536 AD: The Year That The Sun Disappeared | Catastrophe | Real History
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- A climatic catastrophe rocked the Earth in A.D. 535, causing two years of darkness, famine, drought and disease. Was it a comet? An asteroid? A volcano?
Written records from China, Italy, Palestine and many other countries suggest a huge catastrophe blighted the world in 536 AD. But the cause of it has been uncertain. Archaeologist David Keys reveals that a volcano is to blame for the Dark Ages of famine and plague that shaped the world order of today.
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19:57 Gi what ? Normous?
Really ? 💩💩💩💩💩
Commercial breaks every 5 minutes? How F6cking expensive was this to produce? This renders it unwatchable.
If there was some kind of cloud covering the sun from a volcano, they would have mentioned it.
Kungushker
@@TheDeepening718 are you serious? We don’t want anything they teach us nothing in our educational system. And the history they do teach us it’s just a bunch of lies. start learning things on your own. There’s a very interesting world out there, much more interesting than what I learned in high school and college.
Nothing like a good apocalypse story to drift off to sleep to.
Exactly.
😅
My nightly ritual
Sleep well
I totally thought I was the only one who did this, lol. Sweet dreams everyone.
Exactly
What's fascinating to me is that everybody who survived this, and every other hardship, are the ancestors of everyone alive, today. We are the lucky ones.
Yep. Too many don't appreciate the genes we have inherited from those who struggled through horrendous catastrophes. They lived to pass that strong gene pool on to us.
@@Julieb615why do you think you have such strong genes?
Not just me, but everyone alive today is the descendent of people who survived horrific catastrophes. We owe it to them, and to ourselves, to strive to be strong, make a mark on this world, and pass that along to offspring. I believe we should all make an effort to instill in the younger generations an appreciation of how much our ancestors survived to allow us to be here.@@Noisemansoundinsect
@@Julieb615it’s not popular to be a strong survivor nowadays, it’s popular to be a victim sadly.
and the Vatican and secret societies have kept us ignorant about the fact that indeed another reset is coming. and the WEF won't be doing it.
I understand his fascination with the mid sixth century catastrophe, but the fact that he works on a computer from the same century is dedication to craft.
At that point in time it was state of the art.
This documentary is from 2000s @aflinden555
@@goci5117 it was a joke
@@mountaincarjunkie3307 U never know this day and age lol
You caught a body with this comment lmao good one 😂
The music guy on this series went HARD.
He took that $2000 and it was his time to shine 😂
There must be a mute background music like its for subtitles.@@Dev-In-Denver123
The U.S. has a ton of climate deniers.
They deny anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change (and "climate-denier" is much shorter than saying all of _that_ every time)
They deny anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change
"if we were faced with a global event in the future it's not quite clear how we would cope". We would cope poorly, Prof Mike. We would definitely cope poorly.
every person for themselves, prolly
Well Covid showed our lack of cooperation and what poor leadership can lead to
@@janvdb9258 covid was "imagination" gone wild...the Dr.s were killing ppl in panic-treatments(unguided) @ no fault , then wall street saw the Vac-$$...and facci sold it to the world...hysteria in textbook-sense...imo'
We are in the last days now and humanity won't do very well at all!!!
Most will end up in hell!!!
@@kirkkirkland7244 The only people going to hell are you false Christians constantly screaming doom and damnation whilst ignoring the pain and deprivation of your brothers and sisters across the world.
I recorded this video on VHS cassette tape when it first aired on PBS in 2000. Hard to believe it's been 22 years.
The good old days
Hey I know right I'm 31 now Bro. How do you feel about nat Geo now plus the history channel?
It's a trip right.
It’s absolutely surreal.
Good thing there isn't a grand solar minimum occurring from 2021 to 55, nor a planetary alignment in 2024, cus that would really suck, they each, and also combined, then possibly causing global mantel shifting exponential. Just saying,.. If
Its so hard to find the perfect voice to completely ignore while I lay down - but this narrator's got it.
Yeah but how do you ignore the music 💀
@@BelleFlower15 it just spices up the dreams, you know?
I have too many commercials
@@BelleFlower15the music is creepy & I love it 😁 it really suits the apocalyptic story
His name is Richard Dawkins. 😊
Mt. Tambora’s eruption in 1815 caused the year without a summer. In 1883 Krakatoa erupted with an explosion that could be heard for a few thousand miles and it also caused weather disruptions.
Thanks, Professor Numbskull.
@@simpleman5688you don’t have to be mean bro
Awesome
@@simpleman5688love your reply dipshyit
A massive asteroid smashed into the Indian Ocean near Madagascar a millennia ago which caused massive tsunamis around that ocean. The atmospheric fallout could have done anything
It's currently believed that three major volcanos - all unknown - went off in sequence, with one of them triggering this particular crisis. Before things fully warmed up again, another volcano went off, and then another a few years later. So there was an extensive period of chill, from 536-560.
Very interesting. That would better explain how this catastrophe was world wide.
Vesuvius, Santorini, and Krakatoa? I don't know the timelines for them.
Atleast the a/c bill was low
@@kiriuxeosa8716 To be sure. Though the real problem back then was plugging in, because the only source of electricity was lightning. 🌩
Oh, now that I think about it, they DID have wind powered AC. 🤔
Bull, it was the climate change deniers and their apathy towards the environment.
I've always thought that this was the inspiration for the Norse Ragnarok, which, according to the Edda was to begin with a three year long winter.
That might not be very far fetched. Interesting idea.
Btw, being norwegian I know what you're talking about
Nah we all know it starts with Surtr duh
Bo Gräslund(Swedish archaeologist) agrees with you about this
Ragnarok is the end of the world, the gods killed each other and left.
Thor (literal lightning) came down with the bulls head (mars) to catch jormungandr (the mountain ranges). And that's not even Ragnarok, just one time Thor was acting up.
I think the planets (gods) were a lot closer back then.
Look up the aboriginal petroglyphs in Australia and compare them to plasma discharge. They saw that stuff in the sky.
Also compare the scar on mars to the pitting of welders (plasma discharger) on metal ( you'll have to get a magnified image.)
And George RR Martin's ASOIF.
I cannot imagine what my ancestors had to do to survive that eldritch horror of a year
They said it was a decade even 😮
Thugged it out for a decade
We got too comfortable
Lots of war and r@pe.
Or plagues
Maybe when the Aztecs said the sun disappeared they weren't joking
It doesn't really sound much like a joke.
Based on the limited available info about those impressive and fascinating people, it doesn’t appear they joked about much lol.
The Aztecs killed tons of people, all with the excuse they were keeping the sun alive. When the sun appeared to be failing, I bet they killed even more. But people eventually decided it wasn't working and abandoned the altars.
The Aztecs weren't around that long ago... but they were known to be fascinated by solar eclipses, when the sun disappears. Teotihuacan, and also the Mayans, were definitely affected by this series of eruptions.
The Aztec Empire flourished in central Mexico during the Postclassic period of Mesoamerican history, from approximately A.D. 1325 to 1521.
They aren’t as old as most ppl think they are.
Watching this 20 years after it was aired, it should be clear that we have a lot more to discover.
You might as well have said you have a strong suspicion that Milton write Paradise Lost.
aged extremly well
Makes one realize our survival on this planet is due to a pretty narrow set of circumstances. We could easily encounter natural events that resulted in us being wiped out completely.
Wiping out humanity as a species would take some pretty drastic events. Devastating modern civilization and resulting in the deaths of billions would be easy-peasy.
@@colinsmith1495
If Ebola or HIV/AIDS ever mutates and becomes airborne, humanity could very well be wiped out.
It is a long shot, such disease don't just mutate to become airborne, but it isn't out of possibility.
NOT A PLANET
We’ve survived worse, and it ain’t easy to wipe us all out.
We’ve adapted just as competently (if not even better) then the animals that existed in the past and today.
@@memezoffuckery3207 we almost died out about 50,000 years ago
This was fascinating. This one man’s dedication and research was amazing. Excellent documentary. !!
Buy his book "Catastrophe". I have it, read it a long time ago. This is along the lines of was there really an Atlantis, and if so what happened to it; The eruption of Santorini island in the Med.
Yes. I loved the UNs definition of climate change saying mostly by man's usage of fossil fuels etc. Man doesn't create volcanic eruptions.
@@jackiemack8653 Yeah especially since most of the biggest climate change occurred before humans even existed.
@@aspenrebel yeah. I was thinking. Where were the climate change activists when this was going on? LOL
@@jackiemack8653 Probably hanging around Haight-Ashbury smoking pot.
Having read and studied climatic events,solar minimums,volcanic eruptions for almost ten years now the analysis done in this video has been the best I’ve seen thus far.I appreciated the thorough analysis without biases and independent scientists worldwide who provided their own research.I wish more of these types of videos will be more like this.Thank you.
I'll give you a nickel for you thoughts on CO2 global warming. After watching this, I think global cooling is much more dangerous than warming.
@@thegeneralist7527 CO2 is plant food it causing global warming is a myth for taxation.
@@chrisbelvedere6653 I fully agree.
Suspicious observer?
Probably have a gender studies degree too. 😂
Went to sleep music, woke up to a volcano documentary. Can't say I'm disappointed, learned things I never would have known!
The beauty of UA-cam 😊
The best part of falling asleep to a topic as interesting as this is you can do it over and over again!
Lol
😂
Impossible to fall asleep to this with those random alarm clock beeps every 5 minutes
Yeah. Just like it was heard for the first time. A gift that keeps on giving!
So climate will occur whether humans contribute to it or not??
All the tree rings around the world were identical!! That blows me away!!
Same!! Who knew that tree rings are our planet’s language?
The yellow dust falling from the sky sorta gave it away. If it’s raining sulfur, chances are a huge volcanic explosion occurred somewhere, above ground.
I had some brainwashed climate clown try to tell me its strictly CO2 that changes earth's climate. Never mind the many examples in recorded history of volcanoes crashing the climate, then there's the pre-historic evidence recorded in the earth. Even when he was presented with the volcanic eruptions causing extinctions, mass death and geographical changes, he said "Nope a volcano doesn't put out enough CO2 to change the climate". Some people should not be able to vote or reproduce.
@Janitor Queen did you say you are currently getting yellow dust in your home? There may be an industry of some sort near you not filtering their smokestack correctly. There was a neighborhood in my town that got a whole bunch of toxic dust all over their gardens and homes because a local industry (metal works) didn't spend the money to filter the exhaust. Now they can't plant vegetables in their gardens.
I saw that on my car 2 months ago!
@@sandrahartford9361 could it have been Pine pollen?
@@k8eekatt No, this was different, no trees around me.
It's really fascinating how this catastrophic event preceded the Justinian Plague, much like the great famine and the little ice age preceded the Black Death of the 1300s.
Your analogies of catastrophic events that are possibly/likely tied to other catastrophes tells me that you are an astute and introspective thinker. I believe that you noticed a probable pattern that I am embarrassed to admit did not occur to me. Dear stranger: I am impressed and that doesn't come to me easily. Again: I am impressed with your capacity of reason and attention to human history related to such. WOW!
The plague and comet occurred simultaneously
Shoutout to the camera man for going back and recording all this for us
word yo
And for carefully not disrupting the timeline despite his presence there!
He is a real one👌
She's a legend
Wft? They literally gave you scientific evidence in the entire documentary
In another video a study has shown that the supervolcano Ilopango in Central America also erupted in this time period. It's likely that the dust and debris was the result of not one but two major eruptions, Ilopango and Krakatoa.
"A follow-up study that analyzed tree rings and a layer of volcanic ash preserved in a distant glacier placed a new date of 431 A.D. on the Ilopango eruption-a century before the period of global cooling. The analysis suggests that while the eruption devastated the local landscape, it likely had little impact on global climate."
One thing I’ve learned after years of watching all these documentaries is that they raise great questions but then they’re like 90% BS .
Ken Woleltz published a rather fascinating paper postulating that the Dark Ages were caused by the massive eruption of Krakatoa during this time frame. Six tons of ash and dust were blown into the atmosphere - a global 'nuclear' winter. Such conditions would have caused vermin to breed prodigiously in the darkened environment, leading to the Black Plague.
Isn't history cool?
@@PrincessHoneyBadger
@@shutupavi or are they......
I live in Aotearoa (New Zealand). A few years back the fires in Australia caused the sky’s here to turn red.
I can not explain just how red it got, and just how quick it was. You could watch the sky’s getting redder by the minute.
It had blown over the ocean. Irs amazing just how powerful the climate is.
It's occurred a few times where the sun not only remained an ominous red, but the moon was a red shade of brown and at all times of day or night was a strong smell of smoke. Ash Wednesday (1983) was unique in my memories as it also rained flakes of gray ash for many days. Greetings South Eastern Australia.
I was in Sydney when that happened and I can only speak of what it was like for us, horrifyingly red, alarming, disconcerting. Were I religious I’d feel the apocalypse was upon us. It was totally all consuming and totally unreal. I can only imagine what it would end up looking like after it’s travelled the thousands of kms to NZ. It was so severely and all encompassingly red in Sydney.
People at that time were used to the harshness of life. They lived precariously, without comfort, without resources. They lived practically with nothing. Therefore, extreme events only made what was already bad worse. Not today! If something similar happens, we are not prepared for anything. We are tied to technology, electricity, automation... if everything goes away from one moment to the next... pufff humanity

Skies
Wow that really proves how dangerous the climate is
The casual observance of Anak Krakatoa erupting and them calling it a “firework show” was so eerie. Anak Krakatoa’s eruption in 2018 caused the Sunda Strait tsunami.
@@goddessflowers146 You OK Sweetie???
You fine as hell.
This is a proper documentary! So many supposed documentaries these days offer very little deep research and simply restate the facts/information over and over with slight variation without getting anywhere in the end.
Most documentaries usually push an agenda, especially those dealing with the weather.
Well said , I agree
This is food for thought
it is the tictoc generation, they want fast results, companies are like that too, more than ever.
it's because this documentary is almost 25 years old.
@@wout123100Reverse those. TikTok is training younger generations in how they consume information, paired with parents who aren’t engaged in helping them learn. It’s not what they want. It’s all they know.
For something from the 90s this is actually surprisingly still mostly up to date.
The 90’s were the heyday for unbiased informative documentaries. Now, everything has a slant or is sensationalized.
We haven't progressed much in the last 20 years...
@@MH3GLexactly. We have a parasite on society holding us back.
@@Xirrious what is it?
@@Didleeios88 the political class, they've been robbing the middle class for decades. Literally. Not leftwing vs right-wing, both of the sides do the same thing. They produce nothing, and take our money. Basically they steal our capital from us and collect it as profit, and by capital I mean human capital, in the form of skills and knowledge.
Inflation is a hidden tax caused by their infinite money printers, then we are taxes on top of that, taken to war over so the military industrial complex can profit, sold shitty food so we stay sick and buy drugs so pharma profits, we give away all our data with social media so that Google and FB profit, by directly advertising to us products we don't need so someone else profits again, on and on it goes man.
The tech the government has is way beyond what they give to the public. Public funded research is hidden from us, which should be illegal. I mean I could keep going. But the reason nothing has improved in 20 years is the leadership doesn't want it to, they just want to consolidate their wealth and power. It's a perfectly natural drive of human nature but we have been fooled into believing politicians have somehow transcended this hard, cold fact of human nature. Unfortunately that isn't true.
Some vulcano goes off on the other side of the planet:
King Arthur: My time has come.
This was very well done and informative. I am obsessed with this blackout and this covered all of the major bases. Great production. Thanks for posting
What blackout
This one
I read the Bible twice cover to cover , you you like to hear our fate?
@@barryshaffer2466 I would like to hear it. Dance for me.
@@barryshaffer2466 No, no, thank, thanks.
I love how the authors of the study, the producers of this documentary were so methodical! Great job! Very well explains, a fantastic piece of research!
Good science. Rather than looking for confirmation of a previously determined hypothesis, the process accumulated data and conducted analysis. I'm sure many had a hunch, however the mark of good science is to delay the hypothesis without rushing to previously held ideas. Some studies stop when the research points to one's biased theory.
Impressive.
No. It's editing. These fields are separate disciplines, with anomalies that were discovered separately. The anthropologists who read about the "dark skies and yellow powder that could be scooped up" would have immediately recognized it was a volcano. The arborists that studied the tree rings would have looked for reports of problems around that time. The geologists would have already known there was no a scattering of rare earth elements at that time. Basically the first 2/3 of every documentary that proposes a mystery, is all filler that has been arranged to appear like detective work is being followed to conclusions. In reality, the events were already known and producers just look for a way to fill time between commercials.
@@lemonstealinghorsdoeuvre pbs had commercials?
@@deathbydeviceable first off, I don't know if this is PBS. Second, not all docs are only on PBS, and my comment does specify more documentaries than just this, it includes all "mystery" docs. Finally, yes. Yes it does. Or at least it did the last time I saw it. The commercials are either for advertising later shows, advertising their donors, like the bill and Melinda Gats foundation, the Arthur P Sloan foundation, and viewers like you, or its just them begging you for money with a telethon.
@@lemonstealinghorsdoeuvre that's all in-between shows. I've never seen commercials during the show, or bill and Melinda paying pbs money commercials.
It's funny what people will make up to suit their agenda no matter how small of an argument 🤣
It really amazes me how many different ways scientists have for extracting records of Earth's climate and the events that could cause climatic events.
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According to the democrats it’s people
I have been following the studies that 'Suspicious Observers' on YT report on. These studies show that the cycles of the Sun (along with other cycles that I am not informed enough to comment on) cause volcanic and quake activity. It would be interesting to see if the Sun was entering the same part of the cycle, at that time, as it is now. We are seeing the Sun's activity ramp up right now, and we are also seeing volcanic and quake activity follow.
I don't know or understand enough about it to explain the details, but it is compelling, and I am seeing those studies predict correctly, the rise in volcanic and quake activity that we are seeing now.
Keys was/is an extremely tenacious man, continuing to pursue the answers to these questions.
Wow. Wood samples going back 7000 years. This has barely started and it's already amazing.
it makes no sense really. The pieces of wood they were showing don't have 7000 rings on them, so how do they know when the tree started to produce rings?? And it is ludicrous beyond belief to think the rings from trees in China can be compared to rings from Ireland, for example. Totally different local conditions.
@@EJ-zj7tt You think too linear. Look up dendrochronology before replying.
Multiple rings can form in one year. It is not 100% accurate. wet and dry periods or warm and cold periods can create multiple rings in one year. The oldest trees alive are about 4000 years old + -
@EJ-zj7tt You very clearly didn't watch the part of the video where they explained dendochronology in detail. Quite embarrassing to criticise a video you haven't watched, and a scientific method you obviously haven't looked into at all.
There is a variety that lives in the sierra Nevada with individuals dating some 7000 to years. Quite small for such an age. @@johnowens5342
The worst disaster is the social one over the past couple of years. It’s mind blowing, watching society begin it’s collapse in real time.
I always wondered how the Dark Ages came about.
Now I'm getting the answer to my query in a way I never expected.
The plague of hatred,fear and ignorance. Once again. And this time it is strictly for profit. I truly do see a hunger games scenario for the world. Another cataclysmic climatic event is just going to finish us off.
@@MH3GL I was thinking the same thing, it was a time of darkened minds and darkened sky.
@@MH3GL I use to wonder how Rome actually fell, because the lessons in school weren't truly satisfying. Now we know lol
@@AR-ym4zh your mom
Wow, this was so well put together and they explained it so well, I enjoyed every minute of it! Intriguing, intense, and terrifying all at once! These are such important events to learn from!
There is a reason why it was called "The Dark Ages".
The events of 536 highlight the interconnectedness of environmental factors and human history.
And guess what? There were no factories, cars, industry, or overpopulation to blame.
Yes. I'm fascinated by how natural disasters and climatic shifts impact social development in world history.
And a moment that had nothing to do with primate change or global warming 🙄
Clown world.
Evidence shows that cultures in North America were also severely disrupted by the event at this time.
Those interested might check out the Kolomokii culture of S.E.Georgia, USA., which mysteriously disappeared during this period.
Yes, the time frame is consistent with the results of this event in other areas of the world. People who are malnourished die from simple diseases that well nourished people easily survive. The death of an entire group of people under those circumstances is not unexpected.
What is Amazing is the Mayans wrote about this period It created a Cold Drought, as it push the Rain north.
The Mayan Society had Peaked & Collapsed 100's of years before the Spaniards, they held out for 200 years
After the Spaniards reached the Yucatán.
The consequence was written by David Keyes (Copyright 1999) "Catastrophe. An Investigation into the Origins of the Modern World" Arrow Books Limited 2000. Excellent book! Sometimes he wrote exegerations, but I think his book shows true events and root case.
well done - but they didn't mention the 1815 eruption of Tambora, which was an order of magnitude greater than the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, and which caused the 'year without a summer' of 1816.
Yes but the ancient eruption of Krakatoa was magnitudes larger. Think entire mountain being levelled. So you can imagine if a smaller eruption caused a year without summer what devastation the ancient eruption caused.
Such a fascinating and full documentary. Amazing to see how much this one event echoes through time.
We re all descended from canabils
@@jupitercyclops6521those canadian ducks have nothing to do with me
What a blessing to be so intelligent to own & reference all those books . I would be honored just to walk in that room. It’s his life work.
Excellent program. Cinematography was beautiful. This is the way history should be taught. Not with a snippet of information, but how one event influenced wide ranging events; cause and effect. How research, the ruling-in and ruling-out of theories, tells the story; making "snippets of information" make sense.
This documentary helps me with sleep. This documentary is so interesting, it’s crazy a catastrophe happened in 535 like this.
I liked my own comment
Thank you for posting this video! I've never heard of this event and I found it VERY interesting! It's scary how close we probably come to this in OUR lifetimes! I can't imagine how those people even survived. The first time I watched this I fell asleep about halfway through, not because I was bored... because I wasn't...but I was just sleepy. Let me tell you, falling asleep listening to this makes for some very strange and scary dreams!
Yes!!! I dozed off watching it when it first aired & STILL recall the bizarre dreams!!! Finally a kindred human who gets this!! ☺🤣👍🏽
There have been other catastrophic climate events from volcanos. This certainly appears the worst, but there was the year the thames froze
Ancient memories or dreams?
some people refer to it as "the year without summer"
I wished I dreamed
Before klaus Schwab if you wanted a great reset you needed a volcano.
Yeah "cloud swab" has his great reset plan but God's got his own reset plan and Klaus will crap his pants when the earth opens up and swallows him.
Good one
Keys did the work to put the answers where they are needed--A lot of persistent work went into this. Excellent Documentary
Wouldn't it be grand if world leaders were required to have similar levels of perseverance, intelligence, and work ethic, all joined with absolutely no desire for fame (for its own sake), or riches?
Dare to dream.
i love to watch this kind of informative documentaries
Our current little epoch in history represents a relative low point for stuff like giant volcanoes and space impacts. Sleep well!
Also war. Incredibly low, for war actually.
Everything is temporary.
When that Prince was reading he said that Sumatra was created by the Krakatoa eruption. In other words, it was part of Java before that eruption.
Dimming of the sun ⛅️ Wonderful, just another thing to add to my ever growing list of anxieties
I know right. I have anxiety over the sun letting go of a solar flare and hitting the earth.
@@bsaxton6400 geez, never thought of that. Im just gonna try not to think about that too much lol
Slu%
@@bsaxton6400 A powerful sun storm wouldn't heat cook the Earth. The only recorded major sun storm is the Carrington Event of 1859. Massive electromagnetic waves would hit like a tsunami. Geomagnetic storms would flow through the air and ground, frying ungrounded electronics, knocking out power over vast areas. Satellites would be disrupted by the magnetic turbulence. Anything reliant on electromagnetism might not work anymore, like radio signal. If the repeaters on undersea cables fail, total internet collapse may occur. Solar flares only last hours, but can have series that go on for weeks. However, Antarctic ice has evidence of a supermassive sun storm in AD 993 called the Miyake Event. All the previous effects, but stronger, and going on for months.
The loss of electricity and the internet wouldn't do much directly to humans. Its mostly the side effects of loss of the infrastructure that would be damaging. Subsistence farmers with manual wells would be fine.
It wont be that bad.
There would be epic Aurora Borealis / Aurora Australis.
If you had any idea how far away the sun is. You would not think it poses an alarming threat.
At the end of the day, we inhabit a radioactive rock. Hurtling through the milky-way galaxy, its center a supermassive black hole. Orbiting a giant unshielded nuclear-fusion reactor.
Protected from it's deadly rays. And from other flying rocks. By nothing except thin air and puffy white clouds.
It works pretty good.
genuinely one of if not the most interesting docs i have ever seen. i love the way this is told and formatted so much it’s so engaging
Fascinating.. I knew of the tree rings used to pinpoint the age but I had no idea.. those rings could tell stories of dramatic climate change and weather analysis this is a very scientific and educational video. Thank you for sharing Mike Bailey is a pure genius and a gift to the science community👌🍁🌴🌳🌲⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Tree ring (dendrochronology) was first started at University of Arizona, in Tucson Arizona, US. There is a lot learned with tree rings. Each year is different. Due to the amount of moisture the tree receives. Also, all the effects that tree. Info is out there if you are interested.
@@jessemills3845 yeah... Thank you man that's cool love trees
Does anybody have any theories or insights ... If any effects or signs that will show up in the tree rings to indicate global flooding???
@@jessemills3845 will do thank you Jesse..👍♥️
Here's another crazy thing that tree ring analysis can do! Ever heard of the Lituya Bay megatsunami in Alaska? There was evidence discovered in the 60s that something had killed off all the trees below a certain level in this one bay in Alaska. Nobody could understand why there was this sharp line between old growth trees and newer, younger trees, or what could have caused such a weird thing to happen. Then some scientists took a core sample from the very edge of the boundary from the older trees and did some X-ray studies on it. The inside of the tree showed massive bruising, the type that could only happen from an impact of enormous force. This is one of the ways we demonstrated that this massive wave did occur as the result of a landslide. Just recently in 2015 a similar event was captured by scientific instrumentation, proving the theory correct. Super cool stuff!
Same thing happened in the late 1800s with Krakatoa. It snowed in Maine in July.
Well, it's maine. 😊 I used to wake up and go to work on summer mornings and find puddles iced over--and this was 10 or so years ago.
Yellowstone is what remains of an ancient super volcano. Since the earth was covered with yellow dust, it does make me wonder.
According to the USGS the name of Yellowstone national park doesn't actually come from the rhyolite lavas in the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, but from Native Americans who were referring to yellow sandstones along the banks of the Yellowstone River in eastern Montana, several hundred miles downstream and northeast of the Park.
So the park was named after the river, which was named the color of the rocks hundreds of miles away.
But it's still a supervolcano, and when it blows, it will change the world.
@@osco4311 the west coast NA will more or less be uninhabitable for most likely decades. Flights worldwide will be grounded indefinitely. Crops coast to coast will be devastated. The New World will be totally fucked, the rest of the world will be less-so but nevertheless fucked as well.
Well, yeah. There is sulfur. But there is also gold.
Seek and you will find! Can you imagine what the ancient people thought the Gods were punishing them for?
Incredible to tie all those clues together! Well done!
Really great work it’s amazing how much I’m clueless about the history of our planet very interesting 🤔
The genes in my Celtic DNA were tingling when I realized my ancestors survived The Plague.
WE SURVIVED!
It must have been horrible for them to see their family and friends rapidly succumb to a new disease. 😢
We are all descendants of survivors.
@@dennishughes721
Yes. It is true most of us descended from The Great Plague survivors. After suffering through disease and death, our ancestors finally became immune to plague, and passed this immunity on to us through the miracle of human biology.
My concern is that another pandemic, new, more infectious and deadly than plague, will ravage the world, but the US will respond weakly, based on our response to Covid-19, and suffer the same devastating mortality.
We didnt survive shit. We werent alive. Your "ancestors" have no connection to you.
Mike Bailey , what a brilliant man! I would love to read his books .
"Supercomputer" - i laugh harder than i should
This is a fascinating documentary that does not prevent a layperson like me from understanding it. Amazing.
What a great story wish they would teach this in schools 🏫
They do. These events are a critical componenet of any history of agriculture course. The catastrophic cold snaps lead to famine, which often leads to plague. Agricultural and trade practices around the world reflect adaptations to these historical events.
@@bweighill17 What school district? All they teach about climate events these days in public school are two things. The earth is going to die, and humans are responsible for it.
@@survivingthetimes sadly, that is a fair assessment of most climate discourse at a nontechnical level. Perhaps a symptom of declining scientific proficiency and higher sociological bends in teacher demographics. It also depends on a specific teacher having the knowledge to explore curriculum beyond introducing terms and concepts. I come from a region heavy on energy and agriculture resources, which probably lends to a more productive, solutions oriented approach to environmental sciences across the different levels of education. Lex Fridman podcast #339 explores your concern pretty deeply!
Makes one wonder about solar power...
Well done, the amount of research that was put together is impressive. Ty. Knowing this doesn't mean we can stop an event of this magnitude, but now understanding how our past was shaped.
Just think this came out in 1999 in the U.K. and 2000 in the U.S.. Imagine how much more information we have now.
Make you Wonder about y3 days of darkness but I know this ant it but just thought I and makes you think on were we are now in life with this old earth
That time line is a lie. It happened during 522 and 523. That is the reason the calendar was changed around 525 AD. They throw everybody off because the next big one comes in 2040. 2012 mayan end date is actually 2040.
Agreed, naturally.
@@pascualbencosme9958the Mayan calendar was wrong my friend the world didn’t end
I recorded this video on VHS cassette tape when it first aired on PBS in 2000. Hard to believe it's been 22 years.
This is a wonderful in-depth lesson. I've learned so much. ..I love this search you went on. I'm eighty and never can get enough history . How I envy you .
Amen! If only I were 16 again and could make different choices!
Didn’t Japan keep detailed weather records for at least few thousand years . Compare them to the story the trees are telling.
They have kept detailed records for thousands of years
I think they forgot to google that at 90s
Love the climate change disclaimer. God forbid someone have a wrong think moment.
It's a meme nowadays! 😂😂😂
Climate Science has been deliberately corrupted. This is a fact!!
I love being reminded that only climate change in the present is caused by human activity.
@ManScoutsofAmerica it's true though
Basically if the United Nations takes a position on something, it's safe to take the opposite position.
Wauw... This shows how we came to know what we know today, which is just as fascinating as revealing the modern consensus about the event. Amazing channel!
I wonder why they didn't think to look for evidence of an associated tsunami in the sedimentary layers on the shores around the Indian ocean and southeast Asia? That would've helped confirm it was Krakatoa and also confirm the date it occurred. Or maybe they did but didn't include it in the documentary?
I also feel like I have to point the interesting irony of those tree samples being stored in cardboard boxes that are made from trees which are sitting on shelves made from trees.
TREES: A gift from the past giving us a glimpse of past worlds - a gift of the present as they ingest carbon dioxide - keeping the carbon to grow and putting the two thirds of the molecule that is oxygen, back into our atmosphere. A gift for the future as they continue to do what they have been doing all along - supporting all life on Earth.
Love this series! Fascinating to learn how various sciences are used to understand our history. Thanks
Agreed.
How did the Tonga Tonga eruption compare?
The quote from John of Ephesus made it clear to me: this was Fimbulwinter. More specifically, the Norse myth predicting Fimbulwinter, which was written down in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, was in fact describing the event of seven centuries before when even Syria* had 18 months without a summer.
* John of Ephesus was described as a Syrian bishop, so I'm presuming he witnessed it in Syria.
I’ll NEVER forget the volcano on Iceland in 2010 and the effects it had on Europe! We in Denmark had a journalist and camera guy over there and when I saw it on the news how DARK that smoke/dust was and THICK -it was like a dark sleep curtain that wiped away the sun..😮 it truly was terrifying to watch and we all knew how lucky we were that it wasn’t bigger..
We are all survivors of these people forgotten in time
"Eighty thousand years of natural selection, coming through"
Seriously though, now we have morons who can't string together a cogent sentence thinking they know more than the world's best scientists, so I'm sure we're fiiiiiiiiine.
We humans have short memories . During the tsunamis that hit Japan after an earthquake, one town found stone markers up on a hill . Carved into them was instructions to never build below the markers . The water went above the markers . Others had instructions that I’d the ground shook to get above the markers asap. They were trying to warn future people of a major danger . But , we humans often view our ancestors with skepticism and contempt . We think we know everything and our ancestors were stupid . They were not
Great Gupta empire of India collapsed around 540 AD and totally disintegrated by 550 AD.
Why?
@@lifeisa.smalllesson4607See the documentary…?🤔
@veselgana not sure, i can't remember.
Why couldn’t it be natural Sun cycles that skip summers all the time? The Maunder Minimum being the most recent.
Debris in the atmosphere.
Why does watching happy things make me uncomfortable and want to cry, but watching suspenseful/violent movies or documentaries about war and natural disasters make me feel at peace and cozy?
You might be a kali fan, check her out. 😅
Wholesome happenings tug at the purest parts of your heart and bring you tears of joy. Everything else makes you cozy because it's business as usual. Or you're just a super unique and special and traumatized snowflake unlike anyone else in the world
You might have a friend in Kali. Disasters clear the path for change and a new world. If your life is rough, disaster means there is a chance things will get better afterward. The dark ages were not as dark as commonly depicted. Mostly people were minding their own business and recovering from all the high drama of the Roman Empire, a ferocious machine living on slavery and debt for most people.
@@bitty_beastly47 Sounds like a little bit of projecting lol
@@EdwardPike Kali, as in the Hindu Goddess? Or are you talking about a UA-cam channel?
The immense passion shows through the extensive research in putting this together in such fascinating detail. Thank you
So say we all!
That's not true or good draining through the blood
Its so amazing to see how one super mega volcanic eruption would do more devastation than humans living their everyday lives ever could.
For all of time
Humans have are are doing far worse irreversible damage to the Earth, volcanic shrouds eventually dissipate with the Earth enriched, styrofoam and trillions of gallons of chemicals will NEVER degrade
And the planet recovered in a few years. Weird. 😅
that is why yellow stone volcano is a worry to scientist.
I beg to differ. Humans "living their everyday lives" have and continue to wreak major ecological devastation and the potential we have to destroy our entire world rapidly is quite a salient point worthy of serious consideration.
just really good general knowledge of natural history and human history across civilizations you wouldn't otherwise imagine were connected. I'm glad I watched it and i recommended that you watch it too. you'll learn something I'm sure
Wow. This is one of the best things I have seen in my entire life. It just shows the power of science. From merely exploring patterns in tree rings to unraveling one of the biggest (if not the biggest) changing points in humans' history. All led by one relentless man going through physics, biology, literature, history, anthropology, geology and volcanology.
One minute into this, I said "Probably Krakatoa"
There was an eruption of a supervolcano in Central America at the same time. Probably the two combined.
No not krakatoa.
More like what burried the pyramids in Mexico and displaced the underground water source to salt water forcing the Mayans to migrate north getting frost bite on their feet and getting the name black foot.
The Olmacs were buried as well in that yukatan peninsula. Think about it .
@@Davidsavage8008 don’t need to think about anything.....is there evidence or not? Prove it. They share evidence here. In between the tropics effecting the entire globe, increased sulfur deposits, and a layer of ash everywhere all dating to around 550. What evidence can u share besides some statues and pyramids buried by a rain forest......which happens to anything in a rain forest.
yeah... me too
The dark star... You know, the one you can't see according to UV spectrum
Damn..can you imagine if the Yellowstone one was to pop off like this one..a caldera 310 miles wide or something like that..there'd be no sun for a decade not a year
When Yellowstone erupts forget it. I'm in Boston and I wouldn't even be safe. You can kiss everything to the Mississippi and beyond goodbye, no more Saint Louis no more Chicago.
@@aspenrebel yea...North America's toast from even just a moderate eruption from that caldera..I don't remember the exact figures but the Saint Helen's eruption back in the day..which had enough pressure and heat to make a new gemstone...helenite...they equated on a doccu. I watched..as a
The equivalent of a single crystal in a 2lb can of folgers coffe...compared to its potential it's thwroticaly capable of...your right tho everybody's so screwed that nobody has to worry about it, because don't matter what you do everything in a 2,000 mile radius is toast..like if your at a subway in New York when it happens, they won't need to ask you if you want your meatball marinara toasted or not..your getting it toasted..lol
@@coteezy86 It will be like the end of the "planet of the apes" when he finds the top half of the statue of liberty on the beach.
@@coteezy86 People don't realize that the entire Yellowstone park, or most of it anyways, is the top of the Volcano. The opening of the top of the Volcano.
@@aspenrebel for real..I think north American governments Rey want to down play the true extent of absoulte destruction of virtualy the whole continent..not exactly a reassuring thing In this world we've been living in lately..between politics, covid, ww3 about to pop off..the last thing they want to do is say..oh BTW the Yellowstone caldera is highly active and just a mediocre eruption would mean end of life as we know it...and btw it's due for one...and the Saint hellens eruption, which was the biggest historic period eruption ever on the continent...and was pretty much just a minasecule venting of some pressure, gas, and ash...people would be draining arms and what toilet paper we have left would be gone off the shelves in bout 3 hours..the only upside is there's not a damn think you can do to help the situation or your situation if it occures...so you can kinda just go on with life not worrying about it, since there's literaly zero you can except bend over and kiss your ass godby if it does..scary stuff
Wonderful documentary! I enjoyed every minute of it. Fact based, unbiased, great work...Thanks so much. Hope I'm not around. 🌋😪
Not fact based. Krakatoa blew in 416 not 535.
Time to listen to something less stressful to put me to sleep! 😊
I remember the explosion of Mr. St. Helens in Washington in 1980. It was an unusual Summer and felt cooler than normal. It was the year I graduated from High School and the Yakima Valley was covered with ash.
Ok one thing, they are saying that there were years of no Summer in like 540 or 541 AD as well as 536+. So did Krakatoa erupt a 2nd time in 540 AD?
In the 1880s cracatoa erupted , Laura ingles wilder wrote a book, the year with out summer, it literally cooled the planet by 8 degrees, hence the reason the climate scientist are freaking out, we have gained back 4 degrees in only 100 + years it’s too fast
The Wilder book was The Long Winter and dealt with the winter of 1880, which was a particularly hard one on the plains of the Dakotas. Krakatoa erupted in 1883, so there is no connection there.
I know about Krakatoa erupting in 1880+. I was asking if it erupted in 540 AD. Also, it must have erupted prior to 536 AD.
One volcano in the 1800’s gave us the year without summer.
ohhh so this is why everyone thought the world was going to end in the middle ages
Unfortunately, this will probably happen again; are you ready? I`m not ready either! Excellent science video; thanks for posting! Peace, love & good luck!
Very well done. I love learning about all of this.
This was amazing to watch
This is one of the most interesting documentaries i have ever listened to! Incredible research. 😮❤
A really interesting combination of science and history.
I remember watching this on TV, its hard to believe its been 22 years already since then.
I think the western US had such a big winter this year because of the underwater volcano that erupted in Tonga. It added a lot of water molecules into the atmosphere.
This sounds like the 7 trumpets of Revelations. A mountain thrown into the sea (volcano explodes), the sun and moon turn dark, then the drought, famine, and plagues. If the worst years were 535 to 542, that's 7 years.
David Keys is the real life version of Indiana Jones at work. Awesome!!
I don't want to see a "brilliant fireball" coming my way!!!😂
Lol
I cannot comprehend how we ignore what is happening in our climate, right now?
I’ve been around long enough to see that we have a serious situation and it is as obvious as any precursor of a climate changing & shifting out of balance ,that I’ve seen.
If the thick cloud cover, almost every day, isn’t enough to convince scientists, and big money earners, to act immediately , I fear that we will act too late!
Clouds are not the beginning of this change, which would explain hesitation to act, we’ve been changing our climate since industrialization began. Scientist’s know this, lay people also know this, by observing; yet I see no movement by either group to even speak the words:
CLIMATE CHANGE!!!
This documentary has nothing to do with climate. This event was a disaster that had NOTHING to do with human input. Nothing to do with overpopulation, ozone depletion, car emissions, etc.
Another worldwide volcanic event that had worldwide consequences was Tambora.Similar scenarios unfolded post eruption which led to more upheavals.
When Krakatoa erupted in the 1880s they had no summer here, Boston, for at least one summer. It was cold, sunblocked out, all overcast and hazy with dust.
@@aspenrebel Famously called the Year without a Summer. Most places saw a summer with temperatures no more than early spring, very little growth, and I believe the southern hemisphere saw a VERY harsh winter. That being said, those effects were mostly passed within a year. Krakatoa was a warning to modern civilization of what could happen. It was a shot across the bow.
The 1859 Carrington Event was a similar shot across the bow for a burgeoning electronic civilization. Hit hit in a way that would be catastrophic today, but just as we were starting, so it only gave us a warning.
Governments today are woefully prepared for either one. We should be investing in the technology to make mass hydroponics/artificially lit greenhouses and also hardening our electric grid against extreme geomagnetic storms. There's already a push for home hydroponics or in-city hydroponic farming, but it's a very grass-roots hippie-esque movement. Very few people are taking a hardened electrical grid seriously.
@@colinsmith1495 Groovy Baby!!✌️
@@colinsmith1495 after finding out about EMP and how that is one of the weapons that could really screw us up I got a survival guide about hydroponic farming and how to make my own solar panels and much more. Very valuable information!
@@Irish_Georgia_Girl Sadly, don't those rely on circuits that would be messed up by an EMP, too?