Another reason I like your videos, you explain what is happening, then reshow it again without having a laugh track or a baby making noises. Then after the event you give us a history. They are the perfect length. Thank you
What BS. Antarctica has grown over the last 20 years. The so called global warming crap stopped in 1998. We warm back up in 2030. And one more thing... If we in Australia didn't have this climate, you wouldn't have much fruit... Think about it.
@@readie10145 You and I know that much of this issue, has been politicized. Even though parts of the topic are real... However, global warming and icing is very much part of the planet. It has been for at least few million years. Just because we (current humans) can't show it or prove it... doesn't mean it hasn't taken place. I know where I get my information... but do they ??
Dude this is some of the best storytelling on you tube! Usually people just show a short clip then talk nonsense. You actually let us experience the full clip then explain everything afterward. Sir you are good at what you do.
Yeah but its not good information. #2 he says the Columbia Glacier in Alaska is part of the Columbia icefield in Alberta. They're thousands of km away.
I spent a few weeks around the Southern Patagonian Ice field. I saw something similar to the Viedma glacier on the Chilean side. The sight of a glacier front collapsing and the huge blue 'shards' rising out of the water as the ice re-balances was one of the most awesome things I've seen. I recognise the icy winds that were blowing in that first video - the winds coming off the Andes are fierce and sometimes blow you off your feet!
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Watching glaciers calving while we lived in Alaska was such an intense experience. If you ever travel there, I highly recommend it. First the cracking of the ice breaking away sounds so unique, and then watching as the dirty ice changes into that deep ice blue is just breathtaking. It was quite the tourist attraction, with boat tours taking people to areas of the state not normally inhabited by people, and the ability to go whale watching on the boat ride out and back.
I've been to Southern Patagonia and it is hard to appreciate the scale from videos, these blocks of ice aren't the size of houses, they're the size of 15 storey apartment buildings, the sound, like artillery, is also amazing.
At 3:25, 5,000 square miles is actually almost 13,000 square kilometers since squaring the 1.609 conversion is about 2.59, and 2.59 time 5,000 is 12,950.
You've got to love technology for some things. Its amazing to be able to watch this in such detail. Its really inspiring in a way and makes me want to see one at some point in my life. Just incredible
Many years ago, a friend and I went in a kayak rather close (probably too close) to one of the tidewater glaciers in Glacier Bay Nat. Park in Alaska. Had I seen this video before that, we might stayed a bit farther away.
For once a narrator that knows how to do it. No corny humor that inevitably falls flat, no patting on the back, no "I've got so many questions about...." as if they are soooo important. No, you just tell the tale and then get out of the way. This is narration as it should be done. An accompaniment to the video, a support structure. Thank you for doing it right.
There are not enough words to describe the epic events I just watched!!! UA-cam rules! I can pretty much go anywhere on the planet and look around. Thanx for posting!!!
John Henni I believe the blue in the glaciers means the thousands if not millions of years that the ice has been accumulating to include oxygen, debris and dust trapped into the ice... Incredible sights indeed
You were right about the glacier that’s located south for Ilulissat, Sermeq Kujalleq, but the video you were using is the one that is located 80km north for Ilulissat and it’s called Eqip Sermia (Eqi glacier). Sermeq Kujalleq is very difficult to get close to, so if you want to see it, the closest thing you can get to it is by helicopter.
The active glacier in Greenland is also the source of the iceberg that sank the Titanic. You missed the single largest calving that was caught on camera, it made the iceberg that was named Godzilla and was larger than the State of Rhode Island.
Absolutely amazing, I hope I could visit Patagonia and Antarctica soon. At 0:10, I am pretty sure it is at Franz Joseph Glazier in amazing New Zealand, the home of 2 out of 3 glaciers in the world that you could climb and walk on it. I have been there twice, climbing ~10 years ago and last year with heli (now climbing is banned, only heli and then drop us off there and walking)
Life is pretty cool between ice ages! Glad we are still coming out of one instead of going into one! Awesome video! Not going to lie, I am so jealous of the people who were there when this happened.
watching this video I not only got to learn about some incredible Glaciers, but I also learned a new word. I didn't know that "calving" was the word for when the glacier breaks apart like they did in the video. thank you for the new knowledge
Calving is what happens when a growing glacier flows far enough for the unsupported end to be unable to support its own weight. It breaks off. This happens over and over as the glacier advances.
I watch many videos like this, you are the only one who has mentioned the Columbia icefield and how far it has retreated. I saw it in 1979 on Hwy 11 in western Alberta, it was only a mile away from the Hwy. I didn't see it again till the late 90's and you could hardly see the Glacier from the same spot! As much as watching icefields calving is awesome to watch, we need to realize it is changing our world at the same time!
The context note is bullshit… Man isn’t the main reason. One volcano can do more than we’ve done in 100 years. And it happens every day. If we didn’t have global warming, we would be in an Ice Age from 14,000 years ago.
I have the same concerns as you. The calving is extraordinary and beautiful but also sad because our ice fields (I think that's what they're called) are shrinking. God Bless you and have a beautiful evening.
I was surprised at how dirty and ragged the surface of a glacier was when we landed on one from a helicopter in Alaska, yet how beautifully clear & blue the ice was below the surface. Watching the Columbia Glacier calve was something I will always remember, including the loud thunder-like sound as it happened.
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Imagine the things that will wash ashore when the ice continues to melt and mix with oceans. That ice holds actual treasures from thousands of years ago....
It is not melting it is breaking off because it grows out too far to support its own weight. The bergs will melt as they move around the oceans. This is normal.
Amazing video. 15:00 It is not just that the boat was far away enough. But the thing is that it's clearly on significantly deep water. Waves - especially the tsunami-kind ones (which is what they are) - tend to have a much smaller amplitude (hight) in deeper water, while having a much longer wavelength. If you look closely, you can actually see the waves coming, but it goes much more gradually. If there exists any other coast line behind the boat, the waves can still build up when approaching that coast while shortening in length (when the water depth decreases closer to that coast), and still cause a significant impact. In other words: it's completely possible that boats on the middle of deep water hardly notice anything while somewhere else effects are clearly noticable.
The world is constantly heating and freezing, melting and freezing, it matters not how much you drive or how much cows fart. It is just what the world does.
I know I can't quite wrap my head around how massive these events are. I've been to some glaciers and hiked some, but many are on an incomprehensible scale. Fascinating shit
I was lucky enough to visit Patagonia a few years ago, including the Argentinian side of the glacier park. We walked across part of the Viedma glacier using crampons, and from the lake we saw some minor icebergs breaking away, but nothing like what you show here. I’d be interested to know what the rate of increase is.
Thank you for your intelligent, thoughtful and interesting video of glaciers and their calving. (You managed to avoid, what some video-makers resort to which includes, stupid screen shots of unrelated people, making shocked and surprised facial expressions, an exaggerated tone of voice which is distracting, annoying and unnecessary, and irrelevant comments that add nothing to the viewers' knowledge or information.) You also managed to be both informative and entertaining! Well done!
The Portage Glacier, East of Anchorage, Alaska, will leave large chunks of ice at the elbow of Turn Again Arm. We used one 1 cubic chunk that we found on the shore in our ice box to set our fish on. It did not melt for over 2 weeks.
i loved this video! i had the opportunity to see the gaciers collaps in argentina, one of the most incredible moments of my entire life. I definitely i want to see more and more...
I'm 25 years old. I just travelled to Chamonix in December 2021 and saw the glacier there dropped 50 metres in a few years. In 2018, I went to Venice and saw floodings becoming more common. I really wonder how the world will look like when I'm 65. Will these glaciers still exist? Will Venice still exist?
Basically no, neither of those will exist, and that is probably a foregone conclusion at this point. It's happening so fast the question is will WE exist? Will our generation get to die in a bed of old age? I honestly think the odds are highly against it right now. Our later years might be travelling in caravans to pockets where wet bulb conditions won't kill you and live in squalor if you're "lucky" enough to survive at the rate things are moving. It sounds like doomday and end of the world stuff I know, but it's actually science. They cover how fast these are melting and how much of the world's fresh water is stored in these (especially Antarctica). Don't want to accept the science? No shortage of people who don't want to do that. I'm not sure how these older people that are very well aware of what the glaciers looked like in the 70s and what they look like (you all visited them didn't you, we know what life was like for your generation vs ours and that you got to travel) now continue to deny it other than guilt and shame and a cowardice to face themselves that defines that generation. At least in America they have to be the most worthless loser generation we've EVER had. Remember what you've seen. We will have a very narrow window when these boomers finally die (COVID is helping, maybe it's that generations judgement day as it largely kills seniors) and we have precious little time left to do anything to even mitigate some damage and maybe avoid the whole caravan thing. If we're being honest here they are such an obstacle that every one of them that dies actually helps both reduce the energy overconsumption and removing political obstacles.
these glacier collapses aren't "spectacular" and they aren't entertainment. nature is demonstrating to ALL OF US that corporate corruption and industrialization is DESTROYING our planet's ability to maintain life as we know it. these glaciers are ESSENTIAL to our ecosystem. they help regulate global temperatures and saline balance in the world's oceans! yet we sit here and DO NOTHING to protect our only home. we allow the profit motive of billionairs to determine our planet's future. WE'RE IDIOTS!
I greatly enjoyed and found this video very informative. Though there was one error while talking about the Columbia Glacier. There are two Columbia Glaciers that the narration indicated were the same one. There is the Columbia Glacier where this caving event took place in Alaska and the Columbia Icefield in Banff National Park in Alberta Canada which is 1269 miles or 2042 km away to the southeast. Though this error does not take away from the importance of highlighting the dangers of our crumbling glaciers are having on our planet.
Thank you! I came here to say this. I live in Alberta, not that far from the Columbia Icefield, but very, VERY far away from Alaska and the ocean where the Columbia Glacier was filmed. 😉
Ice calving at a sea terminus is something glaciers have been doing for millennia. I think if you actually look at the extent of the ice sheets and mass of glaciers is defying experts' predictions and holding up in spite of our fears. The North Pole was supposed to be ice-free by now. There's a lot of climate revisionism being pushed by the establishment, right now. I'm old enough to remember the '70s, when the same people were warning about catastrophic cooling and a new ice age just around the corner. While I'll agree with you that pollution is bad, I'm not sure this whole CO2 thing is driving climate change significantly, and a lot of the people who're pushing the doom and gloom want to sell you electric cars that require a lot of filthy lithium and cobalt mining that may be worse for humanity and the planet than too much plant food in the atmosphere. There've been a lot colder and a lot warmer times in Earth's geological past, and CO2 levels seem to have very little to do with it. We may even be helping green up the planet by releasing CO2 natural processes would otherwise lock away from plants in the Earth's crust.
@@harrymills2770 This global warming scam is just perfect for them...to just the normal person this seems so scary. We seem to know how things work, when we have only been on this planet for a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of it's total age.
I consider myself lucky to even get onto the Columbian Icefield. It was a lifetime memory of walking on it and even seeing people go inside it. It was also a crazy experience drinking the pure glacial water. God knows how long that sight is going to exist.
I suppose you people would like to go through another ice age ? Wake up people this is part of nature it gets hot in the summer and cold in the winter some years hotter than others and some colder than others ,I'm 90 years young and I've seen a lot of them .😇
When it comes to "Columbia", you have your geography completely muddled up. The Columbia glacier in Alaska is NOT part of the Columbia ice field; in fact, it is nowhere near it. The Columbia ice field is in Alberta and British Columbia in Canada - it does not extend into Alaska, and none of its glaciers reach sea level, so obviously there will be no major calvings from them. How could you get things so wrong?
Even in the video, when they show the Columbia Ice Field from space-view, it is very apparent that it does not reach the ocean anywhere. As an European I am not particularly familiar with the geography of the region, but this contradiction caught my eye. And ironically this does not work as a simple mix-up of the glacier with the ice field either, because the ice field that supports the Columbia Glacier is not on the border of the two countries either, it is fully in Alaska.
Great video, thanks. Someone else might have commented that in the Antarctica carving, the male voice was probably not telling the tourist to sit down for security reasons, but rather because the tourist was blocking the view of other tourists!
Especially thanks for letting the narration fall silent upon showing the dramatic events; makes the imagery so much more impressive.
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Very professional and very ethical something rare these days!.I have respect for your work I'm also a fan.
Another reason I like your videos, you explain what is happening, then reshow it again without having a laugh track or a baby making noises. Then after the event you give us a history. They are the perfect length. Thank you
Agree with you Shelley...
This is about the only page where I click the likes and follow...
Thank you for sharing.. blessings to all..
*"then reshow it again without having a laugh track or a baby making noises."*
I'm still laughing at the accuracy and hilarity of that statement. 😆
What BS.
Antarctica has grown over the last 20 years. The so called global warming crap stopped in 1998. We warm back up in 2030.
And one more thing... If we in Australia didn't have this climate, you wouldn't have much fruit...
Think about it.
@@readie10145
You and I know that much of this issue, has been politicized. Even though parts of the topic are real...
However, global warming and icing is very much part of the planet. It has been for at least few million years.
Just because we (current humans) can't show it or prove it... doesn't mean it hasn't taken place.
I know where I get my information... but do they ??
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Well said👍
I never get tired of how beautifully blue glacier ice be...
Dude this is some of the best storytelling on you tube! Usually people just show a short clip then talk nonsense. You actually let us experience the full clip then explain everything afterward. Sir you are good at what you do.
Lmao was about to say the same thing. Amazing voice transitions.
no idea what you guys are smoking, he explains the whole clip and even shows the end and then plays it
ps...what time will you be back tonite.? mum.
Yeah but its not good information.
#2 he says the Columbia Glacier in Alaska is part of the Columbia icefield in Alberta.
They're thousands of km away.
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Good job to the people in video 4 for recognizing the danger immediately and not just stopping to stare. Those seconds clearly counted there 😳
@Blind Freddy exactly
My heart began to beat faster. At first they were not moving fast enough for me. 21123
The whistling in the video is a guide
I spent a few weeks around the Southern Patagonian Ice field. I saw something similar to the Viedma glacier on the Chilean side. The sight of a glacier front collapsing and the huge blue 'shards' rising out of the water as the ice re-balances was one of the most awesome things I've seen. I recognise the icy winds that were blowing in that first video - the winds coming off the Andes are fierce and sometimes blow you off your feet!
it s Viedma Glaciar, and belong to the Southern Patagonian Ice field.
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these people burn so much fuel, emit so much toxic CO2 and other greenhouse gases just to go there and film .. Pathetic Spectators Of Planet Collapse.
In turn, this dull format-based-industry of visuals tries to make money off the same content. Yes planetary horror also = DIME$ AND CENT$
We are but an irrational species, surely heading for collapse, given the amount of Overshoot and Stupidity. face-red-droopy-eyes Subscribe To Omnicide!
4:50 perfect visual for anyone who can't understand how tsunamis get bigger with each following wave
Watching glaciers calving while we lived in Alaska was such an intense experience. If you ever travel there, I highly recommend it.
First the cracking of the ice breaking away sounds so unique, and then watching as the dirty ice changes into that deep ice blue is just breathtaking. It was quite the tourist attraction, with boat tours taking people to areas of the state not normally inhabited by people, and the ability to go whale watching on the boat ride out and back.
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@@喬蘭花 Some calving is natural, though.
@@4WingedAngels I recall hearing the ice from a glacier cracking clear up the valley from where I was. Sounded like a shotgun firing.
I pass but thank you 😊
..or the YUKON & CANADIAN ARCTIC THAT WE OWN!
I've been to Southern Patagonia and it is hard to appreciate the scale from videos, these blocks of ice aren't the size of houses, they're the size of 15 storey apartment buildings, the sound, like artillery, is also amazing.
Professional voice over! The right tempo. Very well understandable. (also for non-native-speakers)
That was the best footage of calving glaciers I have ever seen.
Dangerously mesmerizing! WoW the power of nature
At 3:25, 5,000 square miles is actually almost 13,000 square kilometers since squaring the 1.609 conversion is about 2.59, and 2.59 time 5,000 is 12,950.
Great video. Those icebergs coming out of the water are "straight out of a sci-fi movie". Incredible.
You've got to love technology for some things. Its amazing to be able to watch this in such detail. Its really inspiring in a way and makes me want to see one at some point in my life. Just incredible
But how can it be growing? Shouldn't it be melting? Oh no!
Many years ago, a friend and I went in a kayak rather close (probably too close) to one of the tidewater glaciers in Glacier Bay Nat. Park in Alaska. Had I seen this video before that, we might stayed a bit farther away.
The blue ice is so beautiful
Excellent mix of commentary, info and the actual footage. Not for one second was I distracted by anything.
For once a narrator that knows how to do it. No corny humor that inevitably falls flat, no patting on the back, no "I've got so many questions about...." as if they are soooo important. No, you just tell the tale and then get out of the way. This is narration as it should be done. An accompaniment to the video, a support structure. Thank you for doing it right.
There are not enough words to describe the epic events I just watched!!! UA-cam rules! I can pretty much go anywhere on the planet and look around. Thanx for posting!!!
The destructive forces of nature are both beautiful, captivating but could also be devastating.
I just love it when the almost jade like colours come rising out of the ocean 🌊
Wow! The first collapse shown in this video was spectacular, frightening in person, I would imagine! But that beautiful blue ice, incredible?
John Henni
I believe the blue in the glaciers means the thousands if not millions of years that the ice has been accumulating to include oxygen, debris and dust trapped into the ice...
Incredible sights indeed
That first one was beautiful, looked like big blue whales surfacing.
So what?
That blue color is truly the most beautiful color in the world.
My mind is always blown when you see the underneath come to the surface, so huge and monumentally impressive!🤯👌
You were right about the glacier that’s located south for Ilulissat, Sermeq Kujalleq, but the video you were using is the one that is located 80km north for Ilulissat and it’s called Eqip Sermia (Eqi glacier). Sermeq Kujalleq is very difficult to get close to, so if you want to see it, the closest thing you can get to it is by helicopter.
The active glacier in Greenland is also the source of the iceberg that sank the Titanic.
You missed the single largest calving that was caught on camera, it made the iceberg that was named Godzilla and was larger than the State of Rhode Island.
Absolutely amazing, I hope I could visit Patagonia and Antarctica soon. At 0:10, I am pretty sure it is at Franz Joseph Glazier in amazing New Zealand, the home of 2 out of 3 glaciers in the world that you could climb and walk on it. I have been there twice, climbing ~10 years ago and last year with heli (now climbing is banned, only heli and then drop us off there and walking)
I went there 30 yrs ago, its getting smaller every year.
WOW! Beautiful when they roll over and the blue ice becomes visible.
That's the best way to watch calving with the sound and no oohs and ahhs from big mouth tourists
Life is pretty cool between ice ages! Glad we are still coming out of one instead of going into one! Awesome video! Not going to lie, I am so jealous of the people who were there when this happened.
When the ice comes up out of the water it's like a giant monster coming up.
Like being in a giant glass of water with ice cubes.
watching this video I not only got to learn about some incredible Glaciers, but I also learned a new word. I didn't know that "calving" was the word for when the glacier breaks apart like they did in the video. thank you for the new knowledge
Calving is what happens when a growing glacier flows far enough for the unsupported end to be unable to support its own weight. It breaks off. This happens over and over as the glacier advances.
And it's not caused by carbon dioxide or human activity. It's how ice flows from higher up as a river, only much slower
I watch many videos like this, you are the only one who has mentioned the Columbia icefield and how far it has retreated. I saw it in 1979 on Hwy 11 in western Alberta, it was only a mile away from the Hwy. I didn't see it again till the late 90's and you could hardly see the Glacier from the same spot! As much as watching icefields calving is awesome to watch, we need to realize it is changing our world at the same time!
You mean highway 93. Hwy 11 is a long ways from the Columbia Icefield.
The context note is bullshit… Man isn’t the main reason. One volcano can do more than we’ve done in 100 years. And it happens every day. If we didn’t have global warming, we would be in an Ice Age from 14,000 years ago.
Climate is global, not local. Don't get fooled by local events.
I have the same concerns as you. The calving is extraordinary and beautiful but also sad because our ice fields (I think that's what they're called) are shrinking. God Bless you and have a beautiful evening.
The voice of the narrator is beautiful, such a relief from the ones that try to be overly dramatic.
The guy in the boat was VERY LUCKY that his boat didn’t get destroyed!😮
you mean hes lucky he didnt die? who cares about a boat!
I was surprised at how dirty and ragged the surface of a glacier was when we landed on one from a helicopter in Alaska, yet how beautifully clear & blue the ice was below the surface. Watching the Columbia Glacier calve was something I will always remember, including the loud thunder-like sound as it happened.
these people burn so much fuel, emit so much toxic CO2 and other greenhouse gases just to go there and film .. Pathetic Spectators Of Planet Collapse.
In turn, this dull format-based-industry of visuals tries to make money off the same content. Yes planetary horror also = DIME$ AND CENT$
We are but an irrational species, surely heading for collapse, given the amount of Overshoot and Stupidity. face-red-droopy-eyes Subscribe To Omnicide!
Amazing how mother nature acts and reacts. Impressive videos.
It's also amazing how man is saying there's not enough water but Mother Earth is saying different!
God's 🌎. No mother anything. All God the Creator.
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……never seen ice go that shade of blue before……. Beautiful
Great video thank you
Thank you for this great video! I could never imagine such movement, so beautiful and impacting.
Great vid, top level production with amazing footage
At 2:30...
That wind though....🥶
EXCELLENT VIDEO ...really good camera work and presentation, not too much talking and not much screaming lol
I've watched a lot Of Calving videos But that 1st segment has to be the most spectacular i've seen.
8:36 just gives me chills at how FAST nature moves sometimes 😰
So majestic and scary at the same time. Gives me great anxiety when a huge one rolls over
Echos of Submechanophobia with a dash of Megalophobia for me😬
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I love the two or three people in the first clip that aren't recording and just living in the moment
Wow! Massive damage!!! Beautiful!!!
Not damage, natural, it's a slow river of ice that will always end in calving. Unless the planet gets colder, and it is.
Imagine the things that will wash ashore when the ice continues to melt and mix with oceans. That ice holds actual treasures from thousands of years ago....
It is not melting it is breaking off because it grows out too far to support its own weight. The bergs will melt as they move around the oceans. This is normal.
Lolllllls. Maybe.
Ut is correct, and there's also viruses that died off long ago but will thaw and return. It's cyclical and has zero to do with humans.
Amazing video.
15:00 It is not just that the boat was far away enough. But the thing is that it's clearly on significantly deep water. Waves - especially the tsunami-kind ones (which is what they are) - tend to have a much smaller amplitude (hight) in deeper water, while having a much longer wavelength.
If you look closely, you can actually see the waves coming, but it goes much more gradually.
If there exists any other coast line behind the boat, the waves can still build up when approaching that coast while shortening in length (when the water depth decreases closer to that coast), and still cause a significant impact.
In other words: it's completely possible that boats on the middle of deep water hardly notice anything while somewhere else effects are clearly noticable.
The flipping of the first one was spectacular!
Absolutely fascinating
The world is constantly heating and freezing, melting and freezing, it matters not how much you drive or how much cows fart. It is just what the world does.
The earth goes through cycles... warm weather... ice age, etc. great video!
Exactly!
Yup this is the 6th cycle… the 6th mass extinction that is
I don't think anyone has ever disputed that, it's been common knowledge for at least a century or two.
I know I can't quite wrap my head around how massive these events are. I've been to some glaciers and hiked some, but many are on an incomprehensible scale. Fascinating shit
Imagine you’re flying a helicopter over a glacier and a town sized glacier shoots out of the water and takes you out
As other people mentioned I think you are good narrator
amazing videos. Thanks.
I was lucky enough to visit Patagonia a few years ago, including the Argentinian side of the glacier park. We walked across part of the Viedma glacier using crampons, and from the lake we saw some minor icebergs breaking away, but nothing like what you show here. I’d be interested to know what the rate of increase is.
Sup ur channel is so good
Thank you for your intelligent, thoughtful and interesting video of glaciers and their calving. (You managed to avoid, what some video-makers resort to which includes, stupid screen shots of unrelated people, making shocked and surprised facial expressions, an exaggerated tone of voice which is distracting, annoying and unnecessary, and irrelevant comments that add nothing to the viewers' knowledge or information.) You also managed to be both informative and entertaining! Well done!
But he lied about calving being the result of warming.
#1 was great but #2 absolutely amazing like watching a mountain being formed in seconds spectacular
The Portage Glacier, East of Anchorage, Alaska, will leave large chunks of ice at the elbow of Turn Again Arm. We used one 1 cubic chunk that we found on the shore in our ice box to set our fish on. It did not melt for over 2 weeks.
Utterly amazing! And terrifying
When the ice breaks off into the sea. It is not melting. It has been pushed into the Ocean by Ice accumulation.
Mighty impressive stuff.
I love the history portion of your videos
Amazing videos, thanks for showing.
A lot of these remind me of giant whales breaching.
I used to live in the Chamonix valley. Every Summer the glaciers retreat further back up their valleys. This is global warming in your face.
That ice looks like a huge popsicle
i loved this video! i had the opportunity to see the gaciers collaps in argentina, one of the most incredible moments of my entire life. I definitely i want to see more and more...
This is bittersweet. Its so cool to see but reality is sad at the same time.
Thank you for taking such a valuable video to places we would never be able to see 😘
Wow, what a great reply yes yes the video put me there I even became cold
It show us how alive the earth is❤
I'm 25 years old. I just travelled to Chamonix in December 2021 and saw the glacier there dropped 50 metres in a few years. In 2018, I went to Venice and saw floodings becoming more common. I really wonder how the world will look like when I'm 65. Will these glaciers still exist? Will Venice still exist?
Well you could farm in Greenland 1000 years ago, so who knows
Basically no, neither of those will exist, and that is probably a foregone conclusion at this point. It's happening so fast the question is will WE exist? Will our generation get to die in a bed of old age? I honestly think the odds are highly against it right now. Our later years might be travelling in caravans to pockets where wet bulb conditions won't kill you and live in squalor if you're "lucky" enough to survive at the rate things are moving. It sounds like doomday and end of the world stuff I know, but it's actually science. They cover how fast these are melting and how much of the world's fresh water is stored in these (especially Antarctica).
Don't want to accept the science? No shortage of people who don't want to do that. I'm not sure how these older people that are very well aware of what the glaciers looked like in the 70s and what they look like (you all visited them didn't you, we know what life was like for your generation vs ours and that you got to travel) now continue to deny it other than guilt and shame and a cowardice to face themselves that defines that generation. At least in America they have to be the most worthless loser generation we've EVER had.
Remember what you've seen. We will have a very narrow window when these boomers finally die (COVID is helping, maybe it's that generations judgement day as it largely kills seniors) and we have precious little time left to do anything to even mitigate some damage and maybe avoid the whole caravan thing. If we're being honest here they are such an obstacle that every one of them that dies actually helps both reduce the energy overconsumption and removing political obstacles.
@@JamesAChambers step away from the booze...
these glacier collapses aren't "spectacular" and they aren't entertainment. nature is demonstrating to ALL OF US that corporate corruption and industrialization is DESTROYING our planet's ability to maintain life as we know it.
these glaciers are ESSENTIAL to our ecosystem. they help regulate global temperatures and saline balance in the world's oceans! yet we sit here and DO NOTHING to protect our only home. we allow the profit motive of billionairs to determine our planet's future. WE'RE IDIOTS!
@@cjmacq-vg8um are you using a coconut to type all this or a banana
Absolutely fascinating video
Thanks for sharing wonderful video 👏👏👏👏👏
I greatly enjoyed and found this video very informative. Though there was one error while talking about the Columbia Glacier. There are two Columbia Glaciers that the narration indicated were the same one. There is the Columbia Glacier where this caving event took place in Alaska and the Columbia Icefield in Banff National Park in Alberta Canada which is 1269 miles or 2042 km away to the southeast. Though this error does not take away from the importance of highlighting the dangers of our crumbling glaciers are having on our planet.
Thank you! I came here to say this. I live in Alberta, not that far from the Columbia Icefield, but very, VERY far away from Alaska and the ocean where the Columbia Glacier was filmed. 😉
Ice calving at a sea terminus is something glaciers have been doing for millennia. I think if you actually look at the extent of the ice sheets and mass of glaciers is defying experts' predictions and holding up in spite of our fears. The North Pole was supposed to be ice-free by now. There's a lot of climate revisionism being pushed by the establishment, right now. I'm old enough to remember the '70s, when the same people were warning about catastrophic cooling and a new ice age just around the corner.
While I'll agree with you that pollution is bad, I'm not sure this whole CO2 thing is driving climate change significantly, and a lot of the people who're pushing the doom and gloom want to sell you electric cars that require a lot of filthy lithium and cobalt mining that may be worse for humanity and the planet than too much plant food in the atmosphere. There've been a lot colder and a lot warmer times in Earth's geological past, and CO2 levels seem to have very little to do with it. We may even be helping green up the planet by releasing CO2 natural processes would otherwise lock away from plants in the Earth's crust.
Don't worry there's more snow falling up on high ground replacing what breaks of annually. No one talks about that though.
@@harrymills2770 This global warming scam is just perfect for them...to just the normal person this seems so scary. We seem to know how things work, when we have only been on this planet for a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of it's total age.
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I never realized that ice could look like the same color as the sky.
That was truly awesome
Absolutely amazing ! Thank you for sharing!
Your presentation was awesome thanks for sharing, enjoyed it very much.
I consider myself lucky to even get onto the Columbian Icefield. It was a lifetime memory of walking on it and even seeing people go inside it. It was also a crazy experience drinking the pure glacial water. God knows how long that sight is going to exist.
the Columbian Icefield in Alberta and the Columbian Glacier in Alaska are two different places...he made a mistake
Amazing
This is absolutely fascinating and equally horrifying. I feel sad about the melting of the Arctic.
Don't be sad eventually when Yellowstone erupts it'll send us into another ice age will be all good again
Exactly ! This is a bad thing !
there is a shit ton of bad things wrong with this world and humanity and climate change is the LAST ONE
I suppose you people would like to go through another ice age ? Wake up people this is part of nature it gets hot in the summer and cold in the winter some years hotter than others and some colder than others ,I'm 90 years young and I've seen a lot of them .😇
It is sad that the glaciers are melting away💔
This is amazing. We saw some small ones on our trip to Alaska. Breathtaking video
I dig the narration and voice over. Very professional.
This has been going on for a billion years. The ice eventually reaches warmer southern areas thef falls off. Repeats all the time.
Kudos for making a creditable attempt at the place names. Were that all content makers here so scrupulous.
When it comes to "Columbia", you have your geography completely muddled up. The Columbia glacier in Alaska is NOT part of the Columbia ice field; in fact, it is nowhere near it. The Columbia ice field is in Alberta and British Columbia in Canada - it does not extend into Alaska, and none of its glaciers reach sea level, so obviously there will be no major calvings from them. How could you get things so wrong?
I was just going to comment the same. Mention of Banff and I went "Whaaaat?". ;) Great footage though!
Even in the video, when they show the Columbia Ice Field from space-view, it is very apparent that it does not reach the ocean anywhere. As an European I am not particularly familiar with the geography of the region, but this contradiction caught my eye. And ironically this does not work as a simple mix-up of the glacier with the ice field either, because the ice field that supports the Columbia Glacier is not on the border of the two countries either, it is fully in Alaska.
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If you don't know the answer to this then there's your answer.
Can you drive from Auckland to Sydney?
It is one of two places on the earth where there is a triple continental divide(Dome Mountain). And you're totally right, No where near Alaska.
Great video, thanks. Someone else might have commented that in the Antarctica carving, the male voice was probably not telling the tourist to sit down for security reasons, but rather because the tourist was blocking the view of other tourists!
The Columbia ice fields very quietly removed the gone by 2020 sign....
Because the glacier is GROWING AGAIN
It cracks me up, people spend all their time recording and taking pictures instead of actually marveling at the moment.
You know you can do both right? Go touch grass.
Oh wow
Nice video 👍
Very good documentation. I love it.
Impresionante ! Espectacular! Único!
El impacto es asombroso ! Excelente, gracias !!!
I was caught in one of those waves when doing field work in Svalbard. We nearly lost one of our boats. It was scary.