What's Hidden Under the Ice of Greenland?
2022 ж. 6 Шіл.
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I'm from Greenland and live here. One of the reasons I somewhat support Danish rule is because I don't trust our own Greenlandic politicians. I'm afraid that some politician - if we ever become fully independent - will recieve a lot of money from some Russian, American or Chinese mining business and then suddenly agree to sell the rights to our underground minerals. At least when the Danes rule us, they (probably) won't just sell our country's resources off to some foreign company.
good point!
Yes, this happens in Africa a lot in recent history. I hope you can avoid this.
That's exactly what is going to happen history has shown that
I don't trust our own Greenlandic politicians. As an American, I don't trust our current crop of politicians either. If Trump had purchased Greenland the current president is likely to sell your interests to China for a small bribe, like he is doing to the rest of us here.
All governments are corrupt, regardless of the size. Where there's people involved, there's greed. The only government you can trust are those that fear the people's response to their decisions.
Dude there's no way. I remember being obsessed with Greenland back in Middle school because of its massive size and mysteries. This video really brought that back all of these years later so thank you for making this and congrats on 6 million subs!
6.01😂
@@barsukascool why u gotta do him like that 😂😂
@@lucafortunato_ thats called killing people by your look
Its cant support human life.
Yo
It's not so much the distance from the sun, but rather the angle. At the equator, the sun is directly above (on average), so you're getting maximum sunlight. At 45th latitude, you're only getting 70%. In the Arctic circle, it's less than 50% or 60% even during arctic summer.
I was just about to post this exact point. Also, the greater distance traversed through the atmosphere has a small effect but nothing compared to the incident angle, as you have said.
However, if the Earth's crust undergoes a predicted Pole Shift, the latitude of many lands will be altered radically.
enough is enough dude Even if i were a greatest physicist of all time, i won't post the same thing on here that had already posted by other zillions time
The earth isn't flat 😮
Yup. He got that wrong to. It is not the distance, but rather the suns angle. This guy is more of a propagandist than a scientist.
I haven’t been to Greenland, only flown over it but it was so beautiful. So much land is completely untouched by humans.
Same flew over en route to Italy 🇮🇹
It has not always been untouched by humans. You need to do a bit of research on why they call it Greenland. Hint: Not long ago, lots of Vikings and Norse lived and farmed here. The weather used to be much warmer there, and it was indeed a green land. Check out the evidence. It's out there for all brave people who are not afraid of the current narrative. You can even visit Greenland, and visit the ruins of the farming communities. The locals know...
I've travelled the west coast of Greenland about 15 years ago, it was incredible. One odd thing that stood out for me was how clean the air is, it makes it impossible to estimate distances correctly. A little green hill behind our campside, it looked like you could walk up there in 10 minutes, but after an hour of hiking I was barely halfway up. Same goes for the glaciers, it is hard to really understand the size of these walls of ice. I really hope the Greenlandic ice sheet will survive some more centuries!
I doubt that it will last, since most of the world’s population does not feel responsible enough to curb global warming, which will surely melt Greenland’s glaciers this century. It’s true. Just do the math on the accelerating melt each decade.
@@corryjookit7818 He merely suggested of this off top of his head . Don’t just people that you know nothing about and instead concentrate your energy on criticizing the clown running the american economy into the ground and on the verge of leading it into WW3. Get over Trump and stop living in the past and stop using youtube channels that talks about nature to perpetrate hate around the world for the new world order that will probably kill you before 2030 jeezus stop voting these people your digging your own grave.
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ That is your comment on Greenland, its resources and climate change? Very insightful
@@rolandmdill probably a bot that says something about Jesus every time someone says something about trump.
@@gingersteelman8126 I know 😉
the effect of latitude in the climate has more to do with the angle in which sun light hits the surface of the planet than due to the thickness of atmosphere being crossed. This is because sun light on a oblique angle is spread out, while vertical or near vertical sun light is less spread out, or more concentraded. The difference of thickness between different latitudes is quite irrelevant in comparisson to the effect of angle irradiation.
That's not true. Well part of it is true. It's both the angle of incident and the fact it has to travel through more atmosphere to reach the ground. Even without the atmosphere planetary bodies have called the temperatures towards the polar regions simply due the angle of incident.
@@supernoodles908 90% of the Earth's atmosphere mass is concentraded in the Troposphere, which is the last 10 km or so of the atmosphere. While the the thickness of the entire atmosphere can vary between 100 to 300 km depending on what scientists actually believe the ionspehere is actually atmosphere or not. Whatever the case, on a oblique angle, those 10 km won't become much thicker. It just doesn't have a big enough effect to even compare to angle irradiation.
Simple geometry tells us, that at a latitude of 60 ° N or S the energy per area through radiation is half of what it is at the equator (in spring/fall, obviously higher/lower in summer/winter). That is, before any reflective/absorbtive effects of the atmosphere are included. At 70 ° (roughly at the arctic circle) the intensity is just 35 % of that of the equator, quickly dropping to zero. I would argue, that this is the main contributor. Also, due to the fact that the relationship between angle of incidence and energy density is nonlinear (~cos(latitude)), the annual cycle has a way bigger effect on energy density than on the equator. I.E 50 ° between summer and winter make no difference close to the equator, but have a giant effect on the arctic, leading to almost no radiation in winter.
@@supernoodles908 The atmosphere absorbs little of the Sun's energy which is mostly visible light, your point stands more strongly for UV light. The atmopshere is almost half the thickness at 60°N as it is at the Equator, greatly mitigating the effect you're talking about, and also radiation absorbed by the atmosphere doesn't disappear, it becomes heat so somewhat irrelevant
With green house gases wouldn't a thicker atmosphere result in a hotter rather than colder climate because the heat gets trapped?? :)
You forgot to mention that ice penetrating radar studies shows that 50 to 70% of the ice in Greenland has formed since the end of the Holocene Thermal Maximum, which at this latitude occurred around 8,000 years ago.
Would this greatly improve chances of discovering evidence of past events or will the current sheets erase any possible chances of discovering anything
6:40- for reference. By the time you reach the end of the video- enough ice has melted to fill 2,480 Olympic sized swimming pools.
Spent a year in an American airbase called Sondestrom when I was in the USAF in 1971/72. For two weeks that winter we hit record low temperature of -102F. The amazing thing was that the air was so clear and clean. Only place allergies did not bother me.
All allergy-generating lifeforms have been frozen solid. 🥶
I was at Sonderstrom also in 62/63. Experienced -70F with 35 mph wind. Still have nightmares about that God forsaken place. Next duty was Tyndall, Panama City, Fla. Sent there to thaw out.
LOTS OF BIG TIME OXYGEN BLOWING~ IN YOU'er Face~ The most of what You Breath There With Pure Oxygen~ THAT IS PACKED IN ICE~ BIG ICE~ HAVIG THE ONLY CLEAN WATER LEFT ON THE PLANET IN THE Poles Of North & South!~
Thank you for your service ❤️
Wait, did your allergies really stopped fully? Say if I get easy colds due to allergies (it starts as an allergy most times caused by dust or some else) and such, will it still be way easier there?
A man from Iceland recently purchased a farm in Greenland with the idea of reindeer farming. When hearing of Greenland having rare earth minerals, he did some in-depth research into the minerals on his land. He found there was over a billion dollars of rare earth minerals on his land. Amazing!
contary to the US in the Nordic you only get to claim the surface land and water ditto, using or selling your mineral rights demands some very tough *Negotiations* IE Take or leave it, with the Government.
@@bentalexranebundgaard4867 True, I worked for a mining industry CEO - they will literally r*pe and scar the earth and leave a poisoned mess behind that will taint everything for miles around for centuries- hope that man chose Reindeer farming rather than harming that beautiful land.
rare earth minerals are not rare at all, there are many known deposts on all continents. The only reason they are so expensive is, that it takes a lot of energy to retract the minerals from the ore. With cheap electricity from huge coal plants in Manchuria China was able to outcompete everybody else on the planet and became the monopolist for those minerals. So if you don't have a huge powerplant next to your deposits, they are almost worthless.
Source??
Always...money people!
I saw Greenland from an airplane window, definitely the most breathtaking view I’ve ever seen.
me too lol, the flight attendants were mad at me for keeping my curtains open but damn, it was so beautiful!
@@mikkicarr5717. Why Did they get upset with you for leaving your window shade open?
@@tazkrebbeks3391 Because people on the plane were trying to sleep, but I was making it too bright because it was sunny out.
@@mikkicarr5717. Oh. Well that makes sense. Merry Christmas.✌️
@@tazkrebbeks3391 Merry Christmas to you too!
Isostatic rebound wouldn't be limited to Greenland, as the weight of that water would be offset to the oceans where it would push down on much thinner and more flexible places like the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which will push up the surrounding lands as well, which would likely offset some of those projected sea level rises.
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Exactly
As big as Greenland is, it is miniscule compared to the combined size of the Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Atlantic Ocean.
@@gabrielrockman lol, you forgot the Artic Ocean north of Greenland.
The other interesting thing is all that mass will relocate to the oceans, Will the change the rotation of the earth, like a suspended trapeze artist spinning rapidly, extends their arms and slows their rotation rate. Also would all this mass moving from the poles change the inclination of the rotation of the earth?
1:32 Two different physical effects are being conflated here. The greater travel distance through the atmosphere means that more light and heat from the Sun gets absorbed or scattered. Also, the fact that the angle of incidence is more acute means that the incoming radiation is spread out over a larger surface area. Both have the same root cause that the latitude is high and hence the angle of incidence is low, but the physics between the two effects are vastly different.
Yes, a very garbled explanation in the video. Anybody not already knowing the answer will be more confused and ignorant than they were before.
Did you study geology or physics or meterology? It is an honest question because as someone that studied two of these subjects I couldn't stand to watch this through. Way too many errors and way too much alarmism and hysteria regarding the melting of the ice (shield) in the northern polar region. NASA has other research on their page saying that they don't know if the shield is shrinking or increasing and that in the inner and western parts more snowfall has occured in the last decade (which does not automatically mean that the ice shield is increasing)
@@carlbenz9807 I didn't think there was too much alarmism and hysteria. The disadvantages of the flooding of coastal plains of many countries was balanced by the advantages that would occur if there was any melting of the ice.
@@felixadams7365 You'll find this is a common thread throughout the channel.
I was most amazed at how continuously the narrator could make himself sound amazed. I wish they wouldn't. It is very tiring to listen to. And I wish that, instead of, most of the time, describing the numbers by just millions and millions, they would compare it with something.
RealLifeLore: talks about rising sea levels The Netherlands: "ah shit, here we go again"
The Dutch: *angrily shakes fist at the sea* "how many times to a have to teach to the same lesson old man?"
@@somethinglikethat2176 Poseidon: I love the young people.
Mama Mia.... XD
They'll probably need to dam the North Sea and English channel at this point.
Tbh this is probably my favourite of your videos. It's just so interesting
You are mixing 2 factors up. 1. Sunlight travels longer through the atmosphere causing a smaller percentage to make it through to the surface. 2. The angle at which the sun shines on the surface becomes smaller the closer you get to the poles (because the earth is a sphere), thus spreading the same amount of energy over a larger surface area. Less energy per square meter equals less heat to warm the surface.
False shit overlaying it on Europe the same principle Europe nearly 5 times larger than Greenland
Greenland is just one of those places full of beauty but too expensive and hostile for most people to effectively explore anything that isn't already a well trodden path. From a travelers perspective the more isolated parts of Greenland and the scenery (mountains, ice, kayaking further up the coast, etc) remain a dream for the future.
Well said! I am also here to learn how to invest after listening to a lady on tv talk about the importance of investing and how she made 7 figure in 3 month, somehow the video taught me nothing and left me even more confused, I'm a newbie and I'm open to ideas on how to invest for retirement
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Financial management is a crucial topic that most tend to shy away from, and ends up haunting them in the near future
Investment now will be wise but the truth is investing on your own will be a high risk. I think it will be best to get a professional👌
@@lezliewhicker8450 Thank you, Going through her profile in her webpage, she smashed all her state certificate and accreditation🙏
Just flew over Greenland a few weeks ago while coming back from Paris. Saw some of the most incredible views looking outside my window. It’s amazing how vast the snowy mountains and frozen lakes and rivers are Edit: For the people that think I’m lying or just don’t know what I’m talking about for some reason, look up why planes fly over Greenland when going to and from Europe. It’s a thing and it’s because it’s the shortest distance due to the curvature of the earth. Enough comments telling me what I did and didn’t do. Thanks.
There is no commercial flights over Greenland from France. You likely saw parts of Canada, the hebredies or maybe Iceland.. But likely not even that.
@@andrehof7876 that is absolutely, 100% not true. How are you going to tell me where I flew? There was even a flight map that clearly showed the plane was over Greenland. Make sure you know what you’re talking about if you’re gonna tell people what they did and didn’t do.
@@vanessa9558 where did your flight go to..
@@andrehof7876 It went to SF and in any case I don’t have to explain it to you. If you really want to think there’s “no commercial flights from Paris over Greenland” then go for it, but don’t tell me what I did and didn’t see/did and didn’t do. You just sound dumb.
@Dawson Davis you arent helping being on a phone/computer.
Your explanations and your graphics are consistently superb! Should be some kind of award for this quality of presentations. Gold medal to you!
ok mark twain
except for the fact that "solar radiation" graphic is completely incorrect science and illustration
I've lived in Nuuk my entire life and never knew that we had a forest down south, thanks for educating me :). Also when pronouncing Nuuk, you stretch the U a bit more than what you said in the start ;)
Is there any use of greenhouses and new tech to grow food?
In 1960 my Air Force family moved from USA to the UK. I was 5 and our plane landed at Thule to refuel. I remember seeing fishermen off the coast as we came down through the clouds.
Is it like one very long 'u' or two 'u' pronounced one after another?
you would say Nuuk, not Nook.
Like you would know how to pronounce Nuuk
Even without the atmospheric effects (which do contribute, of course, just in a minor way), it's just the incident angle of the sunlight that causes the temperature differences between the equator and the poles. Celestial bodies without atmospheres have similar temperature gradients along their latitude
Why are all these comments so wise theyre 2 wise for my brain to understand
Yup beat me to it and with that easy fail so early in the video wonder what coming up in the next 20 min.
Came here to say just this. Luckily you already said it better than I would.
@@barsukascool I always aim to educate 😉
@@dancoroian1 yeah cool👍
Great video! I am addicted to this channel! So good!
the plane they dug out of the ice was one of only a squadron of planes that crashed there due to lack of fuel.. I believe also there are several B17s under the ice as well as more P38s. it's just that the plane the became known as glacier girl was the most intact.
The P-38 was part of a small squadron that totaled 6 P-38's and 2 B-17's. They lost their way on the Greenland to Iceland leg and turned around, running out of fuel and landing all together on the cap. Everyone was eventually rescued via sled dog party. The 1992 expedition found one of the B-17's as well but was too crunched up to bother retrieving. The restored P-38 is currently air worthy and renamed 'Glacier Girl'. There's a great book with tons of photos from 1994 on this called 'The Lost Squadron'.
I now know why the Marvel myth of Captain America being discovered beneath the arctic ice is a thing. These lost planes being found in Greenland are probably at least some of the basis for that story. That's literally the first place that my brain went to, when RLL started talking about the lost flights over Greenland.
But how did they manage to get it running again after being in a heavily oxidizing environment (basically just water) for 50 years, and with tons and tons of weight crushing it?
@@LuisC7 Lots and lots of refurbishment. I reckon that literally the only salvageable part was the airframe. Everything else, especially the electronic components, would have to have been completely replaced by the same, or similar, components.
@@jacob4920 well then it's not the same plane, it's 99% a different plane. But yeah still good to see the airframe flying again
@@LuisC7 you obviously know nothing about aircraft restoration and refurbishment. Legally all you need to restore an airplane is to recover the identification data plate. That being said, the P38 Glacier Girl used much of it's original parts.
Can only imagine all the persevered things hiding in the ice. Also the canyon looks like one of the most fortified places in the world
yes
The only thing hiding there is Wakanda.
kinda is, yup
@@thecarlob_007 😂
Look up Camp Century..... you are certainly correct- and if the ice melts......which it will
Great video! BTW, some stats are mentioned at 16:24 and the attributed source is Greenland Minerals (stock code GGG - since then changed name to Energy Transition Minerals), a mining/exploration company. It's interesting to note that the company has discovered a great deposit of rare earth and other valiuable minerals but was blocked by the local government from developing it. The reason is that the ore contains a small amount of uranium, the mining of which is not allowed by law. Of course, there could very well be (likely to be) some political machinations in the background. The company offered some solutions for the handling of uranium but quoting the decision: "...the Company's exploitation licence application cannot be granted because it would involve exploitation of an ore body that contains more than 100 ppm of uranium (the threshold that was introduced in Greenland Parliament Act No. 20 of 1 December 2021 to ban uranium prospecting, exploration and exploitation, etc ('Act No. 20')". This was followed by a leagal bunfight which is still continuing but for now, it looks like the company all but lost the case. It wil be interesting to see what will happen in the future with the exploitation of some minerals in Greenland if uranium is a blocker.
Very interesting and packed with new and relevant information! Thanks.
Big ups on 6 MILLION Subs! Deserved and always have videos I never knew I needed until you upload them!
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@@zlomeny you don’t know him don’t you?
@@mattiside3131 look mkmkmknkoinonj
Yay
more like 250,000 6mil is a lie
Fun fact: What we call "rare earth minerals" are in fact quite common. China, and Brazil, are the top exporters 'cause extracting them causes a lot of pollution. And they simply don't care. But you could find them nearly anywhere. They put that name in the XIX century 'cause they really thought were rare. So, no need to kill millions of people and flood thousands of cities to extract "rare earth minerals" from Greenland. Also, we now know how to extract them better. It's just that we don't do it 'cause it's expensive and the impact of doing so (even without polluting the surrounding environment) is quite great. Nobody wants a big open mine close to home in the western world.
Not that the maker of this channel will say it, but thank you for pointing out the truth. Seriously, I never heard someone talk about trashing a place with so much enthusiasm before watching this video.
Great comment, one which really changes the perspective of the whole conversation. I hope this comment gets noticed.
Yes, rare earths are not that rare, only their refinement is very messy and polluting. That's why the west doesn't bother refining their own. They'd rather buy it refined from China who doesn't care much about the environment and the people there can't say much. Many nations actually export the ore to China and buy back refined rare earths. But even if it's a dirty business China has monopolized it and the day it decides to punish the west, it surely has a big card in it's hand.
I was also in doubt why china is they claimed the biggest exporter of rare earth elements. How come that rare earth can only be found in their lands and not on other continents? Now that explains it. You need to destroy an entire forest and mountains, pollute your city just to produce one.
@@kvineet631 They can't do that because chinese economy is very reliant to export. If they "punish" the west, the west will just sanction them by banning imports from China until their economy falls which will cause a massive revolution. The west can dig their own rare earths if they commit.
1:20 you make it sound like the longer distance of light traveling through the atmosphere is what causes the light to spread out over a larger area. In reality both phenomena are caused by the lower angle of light rays relative to the surface
Love your episodes keep it up!!!!!
It’s not about the time sunlight spends travelling through the atmosphere. It’s the angle of incidence. The same number of rays are spread across a much larger surface area on the ground.
Shut up
thats because this guy isnt pointing out "climate change" in good faith hes peddling the same talking points as every other leftist talking head with a following its why i use ad block and skip past the propoganda ;p
"It’s not about the time sunlight spends travelling through the atmosphere. It’s the angle of incidence. The same number of rays are spread across a much larger surface area on the ground." And of course, the longer the sunlight travels through the atmosphere the more the atmosphere diffuses the sunlight and the much larger surface area it is spread across. So actually, it IS about both.
@@oldtimefarmboy617 nope. You can calculate the solar intensity based on angle of incidence at different latitudes and it lines up with observation. Atmospheric diffusion has a negligible effect.
@@sonofawil And yet it does have an effect and also helps determine which wavelength of light will be most prominent at the surface. After all, the moon is still clearly visible during a lunar eclipse even though the Earth has completely blocked the sunlight from shining directly on the moon. The light that reaches the moon is mostly red because that is the wavelength that makes it through the Earths atmosphere. So, yes, to get an accurate measurement, the diffusion caused by the atmosphere must be taken into account so you know how much of one and how much of the other is responsible. If you care do be that accurate. Minute differences in solar radiation can have large effects over time.
Ive worked in Greenland at Nuuk airport...we did major overhauls on the Bell 212 helicopters and C checks on dash 7s and dash 8 aircraft...stayed in a little cabin right opposite the hospital...really enjoyed my time there, went to Santa's Grotto but he was out 😁...tried local cuisine, whale blubber 🤢 was interesting! and a cool guy called Renè brought me reindeer steaks and fresh halibut ..was awesome! people were so friendly
Whale blubber doesn't sound like it could be my kind of thing but how are the reindeer steaks? I'm assuming it's like other venison in that it's gamey and delicious.
Is it true that there is a massive UFO 🛸 under the ice in greenland? I heard that a couple days ago and it peeked my interest 🤔
I heard a couple days ago that there is a massive UFO under the ice in Greenland 🛸🤔
The view at 4m46s is just breathtaking
You can also type it like this 4:46 and you can click it to view later
A mass like that, with such a deep canyon and valley/bowl like region below, I wonder what kind of wedge-like vertical pressure that has on the Earth's crust. If it were to melt completely, would the crust start shifting drastically? 🤔
I kinda want to know where the boundaries of the tectonic plates in the area are. The layout would be useful in determining how the island will shift were all the ice to melt, and just how easily it could rise from shedding that weight. If it's part of a larger plate, the change in weight would have a smaller effect. But if it's on a smaller plate, the change would be a much more significant percentage, resulting in a significantly larger uplift.
Minor correction to the physics in the beginning of the video - the basis for lower solar energy in the Arctic Circle isn’t because of the distance light has to travel in the atmosphere (although it is indeed longer, but not the primary effect), the the flux density being so much smaller. Basically imagine taking a “cylinder” of the same light aiming straight at something versus that something being at a really sharp angle to the light. The shape of the light spot will be much larger in the second scenario, which means the energy is distributed over a larger area… or said another way, the same area receives less energy than its counterpart.
Did you watch the video? I just saw literally what youre saying here
@@Querientje He showed the image but apparently didn't understand it, listen to what the video says
thats because this guy isnt pointing out "climate change" in good faith hes peddling the same talking points as every other leftist talking head with a following its why i use ad block and skip past the propoganda ;p
@@divingstag Appreciate the supportive comment, but I don’t know if I would say it that harshly. I mean, he wasn’t wrong about the longer travel length in the atmosphere. It’s just that it is not the dominant affect, probably by many orders of magnitude.
The longer the sunlight travels through the atmosphere the more the atmosphere diffuses the sunlight and the much larger surface area it is spread across. So actually, it IS about both.
I too have been fascinated by Greenland, my dream coming true having visited for 3 months. The local people have helped me more than any other country. Greeting from Australia 🇦🇺.
Of course, theyll help you because theyre so isolated, lonely, dont have much else to do, little space to expand, little food of course they will. Lolol!!
@jakejackson2669 Who would pay for expensive bio-domes? he food grown in these domes would be away more expensive than simply flying it in. Iceland can do it, because they have free heat.
Your videos make me want to boot up Civ 6 haha nice work man 👏
The archeological findings in that ancient canyon will be so great
The light having to travel through more atmosphere isnt why there's less solar energy. It's because of the angle that Greenland is relative to the photon's paths. The solar energy is less dense per unit area at steep angles.
Thats essentially what he said in much more simple wording
@@ieatbees2725 Incorrect. Atmosphere thickness is largely irrelevant. It's the *tilt of the ground* wrt the Sun that matters.
You are correct. Actually, I'm not even sure why he tried to explain why higher latitudes are colder. This is pretty much widely understood and did not add much value to the discussion.
@@samiraperi467 If you hit the atmosphere at 90 degrees, most of it will power through. If you hit the atmosphere at a 20 degree angle... some will reflect off back into space.
Oddly there was no mention of the 2 giant asteroid impact craters discovered on Greenland that likely contributed to the last short ice age and may have been the reason large mammals like the Mastodon went extinct. These were discovered when the mapping was done that discovered the giant canyon on Greenland.
dude those videos nowadays only push the climate change agenda propaganda, climate change is here since earth existed... even the dutch president said during the WEF that they plead to push the climate change agenda with propaganda and paying journalists and media outlets a lot of money to push this...
Wondering... are these perhaps the origin of the large deposits of rare-earth minerals?
This channel won’t give you information like that
@@kf9926 but they will mislead you into thinking poles are cold because of the thickness of the atmosphere
@@usuario2967 Yes my thoughts also lol. Lack of sun and indirect rays that bounce off the atmosphere and ice is imho the real reason for its cold air.
How much emphasis do we need? RealLifeLore: Yes.
Wouldn't be the first time. Florida was under water and the Georgia coast was 50 miles inland from where it is now. You can still find sharks teeth around Orlando and many miles inland of Georgia to this day.
AT THE TOP of the Davis Mts in Texas are marine fossils......so.....yes...has happen before. Climate change is CYCLICAL....
@shawn ..what was debunked??
Greenland has been on my bucket list since I was 8 years old (the 80s) when I used to be so fascinated by the globe we kept in the classroom at the time......one day.
amazing videos. and your modern conflict series on nebula is absolutely sick! so informative and interesting. thank you for being such a great creator!
it's always this guy with some random topics that grab my interest somehow, keep it up
Oh they are not random trust me.
It's the topics we didn't know we needed hah
Been to Summit Camp and Kanger several times. Beautiful place.
Thanks for a nice video. So, with the interior lake, not all the ice will melt and flow into the ocean, making the rise in sea levels not quite right? What will e the effect of the rising of Iceland once the mass of ice is removed in sea levels?
The reason there is weaker/less light this far north is because the sun strikes the earth at more of an angle at these latitudes, as opposed to more or less straight on at the equator, therefore, the suns rays are spread out over a larger area. It is not because they have to travel through "more atmosphere". You can see in the picture in the video the much larger area over which the suns rays are spread out over, compared to at the equator. The video also greatly exaggerates the thickness of the atmosphere. The atmosphere wouldn't even be visible on the scale of the images in the video. It would be less than a hairs thickness so the picture misrepresents reality, but unfortunately that misrepresentation could influence the understanding of these concepts. In fact, the atmosphere is thicker/higher at the equator than at the poles but that isn't mentioned in the video, and that certainly doesn't diminish the strength of the suns rays at the equator. As they are so far north there are also months of the year when there is no sunlight at all, again due to the angle of the earth, and has nothing to do with the atmosphere.
Thanks for pointing this out as I was going to post the same info to correct his inaccuracies.
I was about to write the same thing 😎
You are half right. Yes the angle of earth's surface does matter. But the sun's rays DO have to travel through more atmosphere at high latitudes and this DOES have a cooling effect. Why do you think * direct * sunlight in early morning and late day is less hot? Hello?? It doesn't matter if you orient a surface to be 90 degrees to a low sun. It will still be cool because the sun's rays are traveling through more atmosphere.
@@ewthmatth no. If you orient a small surface into a 90 degree angle at early morning or late evening that's a NEGLIGIBLE impact compared to how much the sun's rays are spread out over a larger area per unit at that time. You may get a fraction more on it (and it will feel slightly warmer) but the photons are already so spread out in the area as a whole that it cannot compensate for it. Earth is a globe (or technically geoid) so it doesn't matter if the effect is in a North-South or East-West direction, the effect still happens. The atmosphere is so thin it doesn't come close to the impact of the photons-per-square-meter effect.
It’s a diagram and not an actual representation of reality. In addition, technically photons travel through the atmosphere.
Man, Greenland really does make you feel small in this world. A few hundred years does not sound like alot of time, especially for a geographic feature but I realize I will be long gone before I ever get to witness any major change in it. All I have is this little window to view the world, and I will never get to see that great canyon or the ice melt simply because of time.
Not unless we bomb it.
That is exactly what i was thinking about while watching the video
Seriously, can we bomb it? Bikini Atoll 2.0?
@@TheDiscordNet the way I see it, if your problem isn't solved by a bomb, you should use a bigger bomb. 💥😎💥
@@TheDiscordNet no, but a damn good bit can be
Love how you deliver horrific news with a cheery music and a bubbly voice totally unbothered
Haha
Good keep it that way I’m so tired and my heart is heavy from people putting wild life out
Imagine the fossils potentially under Greenland
Must've been Glowbull warming then...
Why the hell not? By then the rest of the world will be a shell of what it was anyway.
There is an episode of What on Earth on travel channel, season 3. The military is missing an atomic bomb there. While looking for it with LiDAR, they found a huge underwater canyon, 3 times bigger than the Grand Canyon. They found prehistoric fossils.
d i n o s a u r s no, even *before* the dinosaurs.
@@billhosko7723 back millions of years ago CO2 levels were much higher so yes it was global warming lol
I have a friend from Greenland. Met him in school in Norway. Had to click on this video. Kalaallit Nunaat! 🇳🇴🇬🇱
I had a buddy stationed at Thule. It's definitely not "major" lol, but it is important. The dude was so bored there, he got into collecting rocks 😆
Thule's got all kinds of amazing rocks, though. And they have lapidary equipment that anyone can use. If you're going to pick up rockhounding, Thule's the perfect place for it. Source: that's how I got into rocks. We'll be bidding on a job up there soon and I hope I get to go back. I live in the great plains - not much for rocks around here.
“Cities in the Central Valley like Stockton will sink!” So there is a plus to all this.
I love how Greenland and Iceland uses geothermal energy in their systems. I wish we could use that all over. (Have you seen this huge sand battery 🔋 in Norway that currently runs a public swimming center and they are going to experiment with other methods with that energy storage source. It takes solar panels energy to convert electricity to heat the sand tower to 500° and they say you can get heat energy out of it for months before having to repower it up.)
Link please. Never ever read about that here in the newspapers.
@@robertkiss7003 If you like learning, then i 'randomly' recommend Forrest Valkai, Bluejay, Tier Zoo, Professor Dave, Sci Man Dan and Some-More-News.
Does Greenland really have geothermal resources that they use? I've only heard about Iceland with all their volcanoes. Also regarding solar I would expect they are too far North to take advantage of that as they get barely any daytime during the winter months, and the sunlight they do get is weaker than even we get through most of North America. It does seem to get plenty of wind however and could exploit that as a clean energy source.
You do realize geothermal is all around the world right? We have it all over Canada...
The earth is the same all around the world. If you dig deep enough. You will have access to geothermal energy lol
My hometown of New Orleans is already a soup bowl. You gotta be crazy to buy a home down here. I find it utterly insane that after the catastrophic flooding of Katrina(as well as other hurricanes) home prices have soared much much higher than pre-Katrina levels and they still continue to climb. New Orleans no longer looks or feels the same so I’m already saying my good byes. It’s projected that New Orleans will be underwater by 2050, which sucks big time but Post-Katrina Nola already ruined it for me.
Commiserations. It must be hard to lose a beloved hometown to natural forces.
Who knows if that would actually happen I remember news media and scientists in the 1980s saying new York would be 40 ft under water by the 2000s and that never happened and how they said in the early 2000s most of Antarctica would be melted by 2020 and that also never happened in fact it grew by like 1 percent so I don't really trust these scientists that much
I hope for you the best. If global warming continues as is projected, eventually what you are saying would happen
Please N.O. Was supposed to already be under water, but now it is pushed out another 30 years. Stop being so gullible.
They're probably gonna build massive sea walls to keep New Orleans from flooding which still makes it insane to live there when imagining the massive amount of Taxes that are gonna be demanded.
i live in stockton, ca, and that's always been my fear is flooding because we are so close to the coastline
That Forrest has got to be one of the most beautiful places on earth my god
Can you do a video about the Amazon rainforest, specifically Vale do Javari, the most unexplored part of the Amazon? Apparently the lost civilization there built its city out of wood, not stone, so we don’t see how massive it was.
Leave it alone . . .
Hey RealLifeLore! I've been loving your videos for a long time now, and I just want to tell you that THIS is our favorite content, along with everything else about the world itself(eg. islands, the oceans, the most remote places in the world etc.) thank you RLL we love you!!
I agree but he sonetimes goes off-topic
@@barsukascool Yeah he litteraly took almost 10 minutes to get to the point of the title
@@Namelss that's the fun part. You get 3x knowledge that you came for 🔥
@@ZOCCOK Yeah I’m not complaining at all but I can imagine it being a bit of an issue for some people idk
@@Namelss its not an issue for me but yes it could be for someone
Could the potential isostatic rebound of the land possibly raise sea level again? Or would that be negligible with how much water would be added with the melting
The most cheerful reading of the apocalypse ever.
I´m from Greenland, and seing this being so informative was amazing! Loved it as i have loved all your other vids!
Friend GR going home to VISIT soon 🤗
I bet your fingers fell off while typing this
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@@ilikethecolorblue8222 LOL I doubt he is from the sheet.
you are not
Hey just want to thank you for another excellent video, I cant imagine the amount research needed to deliver such an informative clip nor the effort to keep the production as entertaining as they are.... Wow!!! Kudos to you and keep up the great work....
fantastic images
9:58 - a shirtless dude casually digging in a snow. I bet he's wearing shorts and flipflops as well
At Thule, it's so dry you can be comfortable at much lower temperatures than you can at most places. I wear a T-shirt (I'm not a shorts guy) outside during the Thule summer, where it's usually just above freezing.
Talks about Greenland: Most people: "Interesting." Plague Inc players: *Hellish screams of agony*
Hello from Ireland! As always, amazing content. You have more subscribers than the population of my country, that's insane!!! Congrats!!!
Thanks!
This video fueling my cyberpunk 2077 homebrew game ideas.
I absolutely love this channel. Well done brotha. Keep it up, I look forward to learning from your work
This channel is my favorite channel of all time!
I’ve always had 1 question for historians, because the Viking Norsemen (🇩🇰Danes + 🇳🇴Norwegians) had already ‘discovered’ 🇬🇱Greenland by Leif Erikson ~ 1000 CE (half a century before Columbus in 1492) - doesn’t that make Erikson the first European to ‘discover’ America (as Greenland is part of the North American continent - both physically by plate tectonics, as well as demographically as Greenlandic is a Native American language)?
yes. there is also evidence of viking influence on the eastern coast of the americas.
yes but Columbus's discovery is more popular
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More than anything we should say that Columbus discovery was more consequential. The world changed in ways unimagined.
Leif Erikson actually got to North America proper. Look up "lance aux meadows"
5:00 most don’t understand plant metabolism; need average temp above 40F for several days to “grow”. That is why higher altitude trees small (grow
To think this Ice sheet survived the younger dryas that ended the last ice age and the global spanning civilisation that existed back then is pretty cool and I wonder how many wildlife undiscovered is underneath it that may be a isolated lake just like other places
@UCMlhWHVNTELt75tbEpQ5Zfw we are in one now and our species have been on this world for over 30 thousand years why is it so hard to think we had a globe spanning civilisation before 8 thousand years ago esspecialy given how fast we gained civilisation after the younger dryas
Yeah, there are entire cities with millions of advanced people living under Greenland's ice. Definitely.
@@busterbiloxi3833 I think you misunderstood my comment I never meant existing ones I meant ruins of one if you've watched ancient apocalypse you'll know what i mean
@@busterbiloxi3833 also how did you come to that conclusion from what I said
@@busterbiloxi3833 ill fix it to show you what I meant
I love the longer videos! Been watching RLL since 1m subs and love to see how far you've come over the years. Congrats on 6 mil!!
I love all his old stuff but after being off of KZhead for a year or so, he seems like a Globalist Shill now. I'll stay subscribed, but without the bell notifications. Focusing more on the older videos I missed. Used to love his work but he must have been given an offer he can't refuse.
I don't know why but arctic nature has always been one of the most fascinating things for me, even more than rainforest wildlife, because of how monotone they are, and I think they look way more beautiful and colourful than rainforests
You should go there an visit. The size is so Hard to tell. You can go in the fjort. Then look over the area an think your alone. But chances are there is reindeer and other animals right beside you. It looks emty but it realy isent.
That's beauty of life vs beauty of nature, none is more beautiful than the other, it's like yin yang, life is more fascinating tbh
It took 11 minutes to get to the part of the video that I thought this entire video was going to be about the Topography of Greenland under the ice.
*** Look up Camp Century, the US plans for a forward under-ice base on Greenland. Really interesting stuff, they only abandoned the idea when they realized the magnitude and speed of the Greenland Ice Sheet's movement. But for several years, we had an under ice facility there. ***
Dude your voice sounds so much different than your older videos, weirdly relaxing and nostalgic to me. Im just typing this like 15 seconds into the video so im gonna finish it now but keep up the grewat work, I've been interested in your content for years and I've never been bored of a single video. Your ability to entertain while teaching about the most niche shit is awe inspiring and drives my curiousity!
The whole "Greenland" "Iceland" gag they pulled was always hilarious to me. Climate humor is a small niche.
I'd be happy if Earth froze into a giant ice ball. The sun is evil just like Republicans
XD
It was those Vikings who wanted to keep their real base of operations a secret
Greenland was green when it was found. Medieval Warming period and such. Plenty of frozen viking settlements under the glacier. Also Iceland was ice, the geothermal activity didn't pick up until a few hundred years later.
@@SaanMigwell wha interesting
These videos make me want to play Civ 6
1: 25, the sunrays traveling thru more atmosphere is one reason for Greenland receiving less sun. The other is the steep angle the rays come in at, making them more spread out, so less of them per given area. Thanks for the Greenland information.
Greenland’s physical geography and the hidden landscape have always been fascinating to me. Thank you for this amazingly informative video. 💯🤩 And congrats on the 6M subscribers! 🥳
greenland is a huge country, size-wise, but a tiny country people-wise. there's a lot of stuff there that no one interacts with.
You would like our Ice Museum in Ilulissat. There's a lot of focus on the underground landscape.
Dont forget Antarctica, but that will take longer..Greenland and Antarctica. The last unspoiled places on Earth/ Tellus/ Gaia/ Terra...
The atmosphere has nothing to do with why it’s colder at the poles. It’s because the angle the ground is tilted at relative to sun causes the light to be spread out over a larger area
He said that tho.
Refraction 🤨
@@maxdavis7722 he didn't say that, he said the reason it was spread out was because it had to travel a longer distance, which isn't the case
@@frareanvidal he said that sunlight travels a longer distance through the atmosphere and is spread out through a larger surface area the further away from equator. He didn't say it was only because of the atmosphere
He said exactly that
Honestly, (although dane so bias might apply) pretty good run down of the facts :D A bit harsh to call it a colony, as "colony" is usually connotated with exploitation - but then again. The only reason it wasn't was because it's a fcking hunk of ice and we already had Iceland at that point (which is green and has a lot of resources thanks to geothermal activity).
but if the centre of this land has been pushed to below sea level then it will be just a big lake surrounded by mountains
Congrats on 6 mill! I love the content. Keep it up! 👍
This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!
I've really enjoyed that your videos have generally been longer lately. I hope you continue doing so!
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@@doctorcraptonicus7941 ?
Our narrator is what you get when you combine Carl Sagan with the navage guy.
The talk of rising sea levels has been going since 70s when antarctica was melting from what I can tell levels haven't changed at all
Where do you source the beautiful stock footage for this channel?
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17:37 keep in mind, Greenland is very willingly part of Denmark. Even today. Even if it were to become financially indipendant, Greenland has stated its desire to remain part of Denmark. Both of them have good relations with eachother afterall.
Indeed. The way I think of it is, the average person doesn’t know Greenland was and mostly still is a colony of Denmark. Why? Because they do a good job so there’s nothing to say about it. The “no news is good news” principle, if you will.
@@brianmessemer2973 yep. If anything a switch will happen where people will consider Denmark part of Greenland in the future. Yet, they habe always been the same one nation.
Agreed 100%. Not all forms of "colonizations" are bad for the indigenous people. As much as i adore Greenland, their culture and most of all their people, Denmark, and formerly Norway is the reason they have a modern civilization today. Denmark are in no way exploiting them for their own gain. It is a fact that Greenland has benifited infinitely more from being in the kingdom, than Denmark has. infinitely
i thought Greenland is a country
@@kbh1715 Another difference is that the Danes (well, Norse) were there first. The Inuit didn't move in until over a hundred years after Erik established the colony. So it's less of a case of "we're going to take your land away and make you second-class citizens" so much as "oh hey, you moved into this land we're not using? Guess we need to set up some government services for you, then." (There were other Inuit tribes that lived in Greenland before Erik, but the Inuit that are there now aren't related to them.)
I think the central valley could probably defend themselves by putting up a large dike at the mouth of the san Joaquin river. They already are using almost all the water in their watershed for agriculture, so pumping water out wouldn't be a problem.
Dutchie here, we are already preparing for rising sea levels. Expecting it will happen anyway. Although 7m is a lot! I am very curious what’s underneath Greenland and Antarctica from a historical perspective once it has melted and hope they can preserve what’s found in the ice. And they should leave Greenland alone or make good deals instead of shady deals. Denmark should be heavily supported by all Europe to make their own decisions.
Good for you. Way to adapt and not just despair to the conditions.
Great channel, keep up with good content
Exceptionally interesting and informative... Glad I virtually stumbled onto this work.
Very interesting!
the biggest thing about Greenland is the wealth in the ground . it is phenomenal . the only problem is it has to be collected with consideration of the land , not just destroy the island .
Kinda hard to destroy a wasteland.
@@John_Redcorn_ it is still a land of extreme beauty . one of the few places in the world that is still natural .
For me the biggest wealth and good are all primal, preserved plants, animals, etc. Land never touched by humanoid creatures.