said this way for all 50 plus years
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.
Oh dude that sounds like a way to make small islands regenerate lost land mass. That or they're made out of Oatmeal.
Until the corals bleach and die from the increased heat...
Since you mentioned fresh ground water; where does ground water on small islands even come from? Rain alone doesn't seem to be enough.
3:06
Okay, real talk, I vibe with this east/west mixup. Like, I fuckin’ know what east and west are, but one thing that keeps happening in 4+ decades of life, now, is I will open my mouth to say one and the other comes out. 💙
Huh, that's really neat! It makes sense, but is also super cool. :)
Did I hear correctly? Atoll sand is plain Tums powder?
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
1:49 That's literally what happens if you have good soil though. xD
I'm genuinely concerned. I used informal dialect to defuse any tension, but I am concerned.
This is a very interesting video
Sand being sneaky asf.... 😂
Is this Nothing Atoll?
I thought there was a skidmark in the thumbnail...
LMAO that is the funniest reaction to my country being in the thumbnail I've seen so far.
@Hexamath I'M SORRY
Wonderful.
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.
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.
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?)
Of course, if the waves are bad enough, they don't just push the sediment around, but wash it away from the island entirely…
Good thing all the coral reefs are fully healthy and doing well as ever. Right?
What's the deal with the Star-Shaped sand on a few certain beaches?
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?
So based on the same idea that a tolls are going to remain because history was constantly providing with new decay; what would science show have to say about the theory that oil is not really a scarcity because of the same reason.
Scarcity is not the major reason why everyone is trying to move away from it, though. It is definitely a factor as finding new well locations and setting up is costly. Also, it is not a universal resource, so some countries make money while others become dependent on them.
Where do we usually find upkifted land ....
Can you please explain how is there drinkable ground water in an atol or any island ?
>sees title and my country on thumbnail
Man what did we ever do to you -also true-
Obviously its because Islands float on the water
It’s true, and birds aren’t real.
Only in the Greek myth where the titaness Leto gave birth on a floating island and others.
That also explains why Manhatten isn't under water like was supposed to be 2 decades ago. Because continents float too!
@@jasongrundy1717 that they unironically do
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
coral islands formed because they used to be under water. The idea that the planet will be static for eternity is ridiculous.
Even continents aint static
Who said the planet is static?
So that disproves man made global warming?
@@TheDanEdwardssome people think that way. Then again, some people think Earth is flat. I used to think they were just trolling until I met one 🫤
At 1:10 surely you must have meant 20 millimeters, not, centimeters;)
Wait, 2:45, what direction is the wave heading?
I think the animation team may have erred?
Thank you, I was so confused.
From the south to the north, they turned it sideways and he didn't notice.
They messed up. I spent 10 minutes on this
So some atolls might be growing, but the cyclones they face are also growing stronger and faster than they are, thanks to climate change :-(
4:40 the Bikini Bottom Line
Hank looks a bit sick
I'm surrounded by atolls!
I mean nothing and everything should exist
So the sea level isn’t rising due to “global warming”?
Yeah we Maldivians still rockin 😅 🇲🇻
INTERESTING VIDEO! We will do a video about the smallest island ever
So how does all the coral dying from warmer oceans affect this process?
That's good news to wake up to. 😊
Can anyone tell me how the hell the sea level is rising faster around these atolls 1:11 than anywhere else?
Sea level rises faster the closer you are to the equator. Look at the distance from the Equator.
@@oscarmedina1303 and what is the cause of that? He mentions around three times the rise. If this was the case then the sea level rise of three times at the equator would also be relevant backwards in time, and the oblique sphereoid that is the earth would almost be the disk that the flat earthers go on about. Also, three times what? If the average sea level rise is 20cm, and the sea has already risen by 60cm to 70cm around the equator, that means that the areas further away from the equator have not risen at all, and therefore would be causing the earth to flatten.
@@barnysadventures Wow, so much to unpack in one comment. The way you are reaching for it is amazing! 😀
"I'm still standing" -Them
Climate Change
Isn't the Maldives on a plate. No other islands on that plate?
except...
we are as a result of that same climate change,
killing the coral reefs.
OK, the wave graphic shows waves coming in from the east and striking the eastern shore....not the west. Unless it's upside down.
No, it was from the north to the south, but he didn't notice that it was turned sideways.
Wait so kid John Green was right, small islands do float kinda not really!
MALDIVES MENTIONED🇲🇻🇲🇻🇲🇻🇲🇻🇲🇻🇲🇻🇲🇻🇲🇻🇲🇻 🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 WTF IS A GOOD GOVERNMENT THAT ISNT CORRUPT 😭😭😭💀💀💀💀💀
Should've written "WTF IS A NON-MUSLIM" because almost every single one of em is a muslim
Muizzu will f our country 😂
Got the climate change label already as bonus..😂😂😂
Gosh AI is terrible at nuance and sarcasm. I get these disclaimers from the noble YT producers counteracting the flat earth and the anti-vaxx narrative.
Yo you sweaty and your pupils be dilated. I am worried about you Hank
So, as usual, the "ironclad predictions" given over the years have proven to be wrong. But, we're still operating under the rather arrogant assumption that we understand these systems. The feedback loops and poorly understood mechanisms are proving to confound all the expert predictions.
Which is also a bone-nus
Big LOL
Why have half the commentators acc's numbers at the end and their profile pics all are empty? Seems like a botwave. Have seen a lot of this recently on YT, everywherer. kinda sus
welp these acc's are almost all 10-12 years old, which first made me less and then more sus xD
Republicans and libertarians looking forward to Kevin Costner's Waterworld with zeal!
Look at pictures of beaches and harbours and the status of liberty from 1900s to 2020s there's no evidence of rising sea levels. Many examples the ground is actually sinking.
Absolutely
He said, as he used gasoline and electricity right along with everyone else…
Yawn.
@@josephrockey2000These are institutional issues that need to change. Individual civilian actions are a very small cause of climate change. The vast majority of climate change is caused by businesses. So try again.
@@ferretyluv And those businesses are doing what exactly? Oh that's right, providing goods and services for ol' joelharris4399.
I presume that when you mention 'climate change' you are referring to 'global warming'. If that is the case thee is a problem - The globe is not warming. Certainly i have not observed it warming in the last four and a half decades where I live. Nor have others that I talk to. Certainly if I do witness actual global warming in the future I might change my ideas. And even if I can bear witness to it I would be reluctant to attribute it to the actions of human kind with out seeing verifiable scientific proof.
Hank said atoll ... Everyone take a shot !
Boy am i drunk ! 😂
Living islands... 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎!
🖖😹👍
You know what? Forget flat earth. I'm a buoyant islandist now.
Scientists: "Climate change will swallow these islands!!!"
Islands: don't get swallowed
Scientists: "Im super serial, you guys"
Those specific islands that form in unusual ways dont get swallowed*.
@@Nazuiko unusual? How are these particular atolls unusual, precisely?
@@justinpyle3415 Many islands are not atolls.
@@TheDanEdwards no way!
I guess when i said "these islands", i forgot there were people who didnt actually understand english; nice to meet you 🫠
But I thought coral reefs were declining as a result of global warming, how could they therefor be reinvigorating atolls? You kinda buried the lead here as well, since the dawn of the global warming freakout, not one inhabited atoll/island has disappeared nor will any as a result of this phenomena.
I bet the hotel that wanted to build on the old grave site was the OVERLOOK. Happy Halloween
There were a lot of Manhattan will be under the ocean by 2020 predictions I remember growing up.
They are actively fighting against it
@ true but there were also a lot of sensational predictions that in the long term undermine the cause.
Manhattanite here. Since those predictions, much of lower Manhattan has been built up, especially the western end. You can put your head in the eroding sand but you know who isn’t? Big insurance and the military, both who not only believe in science and the data trends. Especially insurance who has less and less interest in helping coastal Floridians.
@@colin-nekritz Weirdly nowhere around Manhatten has had to do that. Martha's Vineyard and Obama's sea-level house is fine. WEIRD!
....and the absolute failure of every cataclysmic climate catastrophe model in history tells us what...??
his looks doesn't fit his age for some reason
So... can I think of atolls as the tops of undersea sand dunes?
You are in the US as far as I'm aware. Why do you use the metric system only? You make me STOP the video so I can Google the equivalent in inches. That is so freaking annoying! If you want to have all ages and countries be interested in watching your videos, please please please, at least, put the English system equivalent on the screen in writing. THAT IS ALL!
Maldivians hit thumbs up!
👋👋👋
is that hank from hanks channel??
Yes, also from Vlogbrothers.
0:54 "Step foot" is not a thing. You step, or you set foot. "Step foot" has somehow gotten popular lately, and it is nails-on-chalkboard irritating!
Language changes and people can talk how they want, deal with it. 🤷♂️
Bet you’re fun at parties.
"Step foot" has been around since the 19th century and is commonly regarded as an eggcorn of set foot as as become more prominent, particularly in the US.
those are very conservative sea-rise figures...
In EVERY possible sense, you betcha.