No, the Government Can’t Create Hurricanes
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- We've all heard the news about the recent hurricanes in the southeast. But the surprising part is the conspiracy theories that have arisen, implying that the government deliberately manufactured and deployed them. This is totally idiotic on so many levels, the primary level being purely scientific, so let's dig into it and learn somethings about hurricanes and weather in general.
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I love that this channel has only two modes. Either „intro to microbiology“ or „mayonnaise is not an instrument“
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That's the best explanation I've ever heard for this channel! 🤣🤣
Found the german (or austrian or swiss but you know what I mean)
Lmao. Incredibly well said, SnoClan.
You only say that because you've never actually tried to play a song using only mayonnaise. It's a lost art.
Two conspiracy nuts end up at the gates of heaven before God. God says to them "You may ask any question of me." The first man asks "Was the Maui fire started by a space laser to clear out residents so the rich could buy up all the land? God says "No my child. It was a combination of poor agriculture and climate change." The first man turns to his friend and says "This goes up higher than we thought"
God is being manipulated by the Deep Heaven
lmao 😂
The Goldman foundation thanks you for your input
Your a conspiracy theorist is u believe in any religion
ahh, that's a good one!
The fact that you even had to make a vid about this… 😑
FFS
It's like addressing the Flat Earth
My first thought exactly, can't believe we've really come to the point that this needed to be addressed.
Meteorologists are spending so much time denying nonsense as compared to informing people of real stuff. They can't recognize a real conspiracy like the oil companies hiding the effect of fossil fuel use, but they can invent one and thereby cheapen actually tragedy.
it's a frikkin wild time to be alive innit
I came here to say this exact same thing. We truly live in Idiocracy.
20:25 My dad has said he'd rather die than believe what scientists say. He's had an anti-establishment bias since he was a child as a result of him: failing his education at a high school level, latching onto dogmatic spiritual beliefs from his family that comforted him and having an incredibly stunted level of emotional maturity desipite being in his early 60s now. People like my dad are almost impossible to teach because you risk completely shattering their world view, which will normally send them off the rails into a fit of toddler-like rage.
Dude, that's my mom. She was 26, with two kids, when the Soviet Union collapsed. The '90s were super rough for most of the now ex-Soviet population, so this naturally set her on a path of conspiracy theories, anti-intellectualism and aggressive gun-toting imperialism. Because, duh, she used to be a part of something deemed great (by no one in the world by the late '80s), and now she was broke, poorly educated and with an uncertain future ahead of her. This backwardism eroded away her ability to think critically or use her prefrontal cortex in general over the years, so all she does these days is seek out and propagate claims that make her sound awesome to herself and lashes out with vitriol at anyone who disagrees with her. I feel for you with a dad like that.
I think you're spot-on for mentioning that it probably comes from some early experience of feeling stupid/embarrassed in some way that creates an adversarial relationship with science/learning
@@1amNumberOne Respect can be lost. Besides, who says he does not have respect for him? Just because you are aware of a person's shortcomings does not necessarily mean you do not respect them.
@@1amNumberOneI will fortnite dance on your grve
@@1amNumberOne 😂Good luck if you ever become a father.
18:15 that "pick a fucking lane" had some real emotion behind it, and for very good reason
Cause I mean come on pick a fucking lane.
I'm so tired of all the cognitive dissonance I see daily.
I genuinely felt like I had to exhale after he said it. Someone had to.
Perfect tee shirt slogan.
I got a good laugh out of that one too, but I think these people did pick a lane. Unfortunately that lane is called "chaos".
Thanos snapping his fingers but instead of disappearing
half of the population became irredeemably stupid
A fate worse than death!
At this point (maybe he snapped twice), I believe that you're being generous when you say it's only half😵💫😞
Thanos would’ve won if he did that.
I know eugenics is bad, but can we make an exception and just not let this segment of the population breed? It's not like I want to make a super-race, I just don't want us to all die because a minority with the loudest voices are too stupid to function at even the most basic levels and the worst part, they are willful about it, they WANT to stay that stupid because social acceptance in their little hives of morons is more important to them than a stable, intelligent world.
Considering the amount of massive stupidity present in the last six years, I'm convinced this actually did happen. And of course my evidence that Thanos is real and not a character from the Avengers movie is that I read a Facebook post saying they met Thanos in real life.
The death threats against the meteorologists are what left me completely slack-jawed with disgust at the gullibility of some.
I bet a majority of those making threats still have accounts to harass the next person the right tells them to. Exactly what is wrong with social media. No one actually loses their account for literal illegal behavior.
Really??? No offense, but this is entirely unsurprising to me.
@@stephanrosos4957 PT Barnum
It reminds me of an early Simpson's episode where Bart discovers a comet heading to impact Springfield. The town takes cover in Flanders' bomb shelter, but it ends up burning up in the atmosphere. After they all come out and breathe a sigh of relief, Moe says "Let's go burn down the observatory so this'll never happen again!"
It's a funny joke but also pretty accurate representation of what people are doing now. They want someone to blame, no matter how illogical their plan for "revenge" is.
People who work at HAARP have been getting death threats for over a decade. There used to be a conspiracy theory that HAARP was creating earthquakes.
I'll admit it - it was me. I used a hot plate, a desk fan, and a canoe. I wondered if I could create a Cat-5 hurricane, and went on a little adventure in the Gulf of Mexico. Sorry!
Whoopsie gloopsie, I didn’t know! Now we please “sowry"
🤔 the canoe was your problem there. Should used a catamaran.
I always like seeing MTG complain about how horrible and evil the government is, like she doesn't hold one of the highest positions in the government.
And she a chronic lair, manipulator, power hungry for control. Literally everything she accuses "them" of being. She's a master-class in projection. Trump taught her well.
It's like a noble shouting to the peasants "look how awful all those other nobles are!"
republicans, and conservative ilk run for government under the premise that government is ineffective and weak, while governing with the intended goal of making the government ineffective and weak. it's been their strategy for ages.
"That’s the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry"-Chomsky
@@Foogi9000 i mean, that's basically conservatism in a nutshell
I wish people took as much time they spent “researching” their craziness and actually learning things. Like real actual things.
100% agree, I was born in 1970 and nobody believed the earth was flat, now 50 years later ... I worry for humanity.
How crazy is it that in an era of having all the information of the world in your pocket at all times... We seem to be getting LESS educated... Its ridiculous.
@@MrRaffles1234they probably did have some flat earthers back then but since the internet wasn’t as mainstream, they weren’t really known.
@@27retrodaze all the information doesn't mean anything if you don't have the means to navigate the bs.
@@justifano7046 the means? It's called critical thinking but we have a large number of people in the world calling themselves free thinkers when in reality they all just exist inside the same mind warped bubbles of anti establishment epistemologies. The irony.
holy damn, Dave actually dropped an F bomb, but looking at the subject matter I'm not even surprised at this point. thanks for suffering for all of us Dave
Why are you surprised at Prof. Dave dropping a F bomb? He has said it many times before in previous videos and comments?[Not trying to be rude.]
He swears all the time in his critical videos doesn’t he? Just not in his educational ones.
He gave up his sanity for our sins, repent!
Honestly, I can’t even blame him at this point, I really have had enough of these conspiracy theories ruining everyone’s life.
@@buddahluvaz8 yeah, he's often meant (though in his case it's justified) but he rarely drops "hard" swears - like, it's the first time I've heard him use the f word I think
Ugh... former USAF weather forecaster here. Like LITERALLY the job that would have to do something like this.
I am SO tired of having to debunk this shit. 😮💨
@jeffreystewart9809 i feel you. I don't really agree with this stuff happening. It's got no feasibility in war as even with all the science we can only predict a path. Weapons need to be direct. Even if we do have secret tech(i believe we are capable of making small storms in labs, not a cat1 or 5 or tropical Spain for that matter. We can create them though. To devastate your own country. Why? Just doesn't seem feasible as a weapon unless you could form it instantly over a battlefield. It's the war on fema? South Eastern Americans? Doable in a small scale, to create it at the levels they are saying and with out the controls a lab provides vs. Out in nature. Just doesn't add up. You would need to have heating could along the entire gulf sea to even potentially change the water temperature of the ocean at will. Like 10,000 nukes as stated in the video. Point in getting at. Don't doubt the science, we do control atmospheric pressures everyday in highly controlled and monitored vehicles. We couldn't go to space without this tech. Again earth climate and weather is not random. We are just to small to create, atm, these mile long eyes.
I feel so bad for you sane Americans. This idiocy must be tiring.
Unfortunately it has been spreading to the rest of the world 😢
@@ole3273 yup, anybody who feels bad for Americans should be paying closer attention to their own backyard. We see this stupidy growing even here in remote New Zealand ffs.
@@ole3273 yes , common sense and critical thinking is a long lost concept here
It fucks me up a bit. Like friends of mine deny simple logic such as we are made up of atoms, but then try to convince me the moon is fake. It’s so sad, it’s not that they’re fuckin dumb just easily swayed due to distrust of everything. Maybe that is dumb. It’s sad man
You have no idea...
As a weather nerd I bursted out laughing hearing them say Doppler radars control the weather
That's like saying thermometers control how hot a surface is
It's all of that mercury stuff🙄 we all know metal isn't liquid😏 it's some super secret spy stuff (like the birds) meant to control the masses (by making them dress slightly differently in some areas)🫣😱😱
LMAO
That was my thought too - thermometers create fire! 😮🤪
Well, if you don't measure the temperature, it's not getting hotter.
🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
God why is my voltage checker creating so many volts in this wire!!!
I really think misinformation and disinformation is the single most dangerous thing for our society. I have friends that up until now I thought were level headed, relatively smart people, believing this crap. At this point, I've just become a contrarian in their eyes because I swear they are starting to believe EVERYTHING they hear.
My professor was the same. I was surprised when on our final lecture, she brought up the fake moon landing conspiracy out of literally nowhere.
Misinformation is a weapon
Even smart people can believe really stupid things. There's a very smart woman I know who believes in Atlantis and a high technology antediluvian society. Drives me nuts.
@@daviddegeorge2667 Yeah, no one's immune to getting caught up in that sort of stuff.
I had to go see a behavioral therapist as a kids for my general uncooperative ness and I really wasn’t in the mood to cooperate with this. The therapist brings up the moon landing being a hoax and I laughed in his face because I knew my amateur astronomy obsessed airforce navigator father was going to blow a gasket and this therapy thing was over
It's funny, I'm not even from America but I can instantly tell if an American politician is a Republican by the statements they make.
The vast majority of the time the Republican in question is being nasty, aggressive, idiotic, or spouting some kind of conspiracy theory.
I'm not big into politics, but I don't think it's always been like that, or has it?
I hear the same from the democrats spouting idiotic, nonsensical, nasty, angry rhetoric. I'm not American either. Crazy how that works out
@@stevenpeeven3169well that’s because you’re far-right, but when you live in reality it’s pretty clear who are the ones escalating the rhetoric.
@@stevenpeeven3169 I live in Alberta, I know your kind. You want so badly to be an American, don't pretend.
@@stevenpeeven3169You hear democrats openly denying scientific fact and spouting nonsensical hateful rethoric to justify their highly questionable ideologies?
Found the butthurt Republican.
Yeah, sure. And fluoride doesn't calcify my psychic powers gland
That's okay, if you get the shot you gain the power of magnesis, so it balances out
No, fluoride doesn't deposit calcium. It does cause fluorosis though.
@VitalVampyr he's being sarcastic and maybe you are too idk
No way, I saw a clip about the whole pineal gland calcification not 10 mins ago. Great timing!
@@M__FO If I was being sincere don't you think I'd point out the nonexistence of "psychic powers glands" before being pedantic about the meaning of "calcify"?
It’s funny because even if you mention the amount of energy required in order to create and maintain these storms (1.3 x 10^17 joules of energy DAILY) people will STILL have the audacity to say that our government is competent enough to do it.
That sounds like you work fer the guvermet
@@phdonme1 no, i actually work for the Freemason elites that are above the government. smh get it right buddy.
So much energy, in fact, that the (hopefully) joking question of "why don't we just nuke hurricanes?" is stupid by virtue of a nuclear weapon being reduced to a coughing baby when in comparison to the violent energy output of these storms.
I was watching the live streams updates on the hurricanes.
Watching the graphs change at that moment etc
It was clear it wasn't "normal"
@@newhybrid101 hot water = more energy. more energy = bigger, more chaotic storms. this is not rocket science kiddo.
Hurricane spelled backwards is Enacirruh. “Ena” is a blood test. “Cirruh” is similar to Cirrus, which is a type of cloud. This all translates into “The Blood Test Cloud”. Fellas, something is going on.
You have convinced me! Where can I subscribe to your newsletter?
😮
Water contains the word rate.
Hurricanes are rated 1-5. 1+5=6
On average there's 10 tropical systems per year, 6 out of 10 of these become hurricanes = 6.
Storm surge caused by hurricanes is anywhere between 3-25 feet. 25+3=28. 8-2=6.
Do you see it?
666.
Hurricanes are Illuminati confirmed.
lmao
And it has 9 letters! Surely I don't have to tell you what that means!
But Dave...you forgot that there are weather control machines...we have been using them for decades...they are called oil rigs.
oof... (but correct)
That's like hitting a self-destruct button on a plane and calling it a controlled course adjustment
america, the only country where you say your opponent can control the weather and people don't think you're insane
YEE-HAW! _shoots gun in the air_
I'd argue this happens everywhere, but America is more popular + we can all understand English, making it easier to spot.
@@AfonsoCLIf you have even a single modern example of a politician accusing their opponent of being capable of controlling the weather outside the US, I would be very interested in seeing it.
it's not even common in the third world
I'm not sure what would be scarier... 27% of the population (that's how many actually voted for DJT last election as the rest did not vote, register or qualify. Biden got slightly more at around 28%) not realizing he is mentally unfit .... or them knowing and just not giving a cold damn...
I could be misremembering this but I believe there was an episode of Clifford the big red dog where a weatherman had to explain that we cannot control the weather. This was a show for toddlers
Them people have smaller brain than toddlers tho
I guess clifford is woke now
Most American adults ARE toddlers.
@@user-cr4pz5yg7yWOKE clifford spreading COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA about basic meteorology
That was a thing back in then70s too. Ppl threatened weathermen for causing bad weather. Grown adults
Thanks Dave. It is mind-numbing how rampant the stupidity has become. We watched your videos on cellular respiration in class today. Thanks for being a resource for science educators. I don’t have your level of patience with this crap.
Your school is on the ball!
social media platforms, especially Twitter and TikTok, have become cesspits of misinformation and hate. Especially Twitter because all the extremist accounts are being personally boosted by Elon Musk ever since he bought the app. Free speech has been abused by these bad actors for extremely nefarious purposes.
The people that need to see this won't, and even if they did they would dismiss it as propaganda
still needs to be there.
Fearful conspiracy theorist:
“Do your research”
Proceeds to do no research
Then you do your research, parse the information, and formulate a sensible, sourced answer. Their response: You’re WOKE!
"I read two Facebook posts full of madeup anecdotal evidence, so I know everything there is to know about weather and therefore the evil shadow government did it!" It's literally just that Senator Armstrong meme.
"That's a nice argument Senator, why don't you back it up with a source?"
"My source is that I made it the fuck up!"
All they find are the other conspiracies.
He researched what Russell Brand has to say about it.
Research in this case means them finding videos on youtube that confirm their biases.
I can't believe this has to be explained to grown adults.
They want you to be asleep
@@newhybrid101Who are "they"?
@@newhybrid101 So does the Sealy Posturepedic mattress company ....and they're millionaires!🎉
@@Mark-Wilsondude thinks he’s in The Matrix
@retti9 It had a very negligible effect on Earth's rotation. You are consuming too much sensationalist media. What the hell does "energy oscillations" even mean? Did you even watch the video you're commenting on???
"Pick a f**king lane!" That came straight from his heart ❤
22:25 what's up, my googledy bunkers out there
The names Bunker, Google D. Bunker.
Just fine, mate. Went off to see the Bosnian pyramids to escape the weather control.
Yessss Milo the GOAT!
Hello my fellow google debunkers
Dude! I came to your channel just now, specifically to ask you to please do this video!!! Thank you for all you do to spread good information and teach science!
I appreciate you!
1846: Planet Neptune discovered.
1955: Polio vaccine announced.
1969: Mankind finally landed on the moon, proving that it’s possible to do so.
1983: Internet invented.
2024: Having to explain that people can’t control storms…
How far we have fallen
Pretty far I'd say. I saw on the internet that trump has daily meetings with Satan himself, that's how far we have fallen.
This is so sad ... When i was young I always thought how much the internet could push mankind forward with free and quality information, but now I face the reality, it spreads more misinformation than permits sharing of good information, that is sooo sad.
To be fair, you could add somewhere: "Created the World Wide Web", if you want to be a tad more generous.
Still, I do wonder how an adult hears something like "government controls hurricanes", and just accepts it, without even considering if that is possible physically......
Watch "Idiocracy". Then you'll see where we're headed.
@@TheFuzzician good point, I’ll add that in with an edit. Thanks
Someday, our descendants will casually look back at this wacky period in human history. It'll just be a paragraph or two in a high school history textbook, like the Salem Witch Trials or the Second Great Awakening. Most future people will never know just how weird it was to live through this, just as we don't fully grasp what Salem was like for those who experienced it.
@@lostfan5054 In Briton they used to throw bound women in ponds and lakes to see if they were witches 🧙♀️.If they floated they were witches , if they sank ( drowned) they weren't .
Seems like these people are following the same logic .
This comment hit me in the feels. I remember in fifth grade thinking to myself, "Man am I glad that I don't live in a time when people believe in witchcraft anymore!" 😬
@@fletcherlewis
We could try that with MTG
Hopefully. Also, hopefully history doesn't repeat itself and the world experiences another Dark Age.
@@ilcyclista1 Don't worry, the way things are moving, there won't be many years left of mankind for this to develop into a Dark Age. :)
Professor Dave truly fighting against one of the most pressing modern-day issues: conspiracy theories
Professor Dave and Miniminuteman (Milo Rossi)
🤝
But something it feels like a losing battle, cause on many posts on Facebook and Instagram people who spread these conspiracy theories and science Daniel gets lots of likes and comments validating it.
I can't even believe this has to be addressed
I'm speechless
This is the result of anti-intellectualism and some kind of anti-establishmentarianism pushed by the right wing in the US for the purpose of fulfilling their political agenda. It's not that new as far as I know, but it's only gotten worse over the years. And it most likely is going to get even worse as there is no way to punish harmful misinformation.
Came here to say the same thing.
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that"
- George Carlin
lol go to some flat earth page... ( drinking helps)
*The Great Replacement* conspiracy. Weather Control, NOAA targets them with the storms, FEMA takes away their guns, and they are replaced with illegals,
big fan of the contrast between professor dave's normal videos where he's a polite, professional science teacher, and his debunking videos where he's in the comments calling someone who doesn't believe in multiplication a "fuck-stick"
me too! Mad Dave is awesome!
I can imagine a man who's dedicated himself to science would eventually get horrendously frustrated, not only due to the amount of conspiracy theories in this day and age, but especially due to how monumentally stupid they are; I fully understand his reaction.
Multiplication isn’t real. It was created by the Rothschilds family to prevent me from going to college
Fuck it, let's just pretend the MAGA cultists are correct on this one: I'm voting for the party that's powerful enough to control hurricanes, not the party that whines about it out of jealousy
Lmao "Vote blue or your house will be flooded by a blue wave from the weather gun"
Every man will have a storm!! VOTE WEATHERIST!!!
They're both the same party brother
I’m voting for Kamala Harris so she can use the government weather gun to make it snow in December instead of October and March
@@1stworldrefugee443they are absolutely not and you on some stupid shit if you think so
This video contains one of my favorite quotes of all time near the end.
“We are not nature’s masters - we are its stewards. With the intellect we’ve evolved comes the responsibility of exercising wisdom and taking our fate into our own hands.”
If people could generate, or even control, the energy needed to form a hurricane, there would be no need to have power stations.
Very good point.
However, there would still be the need for The Power Station, the 80's supergroup with the hit single "Some Like It Hot"
If you use the fact that there is no evidence for your claim as evidence in itself, no amount of rational thinking will help.
- "There's a secret cabal that controls everything!"
- "Where is the proof?"
- "There's is no proof, because they hide it! That's part of their operation!"
@@rasmodeus1 Wasn't that the less famous members of Duran Duran?
Hell if people can control weather, they can be wealthy by selling the weather plan to other people. For example always makes the weather sunny and pleasant for a price
Coming from an aviation standpoint, I just about lost my shit when they tried to say NEXRAD and Doppler, literally weather radar, is responsible for hurricanes. I mean its just so blatantly ignorant and takes 2 seconds to actually figure out what these things are. 🤦
One has RAD in the name. What's more RAD than controlling the weather?
Checkmate, illuminati. Won't get that one past me.
Don't you understand that they're so smart that anything they don't understand is clearly fake and clearly covering something up?? /s
Bro do you go around looking for affirming of your basic ass points?, YEAH weather manipulation is in *existence* RIGHT NOW so would extreme weather manipulation (probably even exasperated by actual environmental damage) not also be possible?
Wow all these meteorologist and scientists in the comments. And covid came from bats, hydroxchloroquine and ivermectin doesn't cure anything😂😂😂 Oh and our education system is perfect!
@@bigb451 yes and covid just mutates exponentially for no apparent reason right?
If meteorologists can control the weather, why are they always wrong?
It doesn't add up....
Cause idk Jews or something like that, don’t forgot to season with Lasars and HAARP
because they tell you one thing and then they deliberately change it. duh #sarcasm 😁
Right.. One of the only jobs you can get away with being wrong 90% of the time and not get fired 😂
The wrong ones are plants paid to lie silly
Because to a fascist, the enemy is always simultaneously all-powerful and impossibly-weak.
The short segments of sarcasm throughout the video make me grin. These conspiracy theories astound me, the lack of knowledge in the general American public is simply concerning.
The very fact that this need to be stated is just...
What did you expect? People think more than 2 genders exists these days 😂😂😂
@@TurtleFootMining Well, that is a very, VERY complex topic, but just to give you a rundown:
Gay/lesbian people are those who are sexually attracted to the same sex,
Transgender people are those who have the opposite gender to their sex,
Bisexual/asexual people are those who are sexually attracted to both/neither gender.
Nonbinary people are those whose gender is not male or female.
There are a lot more, and I'm generalising, but the claim that there are 2 genders is certainly... wrong. At least in the identity sense.
Resource: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex%E2%80%93gender_distinction
I’m just glad that someone finally debunked human caused climate change
@@josephlandry8787 source?
@@Ctrl-Z-Renders did you watch the video? How many hurricane seasons have we endured that were blamed on our governments energy policies. I’m glad someone actually is fact checking this.
I love how people think the government can control weather as easy as just putting some random powder in the air but putting massive amounts of carbon and pollution into the environment yearly isn’t effecting the climate like “humans can’t effect the environment” and then turn around and say the government is doing it.
Yep. Grade A lack of critical thinking.
”Never believe that [they] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. [They] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
-Jean-Paul Sartre speaking of something true of all fascists (edited to try and keep UA-cam from suspiciously censoring it)
@@dynamicworlds1 well he may be right but most of the people are just dumb and believe in stupid stuff without any malicious intent just that they read it online
@@Eddardstark9308 I promise you that you are giving them too much credit and that it goes deeper than that. The anti-intellectucalism we are dealing with now isn't just people latching on to random dumb things like we saw in the 2000-2012ish range.
We've always dealt with people latching on to dumb things online without thinking them through. What we've been dealing with for roughly the last decade is an emotional rebellion against The Enlightenment, itself. A contempt for those who genuinely care about truth, reason, and human well-being. A feeling that thinking, itself, is emasculating. A feeling of persecution looking for a target, any target, to lash out against to avoid any introspection.
OK what side are you people over here at prof. dave's on exactly?, all I'm seeing in these comments is circle jerking about "muh 10000+ IQ realization that I'm right" as if you guys aren't equally dense pompous asses
Fun fact: There's a minor error in this video: The Coriolis force is actually stronger closer to the poles. It reduces to zero at the equator. Which is why TCs generally can't form within 5 degrees of it or cross it. TCs can actually form a significant distance from the equator if conditions are right (Hurricanes, Pablo in 2019, Epsilon in 2005. etc.) The reason this is rare is actually because the baroclinicity (differences in temperature over horizontal distance) favors the formation of non-tropical cyclones. E.g. Frontal systems. Of course, The ocean temperatures are also lower up there...
I wondered about that. As you travel north from the equator, your rotational velocity decreases much faster for every degree north the closer to the pole you get. So intuitively I was thinking coriolis acceleration would be zero at the equator. The tangent of a longitudinal line at the equator is parallel to the earth's axis of rotation.
It is also incorrect to say that experimental lasers are unsuccessful at inducing and guiding lightning strikes. Hell, on the low tech end, you can launch a model rocket with a spool of copper wire and do the same. The laser just creates an ionized filament, giving the lightning an 'easy' path (basically, an artificial 'lightning leader'). They don't fire directly at the cloud (as shown in the graphic) though. It would be stupid to guide the lighting all the way into your expensive laser. Instead, they place a mirror at a safe distance, to redirect the laser beam upward. It is also helpful to measure the growing electrical potential in the atmosphere, and fire the laser (or rocket) when it's just about at the point where lightning would strike even without a 'nudge'. This sort of research is fairly routine in Florida's 'Lightning Alley'. Has been for decades by now.
It's true that the government cannot create hurricanes, but I'm still suspicious of those kids in my neighborhood going awfully fast on the roundabout in the playground.
But but but what about space lazer??? 🤣
"If there are Jews in the government then YESS" - 😂
Only if they’re Jewish!!
Laser*
*JEWISH* space laser
Guys please, the Jewish ones only caused the fires in Hawaii, now they're probably just woke space lazers or something.
They're EATING the WEATHER!
He is winning by 70% at the polls and has proven himself a far more powerful leader than the weakling Scamala.
Also there is actual evidence that they did eat dogs and cats,it was just covered up later
@newhybrid101 you're an embarrassment.
@@newhybrid101 70% of polls or by a 70% margin?
That is because it is raining cats and dogs.
It's the woke left and their pronouns making she/her icanes! 😂
the government is not the one making the hurricanes. I am. give me money or ill bring more hurricanes.
*insert evil laugh*
Just tell me where to type my bank info.
I knew this had the LGBTQ all over it!
Fans of Makoto Shinkai would know that instantaneous weather control is possible. You only need a plucky group of teenagers and a heart full of love.
and lots of hormones.
I was taught about how hurricanes work in grade 6 in Pensacola, Florida. It was part of our "Florida Education" class among the familiar "Science", "Math", "English", "Gym" and all etceteras. This is just me saying that the Florida school system did, in fact, teach us that hurricanes were a reaction from warm waters from the changing seasons.
Did Desantis ban all the science books?
All woke libtard propaganda! /s
@@claudelemire2451 knowing florida polititians, probably
@@claudelemire2451No, just books about black history
@@simpleviewer1334 And the books that mention LGBTQ people.
2:21
As someone from Alabama who has weathered (pun intended) many severe storms, including the 2011 super outbreak, with James Spann as our voice of clarity in the chaos, I'm appalled that anyone would consider threatening that man over the weather of all things.
I grew up listening to James Spann. He spoke at my elementary school! He is far too kind to suffer threats.
He is the pinnacle of excellence in meteorology, and for people to be threatening him like that? Literally makes me so pissed off
The fact that this needs to be said is wild. It’s not like hurricanes are a regular thing every Year or anything
There is nothing regular about this years
@@newhybrid101 I get that but why are they suddenly saying the government can create hurricanes now of all times
@@Snomrade political convenience, they'll say anything to their base of far right conspiracy theorists, and then abandon it the next week for a new conspiracy or boogyman
Honestly, what the fuck are we going to do? This is dark ages superstition, we're fucked.
@@SnomradeCreate? No
Affect,influence and magnify what is already there? There is some evidence for that
The sad part is that this video will convince absolutely no one who already believes this conspiracy.
TLDR:
Firemen spray gasoline on house fires.
Fahrenheit 452: The Sequel.
@@rasmodeus1 Too many people eschew books for audiovisual entertainment now to get that joke
@@mathphysicsnerd Luckily Ray Bradbury's book was adapted into film twice, the last one as recent as 2018.
That's a moot piece of sarcasm, I'm sure you're familial with the concept of selling snake oil?
Dave, I have no idea how you keep your sanity, seeing how passionate you are about misinformation and conspiracies. You are truly appreciated.
Why would the Govt use this power to disrupt the economy with billions in damage? If they want your land there are less expensive and destructive means to do so
It was Chinese government
Electing Donald Trump was very cost effective for Russia and China…
I was arguing with these people in a live stream and they kept screaming "HURRICANES ARE PROFITABLE JUST BELIEVE ME"
The areas Damaged by Helene are Rich in Lithium and Gold. The company getting the development leases is
called Black Rock. The CEO and founder of BR one Larry Fink is on the board of the WEF. BR is the Richest Company
in Global history. They control the World's Financial System. Need I say more?
Except the actual damage is in areas where there is none of either.
The mines are on the hill tops and the damage is in the deep valleys.
The whole “mines are exploiting the damage” is an utter Republican MAGA QAnon myth. Like “weather control”.
The damage has actually screwed up the mines because they can’t ship products because the railroads and highways are stuffed and will be stuffed for at least a year.
Been a big fan of yours for a while Dave along with Sciman Dan and a handful of others. I love listening to your videos in the background on my headphones when I'm working. I'm an adult with ADHD and my main form of stimulation is social media, UA-cam and general internet reading for general information. I see a lot of posts, read a hell of a lot of comments and I do a lot of interacting with people on subjects like these in the form of debunking and challenging the viewpoint. It drives me to constantly further my knowledge whilst filling the stimulation void. Because I get around a lot of social media posts on subjects like this I have seen the alarming scale at which these people are increasing. It is indeed very worrying.
The amount of pages, groups and videos coming up with conspiracies, baseless fringe ideas and outlandish ideas are very troubling. What is more worrying is how strong these users believe what they read and how much they blindly believe it. But I will tell you something, there is absolutely no educating, explaining or helping them at all.
I must have interacted in comment conversation with a few thousand people over the past few years and have only ever had 1 person actually drop the belief they had and it was someone regarding that proven hoax of birds aren't real 🤦🏼♂️. I believe this is more than just blind belief or lack of understanding. I truly believe it is developing into an actual mental health issue due to how strongly they deny reality and just ignore it. Even when the truth is right in front of their face these "conspiracy theorists" still deny it.
They are sending our species backwards in intellectual terms and they are becoming a danger to society. The movie "Idiocracy" is genuinely coming true (you should really watch it!) Social media is a breeding ground for these people and it is like a drug for them. Like a drug addict they take more and more and more until it begins to dangerously affect themselves and those around them and to further the problem the algorithms are spoon feeding them this rubbish.
I appreciate the people like us that fight against this misinformation but I believe we are at a point where we are wasting our time on them now. Unless social media outlets start doing something about it then we are doomed. Up until recently I strongly advocated free speech, the right to have your own opinion and was against censorship , just like these people argue for too. However, I think we are at a point now where this isn't going to stop unless some method of censorship is actually used as a preventative measure to stop this epidemic of stupidity from spreading at the exponential rate it is. Educating them isn't working so like a disease it needs to be contained. The false sources like those doing it just for clicks and likes need to be held accountable and prevented from spreading the disease. I've seen the true scale of it and it is extremely worrying for our future.
Dude, cant wait for "No, 1+1 is not equal to 3"
He already did 1x1 is not 2 🤣
I mean, he did have to make "No, 1*1 is not equal to 2" so we're basically already there.
@@MisterRilent The US is fucked now
President Terrence Howard, 2028
@@cyberattaq9113I can’t like that, even as a joke, cause stupid people.
As an international student in America, I’ve noticed that common sense is something a lot of Americans seem to mysteriously lack.
It may seem like a lot when you only pay attention to the idiots
"We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority."
-Texas GOP official party platform 2012
This problem was intentionally created.
@@dynamicworlds1 Of course, Texas. The state that currently ranks 42 in education.
Why bother with observation and knowledge when fantasy is so much more satisfying?
Fucking ridiculous. I can’t believe we have to have this discussion
Yep that’s how much trust in authority has been eroded. Sadly believers will choose to think Dave is a paid shill or naive, and won’t listen anyway.
@@TheLoneGranger yeah, we are already doomed. Just frustrating. Every day it’s new, dumb shit.
@@TheLoneGranger I mean, I know the government isn't great. I myself also do not like the Mainstream Media. But come on, just because the MSM has become unreliable doesn't mean you can just go off and believe all sorts of ridiculous stuff!
@@alexmenke7131I had to unsubscribe from a UA-camr who started peddling the Haarp controls the weather and aliens (the Tiktok conspiracy theory video reactionary type)
At first he had like legit things proven to be cover ups and things not known by the public that has caused deaths and still affects us
Once he saw the grift he just kept on even claimed to be a Christian when I know for a fact he openly said hes an atheist
@@dx-ek4vr i hate that people say MSM is unreliable when it's the most reliable source we have.
When you're born, you get a ticket to the freak show. If you're born in America, you get a front row seat. (George Carlin for President)
I wonder how these people explain why other countries like Japan, China, Vietnam, Australia, Madagascar also get hit by cyclones
The same people that think Covid was contrived to affect the 2020 US election .
there we go again assuming people who believe in this kind of modern fairy tale are interested in facts
Well you see they call them typhoons and other names so the US govt's magic have no power over them
Easy. HAARP works globally. It also can control earthquakes and volcanoes. And please don't forget 5G!
You expect them to know that? :P
Please don't ever stop doing what you're doing. I know it can feel like shouting at a wall at times. This kind of work is exhausting often because you feel like you can't do enough to move the needle. Or you just feel like you could be doing more. Please know that your videos are so very important right now as those of us who don't know specific science yet still have our head screwed on can learn how to counteract this nonsense when we hear it in the wild. Thank you Professor Dave!
I'm a big weather buff and while I don't have formal training in meteorology, I've taught myself quite a bit using great resources like the National Weather Service/NOAA, UA-cam channels like Convective Chronicles, Pecos Hank, and some of your stuff, too. I read about physics and weather on Wikipedia as well. All of this is to say I went from someone who had NO clue how any of this worked to being able to read weather soundings/hodographs, interpret different radar products, make sense of a number of different portions of weather models, storm spot, and so on. Now I'm still working on learning more advanced math to make sense of the more complex stuff, but I have a pretty good handle on all of it. Why the hell can't these people do the same? We live in an amazing time where there are a lot of things you can learn without having to step foot into a classroom.
PECOS HANK MENTION 🔥🔥🔥🔥STORM CHASING GOAT
@@tornadomash00 Yessirrrr he's the guy who got me into storms and weather
"Wanting to learn the truth" versus "wanting affirmation of already held beliefs". A lot of people don't like being wrong. Being wrong is viewed as something bad rather than learning something new.
You might like weatherbox channel then it's definitely my favourite weather channel for past events.
The difference is that you actually used sources from the people directly involved vs people with political agendas posts on social media cherry picking and deliberately lying.
The first gets you a well educated person the 2nd gets you a well manipulated person who can then spread the lies like a virus.
As the 1st method takes far longer the manipulated unfortunately outnumber the well educated.
Dave, you are genuinely one of my favorite human beings of the era. Please, take care of yourself and keep on chuggin'.
While I would agree that the government response hasn't been flawless, some of it does come down to Republican officials in affected states outright refusing some of the help that's been offered, either out of pride or for political purposes (i.e. refusing help then claiming none was offered in order to win votes). This was seen with one Republican house member literally ordering street workers to move debris to be piled up behind him before he gave a speech in order to make the destruction look more severe than it actually was
Both sides of the isle do this not just Republicans sorry to say
90% republican tho
@@aaronrodgers9202 Please show just a few comparable examples.
He could have gone to an area that actually has that kind of damage but he won't go out of his comfort area. And he was just mimicking his god king who had emergency workers build a little brick wall out of the bricks of a destroyed building behind him for his speech of lies.
@@aaronrodgers9202prove it
So sad. A person my wife works with said straight faced to her yesterday about how the government "seeded" the last two hurricanes. It's getting harder every day to keep living in this world of morons.
This is why my major prof always warned me to stay in academia instead of trying something different in the "real world". the real world is generally very, very stupid.
@@thomasneal9291stay in your little academic bubble you poor guy the real world is so hard 🥲 go read a textbook and cry it out
@@thomasneal9291 the problem with that is that you put yourself in the bubble of academia. I don't know what major you are, but in the case of engineering there is a substantial discrepancy between academia and the real world, in that academia works more on ideals while the real world functions on, well, real world impacts (ex: corrosion, maintenance, and installation).
It’s so stupid dude. I told someone saying this shit if the government was also the cause in weakening Milton to a cat 3 from a 5 at landfall and they went quiet bc it didn’t fit their agenda
@@troybaxter Or in other words, there are carefully crafted structural blueprints and then there's the art of the kludge
See, this explanation doesn't work for ppl like MTG, you know she's a flatearther as well. They don't believe in Coriolis Forces.
She also believes that atmosphere can't exist next to a vacuum, yet the vacuum in her head proves otherwise.
That's not even a vacuum, her brain is a straight up void @@h14hc124
What once was a source of humor and snickering is becoming almost frightening. These people like MTG and Boebert have no limit to their stupidity, and too many people are eating up the lies.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein
Brazilian here. Similar sh t went down in our southernmost state. Ppl blaming HAARP antennas for storms and flooding. 🙄
Thanks for giving us a little insight into another country's conspiracy issues. I think we all need to know a little more about what's going on in the world outside our borders.
This kind of thinking is absolutely frustrating, isn't it? You listen to this crazy talk and you wonder how you can reason some right thinking into them. If you actually engage with them you find out very quickly it feels like you can't.
Are they running for president and have a chance, because ours are
@@simpleviewer1334 Maddening, isn't it? You sit there and watch all these Trump voters just swallow the conspiracies maga comes up with. You don't even have to be all that science literate to know how ridiculous these claims are.
Honestly maybe the "believe whatever you want" stance wasnt such a good idea after all.
I've always believed in challenging people's beliefs, but then I've always been called an a*hole because that's seen as rude.
Someone struggle with the notion than not all opinions are made equal. No John, you thinking "The Juice controll the weather to destroy American industry" is not an equal opinion in value to "Climate change is a process brought up by human mass industry for over 200 years now".
One is build on self-deluded hate, the other one on the empirical scientific method. This to say, one isnt even an opinion in my eyes, the other is. Why? What is an opinion? "Well, I think..." that's the thing...John here isnt even thinking. One to think would ultimately disqualify this manic "conspiracy theories", yet they dont, they dont think.
But then again these are the same people who think all scientists across the world are all in a scret cabal to hide "the truth" (tm)
Great video as usual. What a crazy world full of crap to debunk we have atm. Just had an argument with someone who thinks that oil is being generated faster than we are consuming it, and that the U.S. has enough oil to provide for the entire planet for 300+ years so there's maybe a future video for you to debunk.
Damn I used to watch this guy when I needed help in Calculus
It's kinda funny, cause I was just suggested Dave one day, at the beginning of his battle with the anti-science morons but saw his back catalogue of lectures and such. It's a very interesting dichotomy, and it must be super weird for his OG subscribers for this content to have to be released. Kinda depressing that people are so stupid he needs to make them though...
I only took pre calculus....sorry😔
thank you for this. Also can you do a video about "Chem Trails" id love to finally see that conspiracy put to rest
Even as a teenager I knew that the planes "trails" are basically the breath of the planes engine. What happens when you breath what's in your lungs, into cold air.. you can now "see" your breath. Even though it was there the whole time. "Chem trails" are there at takeoff.. you just can't see it yet. I've always hated this conspiracy. It's truly dumb
the chemicals in the chemtrails are what melted the steel beams
@rinzler4841 cool hard logic and potholer54 have done so already
Boils down to people thinking water vapor = chemicals
Zeo's done one too, apparently what makes a contrail from a chemtrail is how clean and fresh it looks. The streaky older gross looking ones are chemtrails, the white puffy soft looking ones are contrails
I was 17 when it was put to rest, now I'm 37, it's back again.
That's how conspiracies work, just look at flat earth, Atlantic, lizard people, or any religion.
U can't argue the stupid out of people.
I saw a lot of brain dead people saying this in the chat of hurricane coverage live streams. Some of them were even saying that the hurricane didn’t exist at all. I don’t think anyone can get through to them at this point.
The government just set up loud speakers at the place I was staying at for reasons.
"Please stop being so gullible.
...We are not nature's masters, we are its stewards.
...We need a complete sea change in the way people interface with information and reality in general, or we will not see the 22nd Century; our current path is one of self-annihilation."
Human beliefs can be so crazy sometimes.
Quite true, "Question everything" as the saying goes.
Should people be skeptical? Yes.
Should people be educated? Yes
That's the problem we have uneducated skeptics that are looking for someone to blame for their situations
Uneducated skeptics I mean that's alright, the bad part is the ignorant ones
Exactly! They get it right with the attitude of questioning power/authority. Problem is they don't know how to aim or fire that gun properly.
Uneducated *selective* skeptics. I don't see them questioning their own narrative.
How are they to blame for their situation?
**has hurricane creating technology**
**uses it to destroy vacation plans**
This is the weirdest assumption that the conspiracy theorists make. If we truly had the means to manipulate weather on a global scale, is ruining the economy and infrastructure of YOUR OWN COUNTRY really the first idea that comes to mind? I mean cmon, total control of the weather?? You could rule the world with it! Bolster tourist economies by always having great weather for sightseeing and outdoor activities! Have perfect conditions for farming, never get a bad harvest again! Hell, climate change wouldn’t even be an issue!
But no, instead create murder beyblades for no reason. Logical.
If we could control the climate to the point we can make and aim a hurricane climate change would be a non issue. not to mention why the fuck would you aim the hurricane at your own country.
"do your research" these days really means "watch the one conspiracy nut that I watch"...
Literally, I asked someone to send me their “research” and they send me a Tik Tik video….😂
@@Didyouknowfacts-fyimy friend believes in aliens because of tiktok “reporters”. It hurts me because he’s a smart guy otherwise but he believes most government conspiracies (like covering up aliens in Miami) and when I ask for evidence of his claims he points to TikTok and just says “I don’t know but this is shadyyyyy” just because he doesn’t want to apply critical thought to the videos.
I love how you can barely hide your contempt for this idiocy. Bravo!
6:12 uh oh... here come the flat earthers claiming this as proof.
I knew Dave is a secret believer 😂
6:24 😂😂..flat earthers being disappointed again😂😂😂
I was waiting for you to do a video on this. I've been trying to explain how this is physically impossible to those conspirators around me but couldn't find the right words over their incessant arguing. I'll just send them this vid instead now.
“The single dumbest person in the history of American politics, Marjorie Taylor Greene, has decided to chime in”
Lauren Boebert: Am I a joke to you?!
Bobo puts up a good fight but MTG is a much more belligerent type of stupid
Polly want a cracker?
More like “Am I *not* a joke to you?”
(Also, for the record, no clue who either of these people are since I don’t follow politics much)
@@LonkinPork I feel that Greene is too effective to be as stupid as Bobo. Like, Greene seems to have an idea of how to grab for more power, cosy up to the powerful and climb the greasy pole, but Bobo forgets to even show up on the floor to cast her votes
@@thunderd7904 You are very lucky.
"we can create super cells of any size" - random russian scientist who wrote the weather mod science that was handed to the UN and featured on the meteorology website until it was removed about 10 years ago.
bullshit is sooo easy to smear on the walls. btw, a "super cell" is just another name for a raincloud, NOT a hurricane. moron.
This made me smile immediately upon seeing the title. People are funny creatures. Let's see how goofy the conspiracy men were this time.
Okay, not just funny, but also... worrisome.
mind control, real time.
The internet should be treated like a privilege. You get it revoked if you spread the most moronic lies and conspiracy theories imaginable that actually hurt people.
100%
Off to the stocks with you, essentially.
I was once threatened with dis-Internetation for allegedly pirating some copyrighted material, which, even if true, seems far less harmful to humanity.
I LOVED this video!!! Unfortunately the people that believe we can conjure hurricanes will at most just see the thumbnail and title to this video and skip right on by it. They are so entrenched in politics that it takes over their whole identity and thought process.
They'll only see what they want to see
Dude, youtube is starting to HATE you. Keep it up.
Please could you do a video on Candace Owens. Shes a young earth creationist and Climate change denier with some incredibly stupid and damaging opinions. Would love to see your reaction to her BS.
First Covid vaccines and now Hurricanes Helene and Milton?
We have failed as a species.
The internet and its consequences
My dad is one if the homunculi that believe this crap, it's genuinely baffling
Boomer conservatives
I blame it on lead gasoline and lead paint.
Its as if an entire generation became irredeemably stupid
Like Thanos snapping his fingers
@@phdonme1 blame it on right wing authoritarianism. it's destroyed most of the complex civilizations humans have ever produced.
A homunculus is a small human being or a miniature adult that was believed to be created through alchemy or exist within an egg, learn a word before you use it clown. Your dad is probably depressed at his beta male son 😂
My friend’s mother is also one…. Facebook is a drug for her
@@phdonme1luckily my parents seem to have escaped the idiocy.
It's silly because the strongest hurricane to ever hit Florida was the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 at 185 mph. If the government could create powerful hurricanes today, then they suck at it because Milton and Helene were not as strong as a hurricane from 89 years ago 😂
I say shit like this as a joke. Never have i ever considered self-considered-intelligent people taking this seriously
We are truly living in one of the stupidest eras of humanity
@@chikinbooger So the only era of humanity?
We've been this dumb from day one.
If I had Dave’s job of having to be exposed to idiots on the internet for a living I’d have a crippling alcohol addiction
I mean I knew there were some idiots spouting this idea, but that it went as far as shooting rescue workers is as astonishing as it is utterly terrifying.
Good luck over there guys.
I just sorted the comments by new. The amount of people mentioning cloud seeding even though Dave explains exactly why it's not relevant is idiotic.
At this point, Dave should just make a video about how the earth is not flat… oh wait
the government can't create hurricanes, but i can. source: trust me bro
People point to the patents over weather modification without realising what a patent actually is. It's registering a concept..... there's no need to prove that it works.
When people point out the patents, I point out there are patents for literal butt-kicking machines. But you don't see those in stores...
@@stylesrjThere are also numerous patents for perpetual motion machines (none of them work either)…
thank u for spelling jiggawatts correctly dave