How Earth’s Geography Will Change With Climate Change
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2019: Why Russia geography sucks
2050: Why Russia geography is perfect
*2100
It's geography will still suck lol
*2020*
Jaime Gonzalez I mean if it became that dominant there would be nothing stopping it from clapping some Nordic cheeks
The dumpster of the Internet never*
Greenland would finally be green.
It's no good man
But iceland will be greenland
@@mymainissups2642 What’s the *worst* that can happen ?
Finally be green, again.
I don't wanna pay that cost
When I'm depressed about the problems of my life I always watch this video to chear myself up and remember that future people are going to be way more screwed than me.
Lmfao😂😂
Lmaoo that’s fucked.
I mean if you were born in 2005 like your username suggests, those future people definitely include you lol
@@nathanmccoy9188 Nah, I'm not from 2005. It's just that Alkis - Alkis04 were all taken =D.
That's a strong boomer take right there
Something important to keep in mind is that all of those "uninhabitable hell holes" as he called them have a lot of permafrost which means that even once it thaws out the soil is going to be really really bad for growing anything also they will be almost completely treeless
Yeah that's one thing I was thinking. Any soil that was either frozen or covered in glaciers for thousands of years are not going to just magically become suitable for farming overwinter. Geology, and by extension, biology, just doesn't move that fast. All the more reason to protect what we've already got
@@FigureOnAStick yeah. Its all just sand and silt no nutrients or organic matter like good soil has. Would take generations of planting the few plants that can grow in such soil. Or genetically modifying legumes to grow in such soils
Or we spread some fertilizer.
Look up "loess," A.A. It's literally meters thick under most permafrost.
The Russians did some experiments using loess as topsoil. They grew crops as big and healthy as the crops grown in the central valley, north of San Diego.
For that matter, crops can be grown in _water._ Hippies have been growing... umm-m... 'crops' by using just trace minerals and a few other nutrients in hydroponic water tanks, without any soil at all.
Topsoil's primary function is as a stable base for plant roots. But it isn't necessary. And your hair isn't on fire, so there's no need to keep running around in circles screaming, "O NOES! No topsoil!!"
@@boogathon woah there, I feel like I offended you somehow. Look, I really didnt mean to hurt your feelings or whatever but if we don't need soil then what's the point of all the extra soil that we'd be getting once the permafrost melts? And very few staple crops can be grown hydroponically and as much as the professors up in Humboldt would like to believe, we can't subsist entirely off weed and hemp. That said I _AM_ an advocate for growing algae hydroponically and incorporating that into our diets and the diets of our livestock more in the coming years because algae literally(not literally) is bae
No more ice , no winter.
Germany: Hmmm No winter..
You don't need coats if the it never snows...
Lmfao wow
toó bad that by then, probably Russia will have 1700 millions of people, while Germany will have 120 millions, so... wanna spare some change, I mean lifes? still there will be too many People.
WW3
Lets send Rommel
I like how whenever the world ends,New Zealand always makes it
New Zealand: Switzerland is sucking in apocalypse in compare to us.
Alien: Captain Xorgog, we forgot to blow up New Zealand.
I think Gandalf has something to do with that
Stay the fuck out my country I'll be waiting n watching with my bow n arow
Not climate change.
Me who lives in New Zealand: “I support the fight to fight climate change. Because I don’t want to lose my backyard.”
Yeah. I don't want all the damned hassle of expanding our section to be for nothing.
nz 🔛🔝
Same for me in Alaska lol
That’s interesting. I always assumed if temperatures rose it would be like the humid rainforest type climate of the dinosaurs. I guess all the melting ice goes straight into the sea and doesn’t evaporate into clouds.
Study absolutely everything about the Paleocene Eocene thermo maximum. 55 million years ago. Humans were not generating carbon dioxide emissions because we did not exist at the time. Instead carbon dioxide was emitted by volcanic activity. Between 5 to 10,000 years at 3:00 to 7 trillion tons of carbon dioxide push planet Earth into a carbon dioxide mass extinction. All Wildlife that could migrate North into the Arctic did so to escape the ever scorching heat up planet Earth. The entire Arctic became tropical with the subspecies of the modern day North American alligator, tropical f r o n d s living in the Arctic. The entire Arctic was pretty much tropical with average winter temperatures of 75° Fahrenheit. Humans are releasing carbon dioxide by the burning of Coalition gas add 1 hour times the rate of paleocene eocene thermal maximum
I think he is wrong. It would actually make the Earth even more humid and wetter. There will also be more desert especially in places that have a dry climate but do not classify as true desert like the prairies.
Yeah this video is politically motivated science
it evaporates into humidity, but the main problem is instability, weather patterns where it's 100+ for 6 months in the summer and -30+ in the 2 months of winter, is something that plants can't survive in. and will cause them to die off.
Planet: *gets warmer*
Siberia: *Stonks*
?
@@union_4014 siberia
Cryptic W O W
@@rattfish Siberia is the frozen part of Russia
Siberia: Anthrax
Greenland's name will finally make sense
Thus turning Erik the Red from a swindling property salesman, into a Viking PROPHET!
*Sad Iceland noises*
Iceland’s name will make no sense though.
they named it as such predicting this global warming 😅
@@pissyourselfandshitncoom2172 So we can always remember that ice existed.
Honestly this is too simplistic of an analysis. Your map only takes into account latitudes basically and doesn’t take into account future ocean currents, seasonal wind patterns or anything else like that. Nothing about elevation differences in the swath of lands you characterized as yellow or green!
True. Desert means no rainfall. For example a warmer Atlantic and Mediterranean will give more evaporation and more potential rain. Mountain ranges like the Pyrenees, Alps, Apennines will cause rainfall when saturated air has to go up to pass them. Seasonal patterns will be disrupted impacting agriculture, but not everything will be a complete desert.
Denmark doesnt own Greenland, we're in "The Unity of the realm" where they govern themselves on paper, but they almost completely rely on us for their economy, which gains Denmark a lot of influence.
I have a feeling that unless Denmark starts to invest heavily into ressource gathering in Greenland, that other countries will and our unity will slip. Unfortunately I think Denmark is way too small to hold such a vast area full of ressources in the long run
“No more winter in Russia”
Germany: ᵢₜₛ fᵣₑₑ ᵣₑₐₗ ₑₛₜₐₜₑ
lol
Zizzy daaaamnn
Imagine finally having a nice, warm day in Russia and hearing in the distance:
_"Fur das vaterland"_
"Most of Germany is now a desert"
*Germany has left the chat*
@@TheGuyThatsNotFunny You won't be able to hear much over the infernal buzzing of trillions upon trillions of mosquitoes and biting flies. They are bad now, wait until it warms up.
"USA becomes desert"
Also USA: Looks like Canada needs some freedom.
oh god
yar jost gelous uf aer STONKS
Trump might even blande them for the things that had happened
Sonoran Desert: *its free real **-estate-** expansion*
Lmao
For those confused, earth will not become a giant dessert if the global temperature rises 4 degrees. However once this happens most permafrost will start to melt releasing tons of methane and co2 in the air. This will see a rise of global temperature up to ten degrees warmer then today, thus why everything will be a dessert.
4 degrees? Earth says.. HA! Hold my (warm) beer!
The ice is just seeking freedom to move once more in the oceans, rivers, and streams, and elsewhere.
Yum.
Even ardent climate change fear mongers don’t predict this kind of temperature change. Computer climate models have missed predictions considerably since their development 30 years ago. Actual temperature rise is 1/3 of the model predictions. This entire production is a complete waste of time.
dune
Hey love your Videos, could you make a video like that with the impact of a change in the gulf stream (or a complete shutdown). The effects of warm/cold water and salinity etc. I'm curious which effect 4-5-- celcius degress make there.
This all is riding on that humans don’t kill each other in the chaos of suddenly warming climate.
That would be a rather short video, lol. But yeah you right. Historically a warming climate leads to an increase in conflicts. Given the stress on resources something like this would have, especially for fresh water, I imagine there would be some rather serious conflicts.
This is my theory. There will be an uproar before climate change gobbles us up.
A "North v South" World War would be possible. With all that desert across the middle of the planet, there would be a massive geographic divide between important countries with almost no buffer states
@Kent Horvath sooooo do you have another theory to explain the complete spike in global temps starting from the industrial revolution and how the trend, albeit slowing, has continued almost continuously since?
Kent Horvath so, you believe that climate change is either not real or isn’t a threat to humans? I understand that people can believe that especially if they never feel the affects of it, but unfortunately there is countless scientific studies proving the prevalence of climate change and global warming. People like to argue that the 1-2 degrees Celsius increase in temperature from the 1800’s could be the cause of the technology giving people in the 21st century the ability to more accurately take temperature readings compared to the 1800’s, but then you can look at studies of the ozone layer diminishing at a significant rate from just the 1970’s where we’ve had the ability to spectrograph the atmosphere and take accurate readings of the O3 levels and see that they are reducing. You can even look towards the ocean levels which never really needed advanced equipment to gather data to see that they have risen at an exponential rate over the past 200 years. What do you think will happen these next 100 years if it continues on this exponential path? Entire cities, islands, even countries could be lost leaving people homeless and it’s your type of ignorance that leads to their lives being ruined. The only people that benefit off the belief that global warming isn’t real is billionaires that made their money through oil and fossil fuels and don’t want to waste the time to repurpose their stocks and finances into other long term business opportunities because they won’t be around much longer to deal with the repercussions.
I just realised my town has a higher population than Greenland
I am a higher population than Greenland
If a woman is pregnant with a quadruplet then her stomach has a higher population than Greenland
@@hagenwinge2571 wait isnt a population the no.of 2 or more of the same organism
Same
Really? I just realized my city has a higher population than Antarctica! An entire continent! Goofy ass
11:42 you missed a fact there. All countries (at least from South America) which have coasts that face the Antarctic have a land there.
Your optimism warms my heart.
The reality of this would be a war for land and resources
And mass starvation
@@aquaticborealis4877 fr I doubt most countries would be taking refugees, if they’re not doing it rn imagine in an escenario like the one in the video
Billions will die. Yes.
Bro wall-e is the future
Literally the Armageddon
The Middle East be like, huh something’s different?
Oh visited Saudi once and then I realized ooo it's a desert
Well... it could just become EVEN hotter.
It only affects Turkey though. Which is bad for country but maybe better for our culture because people are not okay.
Egypt: where my fucking river?!
Israel, plains in Syria and Iraq, Turkey and some of Egypt: what the he-
The conclusion detailing the potential importance of Antarctica makes me want a post-apocalyptic sci fi TV show exploring the idea.
Canada, Northern Europe and Eastern Europe: Guys, we can explain.
Southern Europe, USA and East Asia: You guys actually benefited from climate change?! All our countries were turned into scorching deserts!
The Indian subcontinent, Central America, South America and Southern Africa: Scorching deserts?! Huge parts of all our lands became uninhabitable!
Pacific Islands and South East Asia: Wait, you guys still have countries?
In this reallity new zealand will finally be on a map
Good point
well, well, well ........ how the turntables
Will we finally have hobbits?
Not as anything but an economic power. Like Japan, now that I'm thinking about it.
@@JaneDoe-dg1gv implying Japan wont colonize new zeeland so that they can survive
Russia went from tundra to the most habitable place
How the turntables
They'd still be screwed. Where do you think most Asian refugees would go to?
@@696190 *_PROBABLY YOUR MOM'S HOUSE._*
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@@wauliepalnuts6134 LMAO Gotteem
@@696190 They wouldn't be, they would have plenty of land to build homes and plenty of cheap immigrant labour.
Let's pray that it never happens and we're able to prevent such a catastrophe
Let's not pray but actually do something
Unless some new world order takes over and forces us with violence to change we never, ever will. We are an infant species with no ability to care about things that will happen after we die. This is humanity and the destruction of earth is probably the only way to make us change.
@@-umph ‘Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.’
@@nathanhiggers4606 Yeah the only way I see us being saved from climate change is in a socialist revolution, capitalists have proven that they only care about money and would literally leave the future generations to die for it.
The increase in temperature is inevitable because the cause has not been recognised, yet the cause is obvious if one looks in the right place.
Nobody:
Real life lore: Talks about the downfall of humanity with sick beats in the background
A lot of people are talking about the downfall of humanity right now
Sounds like generic background music
All of us living now will be dead in 80 years
@@epakerd Damn, that's pretty bleak. Why do you think that?
epakerd chill out
They forgot 1 detail: once the ice melt near the poles, the ground in northern Canada, northern Russia and Antarctica will be mostly bedrock. It will take a long time before agriculture become possible.
Very good point, however one could imagine that future advancements in agricultural technology might speed up the conversion of the ground. Mind you, this scenario of a 4°C increase wouldn't happen overnight so humans might have a few decades to fertilise at least some of this land.
Exactly. You can’t just magically turn all these places into fertile farmland. The pollinators will be extinct and invasive bugs will be plentiful in these conditions. Think of those Alaska mosquitoes 🦟 all the time.
JP K very good point. But Canada’s shape is good for animals to move up North
JP K I just thought of this but Canada could invade Alaska😆
Siberia is already green and kinda fertile ground but too cold on normal reality, so it would be good to go in this scenario. What you said it's true for the rest though, specially Greenland and Antarctica.
The entire video is based on the Fact that the Sea level never raises at all. But the entire Ice melts in Himalayan Range+ Canada+ Siberia+ Ice Land+ Artic+ Antarctica will majorly affect sea level and hence completely submerging the islands or UK, New Zealand most of Costal Australia and all the East Asian Islands. The habitable land would reduce by a lot.
It' would be interesting to see Alaska having the same weather as Massachusetts some day!And lots of space for development for a much larger population perhaps within a hundred years there and Canada too!
Still though they will have the low sunlight issue for at least half of the year, the further north the worse it gets. Not sure how we can do agriculture without sunlight and little usable soil.
@@-umph They have some argiculture even now
Im not a climate sceptic or anything. I study geoscience. Claiming that the rainforests near equator will become desserts is not happening. Id you know the global wind system you’d know this is imposaible. It will aleays rain in the ITC-zone no matter how hot. It wil even rain more in the rainforests thanks to the higher temperatures which result in more evapuration in the subtropics leading to more rainfall in the rainforests. Again - not a climate sceptic - just know the truth of the global weather system - some og these desertification claims are simply untrue and misleading.
This comment needs more likes.
Even if the rivers dry out? Asking out of interest
johnsson they wouldn't even dry out In the rainforests due to increased rain, and that rain comes from the ocean.
I think u r right
The problem occurs when forests are cut down for development. Which is being driven by increased consumption in first world countries. Its supply and demand.
Arabia is in desert
Arabs: So what?
LMAO
just another normal day here in Saudi Arabia not gonna lie lmao
Lmao, why does everyone think we live in the deserts and ride camels?
@@mycakedied5773 Because that's totally a viable circumstance to build a society Kappa
@@mycakedied5773 because you do
I feel this is far from what would happen, like i read somewhere that with temp increases Africa would receive heavier monsoon season due to the evaporation and become it's greener self again, brazil would be mostly underwater due to the amazon basin flooding from the ice melts and the rising sea level, and I don't understand how the desert parts of Western Australia turn green while the more southern green part dries up, and u offer no explanation why either, this map just feels like someone painted the mountains brown made everything else yellow then just added green bits in randomly except for a couple of places he was sure would still be/become green, i understand the map was done by someone else, but couldn't you see the holes in this one?
well if you've 'read it somewhere' then we can ignore all this Science stuff
@@joso7228 that's assuming what I read wasn't based on "science stuff" 🤣
I'm not so sure about those deserts and their extents. If anything, we might see some regions become more humid since the increased climatic temperatures will not only affect the landmasses, but also the oceans. A warmer climate leads to more evaporation and thus more water vapor meaning more storms and drastically increased rainfall with flooding from the storms and melted polar regions. These storms will also very likely be far more devastating due to the higher temperatures.
Yeah but it's the same thing, those same places if they aren't deserts, will be complete wet-bulbs, and hence, absolutely uninhabitable.
7:15
So greenland would finally become... Greenland.
1\3 %
Canada knocks USA as the new super power.
Canada: "Sorry"
Russia: "Nyet"
Njet
Global warming leads to the opposite of desertification....means expansion of the tropics and relocation of the temperate zone further north. Desertification happens when the temperature is decreased (like in ice age) when the circle of water is halted
Its cute how people think Americans would just let Canadians keep their independence. Obviously at some point between now and the 4 degrees scenario it would integrate with the US, by force if necessary.
@@TheSauron197 expansion of the tropics would be slow, so most likly most of that land at best would be grassland or savanna in our lifetimes (jungles would probably expand to europe and north america maybe at end of milenium)
@@LonelyCinderella123 its cute how people forget that Canada never lost a war, they will War of 1812 us again.
This is extremely simplistic. I haveca lot of doubts about the modeling. The only thing they seem to have done is add 4C to temperature everywhere and raise sea level.
In reality the far north of the world will not become a breadbasket. Recently glaciated land has no soil. The whole Canadian shield, most of siberia, alaska, and all of alaska is straight bedrock.
That's false. the permafrost is in deep humus soil. that's why it releases methane while thawing.
Replace relocate with die or fight to the death to get into the habitable zone and this video would be much more accurate. If this future comes to be we will be in the 100 millions max.
Finally Greenland is going to be... Green!
But iceland will be sand
Oreagle QUE SAY NO NO
@@darlenebear1 what?
And Antarctica! welcome to Arakis!
@@SilverVolo sandland
The video in a nutshell:
*DESERT*
This is absolute bullshit. The world is getting greener than ever with global warming because the rising CO2 level increase plants productivity.
I don't know why people continue to make apocalyptic predictions about the climate from their ass when they have consistently been wrong in 40 years.
Ya it’s almost like what you believe is complete bullshit יעקב@
@@uwu_senpaioh realy? Why dont you go tell that global warming is BS to the people that have had to relocate because the island they lived in was submerged. Why don't you tell that to Brazil and Australia who are dealing with fires bigger than anything in recorded history.
Hell, go say that to the MILLIONS of scientist that are presenting accurate and detailed evidence about the climate, or in other words, EVIDENCE. And no, UA-cam videos or your bitching on the internet while hiding in your mother's basement doesn't count as evidence
You know, I thought deserts were associated with dryer climates, and usually that only happens when the Earth gets colder. Because all the moisture is trapped in the poles.
So I'm pretty sure when the world gets hotter, the climate would technically get wetter. I'm just basing this one what I know about the history of Earth's climate.
Dunno whether cities existing may change that.
This is bullshit, absolute bullshit, you would actually see *less* desert and a surge of tropical climate (and if we don't prevent it, tropical rainforests would start growing at ... unusual lattitudes like they did during the PETM when the temperature was +7°C higher.)
Not saying this wouldn't be terrible. Most of the world would be subject to tropical diseases like Malaria and massive flooding would happen.
But heat doesn't make desert... Not at all, as long as there is humidity you can have plant life. And the humidity doesn't just disappear because the climate warms up.
One thing no one talks about is that in the +4 degree equation, methane from the permfrost is not yet included. 2100 can be even worse than 4+ degrees
Well the +4 degree is probably unreachable without this effect.
@@elmercy4968 no its not. +4 degree is simply where we end up if everything stays the same.
@@emilsinclair6202 Interesting. Source?
Greenland is not that big. It's slightly larger than Colombia and Venezuela combined. The thing is, Colombia and Venezuela are near the Equator and therefore largely unaffected by the projection used on maps, but which greatly exaggerates the size of Russia, Scandinavia, Canada and (to a lesser extent) the US.
“We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children”
-Native American proverb
@Kent Horvath what
Noodlezz you were confused too cool 🤣🤣
@Kent Horvath native american is not immigrant to america tho
Me and Greta... 5 a clock.. In the parking lot... Come and fight us you nasty little adult!
@Midousuji Akira We should all go back to sea since we are all immigrants from the sea.
"what's mostly a hell hole today" shows all of Canada
Me sad face
I mean, Edmonton.
I'm with you buddy. Love from Northern Alberta
@@LadyCooper "what's mostly a hell hole today"
Me: *Sad Canadian noises*
@@davidshillaker7578 love from Southern Alberta ♥️♥️
@@LadyCooper Oi, we're a lovely hell hole m'kay. The River Valley is pretty nice other than the occasional crack heads
Anyone else think of WoW: Mist of Pandaria when the video mentions Antartica opening up as a new habitable zone?
Minneapolis currently gets very hot in the Summer. 2023 had 33 days at 90F or higher. We nearly hit 100F on September 1st.
"Russia will have no winter"
*The Germans have entered the chat*
*The French have entered the chat*
Lord Vadar Learn History. Not the Winter but that US, and GB fought against the Germans instead of the communist Jewish regime is the reason Germany lost
@@paulthecrusader3488 You don't get it,if there's no winter,Germany army would have captured Moscows and the Russia will fall with its oil fields to Germany
*Napoleon has entered the chat*
Germans would be too weak to even touch russia
He sounds like he's happy about it.
He’s probably Russian
@@ronnie9891 or Canadian
He’s Texan lmao
Who wouldn’t be happy about it
LOL
In my town the average temperature is now 4 degrees warmer than it was if you use the 30 year average. Once we started using the 1990-2020 average the average here went up 2 more degrees so it's already 4 degrees warmer here on average in my neck of the woods
Is it a desert where you are at 4 degrees?
It'll be interesting to see how Himalayas look🤩 without ice.
*The World is a desert*
Arabs: *It’s a real free estate*
well yes, but actually no
@@croozem11 You'd think by now they would have figured out ways to permanently shade large areas, to lower the temperatures and reduce evaporation. This would also work to get water vapors from the sea through a funnel-and-pipes system to those shaded areas, where it would condense into mist and/or rain. But they don't want bad enough to solve their heat problem. If the shades were also reflective, that heat would radiate away into space, or it could be focused on a wall and used for solar power, and the excess heat pumped into radiator-towers to have air currents take the excess heat away. This would also allow for large-scale refrigeration, and I mean even city-sized or bigger.
@@SapioiT FBI wants to know your location.
I'm sure your plan is probaly more complicated or expensive. But at least on a surface level sounds cool.
@@baronvonjo1929 Well, considering the alternative is giving up on perfectly usable land, I would say it's a good tradeoff. I mean, if I remember correctly, arabs import most of their food. So if something happened which made them unable to import that food (like war, for example, or economic sanctions, or a trade ban caused by a second more dangerous coronaplague wave, or even just natural disasters causing the exporting countries to not have enough food to export), then they would be screwed.
Plus that turning the desert areas into farmland would severely increase the living conditions of the people there and the GDP of every nation in the world (thanks to trade). At the very least, it would allow the people who already own land and have infrastructure in areas which recently turned into desert, to claim back farmland from the desert and increase the land value of the land they own. And depending on how much they are willing to pay and the conditions in the area at that time, it would be significantly cheaper than moving somewhere else by selling their land before making it productive again.
And don't worry about FBI, it probably already knows my location but I'm not a threat to them. The Almighty AI is almighty indeed.
There will be no more human life.
But the sun is a deadly lazer
Never mind the blanket is burnt
Oops, half of the world just died.
Everyone r/woooooosh
@@LegendaryFloof taaste the suun
Lol
Greenlands average temperature is - 17 c and antarcticas is - 10 on coasts and - 60 in inland, im curious to hear how they can become habitable with 4 c warming.
I had the same question and apparantly different lands have different response to warming (everyone warms unequally). This is mosly becuase of wind patterns, humidity (trapped in region or casuing hurricanes), and releasing certain trapped gasses, thus all having an expotential warming affect in some regions.
4C as a _global_ _aggregate_ . The terminology of stating only the global aggregate increase in temperature really doesn't describe how our weather will actually change, the amount of energy that our weather systems will gain, the change of wind patterns, ocean currents etc... Where I live, wind from inland frequently increases the temperature here on the coast by quite a lot. Typically, that doesn't happen very often. With a change in wind patterns and ocean currents however it could be the standard. We've recently had an extended La Nina that filled our entire year with an unprecedented amount of rain (raining nearly every day for the full year).
Global average temperature is calculated by combining global sea surface temperature and air temperature over land. It takes way more energy to heat up water than air. So we must remember that the Earth's surface is 71% water. In short, the same amount of energy required to warm all the sea water by 4°C, would fry the land due to direct contact with air. But idk. That's how I understand it.
5:26 'Alaska is almost one-third the size of the lower 48 states' If Alaska's area is 663,300 square miles and the 48 contiguous states is 3,119,185 square miles, it's actually less than a quarter the size--just a little over a fifth (21.2%). Still a lot of land there, though.
As a New Zealander watching this - "I should buy some land"
I like just commented
Nahhhh ew dont come to NZ and ruin our country stay in ur own country that Y O U ruined
Buy land and buy a brick everyday. But the time the climate refugees start knockin you’ll have plenty of bricks to build a giant wall around your property to keep the zomboys out
@@asopher /s?
@@nikahkapea8799 he said he's a new Zealander
Im Aussie lol, do I get a free pass
"Minneapolis will become one of the most significant cities in the United States."
_Uploaded May 19th, 2020_
I don't like this foreshadowing.
livesmatter
no lives matter, give up
@@jrhermosura4600 no.
-nihillism-
Minneapolis will become the new Detroit.
normal people: black lives matter!
internet: no lives matter
some people: no lives matter
barely any people: lives matter
me: matter
Yay, my country New Zealand while Finlay be a power house. It looks like we need to start building bob sempel tanka.
A bit optimistic about Canada. Most of the north is the Canadian Shield - all rock and no soil for farming!
“Alaska would be rich in oil” lol. The world is literally burning and we’re still burning fossil fuels?
How else would you create products such as plastics?
Fossil fuels are the basis of our civilization. Take away ff, and this civilization collapse.
i a use less
@@ia8018 In which world you are living we are now having enough technology to use renewable energy we can not do the same mistake again because of which the temperature is rising so rapidly.
@@sujatasingh4280
Sweet lies are always more welcome than hard truths I guess
good luck with your tech, you're gonna need tons of luck
Rll: most of the Netherlands would be under water
Netherlands: are you challenging me?
Genius comment
But water evaporates in the nether how can it flood 😂
@@qazaq1991 i was gona say that
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As global average temperature is around 14,8 celsius, 4 degrees warmer could translate as 25+ percent warmer. That paints much scarier future.
''alaska rich in oil'' ''resource exploitation''
so we've learned absolutely nothing
That's what I was here to say. All the "great powers" "colonization" excitement is precisely why we are fucked.
I wonder when in this scenario we’d build a series of solar pumps to re-wet low lands like Death Valley.
@andreiiliescu1 roads, clothing, food processing equipment, farm equipment. Even sprinklers for farms use oil in their manufacturing and use.
@andreiiliescu1 my family lived without oil for 3 millenia
@andreiiliescu1 bro u do know we r running out of oil we should get ready to figure out how to live without it because I bet in 50 years we r not gonna have much oil left
48/50 of the US state: Oh hell no!!!!
Arizona: Did something change?
*California
@@michellerouse1429 No,Arizona.
@@michellerouse1429 No,Arizona.
@Michelle Rouse No,Arizona
Michelle Rouse No Arizona
We will in all likeliness go up by *_two percent,_* despite attempts to prevent it. *_Three percent is dangerous._* We've gone up over 1 percent (around 1.2 to 1.4 percent) since the Industrial Age a century ago.
The AMOC is stopping. That will result in Europe/UK/etc not being warmed by the AMOC and it will get very cold there.
The world:*warms 4 degrees*
Countries at the end of the poles:I see this as an absolute win!
In long term polar ice melting could be dangerous.
Haha Tell That the refugees
Rain Guarin> Countries at the end of the poles:I see this as an absolute win!
🤦 It's that kind of ignorance that will lead to the end of the world. 😒
@@trockeneis4363 *Canadians seeing their chance for dominance, prepping machine guns: What refugees?
Azathoth.D. Axis if you want to worry about the poles, look into the polar ice core samples that discredit this entire video
*The World will become a large desert
Me an arab : Now home is everywhere
But with no food and water
I was born in an desert so I can relate (technically it was a city that’s used to be a desert)
@ⵎⴻⵎ-ⵉⵙ ⵏ ⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖ That never stopped the brits, russians, soviets, americans, Nato etc.
might as well make where you live a little more pleasant while it happens.
Lol *xd*
Desert without any Oasis!
I'm taking an undergraduate climate science course, and thought I'd share additional data. We expect to have 3C of warming by 2050 (when atm CO2 will have doubled from pre-industrial levels). However, uncertainties in positive feedbacks such as ice and cloud reflectivity or increased humidity mean we can't rule out even 7C warming, tho we can say it's unlikely, while we can rule out only 1C. Positive feedbacks combine, and Earth's climate may be more sensitive than we think, but can't really be less sensitive. Sources: Sanderson et al 2007, Stainforth et al 2005, work of Gerard Roe at UW ESS.
I read about those margins of error once. Pretty scary. Highly unlikely if the scientists working on that have their calculations right, but 7C... That really seems like an end of the world scenario to me. (not that 3C is some kind of walk in the park)
@@nunofoo8620 The one consolation was that life has survived higher temperatures than that before and we'll never have a runaway greenhouse because of geological processes that remove atm CO2. It would cause a record-breaking mass extinction (and would kill most--but probably not all--humans), but we'd never turn into Venus.
My reaction to the talk about Alaska containing untapped resources like oil that we could use was "We should NOT do that" if our world gets here, we need to not be using fossil fuels or we will just repeat the process of warming. I don't believe that our planet warming will stop at leaving the poles habitable and I wouldn't want to live on a desert planet. The indigenous people in the America's spent an untold amount of time cultivating the land and keeping it basically a paradise. It would be heartbreaking to see this possibility come about because of our actions, we definitely need to reverse course quickly. Our leaders aren't moving fast enough, we need to stop repeating the past mistakes of colonization and resource exploitation. Kurzgesagt puts things pretty well.
Considering how seasons work near the poles, I wouldn't be surprised if the "farmable zones" translates to extremely hot and dry summers and extremely cold winters, making farming somewhat hard.
Yeah its already like that, 20-30°c summers and around -30°c winters
(I live in central sweden for reference)
From Canada: where we are current weather and in the last 20 years alone we can grow much higher yielding crop and it's scary... 30C summer -30 to -40 winters here and it's sad to see that we may loose our cold
20-30°C in summers is not extremely hot, just warm-hot. But I guess it’s considered extremely hot if they are used to -20°C winters.
Kinda unfair how the hottest places’ winters never go below 20°C, yet the coldest places’ summers can go over 20°C. There’s a bias for warmer weather in the world, cold countries can experience hot but hot countries never experience cold.
Rain
Considering how the melting ice will bring more fresh water into the oceans, It's possible that the Gulf Stream will cease to exist which will make winters in Europe as cold as northern Siberia.
Let's not act like the United States won't suddenly decide to bring "democracy" to Canada in this scenario.
US: We shall finally unite! I mean this will all be gradual so the us and Canada could Unite and the us has very strong navy power to protect Canada’s northern passage ensuring Canada and the us would be a world power
C714 X The US wanted Canada to join the union since they the US got independence. Canada joining the union wouldn’t be that unlikely. Our cultures aren’t much different so it wouldn’t be too hard. Also it would just make more sense for the US to admit Canada. Anyway that map isn’t actually accurate. There was a time earth was a lot warmer and studies showed the earth was just entirely covered by Forests. So there probably won’t be large deserts where there are none. The amazon would probably become more of a grassland than a desert. The map is highly simplified and no one really understands how climate works and less predicting a hundred years in the future.
How can they start a war they are close allies
Nice video, BUT I will not use it in my class - some terms are inappropriate.
I do not want a parent or administrator asking me about it.
The narrator's optimism is hilarious 😂
Meanwhile in and alternate world: What if the world was 4°C cooler
"OMG Canada will be uninhabitable"
We'll be fine. We'll just add another layer of underwear.
@Felix: During the last glacial maximum it was 5 degrees centigrade cooler, so we would be close to these conditions.
The desertification depicted in the warming climate model is almost certainly wrong. The surface of the earth is 70 percent ocean and there would be much more moisture in the air with higher temperatures.
I'd rather have global cooling than global warming
@@timrscott "The bad weather doesn't exist only the bad clothes" -Norwegian Proverb
We’ll just put another sweater on, we’ll bee good
People living in the middle east:
Hmm today is a little warm now
we already have 40+ degree weather here so it's still gonna be hell
they will likely lose the Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates rivers which produce the vast majority of the middle-east's food supply.
@@cageybee7221 jokes on u there are no rivers in Saudi Arabia
@@64e209 no, but they are still reliant on iraqi food crops.
@@cageybee7221 what I meant to say is, if Saudi Arabia can still be ok without rivers and stuff then the other middle eastern countries can
Healthy skepticism is helpful here, as few geologists would agree with any of this. It is wrong on many levels. Start with the obvious stuff, like fact that Arctic areas with an average temperature well below freezing would remain below freezing. There would be less ice and more of both liquid and vapor water. This would lead to more rain and more freshwater rivers through all of that land they classify as desert. The contrary is more accurate - current deserts would be more habitable, although that would be more apparent in more moderate deserts like the SW United States than in the Sahara. It is true that some areas in places like Greenland, Russia or Canada would see additional useful land areas, but the soil would take time to be of any use to crops. Intense rains, like monsoons, hurricanes and other flooding could increase, but not deserts.
Rising sea levels would be a major problem, but they didn't cover that problem as thoroughly. Florida, Louisiana and Long Island would be underwater, as would seacoast resorts and cities all around the world.
Overall, the temperature increase from global warming by CO2 emissions has been one degree since the industrial revolution of the mid 1800's. One degree is significant and has been melting ice caps, but a 4 degree leap is not feasible by CO2 emissions alone. We would run out of fossil fuels first. The increase in warming is factual science but that increase is decelerating as pollution declines. We should continue this trend of course and continue to invest in cleaner means of transportation, but mostly because fossil fuels are in a finite supply.
FYI too, there is already a 15 degree fluctuation in earth's average yearly temperature, by natural means. This is caused by the range in tilt of the earth and mostly by the increase and decrease of the length of the elliptical orbit of the earth around the sun. Saturn and Uranus pull us further from the sun (over thousands of years) causing ice ages, but it is possible that the slight warming makes ice ages harder to initiate.
We should always keep an eye on what mankind is doing to the environment but this video has poor predictions. Let's just avoid nuclear war at all costs. That would be vastly more catastrophic than another degree or two of warmth.
why does this video have so many dislikes? its littarly so detailed and well done
So detailed with speculation and fantasy.
Also, learn how to spell.
Denmark: "Boy, good thing we have Greenland..."
US: "Yeeeaaaahhh, about that..."
The Dork Knight yeah, we don’t “have” it ..
@Han Juby Xie awww so sad
Vi vil kæmpe til døden for vor nordatlantiske koloni. FOR GUD, KONGE OG FÆDRELAND!!!
@@asgertonsberg2457 Nej... eller, HET?
No one said we'll be happy about it, Han ol' buddy. But it is what it is. Don't worry, the Danish will be generously compensated, I'm sure.
And don't you worry either, Skamz. Canada will be getting her own "offer she can't refuse"...
There are MANY faults in this video, for example, Greenland is a rocky archipelago under the ice. Also you can't put farms in Norway because of the mountains.
Most of these youtube channels are pro scandinavia. Noticed how they put them as super powers. But in such an event scandinavia would be conquered by the countries who will out power them. Sadly most of these media is paid by scandinavia to feed their ego.
Actually, a lot of the land is unarable not necessarily because of the mountains but because of the weather. Finnmark is relatively flat but they get -20° in the winter so it would become more arable under the conditions he mentioned. Good point though
So is Antarctica
so true
@@peterp4037 I wouldn't go that far to say so but you are mostly right about them being biased and wrong most of the time
Uk: yay finally some sunshine 😍
Most of the world: we’re on fire 🔥
it's nice to think like that if everyone is gonna be nice, but I am pretty sure war is inevitable.
"Would have to be relocated" is a strange way of saying "would almost all die" :/
Indeed.
Which would reduce power consumption and decrease emissions. Funny if that works out. Still sad that greedy companies today are going to kill billions.
@@nathanschmit5841 Current economic system is not worth the lives of billion of people. In the end it will collapse. Currently all the money in the world is trying to protect carbon profits.
Would not die, because any changes would take place over many years. Boats and aircraft would be available in nearly any possible future world to prevent death, even if oceans were rising, which has not been exhibited.
@@DonMeaker 4 degrees is dooms day. 4 will because 5 then 6 degrees. After which its all over. Yes it will take a long time but with most of the earth affected. Basically all we have to do is act to stop it. The rich are more interested in acting in a way to protect the system and not human life.
With 4 degrees its billions affected or most of the earths human population. Boats and aircraft are the least of our worries. Its a grim legacy to leave those to be born.
"If our world is destroyed, here are some places that will benefit, we can relocate everyone and destroy them too!"
Great idea 👍
just because the cold places got warm, dosent mean there will be alot of infrastructure or people up north. lots of soil up north is way too rocky to grow anything in, and its already swampy in the summer without the permafrost melting. if it melted it would become a sticky muddy mess of a place. everything on permafrost has to be built on struts, making engineering everything way harder.
It will be like Roman times when temperatures were close to that level, with vineyards in Britain
if the world warms by 4 degrees
Canada: “Your saviour is here!”
Russia:finally everybody loves me
@@ygotsvlog3762 well, no. I imagine the 3 way war betwen china, russhia, and continental EU.
@@TM0TP well year, but when your house is going under water or is in litteral desert, you tend to worry less about such things.
I would have to move to northern Quebec but I don’t mind it
United states: we shall move our government over to your land and take control of you. If you resist we kill you deal :) ?
Can somebody who read the book explain to me, why the author says most of the world will become desert, when for example Eocene era was much hotter but still humid. Just wondering.
I always assumed that the rising sea levels would be the much bigger problem.
He isn't a trustworthy source at all. That author is an economist, not a climatologist. This video seems to be looking for an extreme outcome of 4 degrees of warming, not a likely one. Temperatures increasing tends to actually make deserts smaller, unlike some people think, as the jungles/rainforests grow. Really, the concern with climate change is that animals and plants won't be able to adapt fast enough, not that most of the Earth will become an inhospitable desert.
This video is bullshit. The droughts will be more extreme but more heat means more evaporation which probably means that the dry continental zones will be much wetter.
I remember skimming through a particular study that claimed that fertile areas will expand due to humidity, however due to higher carbon levels in the air average nutrient yield per same amount of food will be somewhat lower so we will probably need to expand the agricultural areas assuming that population stays the same
Why It? The deserts are growing rn by the space of entire Bavaria each year. Important to note: Desert means place without water, not place with sand. In around 10 years 75% of entire Spain will be desert....
Not only that but it would happen “by the end of the 21st century”
(type 'desertification ted talk allan savory'). this is the best theory yet as to why desertification occurs
To what effect will the tilt of the earth have of farming in the artic? Lack of topsoil aside.
Earth warms 4 degrees: Canada: “Hey, this isn’t so bad”
Qatar: WAIT, WHAT THE F*CK?
Should’ve said “ Hey, this isn’t so bad eh? “
Egypt - I don't see any difference
Ireland - now its just about warm for it to never snow
I live in Canada and literally detest the cold (wrapped in blankets by a space heater as we speak) but my greatest anxiety is related to what will happen to everyone else.
RLL: Huge cities will be founded in Alaska
Earthquakes: I'm gonna end this mans whole career.
California: allow me to introduce myself
Volcanoes will wreck people over there too
new caledonia: first time?
chile: *laughs*
@MangoMan Power California:what did you say punk!?
Japan:amateurs!
I'll be long gone before this ever happens. So good luck to the rest of you.
What makes this video terrifying is not that 75% of the world is desert. It’s that the narrator just happily goes on talking about drilling for oil and developing vast uninhabited Forrest, pretty much sealing our planet’s doom. Oh, and btw, no government will survive this intact. With so many people migrating, it would change those countries tremendously. And agriculture in a 6 months darkness isn’t really gonna work out well. Look on the bright side though. Most likely, the co2 emissions would decrease finally , because most people would be dead.
USA : it's a shame my country is a desert. Canada is green tho. We will be taking that. Canadians need Freedom
yeah there's no reality in this scenario where canada doesn't become the location of a huge war
@@BrodyReyno Nah Canada would just hold up a white flag and say thank you for not killing us. Got remember Canada 1/10th the US pop and all live on US boarder.
@@Sinnehh I think the war would likely be between other superpowers. Canada would be squashed no matter what. Haha
@awesome_dude_ca my bad bro i wanted to say that canada is great ally of US like a brother so it doesnt have to be US state as canada pretty much supports US in every way for soo long time
@@Sinnehh lol nah we would probably just just get all of our other 116 allies including all of Europe China and Russia to fuck y’all up before we surrender
I like how he's laughing like a psycho while saying this terrifying shit.
I will be excited when the world realizes that all this new land is unsuitable for for agriculture due to there being no topsoil and will destroy themselves from famine, water wars etc.. I'll get some good jacking off sessions once the real fun starts and I can watch nations drop nukes on one another and see all the misery unfold.
@@eventhorizon8670
You sound so cool.
Event Horizon You can literally grow crops in sand with fertilizers.
I love how naïve you children are. You actually believe you can prevent the climate from changing lol. The absolute most that we could accomplish as a species is to slow it down by maybe a decade or so. It will happen no matter what.
@@sw6088
Humanity can do anything, if it tries. I bet you would have said the same thing to the Wright Brothers back in the day.
"Mom's gonna fix it all soon. Mom's comin round to bring it back the way it oughta be..."
A big thing to factor in to the equation, that people keep forgetting, is that if the planet gets drier and dustier,
an increase in dust in the atmosphere from dust storms, will actual cool the planet.
Dust also fertilizes forests as we see with the dust storms from the Sahara fertilizing the Amazon Rainforest.
Also the the greatest lifeform at removing carbon from the atmosphere is algae, which will flourish.