Yep. Hell MI is a small village about 25 minutes from Ann Arbor while Paradise is right on Lake Superior. Hell, MI does freeze over most winters (as in the ponds in the village are covered in Ice, which is a good definition of "freezing over"), but Paradise does freeze over more often
Wrong,it doesn't make it more believable,it makes it more fitting because that would imply you wouldn't believe him if he didn't wore a jumper which is absolutely stupid since science is real regardless of whether you believe it or not ,quit talking nonsense
You’re watching a British channel firstly, secondly it doesn’t matter at all what it’s called because American English is a variation, not a language. Lastly you’re going to have to come up with better insults than that after 250 years.
As someone from the Cayman Islands, who also has watched you on and off for years and is now actually a meteorologist, I did NOT expect this video in my recommended after clocking off my shift. Thanks for an amazing video as always Simon
I used to live there and we always joked about the church of Hell. I always found it weird a predominantly Christian island would have somewhere named Hell though.
@@piros100 i mean he obviously only wants the english hells. I live in Hell, Norway, but we do also have another place called "Helvete" which is Hell in norwegian
That connection between continental drift and rainfall patterns affecting the direction of travel of the Earth's temperature is so cool, man everything is just cogs is this massive self-balancing machine
I remember I used to keep the weather for Hell, Michigan up on my phone, So I'd always know when Hell froze over. Never knew about the Dutch or Cayman Hells though, Great video, Learnt so much I didn't think I would!
As soon as I understood the concept, my mind immediately went to snowball earth. So glad it's where this video went, it's such a cool part of earth's history
it's great because people have an intuitive understanding of "it takes a few days to drive across the country" and "it takes 3 minutes walking to get to the parking lot" and the difference in scale between the two
Merry Christmas, hope you have a lovely one with the family. Really happy you’ve done so well after the (understandable) wobble at the beginning of the year😊
14:33 Why not Pongola? Photosynthetizers did not exist back then, or if they did exist they were not resistant to high oxygen concentrations? Either way, I would not say the reasons "will become immediately clear". Was there a longer explanation that got cut out of the final edit?
@@simonabunker Life first appeared around 3.5 billion years ago, but heavy underlining on the "around". The Pongola glaciation was 2.9 billion years ago.
I assume it got cut, but the Pongola glaciation was before photosynthesizers were producing much oxygen. The first production of lots of oxygen is actually around the Huronian.
I'm pretty sure that the picture at 2:09 is from Hell, Michigan, since Tom Scott made a video about being mayor of Hell for a day, and it looked an awful lot like that picture.
this is such a wonderfully constructed video, wow! the map of the usa being used as an analogy for earth's chronology, the iceberg of possible explanations of global glaciation, it's fantastic, definitely subscribing
Hey can I just compliment the method of showing the scale of time, that made the distance between these periods in earths history sink in for me way better than any other analogy I've heard. Idk if you came up with it, or heard it somewhere, but regardless it worked really well.
Listening to what you're saying shortly before and around the 14 to 15 minute mark... looking at the climate as it is going... and thinking Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse!!!
It can also mean "incline" (på hell) or a type of rock formation (heller). The Norwegian town has its name from the latter meaning, a rocky overhang, similar to a very shallow cave.
What a surprisingly interesting and well-presented video, thanks very much! But you never explained why the hypothesised Pongola glaciation could "obviously" not have been caused by gamma radiation from a supernova explosion; I'm guessing it's because there was little to no oxygen in the atmosphere at that time, as oxygenic phototrophs had not evolved yet, with the Great Oxidation Event not occurring until 2.4 to 2.5 billion years ago.
Sounds right. No oxygen in the atmosphere to form nitrogen oxides, but also the atmosphere was chemically reducing and murky with aerosols anyway. Did I miss the explanation that we know the Sun has been getting brighter over time, meaning we could only have had life evolve courtesy of a huge greenhouse effect from the carbon dioxide and methane?
Well that simplifies things. If fossil fuels wants to continue with business as usual, all they have to do, is find an asteroid and smash it into an uninhabited place to cool the planet. The frightening part of that sentence is that Fossil Fuels might seriously try something like that. After all they've tried every other dirty trick to continue business as usual.
Well, it's actually not a bad idea to deal with that one specific problem with Fossil Fuels. Of course, it doesn't solve the other, pollution and non-renewability problems, and it is nowhere near economical to actually do, soooo
While pursuing my undergraduate degree at Ohio State, I went XC skiing in Michigan with the Ohio State University Mountaineers (our outdoor club). We needed to pass through the little town of Hell to get to our ski area. In the centre of town, there was a small planted place in an intersection with the name in large letters. Thanks for posting the video!
I think it would be far easier to just build 4 domes around each town and use technology to cool them down to below freezing point. Or maybe you can just throw a bunch of ice on them. It would melt quickly enough, but they would, at least for a moment, be "covered in ice". You might also opt for using something with a lower freezing temperature or using artificial snow or ice, but you'd have to check the terms of the challenge to see whether that would qualify.
The millimeter step analogy placed on an US map might be the funnies thing ever. My experience tells me that people usually don't really understand how big the US is while USians usually don't understand metric.
The Hell that I know of freezes over every winter. Its residents call it "Hell-Joseon" between themselves and for outsiders It's more well known as South Korea.🤣 For context, the weather app says the temperature of the city I live in is -2 degrees Celsius (or whatever degrees below freezing in freedom units) right now.
You talked about Antarctica right before mentioning Hobart but because I'm Australian my brain shifted the distance analogy to thinking you meant the Antarctic Ice Sheet reached Hobart in Tasmania for a second lol
i love that i can say "yeah right, maybe when most Hells freeze over" for something very unlikely, but possible, and "pfft, maybe when ALL Hells freeze over" when its so unlikely to be basically impossible
This was one of your best videos I've seen! Really interesting to learn about earth's history would love to see more on this topic. As a climate nerd it's not something I'm as familiar with. Love the hideous jumpers too
As well as the ice albedo effect, I understand that methane and CO2 can become trapped inside ice, also contributing to the positive feedback loop. These positive feedback loops explain how in previous warming events (but not today's), the CO2 concentration lagged the temperature.
Ok so that contained a number of simple sentences that effectively covered millions of years each. Really simple to think of when its boxing day and your a few glasses of Shiraz deep. Brilliant video, loved it..🙃🙃🙃
Can we get a video on what would happen if we start using cotton bags or hemp bags and not plastic and use cotton or silk or whatever but plastic for clothes and how using glass and metal jugs at stores can reduce or increase problems
The impact (on climate) of our plastic bag use is grossly over-exaggerated by some people. Sure, plastic bags are bad for ocean life but do little to the atmosphere.
I grew up about an hour from Paradise, Michigan. The newspapers loved the line "It's colder than Hell in Paradise"
lol
Paradise? Isn’t that the place where that alien dude lives in that one book/movie?
There's a paradise in Montana too, and they've hit -40°f in the winter lol oddly enough it's right next to hells gate Montana
@@The_Original_Rtxyz Postal 2
Yep. Hell MI is a small village about 25 minutes from Ann Arbor while Paradise is right on Lake Superior.
Hell, MI does freeze over most winters (as in the ponds in the village are covered in Ice, which is a good definition of "freezing over"), but Paradise does freeze over more often
Glad you're wearing a jumper while talking about cold stuff. It makes it more believable
So many wonderful jumpers!
Jumper? I don't see any pogo sticks, redcoat.
@@mothhut8637 A warhammer sweater no less!
Wrong,it doesn't make it more believable,it makes it more fitting because that would imply you wouldn't believe him if he didn't wore a jumper which is absolutely stupid since science is real regardless of whether you believe it or not ,quit talking nonsense
You’re watching a British channel firstly, secondly it doesn’t matter at all what it’s called because American English is a variation, not a language. Lastly you’re going to have to come up with better insults than that after 250 years.
As someone from the Cayman Islands, who also has watched you on and off for years and is now actually a meteorologist, I did NOT expect this video in my recommended after clocking off my shift. Thanks for an amazing video as always Simon
That's so cool! Thank you for watching ❤
I used to live there and we always joked about the church of Hell. I always found it weird a predominantly Christian island would have somewhere named Hell though.
Shame that Hel in Poland didn't get a mention😆
or Hölle in Austria
Considering the location of Hel this would make an interesting episode.
What about the religious Hell?
Exactly what I was thinking, seems mean to exclude Hel due to a minor difference in spelling.
@@piros100 i mean he obviously only wants the english hells. I live in Hell, Norway, but we do also have another place called "Helvete" which is Hell in norwegian
That connection between continental drift and rainfall patterns affecting the direction of travel of the Earth's temperature is so cool, man everything is just cogs is this massive self-balancing machine
Oh, the pun...
This is better than I could have possibly imagined suggesting this!
@SimonClarke could we have more Warhammer content?
These sweaters represent peak fashion.
FOR THE EMPEROR
I remember I used to keep the weather for Hell, Michigan up on my phone, So I'd always know when Hell froze over. Never knew about the Dutch or Cayman Hells though, Great video, Learnt so much I didn't think I would!
I love how this takes the phrase, "when hell freezes over," and just turns up the dial by a factor of a thousand.
As soon as I understood the concept, my mind immediately went to snowball earth. So glad it's where this video went, it's such a cool part of earth's history
and then the Earth was a snowball maybe twice
I absolutely love the geographic analogy for time and using maps for illustration. What a great way to present the timeline!
it's great because people have an intuitive understanding of "it takes a few days to drive across the country" and "it takes 3 minutes walking to get to the parking lot" and the difference in scale between the two
16:40 Science compels us to explode the sun!
OUTER WILDS HELL YEAH
S-tier reference!!
I been to the Hell in Grand Cayman. Absolutely stunning coral formations.
glad u liked it! we have lovely coral in cayman
Same. Went there in June of this year as part of an 8-day long cruise that also went to Jamaica and Cozumel Island. Loved the coral
That place is absolutely amazing, glad to see some more cayman lovers here
16:45 "Do... something something... blow up a star." -- Sounds like a plan! Let's get to work! ^_^
Excellent! I really like your sweaters !
Glad to see more people pointing this out
Simon takes the ugly Christmas sweater game to a new level (puns intended)
The walking analogy for the Earth's age is really good, i need to use that
Merry Christmas, hope you have a lovely one with the family. Really happy you’ve done so well after the (understandable) wobble at the beginning of the year😊
14:33 Why not Pongola? Photosynthetizers did not exist back then, or if they did exist they were not resistant to high oxygen concentrations? Either way, I would not say the reasons "will become immediately clear". Was there a longer explanation that got cut out of the final edit?
Thank you! I was waiting for the explanation then the video just ended!
I don't think any life existed then? But I also went searching for an explanation
@@simonabunker Life first appeared around 3.5 billion years ago, but heavy underlining on the "around". The Pongola glaciation was 2.9 billion years ago.
Missed segment it feels like, but that's so long ago it could have been the formation of the moon or something.
I assume it got cut, but the Pongola glaciation was before photosynthesizers were producing much oxygen. The first production of lots of oxygen is actually around the Huronian.
14:40 is it because photosynthesis didn't exist back then? You should have clarified that
The Sweaters!!! The Sweaters!!! What's with the sweaters?!?!?!?! Knitting pixel art is da thing! Where do they sell these?!?
I'm pretty sure that the picture at 2:09 is from Hell, Michigan, since Tom Scott made a video about being mayor of Hell for a day, and it looked an awful lot like that picture.
1:23 hey guys I just found three new slurs for French people
Only 3, I got 40😈
damn, only 40?
@@thelordmayor-l5e Still installing software updates😔
ah
Please do the more creative they are the more creatives the newest slurs for english people will be, something about spite
Polish Hel is sad for being left out ;-;
Dokładnie!
Sadly it’s only 1 hockey stick, therefor is left out of h e double 🏒🏒
The sweaters! 😂 Happy holidays, Simon. Excellent video.
This is an excellent Christmas Eve video, thank you!
this is such a wonderfully constructed video, wow! the map of the usa being used as an analogy for earth's chronology, the iceberg of possible explanations of global glaciation, it's fantastic, definitely subscribing
This is the most fun video I've ever watched about snowball earth. Kudos, Simon!
"Do you want to blow up a star?"
Considering that Simon is wearing a WH40K jumper, he probably already has that capability 🤣
As someone who lives in Jamaica I always knew we lived next door to hell but I didn’t know we were THAT CLOSE! Explains a lot 😂
Banger of a video as always, but the wardrobe choices made it even better. I'm quite jealous of your jumper collection now!
Hey can I just compliment the method of showing the scale of time, that made the distance between these periods in earths history sink in for me way better than any other analogy I've heard. Idk if you came up with it, or heard it somewhere, but regardless it worked really well.
The video was entertaining and informative. The sponsor spot was hilarious. Well done!
Best part is the "ugly" christmas sweaters! Especially love the WH40K.
Jesus, dude, that jumper's a statement! Hapy Xmas everyone :)
Listening to what you're saying shortly before and around the 14 to 15 minute mark... looking at the climate as it is going... and thinking Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse!!!
NIce jumpers! Merry Christmas.
Hell in Norwegian means "luck" btw.
It can also mean "incline" (på hell) or a type of rock formation (heller). The Norwegian town has its name from the latter meaning, a rocky overhang, similar to a very shallow cave.
Good hell to you too 😊
What a fabulous video! The section about Brilliant made me laugh out loud!! :)
"Hell's frozen over."
Most locations: ☹️
Caiman Island's Hell: 😱
This is all just so you can flex all these awesome sweaters, isn't it?
What a surprisingly interesting and well-presented video, thanks very much! But you never explained why the hypothesised Pongola glaciation could "obviously" not have been caused by gamma radiation from a supernova explosion; I'm guessing it's because there was little to no oxygen in the atmosphere at that time, as oxygenic phototrophs had not evolved yet, with the Great Oxidation Event not occurring until 2.4 to 2.5 billion years ago.
Sounds right. No oxygen in the atmosphere to form nitrogen oxides, but also the atmosphere was chemically reducing and murky with aerosols anyway.
Did I miss the explanation that we know the Sun has been getting brighter over time, meaning we could only have had life evolve courtesy of a huge greenhouse effect from the carbon dioxide and methane?
Ah yes perhaps that was left dangling too much! You're spot on, it's the lack of oxygen plus limited photosynthesisers
@@SimonClark Thanks for confirming.
Pretty cool video. Gave me the chills. Ice-ubscribed right away (jk been following you since the phd vlogs i just said it for the pun)
Well that simplifies things.
If fossil fuels wants to continue with business as usual, all they have to do, is find an asteroid and smash it into an uninhabited place to cool the planet.
The frightening part of that sentence is that Fossil Fuels might seriously try something like that.
After all they've tried every other dirty trick to continue business as usual.
they have thought of this already. it's called geoengineering
Well, it's actually not a bad idea to deal with that one specific problem with Fossil Fuels.
Of course, it doesn't solve the other, pollution and non-renewability problems, and it is nowhere near economical to actually do, soooo
And then you discover mining companies have entire departments investigating asteroid mining…
This video deserves more traction than it seems to be getting.
You + that sweater on a snowy white background burned out my screen 😂
I love the discontinuity of your christmas sweaters
For a second i thought this was about teraforming the planet Venus.
the most eloquent and well-researched shitpost i've ever seen
At this point it seems easier to just pull an iceberg or to, and use that to cover hell in ice. 😅
Came for the climate science, stayed for the Christmas jumpers.
this will definitely affect the local trout population
In Denmark we have a city called helved wich means hell in danish
Great sweater selection in this video lmao
While pursuing my undergraduate degree at Ohio State, I went XC skiing in Michigan with the Ohio State University Mountaineers (our outdoor club). We needed to pass through the little town of Hell to get to our ski area. In the centre of town, there was a small planted place in an intersection with the name in large letters. Thanks for posting the video!
I think it would be far easier to just build 4 domes around each town and use technology to cool them down to below freezing point.
Or maybe you can just throw a bunch of ice on them. It would melt quickly enough, but they would, at least for a moment, be "covered in ice".
You might also opt for using something with a lower freezing temperature or using artificial snow or ice, but you'd have to check the terms of the challenge to see whether that would qualify.
There is also a place called 'The Hell' in South Africa.
5:54 The reason it was so much cooler was because it had sunglasses
Comedy gold
I haven't watched yet, but is this title just a good hook to talk about Snowball Earth Theory?
The millimeter step analogy placed on an US map might be the funnies thing ever. My experience tells me that people usually don't really understand how big the US is while USians usually don't understand metric.
Great jumpers, fun episode! Nice to get an occasional silly one between -also important- climate news
Lovely video, funny writing, very entertaining video and lovely sweater too
Super interesting framing device for the educational material here
The Hell that I know of freezes over every winter. Its residents call it "Hell-Joseon" between themselves and for outsiders It's more well known as South Korea.🤣
For context, the weather app says the temperature of the city I live in is -2 degrees Celsius (or whatever degrees below freezing in freedom units) right now.
this must be the most recommended video mentioning Hell
15:28 philippines mentioned
Awesome video, I learned so much!
what is the sound effect at 1:49 called?
THX sound effect
You talked about Antarctica right before mentioning Hobart but because I'm Australian my brain shifted the distance analogy to thinking you meant the Antarctic Ice Sheet reached Hobart in Tasmania for a second lol
This video is an absolute banger!
As a college student studying paleoclimatology, I love this video, definitely a Christmas gift lol
The geographic framing was clever. I liked the sweaters.
theres a polish place called hel
while it technically would mean helium, the name of the city sounds exactly like hell
2:50 he read my mind :(
I'm glad we are getting a more in depth explanation for reasons why snowball earth happened
You cant use a map of america without using washing machines and bald eagles as measurements
12:25 just don’t go raiding suspicious weapons caches
i love that i can say "yeah right, maybe when most Hells freeze over" for something very unlikely, but possible, and "pfft, maybe when ALL Hells freeze over" when its so unlikely to be basically impossible
In Poland we also have hell. A town called piekło which translates to hell. We also have a city called Hel but it translates to helium
This is such a series video, wow
A great video! Loved it!
What about Hell Door in Uzbekistan?
The Michigan one is a few miles from my house, across the county line but still.
Great video! Never heard about the Earth possibly having a ring.
3:09 still shorter than how far my parents had to walk to school
This was one of your best videos I've seen! Really interesting to learn about earth's history would love to see more on this topic. As a climate nerd it's not something I'm as familiar with. Love the hideous jumpers too
Is it just me or does this guy sound like Richard Hammond from top gear?
Choosing America for the map shows you read your analytics 😉 As a Seattle viewer I'm happy to be at the beginning of the line
awesome sweaters 👌
Merry Christmas
Idk why but it feels like this video was made in 2017 lol
I’m so fuckin dehydrated that I’m laughing at this.
Loving the true scientific approach - "we think we know, but....."
As well as the ice albedo effect, I understand that methane and CO2 can become trapped inside ice, also contributing to the positive feedback loop.
These positive feedback loops explain how in previous warming events (but not today's), the CO2 concentration lagged the temperature.
The mental gymnastics required for agw theory is crazy
Ok so that contained a number of simple sentences that effectively covered millions of years each. Really simple to think of when its boxing day and your a few glasses of Shiraz deep. Brilliant video, loved it..🙃🙃🙃
Thats a cool 40k sweater!
demonstrating earth's timelines as an actual distance on an actual map is actually fire and I'm shocked I haven't seen it before
Sees funny rock on the ground:
“Yeah it was cold…like realllly cold…like 3 billion years ago…”
Can we get a video on what would happen if we start using cotton bags or hemp bags and not plastic and use cotton or silk or whatever but plastic for clothes and how using glass and metal jugs at stores can reduce or increase problems
The impact (on climate) of our plastic bag use is grossly over-exaggerated by some people. Sure, plastic bags are bad for ocean life but do little to the atmosphere.
*Wonderfully* silly title and premise, thank you
Thanks for using Washington state geography to explain things, it’s something I can actually understand