@The Paradox Destroyer It's important because it shows us how some things work. That's the guy who created the most accurate calendar ever, his knowledge about climate changes was something else. Because of him, we know a lot today.
@pera kojot What's so important about the Milankovitch Cycle which will not have any immediate effects on climate change for at least 10,000 more years?
They teach us in schools to be obedient on the first place. Then they fill out heads with bunch of information that r not so important, while we never learn something like this.
@Phil Alford How convenient of you to discard all the research and multivariate analysis of reputable scientists. Feeling a little Dunning and Kruger today?
@The Paradox Destroyer Many would beg the differ! You can't disregard all of the other factors that drive Earth's climate. We can't reliably forecast tomorrow's weather and sometimes today's weather let alone the next year or decade because there are variables that we exclude or don't know about. Human effects on climate are small compared to Nature's. The "Climate Change" (love the new name) proponents have and "scientists" have left out the other factors effecting climate on Earth, such as water vapor, the Moon, Earth's orbital mechanics, and Sun cycles (although this video on the Milankovitch Cycles eludes to it's effects). You can't ignore all the variables your find and claim to have the definitive answers to any issue. "Climate Change" is a political agenda about power and money.
The Mojave Desert in California was once a wet and watery paradise with lakes, rivers, giant dire wolves and flamingos. The first humans in the Mojave region even experienced the large bodies of water and rivers. Paleolithic records reveal they had boats that traversed the massive lakes.
@Elkysium But that technology would not allow those who control everything to profit from it. Free electricity, cars not using fuel, his famous scalar waves with that reach destination instantly, that would be great for communication technology/internet, apparently he had device that could cause or stop earthquakes... Our civilization would have reached higher level...
@pera kojot Yeah, you are right. I lost respect when I found out it was his wife's ideas. If we would have followed Tesla, oh man, could you imagine the technology we would have by now? 75% of current technology is based on Tesla's ideas.
@Elkysium I still think Einstein was smart guy in general but yeah, modern day physics is based on his theories. They intentionally pushed Tesla aside and it's absolutely ridiculous when people compare two of them. Tesla is light years ahead.
Thank you for this video. It was very interesting! :) The "distance from the sun" from Greenland to Sahara is so tiny it does not affect the energy in the rays. In the north the rays are spread out and will have less warming effect. And if the rays comes in at an angle, in the north the rays have to pass through a longer distance of the atmosphere before it reach the earth's surface, and then reducing the energy in the rays.
I think it's about the land mass distribution as well. There's more land mass in the northern hemisphere. When the North hemisphere is facing the sun the land heats up the earth more. When the southern hemisphere is facing the sun more, the earth is cooler because its harder to heat the water.
I always knew about precession, etc, but never have I seen it all laid out so clearly, what it's actual effects are, and all that. Did the math and everything. Seems almost too simply explained.
Well, it is almost too simply explained, but since you did the math, you also remember your aspirin budget while doing that math. ;) What overloads many is albedo, which is counterintuitive in its effects on climate for most. Well, that and how slow radiative cooling into space actually is. Indeed, most people don't comprehend even partially how a thermos works. People tend to trust their own daily experiences, it takes a lot of education to allow one to trust the math.
Remember, the tilt of the Earth determines how many hours of direct, concentrated sunlight you receive. That is what separates summer from winter, not the tiny degree of change in how close or far you are from the same. It is the angle of incoming sunlight that matters.
@WuShu101supervolcanos have knocked the earth off its axis many times as well as space weather effecting our electromagnetic fields that split continents and form new land mass from magma discharge, it may net seem like it wobbles but if you looked at it over a span of a billion years and sped it up it would appear to wobble
It would help to think a little further than that. The sun itself dictates whether the earth even has a stability to its weather to name seasons, or irregular weather, based off of its irradiance output. Even at distinct tilts the earth can still be receiving virtually no sunlight compared to a previous century due to increased condensation from a weak magnetic field allowing GCR"s to Penetrate earth's core at deeper levels.
@Jonathan Gems : It is indeed the tilt of the Earth that determines seasons. That's why it's dark for months in the Arctic in winter while the sun doesn't set in the Antarctic. It's Australia has summer when the US has winter. The longer summer days absorb more light and heat.
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@Stefan Stanković "climate change doesn't exist, it's just the change of season. That's all it's going to do what it does all the time. And the storms are pretty consistent in the same areas. Kind of like how Jupiter has that big red storm spot. You might be seeing more of a storm, and others will be seeing less. People need to start doing things in the way of prevention and don't build in areas that are problematic unless the structure is built to be able to withstand such storms. All it takes is to use their heads and to do some prevention and it would be dealt with already. We would have a savings on insurance. And if not a savings at least stronger buildings to withstand.
@BoB BoBy I wouldn’t say its propaganda, it’s rather a detailed explanation how many things impact the Earth’s climate. There is, undoubtedly, human factor to it and it is accelerating the process or changing it in a certain way, but still everything described in the video applies nevertheless.
So impressed by the jaw dropping brainy'ness of those folk who worked all this out, wow! What an informative, balanced and well researched piece, such a pleasure to watch - thank you.
Except...Big 🚩here with sun distance being responsible for change in temperature. It's nothing to do with distance. At 93 million miles with the distance varying a couple of thousand miles, the heat change would be hard to measure and way less than 1 degree. It has everything to do with the angle of the to the sun's rays. This is seen easily by everyone outside the tropic of Cancer and Capricorn. As the sun drops in the sky, much more area receives the same amount of radiated heat from the sun. Until in some areas, it disappears completely. I tried to explain this to my grade 10 biology teacher and got an E. The next semester, a substitute physics teacher corrected him, and he changed it to an A. I don't think this guy made it past grade 10 physics.
Amazing to think that everything in the universe has its own little things that are going on without you knowing. Every planet experiences major and very minor changes, every particle on said planets experiences the same. Its beautiful
You covered a lot of cycles, it would be amazing to add all of them to a programme with the cycles of other planets on each other to truly see it’s effects. However it would have to include the differences of temperature on differences of land to water mass and how that effects weather cycles such has turning Africa green when it was even hotter .
Only one problem. Getting the geological record of those other planets. We can travel a few days for the most part and grab geological samples and ice from all over this planet. Not at all so with other planets at present. If at all. I don't see us getting samples from Venus anytime in the next couple of centuries. :/
When looking at past geographical climates it is in geological time frames, so important to take into consideration plate tectonics and movement as they influence ocean currents/heat transfer as well as the creation of large mountain chains that result from plate collisions and subduction as they influence atmospheric circulation and moisture transfer
The Milankovitch "trifecta" for chilly northern summers: 1. Maximum eccentricity in the orbit (currently in a medium phase) 2. Aphelion during northern summer (currently very favorable for ice age onset!) 3. Minimum tilt of axis (currently medium) Line up all three of these, and the summer sun will be as far away as possible and as low in the sky as possible. That allows glaciation over Canada & Siberia to really take off!
@CuriOdyssey so the scientists know that life has completely thrived on earth even when it's 5 degrees higher on average? Yet they're still fear mongering to line their own pockets. Interesting.
@Flynn Lives : The obliquity changes the seasonal difference in distance from the sun on a 100,000 year scale. Changes in tilt varies the amount of time each hemisphere receives sunlight. These two things change the amount of difference between seasons depending if they are in sync or not. Warming trends tend to release CO2 which increases warming which increases atmospheric water vapor and methane. These increase the warming more until the cycle reverses and the next glaciation occurs.
@LR Vogt Thank you for agreeing with my point. First - the original thread that I posted a reply to said "Its ALL about the distance" which it is not. Second, my reply was that SEASONAL change is caused by the relative change in angle that light strikes the surface and the duration of the daylight. Milankovitch cycles and Eccentricity changes are measured over 10^4-10^6 years and are NOT seasonal. Their effects are felt year round over long periods of time. So while they do effect climate/weather (or your comparable term) they are not seasonal. Obliquity , the angle of "tilt" with respect to Earth's orbital plane changes from 22.1 and 24.5 degrees - which is what I said - change in angle the light strikes the surface. Axial precession the gradual shift in the orientation of Earth's axis of rotation - is a change in relative angle not a change in distant. Apsidial Procession is also not a change in distance, but a change in the orbit relative to the sun, which changes WHEN the earth is at min/max distance, but does not change the distance. So, thanks again for confirming - angle and duration not distance are the driving factors. ~Cheers
@Lookup VeraZhou Yes, I realize what you said - it is just wrong. One more time - the distance from the earth to the sun - does NOT cause it to be warmer/colder - it is the angle that the sun light it strikes and the duration, and the planet is CLOSER in JANUARY when it is winter in the northern hemisphere, and FARTHEST in JULY when it is summer in northern hemisphere - the earth is over 3.5million miles closer in Jan, than it is in July - that alone should be enough to demonstrate - the variation in distance as the earth transits its orbit is not a factor. There are really great online explanations of this - avail yourself
Thank you for this informative and well produced video. This form of learning should be adapted by teachers. These material was somewhat covered in all the years of schooling. I retained no knowledge besides that these Milankovitch Cycles exist.
The geologic arrangment of earths land and seas also play a massive part in this. Before Australia separated from Antarctica the Southern Ocean did not have Antarctic Convergence. This flow has worked to stabilize weather patterns in the southern hemisphere. Think of the effects the Rocky Mountains have on air currents, thus long term weather patterns. There are so many factors on such long time scales that humanity will likely never figure out how it works.
100% The only thing we might ever figure out is crisis geo engineering if our technology gets advanced enough and even then I hope they have a back up plan.
The geologic arrangment of earths land and seas also play a massive part in this Before Australia separated from Antarctica the Southern Ocean did not have Antarctic Convergence This flow has worked to stabilize weather patterns in the southern hemisphere Think of the effects the Rocky Mountains have on air currents, J thus long term weather patterns. There are SO many factors on such long time scales that humanity will likely never figure out how it works
This just goes to show that human life as we know it is a speck of time in earths evolution. So for the time we are on it we should respect this planet in regards to our use of it and our waste of it. Thanks for a great presentation.
I've watched all your videos and while this one addresses what might seems to be the most "basic" of topics, it ended up being one of the most interesting! I was only aware of about half the cycles you reviewed. Incredible channel you have going here, thanks!
@Hermes Trismegistus Despite multiple requests for information you've chosen not to provide it so I'm going to have to assume you just made that 13900 BCE stuff up. If I am wrong, please provide. I am truly interested in the information.
It's important to note that the larger ocean area in the southern hemisphere more than offsets the effects of summer perihelion/winter aphelion down there. More ocean = less extreme seasons. It also means that the climate of the southern hemisphere cannot make or break ice ages. There are no large landmasses in the middle to subarctic southern latitudes, unlike North America and Eurasia in the north. You need subarctic land surface to support increasing snow cover.
I like that part at the beginning where you say a 10 year long winter would make crops “harder” to grow. It gives me a good gauge as to how founded in reality the rest of the video will be.
Excellent description. One other thing that makes things more complicated is the fact that the output of the sun is not constant. From what I have read the sun’s output can vary by as much as 11% on a cyclical basis. This further complicates the climate.
One thing I think about the Earth's Orbit going up or down and affecting the seasons the people missed is, not only are we passing through Cosmic Dust(Oort Cloud) ,but the Dust Itself is at times, Thicker and Darker in Composition. My .02 🤷
If to the so beautifully explained Milancovitch cycles we would add the latest studies of sun's cycles, it's temperature fluctuation and many other recent observations of its behaviour we could develop a more complete understanding of all the parameters involved in climate behaviour. Thanks for the very good presentation
Winter missed me in my part of Canada totally. We had one -30 day and not much snow. It’s mid February it should be -10c and below but it’s been above plus 5 all week.
Very good! Just have one comment. I don't think it would have destroyed the general publics' brains to include the actual names of the cycles: (All approximate, of course.) Eccentricity; 100,000 yrs Obliquity; 41,000 yrs Precession; 25,700 yrs
Thank you for this excellent program. I think it is clear that mankind has a very long way to go to understand the way the earth works and is just guessing at the future.
In Norse mythology, the Fimbul winter was a sign that Ragnarök was relentlessly approaching. The Fimbul winter was said to be a winter that lasted three years without any summer, thus heralding Ragnarök, the end of the world. Year 536 was as close we have come in documented times. I believ that Ragnarök was the Norse Flood myth.
I would suggest that when the Earth's orbit is tilted towards the Northern and Southern Solar Hemispheres, it receives less solar radiation due to the Sun's Magnetosphere. If studied, I am certain we will find that the Sun radiates more from the poles and the equator, as the magnetic interference is far less in these regions. I have come to this conclusion due to the interaction of solar radiation with our own Magnetosphere. Food for thought 🤔 Another great video, keep up the great work and Happy New Year 🥳
"If studied, I am certain we will find that the Sun radiates more from the poles and the equator, as the magnetic interference is far less in these regions." The sun's poles are the hottest points, and temperature declines by about 100C as you head to the equator. The distance is so great and the sun so vast that the radiance reaching the Earth is essentially averaged and constant WRT the sun's varies latitudinal energy output.
@2:36 The change in season or the difference between equatorial and polar weather is not related to distance from the sun here, it is related to the tilt at that location. More watts per square meter are received at any given location while the sun is directly overhead rather then off to an angle.
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Yes, ocean currents from melting massive amounts of ice can cause the cycle too break down, air currents i.e., mountain ranges raising or falling are huge part of the ice ages too. Then the earth and all its variations of orbiting its tilt, wobbling i.e. Milankovitch Cycles, sun spots also go in cycles add all these up you could have ice age.
The effects of continentality will also enhance the harshness of winters when the northern hemisphere is finally experiencing aphelion in its winter. Land warms and cools much more quickly than water and because the majority of the earth's landmass is in the northern hemisphere, it will lead to even colder conditions in interior regions on the continents. Siberia and interior Canada will become much colder and likely fuel the next period of glaciation.
Excellent video. As some others have commented, would also value an appraisal of the effects of variations in solar output - and the approximate magnitude of their potential contribution - as compared to Milankovitch Cycles. Understood: this raises the level of complexity even further - but at least a mention of this would be appreciated. Even in not-so-distant historical times (e.g., Maunder Minimum of ~1645 - 1715, coinciding with the middle of the "Little Ice Age") well-documented variations / changes have occurred. Then throw in (unpredictable) heightened volcanic activity, etc. Bewilderingly complex when one attempts to sort it all out!
Can you do a thing on the earth's magnetic field and how it's changing and whether it's going flip again cos I like your clips well explained and was to understand
Loved the video! As an Earth Sciences student geology and geography content always makes me smile! It would be super awesome to see a video on the larger scale Wilson cycles that characterized the intervals of hundreds of millions of years of plate tectonics resulting in the formation and separation of the worlds ancient supercontinents and paleo oceans like Rodinia and the Iapetus or Tethys ocean. Thanks again for an interesting and cool video!
Between 13900 BC and 14000 BC, a 100 year span, Earth's temperature rose 5 degrees Celsius. This is one of many intermediate spikes in the ice core data, not including the 10-15 degree Ice Age spikes. Humanity lived through this period just fine and had no heavy polluting industry to speak of at that time. In the past 200 years, which is twice that length of time, Earth's temperature has only risen by 1.2 degree Celsius. A minor natural change in temperature that is in fact physically unstoppable and inevitable has been pathologized and blamed entirely on human activity in order to establish a carbon tax which allows governments to monitor every action of every person and tax them for it. The climate changes. Changes in local weather ARE NOT evidence of climate change, however, human activity CAN affect weather. Changes in climate, not weather, are driven by the Milankovitch cycles, primarily precession of the equinox, which changes the angle of Earth's tilt over a 25,000 year cycle, and thus changes the total amount of sunlight the poles receive, known as the insolation cycle. This insolation data from ice cores coincides directly with the rise and fall of the past 4 Ice Ages. Furthermore the temperature was higher than it is now prior to the last 4 ice ages, and also coincides with the insolation cycle and the rise and fall of the Ice Ages. That's right, the temperature was higher back when humans were hunting wooly mammoths than they are now. No heavy industry to speak of. If no other fact about climate change remains in your memory, let that be the one. This fact suggests that the warming we are experiencing now is that final spike of warming that occurs right before Ice Ages suddenly set in. Climate change is real, its not caused by humans, and we are headed into a regularly scheduled Ice Age according to every indicator, not a waterball Earth condition where the remaining icecaps in the already warm period were in fully melt away. Sea level rise cannot occur with slow melting because of isostatic rebound. Rapid melting is required to cause the floods and sea level rises that climate extremists harp on about. Rapid melting is caused by a sudden addition of lots of heat to the atmosphere. This is how the Ice Ages end. The most popular theories on how Ice Ages end are supervolcanoes, comet impacts or massive solar flares. However, comet impacts best solve the issue of regularity, as the Ice Ages seem to last a similar amount of time, every time. If we were to somehow try and affect these Milankovitch cycles, such as slowing down the rate of precession, it would spell real cataclysmic changes to Earth's surface, the likes of which climate extremists only dream of to justify the implementation of their carbon tax scheme..
Must be a lot more complicated than this because in Melbourne, Australia southern hemisphere we haven’t had a day over 40 degrees in 3 years. Very abnormal, normally get a few every summer. And this past 12 months it has been oddly wet
Does anyone know of a tool that explains each of these changes & how is affects the climate? Also, is there a way to see how these different cycles sync up?
There's no tool I know of, only explanations, and this video is an excellent primer. Furthermore, the Milankovitch cycles are not the only theory behind long-term ice ages, but it is the leading contender to explain them, so perhaps people aren't making tools for this until it's settled.
Adding to this - be aware that sea-levels were 130 meters lower, but also 6 meters higher than they are now. An interesting question would be: what exactly caused the heat 'runaway' at that time? Was there "human influence" at that time, or was it something different?
Thank you! After learning that we're closest to the sun in January, I've often wondered if that made Southern Hemisphere summers a little hotter than a Northern Hemisphere summer. I'm glad to see you touch on that! I've never come across it mentioned elsewhere before. 🙂
@Hermes Trismegistus DO events produce opposite effects in the Northern and Southern polar regions, called the Polar See-Saw. As I said above, these large temperature swings are highly localised, and I recognized the 5C swing that was mentioned as being a Greenland temperature swing. Greenland is also the site for temperatures that 9,000 years ago exceeded today's warmth, and this then was caused by particularly intense insolation in that region owing to the configuration of Earth's orbit at the time. The orbital mechanics that melted the ice sheets and thawed Earth out of the last ice age saw the Northern hemisphere receiving more insolation than the South. Warmer temperatures in the past don't prove or disprove anything about the current causes of climate change. Just because there were forest fires before humans doesn't mean that humans can't cause forest fires.
@barryschwarz The Vostok ice core is from Antarctica. Both Greenland and Vostok ice core datasets confirm Daansgard- Oeschger events which alone disprove the current manmade climate change hysteria, but the fluctuation I'm talking about is not even as extreme as one of those events, its just one of the dozens of rapid warmings in the record, which were more rapid than the current warming. Greenland shows it actually being a ~10 degree rise while the Vostok core indicates a ~5 degree rise. I bet you didnt study both datasets youre just aware that there are different ones and assumed I hadn't studied them both so you made that ignorant comment.
@Hermes Trismegistus "100 year span, Earth's temperature rose 5 degrees Celsius." - I believe you are basing this on a single ice core from Greenland. That is not a proxy for what happened globally. Also, typically the NH Arctic region warms faster than global, so IF this was a global phenomenon, the 5C would represent to peak of temp change on the planet at that time. However, Antarctic other ice cores don't show this massive jump, so it appears to have been a local effect, and possibly to do with inhomogeneities in the proxy (ie, elevation changes).
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The changing cycles are unlikely to bring a white christmas to the southern hemisphere as you suggest, its in our summer time. That would require a reversal of the seasons. We don't even get snow in winter in 99.9% of Australia.
4:43 it's not the distance from the sun but the rotational tilt that determines whether it's warm or cold. It did look counterintuitive that the earth is farthest from the sun in summer and closest in winter, at least in the northern hemisphere.
Looking down on Earth from over the pole, the northern hemisphere is an ocean surrounded by land, while the southern hemisphere is largely land surrounded by ocean, so that plays a large part in things.
Astonishingly I was wondering about this a few days ago. I was limiting my consideration to the fact that our orbit is not circular, and wondering if there is a gradual shift in the position of the aphelion and perihelion in relation to the sun itself and how that might affect us. This video is perfectly timed, and goes far beyond what I was considering for different variables. Good to know Milankovich and others have looked at this as well. Wonderful as always!
@Anne Beignatborde Global Warming isn't a problem due to the amount but the rate of change. Nature can't keep up. If CO2 went to 2000 ppm in 1 million years it's not a problem. A plant in a greenhouse needs richer soil then the farmer would have access to because bigger plants strip more nutrients.
@JiggeryPokery the world has greened 15% since the year 2000. More CO2 is good for plants. That's why some professional growers inject it into their greenhouses to increase growth and yields. Because it's more readily available to the plant they need less water.
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Have anyone noticed that as the Moon goes down in the West at nights, it stands still for over 30 minutes whenever it comes CLOSE TO CERTAIN ⭐️ STARS IN THE WEST OF THE SEA ? And sometimes in mid sea
Our winter in NZ last year was the warmest winter I had ever experienced in my life. There were maybe two cold cold nights but that was all. Usually our winters can get cold but last year was warm. Now it's summer time here omg it's bn unbearably hot some days
I have like many others realized how much warmer it has gotten in my lifetime I remember in West Texas lots of cold Winters and snow ❄️ but as I got older I noticed getting much warmer and less cold I love the change growing up because I did not like the cold growing up in West Texas we had a lot of cold but now being 62 years old the heat has gotten much worse especially in the Dallas-Fort Worth area where I lived for over 35 yr I noticed that vast areas around the Dallas-Fort Worth area had become large population and I could see rooftops and highways forever I know that cutting back on carbon will help but it can also hurt cutting back to quickly on energy can hurt people that are retired and on low-income even middle-income you'll drive the cost of everything like your food exedra , I noticed all across the world even in Europe that people will cut down trees to keep their homes warm in the winter because they have cut back on fossil fuels this is not a good thing for this will drive us quicker to global warming if anything we need to plant more trees all across the world I see trees being cut down this is not a good thing we need to plant more trees by the millions and millions we need to use materials on rooftops that will not get as hot 🥵 and figure out ways we can use asphalt on highways that do not get as hot 🥵 there are more factors in play than just someone driving their car electric cars do help but they are not the answer there's a lot of problems with that , cutting back on population is a good thing but it needs to be done slowly because the younger generation needs to pay for the older generations retirement cutting back on fossil fuels would be a good thing but we have to do this slowly or it will hurt so many people we have to have new technology to make cheap energy that controls the price of our food and our way of life the government today talks about cutting back on fossil fuels but they do not talk about how much it hurts the people I would agree with them but they have done nothing to prove that what they are doing will help in the future they are not looking at the facts there are technologies that help pull carbon out of the air planting more trees and using materials on rooftops and highways that don't get as hot 🥵 all these things together to make a difference but we cannot let the government control our lives over global warming because pretty much that's all they care about is being in power and controlling our lives China in India put more China than India are putting out more carbon than anyone and China is building more coal power plants that will even put out more carbon in the future but the very wealthy power to be are making a lot of money off China so they ignore this and this is not a good thing for as much as we try and destroy our way of life China will raise carbon emissions very high and with us cutting back on energy-independent it will make us weaker and China stronger and then we will have no control over climate change , we have to stay energy Independence and strong and demand that China work with us on cutting back on carbon emissions and global warming together we can achieve a better world but we have to stay strong to do this China does not care about anything but power and taking over the world 🌎 and buying up our government to do so if you want to have a better world for your children and their grandchildren we have to demand that our government stay strong and energy Independence and stop taking corrupt and evil money and control from the communist CCP they are our main enemies of the whole world 🌎 but if we all stay strong we can control them we have to demand to our governments all over the world that we watch China and control them and do not let them control us do not let our government take any more corrupt money from the communist CCP to do their bidding
The earth and it's species are marvelous adapters..but only when the change is gradual. Too much change too fast causes chaos. That is what we're experiencing right now, the chaos (that's really just begun) from all the massive changes we've created in such a very short time frame.
I live in an area where constant cycles of excess and drought are simply a fact of life. In the middle of a drought, we can get a flood washing through. In the middle of a wet period, we can go two months without a single drop of rain. I've see hot years. I've seen cold years. To us, it just _is_ .
I've known about Milankovitch cycles and the "Goldilocks Zone" for decades now. What amazes me is that the distance of Earth from the sun doesn't vary at all that much, and our axial tilt doesn't vary all that much. But when it does...it produces things like the "Mini Ice Age" of 1815. And just so people understand why Milankovitch cycles are a thing, there are a few things to consider. 1) The physical property of impulse, as related to motion. The idea here is, imagine you have two boxers throwing punches. If one boxer moves away, stands still, or moves toward the other boxer, the amount of pressure damage he'll suffer will change, depending on his velocity, relative to the punch thrown at him. Or, put another way, the additive result of velocities will tell you how much damage something will cause -- or as here, how much energy the Earth will receive from the sun. 2) Milankovitch cycles can be thought of like a car on a road within painted lanes. The idea is that a car can move laterally while going down the road. This is what it is for Earth to be in the "Goldilocks Zone," which isn't a fixed distance from the sun. We have variance within that zone that very much determines if our average temperatures per year will be hot, warm, or cold. And it has to do with the the impulse of the energy the Earth receives, relative to our axial tilt (increase or decrease of surface area of the EM Field that allows solar radiation penetrate into the atmosphere), as well as where we are within our "lane" as we go around the sun. Are we closer to the sun (receiving slightly higher frequency radiation), or are we further away (receiving slightly lower frequency radiation)? It is these things that I believe have more to do with overall climate change than any amount of anthropogenic climate change mankind could ever actually do. Not only is the Milankovitch cycles constant or continuous, but climate change is about radiative and ionized energy from the sun. It's always been about that -- not a "devil compound" that life on this planet needs to live.
2:45 you just made an upsi right there. The tilt of the earth does cause the seasons, but not because one area is "closer" than the other, but because of the angle of the sun's rays, same amount of sunshine in a larger area means less hear, and viceversa.
It makes sense that the periods of greater extremes in the northern hemisphere would be the ones to coincide with ice ages, ..as you have far more landmass in the north, and the potential of a much greater change in albedo, and feedbacks, due to snow/ice cover.
Superb video with excellent commentary. This is probably the most well balanced, and the scientific explanation of how our seasons change and how the climate cycle works. Excellent.
I don't believe the equatorial regions have fewer seasonal changes because they are "closer to the sun", as this video states at the start. Rather, it is the angle of the sun, not the distance, which causes seasonal effects.
The small town in Norway mentioned is the very place my great great great grandfather left to emigrate to NewZealand. The sun doesn't set in summer... I wonder if that has anything to do with my proclivity to wake each night at around midnight and return to bed 2 to 3 hours later ?
2:47 Not distance, but sun angle. The distance varies by quite a bit during orbit, but it makes little difference compared to sun angle and even length of day, at least in this phase of the Milankovitch cycle. That's why the southern hemisphere's summer isn't much more or less extreme than the North in similar biomes
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Sorry but you are wrong, one of the reasons the North experiences more severe cooling is that most of the land mass is in the Northern Hemisphere and as such snow has a greater capacity to reflect and cool as there is more of it. At the extreme of the orbit the distance from the sun is reduced by as much as 40% of incoming radiation, more effective than the tilt angle difference of 1.7 degrees. It's a combination of all the extremities of the cycles that add to the massive drop in solar energy, hence every 100,000 years, and not the 26000 for the tilt angle.
@Mr Baab I’m not sure the temperature of the earth can be modeled with the simple eqn Q = mcDeltaT that would make the temperature directly proportional to the EM energy.
It is not the distance of an area from the sun that causes seasonal variation, as it is said at 2:45. It is the angle of the sun's rays with respect to the local vertical.
In the past we never experienced a so called greenhouse effect. There where warmer periods but it never spiraled out off control even when there was more metane or co2 in the air.
As someone who lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and was born in another state which borders Canada- New York, having graduated from Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, I have thought long and hard about the seasons and the really severe changes in climate between winter and summer in the northern areas. The difference between winter and summer, which is severe in most of the places I have lived, is not a consequence of what most people think. We are always the same distance from the sun. Seasonal changes to not make a significant difference in the *distance* we are from the sun. Huge differences between winter and summer are the result of a dramatic difference in the number of hours of daylight. This may seem counter-intuitive, but after you give it some disciplined thought you will understand that it is indeed the difference in the number of hours of daylight which makes the huge difference between summer and winter. Anyone who has stood patiently and watched the full extent of a total solar eclipse really appreciates how cold it gets when the sun is almost completely blocked for even a few minutes. The number of hours of daylight is truly the essence of the difference between summer and winter. I urge you to do some deep thought on these issues.
Learned this today in a meteorology course, we did some brainstorming on variables that influence the temperature of earths surface. Makes a lot of sense!
@Larry Cox Of course I agree with you.... you are restating the obvious... my point is that it was only recently that I really started to think about the huge difference the the number of hours of daylight between winter and summer - you are just restating the obvious - my point is just that people don't seem to think about the huge difference in the number of hours of daylight at high latitude @
@Nicolas Buzzbuzz "scientists paid by lobbies ignore his work" LoL! Do you think that Milankovitch cycles are the reason that the world is heating up right now? The cycles are currently in a cooling mode. Nobody is "ignoring" or suppressing his work. It's basic undergrad material.
So, seasons aren’t actually primarily dictated by “how close to the sun you are,” but by the restive angle of the ground to the incoming sunlight (or the angle of the sun in the sky)
Once I read that if it was not for the current amount of green gas currently in the atmosphere we would be already back to ice age. Another point to consider is that the position of continents is also a factor since no ice age was confirmed during the 200 million years of dinosaur era and I guess earth didn’t start orbiting the sun only after that 😀
This video reflects a year without a summer during George Washington's time, it was snowing in the USA Northeast in July due to a volcanic eruption of Tambora.
Also, yes the S hemisphere is in phase with being closer to the sun in their summer and further away in winter but they don't have more extreme seasons because there is much less land mass and more water which moderates their seasons.
Plus the latitude explanation given at the start is very basic. The UK and North Western parts of Europe are on the same latitude as Canada but have much milder Winters due to the gulf stream. The major Oceans are massive players in the distribution of heat and cold, Fresh water melt from glaciers spilling in the the sea is another one to.
@No Great Reset "CO2 gradually goes up after temperature": indeed. But CO2 is also a green house gas. Contrary to what you write, CO2 stays long in atmosphere, more than 100 years (methane, less long, but then becomes.... CO2). The issue is that Earth temperature is due in part the the content of green house gases. Main GHG are water vapor and CO2, their content in atmosphere define which temperature equilibrium we get. CO2 added by human activities (content was 280ppm before industrial age, now 400ppm) is increasing average Earth temperature. We could well reach +4 or 5°C if we do not strongly reduce CO2 emissions. And +4-5°C is not peanuts, it's the temperature gap between the last ice-age and our times (holocene). Also it's happening very fast, hence the threat for humanity.
Well get prepared. It's only 10,000 years from now. The current temperature is warming at 10 times the normal post-glaciation rate which is contrary to all natural cycles... we should be slowly cooling.
difference between Tromso and Cairo, say, isn't about how close to the sun they are. they are very nearly identical distance to the sun, differing by less than 40 ppm. it's about how much sunlight at what incident angle, the place gets, each day
Brilliant, Alex. This is so simple and yet so important to know. We should play it to everyone who is arguing about global warming, and teach them some things. Cheers. 🙂
We are in an ice age. What we're in is a glacial minimum. If it weren't for Antarctica, winters would be much warmer. When Africa was at the south pole, conifer trees grew there, showing that ice doesn't have to last year-round on the southern pole.
i believe humans will develop such great understanding of the cycles that we will never again experience ice ages or any other extreme temp ages because humans "can" adjust C02 levels at will once we become 100% renewables.
Seasons are theoretically more extreme in the Southern Hemisphere because of the amplification of the sun's rays in summer by closest approach to the sun, and their diminishment in winter by being further away. However, the Southern Hemisphere as a much lower land-to-ocean ratio than the Northern Hemisphere, so the greater amount of water buffers the theoretically more extreme seasons.
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@Vivian Brégier The Earth receives 7% more sunlight at perihelion in January than at aphelion in July. That is significant. My point is that if the Southern hemisphere had the same landmass distribution as the Northern hemisphere, it would be much hotter than it is, because the land mass distribution favors the Northern Hemisphere by better than two-to-one, and in summer, land is hotter than water. The Southern Hemisphere gets 7% more intense sunlight in summer than the Northern Hemisphere gets in summer, but the Southern Hemisphere has less than half the landmass of the Northern Hemisphere, so the heat effect of the additional sunlight intensity is negated.
@Alan Sewell Distance to the sun due to Earth’s eliptical orbit matters slightly (summer in southern hemisphere is still hotter than winter in southern hemisphere, because this effect is still way smaller than inclination of sun rays) Distance to the sun due to earth’s axis tilt, that I was commenting because it is what this video presents, is totally negligible !
@Vivian Brégier It's about distance too. The Earth has an elliptical orbit that takes it several million miles closer to the Sun on January 5 than it is at its furrtheret distance in July. The distance variation accounts for a 7% difference in solar radiation: At the time of perihelion, Earth is about 91,398,199 miles (147,091,144 kilometers) away from the sun. On average, Earth's distance from the sun is 92,955,807 miles (149,597,870 km). When our planet reaches aphelion in July, it will be 94,507,635 miles (152,095,295 km) away. The fact that the Earth gets 7% more heat during the Southern Hemisphere's summer is offset by the fact that the Southern Hemisphere has more water to absorb the extra heat.
No, it’s not about distance. It’s about the angle of sun’s rays, which causes them to be spread over a wider area in winter, and the duration of the day. In winter each area gets less power, for a shorter amount of time per day, than during summer.
When I watch videos like this it really puts human history in perspective. What we call "civilization" is a very recent thing...and likely very temporary. Unless future humans invent new ways to artificially manipulate the seasons and temperature of the earth, this brief period of human prosperity and advanced technology is likely going to come to an end in a few thousand years.
Between the years 1600 and 1814 the northern hemisphere was experiencing a mini ice age when winters were very cold and even the river Thames in London froze , looking at history our climate has always gone through changes warm and cold,,
You do realize that the LIA was a regional event that barely effected the global temperature? As a whole the past 10,000 years have seen earth have a very stable climate. Also just because the climate has always changed doesn’t mean co2 can’t be a cause of that change (it has especially so for much of the Earth’s history, so much so co2 has been caked the earth’s thermostat) and it doesn’t mean humans can’t cause it now.
We know it depends on the the time scale on what is the main driver of Earths climate - Tens of millions of years, plate tectonics rearranges ocean circulation.; tens of thousands of years, Milankovitch cycles; thousands of years to decades, greenhouse gases and aerosols.
This is the kind of stuff that almost never gets taught in schools and needs to be talked about more.
@The Paradox Destroyer It's important because it shows us how some things work. That's the guy who created the most accurate calendar ever, his knowledge about climate changes was something else. Because of him, we know a lot today.
@pera kojot What's so important about the Milankovitch Cycle which will not have any immediate effects on climate change for at least 10,000 more years?
They teach us in schools to be obedient on the first place. Then they fill out heads with bunch of information that r not so important, while we never learn something like this.
@Phil Alford How convenient of you to discard all the research and multivariate analysis of reputable scientists. Feeling a little Dunning and Kruger today?
@The Paradox Destroyer Many would beg the differ! You can't disregard all of the other factors that drive Earth's climate. We can't reliably forecast tomorrow's weather and sometimes today's weather let alone the next year or decade because there are variables that we exclude or don't know about. Human effects on climate are small compared to Nature's.
The "Climate Change" (love the new name) proponents have and "scientists" have left out the other factors effecting climate on Earth, such as water vapor, the Moon, Earth's orbital mechanics, and Sun cycles (although this video on the Milankovitch Cycles eludes to it's effects). You can't ignore all the variables your find and claim to have the definitive answers to any issue. "Climate Change" is a political agenda about power and money.
The Mojave Desert in California was once a wet and watery paradise with lakes, rivers, giant dire wolves and flamingos. The first humans in the Mojave region even experienced the large bodies of water and rivers. Paleolithic records reveal they had boats that traversed the massive lakes.
The Sarah desert turns into a swamp every 20,000 years
Alaska had palm trees back in time.
@big boss some similar found in Tucson, not that unusual
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I've been a fan of Milankovitch since I was in college. The dude is up there with Copernicus with what he did for science.
@pera kojot Exactly. We actually have devices that can modify the weather and cause earthquakes.
@Elkysium But that technology would not allow those who control everything to profit from it. Free electricity, cars not using fuel, his famous scalar waves with that reach destination instantly, that would be great for communication technology/internet, apparently he had device that could cause or stop earthquakes... Our civilization would have reached higher level...
@pera kojot Yeah, you are right. I lost respect when I found out it was his wife's ideas. If we would have followed Tesla, oh man, could you imagine the technology we would have by now? 75% of current technology is based on Tesla's ideas.
@Elkysium I still think Einstein was smart guy in general but yeah, modern day physics is based on his theories. They intentionally pushed Tesla aside and it's absolutely ridiculous when people compare two of them. Tesla is light years ahead.
Thank you for this video. It was very interesting! :)
The "distance from the sun" from Greenland to Sahara is so tiny it does not affect the energy in the rays. In the north the rays are spread out and will have less warming effect. And if the rays comes in at an angle, in the north the rays have to pass through a longer distance of the atmosphere before it reach the earth's surface, and then reducing the energy in the rays.
I think it's about the land mass distribution as well. There's more land mass in the northern hemisphere. When the North hemisphere is facing the sun the land heats up the earth more. When the southern hemisphere is facing the sun more, the earth is cooler because its harder to heat the water.
I always knew about precession, etc, but never have I seen it all laid out so clearly, what it's actual effects are, and all that. Did the math and everything. Seems almost too simply explained.
Well, it is almost too simply explained, but since you did the math, you also remember your aspirin budget while doing that math. ;)
What overloads many is albedo, which is counterintuitive in its effects on climate for most. Well, that and how slow radiative cooling into space actually is. Indeed, most people don't comprehend even partially how a thermos works.
People tend to trust their own daily experiences, it takes a lot of education to allow one to trust the math.
Remember, the tilt of the Earth determines how many hours of direct, concentrated sunlight you receive. That is what separates summer from winter, not the tiny degree of change in how close or far you are from the same. It is the angle of incoming sunlight that matters.
It's about whether it reflects or deflects or makes it through. Also why the sky is diff colors.
@WuShu101supervolcanos have knocked the earth off its axis many times as well as space weather effecting our electromagnetic fields that split continents and form new land mass from magma discharge, it may net seem like it wobbles but if you looked at it over a span of a billion years and sped it up it would appear to wobble
It would help to think a little further than that. The sun itself dictates whether the earth even has a stability to its weather to name seasons, or irregular weather, based off of its irradiance output. Even at distinct tilts the earth can still be receiving virtually no sunlight compared to a previous century due to increased condensation from a weak magnetic field allowing GCR"s to Penetrate earth's core at deeper levels.
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@Jonathan Gems : It is indeed the tilt of the Earth that determines seasons. That's why it's dark for months in the Arctic in winter while the sun doesn't set in the Antarctic. It's Australia has summer when the US has winter. The longer summer days absorb more light and heat.
Thanks for mentioning Milutin Milanković, was an amazing scientist and a genius. Amazing testimonies about his life and work are still alive. Cheers!
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@Stefan Stanković "climate change doesn't exist, it's just the change of season. That's all it's going to do what it does all the time. And the storms are pretty consistent in the same areas. Kind of like how Jupiter has that big red storm spot. You might be seeing more of a storm, and others will be seeing less. People need to start doing things in the way of prevention and don't build in areas that are problematic unless the structure is built to be able to withstand such storms. All it takes is to use their heads and to do some prevention and it would be dealt with already. We would have a savings on insurance. And if not a savings at least stronger buildings to withstand.
@BoB BoBy I wouldn’t say its propaganda, it’s rather a detailed explanation how many things impact the Earth’s climate. There is, undoubtedly, human factor to it and it is accelerating the process or changing it in a certain way, but still everything described in the video applies nevertheless.
So impressed by the jaw dropping brainy'ness of those folk who worked all this out, wow! What an informative, balanced and well researched piece, such a pleasure to watch - thank you.
Except...Big 🚩here with sun distance being responsible for change in temperature. It's nothing to do with distance. At 93 million miles with the distance varying a couple of thousand miles, the heat change would be hard to measure and way less than 1 degree. It has everything to do with the angle of the to the sun's rays. This is seen easily by everyone outside the tropic of Cancer and Capricorn. As the sun drops in the sky, much more area receives the same amount of radiated heat from the sun.
Until in some areas, it disappears completely.
I tried to explain this to my grade 10 biology teacher and got an E. The next semester, a substitute physics teacher corrected him, and he changed it to an A.
I don't think this guy made it past grade 10 physics.
Amazing to think that everything in the universe has its own little things that are going on without you knowing. Every planet experiences major and very minor changes, every particle on said planets experiences the same. Its beautiful
You covered a lot of cycles, it would be amazing to add all of them to a programme with the cycles of other planets on each other to truly see it’s effects. However it would have to include the differences of temperature on differences of land to water mass and how that effects weather cycles such has turning Africa green when it was even hotter .
Only one problem. Getting the geological record of those other planets.
We can travel a few days for the most part and grab geological samples and ice from all over this planet. Not at all so with other planets at present.
If at all. I don't see us getting samples from Venus anytime in the next couple of centuries. :/
When looking at past geographical climates it is in geological time frames, so important to take into consideration plate tectonics and movement as they influence ocean currents/heat transfer as well as the creation of large mountain chains that result from plate collisions and subduction as they influence atmospheric circulation and moisture transfer
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The quality of your content and the way you make things simplify is really remarkable and I hope to see some more of these knowledgeable videos :)
He thinks that our seasons are affected by our distance from the sun.
That's not even close to true
The Milankovitch "trifecta" for chilly northern summers:
1. Maximum eccentricity in the orbit (currently in a medium phase)
2. Aphelion during northern summer (currently very favorable for ice age onset!)
3. Minimum tilt of axis (currently medium)
Line up all three of these, and the summer sun will be as far away as possible and as low in the sky as possible. That allows glaciation over Canada & Siberia to really take off!
I don't doubt the human role in climate change. But I think people forget just how much the earth's climate changes on it's own.
reminds me of the movie the day after tomorrow
It does change on its own, which is why accelerating an already warming climate is EASIER to do rather than more difficult.
@CuriOdyssey so the scientists know that life has completely thrived on earth even when it's 5 degrees higher on average? Yet they're still fear mongering to line their own pockets. Interesting.
@Ghost_Hybrid This right here ☝️
All Hail, Milutin Milankovic! He completed all the calculations, accurately, without the aid of a calculator or computer and he was right!
Why do people write Milankovitch tho? I know hes Serbian.
Thank you for sticking to the facts & remaining unbiased. Very educational
@Flynn Lives : The obliquity changes the seasonal difference in distance from the sun on a 100,000 year scale. Changes in tilt varies the amount of time each hemisphere receives sunlight. These two things change the amount of difference between seasons depending if they are in sync or not. Warming trends tend to release CO2 which increases warming which increases atmospheric water vapor and methane. These increase the warming more until the cycle reverses and the next glaciation occurs.
@LR Vogt Thank you for agreeing with my point. First - the original thread that I posted a reply to said "Its ALL about the distance" which it is not. Second, my reply was that SEASONAL change is caused by the relative change in angle that light strikes the surface and the duration of the daylight. Milankovitch cycles and Eccentricity changes are measured over 10^4-10^6
years and are NOT seasonal. Their effects are felt year round over long periods of time. So while they do effect climate/weather (or your comparable term) they are not seasonal. Obliquity , the angle of "tilt" with respect to Earth's orbital plane changes from 22.1 and 24.5 degrees - which is what I said - change in angle the light strikes the surface. Axial precession the gradual shift in the orientation of Earth's axis of rotation - is a change in relative angle not a change in distant. Apsidial Procession is also not a change in distance, but a change in the orbit relative to the sun, which changes WHEN the earth is at min/max distance, but does not change the distance. So, thanks again for confirming - angle and duration not distance are the driving factors. ~Cheers
@Flynn Lives No, the distance from a STAR does not matter. Trust me. My name iscahtgpt.
@Lookup VeraZhou Yes, I realize what you said - it is just wrong. One more time - the distance from the earth to the sun - does NOT cause it to be warmer/colder - it is the angle that the sun light it strikes and the duration, and the planet is CLOSER in JANUARY when it is winter in the northern hemisphere, and FARTHEST in JULY when it is summer in northern hemisphere - the earth is over 3.5million miles closer in Jan, than it is in July - that alone should be enough to demonstrate - the variation in distance as the earth transits its orbit is not a factor. There are really great online explanations of this - avail yourself
Thank you for this informative and well produced video. This form of learning should be adapted by teachers. These material was somewhat covered in all the years of schooling. I retained no knowledge besides that these Milankovitch Cycles exist.
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This was a fantastic, if not the best explained I have ever seen on Milankovitch cycles. Kudos.
Appreciated the video. Well produced and thought out. One of the better ones on cycles I have seen.
The geologic arrangment of earths land and seas also play a massive part in this. Before Australia separated from Antarctica the Southern Ocean did not have Antarctic Convergence. This flow has worked to stabilize weather patterns in the southern hemisphere. Think of the effects the Rocky Mountains have on air currents, thus long term weather patterns. There are so many factors on such long time scales that humanity will likely never figure out how it works.
100% The only thing we might ever figure out is crisis geo engineering if our technology gets advanced enough and even then I hope they have a back up plan.
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@danny pomeroy Can someone translate this to something coherent?
@danny pomeroy I'm sure people that live in places like Siberia wouldn't mind some warmer weather
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The geologic arrangment of earths land and seas
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separated from Antarctica the Southern Ocean
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long term weather patterns. There are SO many
factors on such long time scales that humanity
will likely never figure out how it works
Really interesting and well out together content. Congrats 👏
This just goes to show that human life as we know it is a speck of time in earths evolution. So for the time we are on it we should respect this planet in regards to our use of it and our waste of it. Thanks for a great presentation.
Excellent video, excellent production, superb display and explanation; even I mostly understood it.
I've watched all your videos and while this one addresses what might seems to be the most "basic" of topics, it ended up being one of the most interesting! I was only aware of about half the cycles you reviewed. Incredible channel you have going here, thanks!
@Hermes Trismegistus Despite multiple requests for information you've chosen not to provide it so I'm going to have to assume you just made that 13900 BCE stuff up. If I am wrong, please provide. I am truly interested in the information.
@Hermes Trismegistus many misinterpret the science as well. Intentionally or unintentionally.
@LR Vogt Its amazing how many people pontificate on this subject having never studied any ice core data.
It's important to note that the larger ocean area in the southern hemisphere more than offsets the effects of summer perihelion/winter aphelion down there. More ocean = less extreme seasons.
It also means that the climate of the southern hemisphere cannot make or break ice ages. There are no large landmasses in the middle to subarctic southern latitudes, unlike North America and Eurasia in the north. You need subarctic land surface to support increasing snow cover.
Very well explained. Thanks a lot.
Thanks for this explanatory video, very well made & received!
Thanks for this easy to grasp explanation 👍
I like that part at the beginning where you say a 10 year long winter would make crops “harder” to grow. It gives me a good gauge as to how founded in reality the rest of the video will be.
Excellent description. One other thing that makes things more complicated is the fact that the output of the sun is not constant. From what I have read the sun’s output can vary by as much as 11% on a cyclical basis. This further complicates the climate.
We are too close to it for making it a major factor.
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One thing I think about the Earth's Orbit going up or down and affecting the seasons the people missed is, not only are we passing through Cosmic Dust(Oort Cloud) ,but the Dust Itself is at times, Thicker and Darker in Composition. My .02 🤷
I'm not a climate scientist, but did have a lot of geology classes at Mines. Worth the watch.
If we can keep it together another thousand years then I suspect we may take a more active role in balancing things as we prefer them.
If to the so beautifully explained Milancovitch cycles we would add the latest studies of sun's cycles, it's temperature fluctuation and many other recent observations of its behaviour we could develop a more complete understanding of all the parameters involved in climate behaviour. Thanks for the very good presentation
Winter missed me in my part of Canada totally. We had one -30 day and not much snow. It’s mid February it should be -10c and below but it’s been above plus 5 all week.
This is definitely something that needs to be taught in schools more
@Joel Alford Isn't panic about people using the "wrong" bathroom part of the republican platform?
The dems are more worryed about what bath room for your kid to uses 🙄
@A P If denialists actually cared to find out what reality looks like we might have some more respect for them...
@Jona7Fer And this has what, exactly, to do with reality?
Very good! Just have one comment. I don't think it would have destroyed the general publics' brains to include the actual names of the cycles:
(All approximate, of course.)
Eccentricity; 100,000 yrs
Obliquity; 41,000 yrs
Precession; 25,700 yrs
Noooooo....... My brain has been destroyed.
Thank you for this excellent program. I think it is clear that mankind has a very long way to go to understand the way the earth works and is just guessing at the future.
In Norse mythology, the Fimbul winter was a sign that Ragnarök was relentlessly approaching. The Fimbul winter was said to be a winter that lasted three years without any summer, thus heralding Ragnarök, the end of the world.
Year 536 was as close we have come in documented times.
I believ that Ragnarök was the Norse Flood myth.
I would suggest that when the Earth's orbit is tilted towards the Northern and Southern Solar Hemispheres, it receives less solar radiation due to the Sun's Magnetosphere.
If studied, I am certain we will find that the Sun radiates more from the poles and the equator, as the magnetic interference is far less in these regions.
I have come to this conclusion due to the interaction of solar radiation with our own Magnetosphere.
Food for thought 🤔
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"If studied, I am certain we will find that the Sun radiates more from the poles and the equator, as the magnetic interference is far less in these regions."
The sun's poles are the hottest points, and temperature declines by about 100C as you head to the equator. The distance is so great and the sun so vast that the radiance reaching the Earth is essentially averaged and constant WRT the sun's varies latitudinal energy output.
Thanks for a thorough explanation, even though in plain language, for the earth's climate cycle. I wish you can give a lecture in Davos...
@2:36 The change in season or the difference between equatorial and polar weather is not related to distance from the sun here, it is related to the tilt at that location. More watts per square meter are received at any given location while the sun is directly overhead rather then off to an angle.
Came looking for this correction, prepared to do it myself. Thanks.
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@Matti Kake penetrating the atmosphere is a factor, but the main factor is that each square metre of ground gets less energy.
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Yes, ocean currents from melting massive amounts of ice can cause the cycle too break down, air currents i.e., mountain ranges raising or falling are huge part of the ice ages too. Then the earth and all its variations of orbiting its tilt, wobbling i.e. Milankovitch Cycles, sun spots also go in cycles add all these up you could have ice age.
The effects of continentality will also enhance the harshness of winters when the northern hemisphere is finally experiencing aphelion in its winter. Land warms and cools much more quickly than water and because the majority of the earth's landmass is in the northern hemisphere, it will lead to even colder conditions in interior regions on the continents. Siberia and interior Canada will become much colder and likely fuel the next period of glaciation.
Excellent video. As some others have commented, would also value an appraisal of the effects of variations in solar output - and the approximate magnitude of their potential contribution - as compared to Milankovitch Cycles. Understood: this raises the level of complexity even further - but at least a mention of this would be appreciated. Even in not-so-distant historical times (e.g., Maunder Minimum of ~1645 - 1715, coinciding with the middle of the "Little Ice Age") well-documented variations / changes have occurred. Then throw in (unpredictable) heightened volcanic activity, etc. Bewilderingly complex when one attempts to sort it all out!
Warming leads to prosperity a cold earth is hard on everybody
"Potential contribution" to what? It seems like there is a metric you want covered that the video is not about?
Only just found this channel well done It's fantastic
Can you do a thing on the earth's magnetic field and how it's changing and whether it's going flip again cos I like your clips well explained and was to understand
Loved the video! As an Earth Sciences student geology and geography content always makes me smile! It would be super awesome to see a video on the larger scale Wilson cycles that characterized the intervals of hundreds of millions of years of plate tectonics resulting in the formation and separation of the worlds ancient supercontinents and paleo oceans like Rodinia and the Iapetus or Tethys ocean. Thanks again for an interesting and cool video!
Between 13900 BC and 14000 BC, a 100 year span, Earth's temperature rose 5 degrees Celsius. This is one of many intermediate spikes in the ice core data, not including the 10-15 degree Ice Age spikes. Humanity lived through this period just fine and had no heavy polluting industry to speak of at that time. In the past 200 years, which is twice that length of time, Earth's temperature has only risen by 1.2 degree Celsius.
A minor natural change in temperature that is in fact physically unstoppable and inevitable has been pathologized and blamed entirely on human activity in order to establish a carbon tax which allows governments to monitor every action of every person and tax them for it. The climate changes. Changes in local weather ARE NOT evidence of climate change, however, human activity CAN affect weather.
Changes in climate, not weather, are driven by the Milankovitch cycles, primarily precession of the equinox, which changes the angle of Earth's tilt over a 25,000 year cycle, and thus changes the total amount of sunlight the poles receive, known as the insolation cycle. This insolation data from ice cores coincides directly with the rise and fall of the past 4 Ice Ages. Furthermore the temperature was higher than it is now prior to the last 4 ice ages, and also coincides with the insolation cycle and the rise and fall of the Ice Ages. That's right, the temperature was higher back when humans were hunting wooly mammoths than they are now. No heavy industry to speak of. If no other fact about climate change remains in your memory, let that be the one.
This fact suggests that the warming we are experiencing now is that final spike of warming that occurs right before Ice Ages suddenly set in. Climate change is real, its not caused by humans, and we are headed into a regularly scheduled Ice Age according to every indicator, not a waterball Earth condition where the remaining icecaps in the already warm period were in fully melt away. Sea level rise cannot occur with slow melting because of isostatic rebound. Rapid melting is required to cause the floods and sea level rises that climate extremists harp on about.
Rapid melting is caused by a sudden addition of lots of heat to the atmosphere. This is how the Ice Ages end. The most popular theories on how Ice Ages end are supervolcanoes, comet impacts or massive solar flares. However, comet impacts best solve the issue of regularity, as the Ice Ages seem to last a similar amount of time, every time.
If we were to somehow try and affect these Milankovitch cycles, such as slowing down the rate of precession, it would spell real cataclysmic changes to Earth's surface, the likes of which climate extremists only dream of to justify the implementation of their carbon tax scheme..
@eedobee What errors?
Did you notice the dozens of errors?
Summer is coming actually. This explanation is the simplest ! of considerably more complex processes.
Must be a lot more complicated than this because in Melbourne, Australia southern hemisphere we haven’t had a day over 40 degrees in 3 years. Very abnormal, normally get a few every summer. And this past 12 months it has been oddly wet
@LR Vogt Actually you only showed it once, and that was by a single degree.
@GordoGambler : What's your point? I was responding to a claim that Melbourne had never been above 40 in 3 years when it has 3 times.
@Cliffo 6645 so a BOM 39 degrees is a 41 degrees from some other place?
BOM records are cooler, is that where your figures are from?
Does anyone know of a tool that explains each of these changes & how is affects the climate? Also, is there a way to see how these different cycles sync up?
There's no tool I know of, only explanations, and this video is an excellent primer. Furthermore, the Milankovitch cycles are not the only theory behind long-term ice ages, but it is the leading contender to explain them, so perhaps people aren't making tools for this until it's settled.
What a straightforward no nonsense video ! So interesting
Adding to this - be aware that sea-levels were 130 meters lower, but also 6 meters higher than they are now. An interesting question would be: what exactly caused the heat 'runaway' at that time? Was there "human influence" at that time, or was it something different?
Thank you! After learning that we're closest to the sun in January, I've often wondered if that made Southern Hemisphere summers a little hotter than a Northern Hemisphere summer. I'm glad to see you touch on that! I've never come across it mentioned elsewhere before. 🙂
@Hermes Trismegistus DO events produce opposite effects in the Northern and Southern polar regions, called the Polar See-Saw. As I said above, these large temperature swings are highly localised, and I recognized the 5C swing that was mentioned as being a Greenland temperature swing. Greenland is also the site for temperatures that 9,000 years ago exceeded today's warmth, and this then was caused by particularly intense insolation in that region owing to the configuration of Earth's orbit at the time. The orbital mechanics that melted the ice sheets and thawed Earth out of the last ice age saw the Northern hemisphere receiving more insolation than the South.
Warmer temperatures in the past don't prove or disprove anything about the current causes of climate change. Just because there were forest fires before humans doesn't mean that humans can't cause forest fires.
@barryschwarz The Vostok ice core is from Antarctica. Both Greenland and Vostok ice core datasets confirm Daansgard- Oeschger events which alone disprove the current manmade climate change hysteria, but the fluctuation I'm talking about is not even as extreme as one of those events, its just one of the dozens of rapid warmings in the record, which were more rapid than the current warming. Greenland shows it actually being a ~10 degree rise while the Vostok core indicates a ~5 degree rise.
I bet you didnt study both datasets youre just aware that there are different ones and assumed I hadn't studied them both so you made that ignorant comment.
@Hermes Trismegistus "100 year span, Earth's temperature rose 5 degrees Celsius." - I believe you are basing this on a single ice core from Greenland. That is not a proxy for what happened globally. Also, typically the NH Arctic region warms faster than global, so IF this was a global phenomenon, the 5C would represent to peak of temp change on the planet at that time. However, Antarctic other ice cores don't show this massive jump, so it appears to have been a local effect, and possibly to do with inhomogeneities in the proxy (ie, elevation changes).
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The changing cycles are unlikely to bring a white christmas to the southern hemisphere as you suggest, its in our summer time. That would require a reversal of the seasons. We don't even get snow in winter in 99.9% of Australia.
Id suggest using a dye to colour the snow and ice in the polar regions, to raise the temperature and reduce the amount of reflection.
Interesting video! It was entertaining to watch while living in California living Spring while it’s been raining a lot lately
4:43 it's not the distance from the sun but the rotational tilt that determines whether it's warm or cold. It did look counterintuitive that the earth is farthest from the sun in summer and closest in winter, at least in the northern hemisphere.
Looking down on Earth from over the pole, the northern hemisphere is an ocean surrounded by land, while the southern hemisphere is largely land surrounded by ocean, so that plays a large part in things.
The orbital cycles were first describes by the Scot James Croll. Milankovich did the mathematics.
Astonishingly I was wondering about this a few days ago. I was limiting my consideration to the fact that our orbit is not circular, and wondering if there is a gradual shift in the position of the aphelion and perihelion in relation to the sun itself and how that might affect us. This video is perfectly timed, and goes far beyond what I was considering for different variables. Good to know Milankovich and others have looked at this as well. Wonderful as always!
@Anne Beignatborde Global Warming isn't a problem due to the amount but the rate of change. Nature can't keep up. If CO2 went to 2000 ppm in 1 million years it's not a problem. A plant in a greenhouse needs richer soil then the farmer would have access to because bigger plants strip more nutrients.
@JiggeryPokery the world has greened 15% since the year 2000. More CO2 is good for plants. That's why some professional growers inject it into their greenhouses to increase growth and yields. Because it's more readily available to the plant they need less water.
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No I'm no expert but I do listen to the experts that say CO2 follows temperature and is not the cause. Are yo an Expert
@Bear up lol as if you're some expert
Have anyone noticed that as the Moon goes down in the West at nights, it stands still for over 30 minutes whenever it comes CLOSE TO CERTAIN ⭐️ STARS IN THE WEST OF THE SEA ? And sometimes in mid sea
Our winter in NZ last year was the warmest winter I had ever experienced in my life. There were maybe two cold cold nights but that was all. Usually our winters can get cold but last year was warm. Now it's summer time here omg it's bn unbearably hot some days
I have like many others realized how much warmer it has gotten in my lifetime I remember in West Texas lots of cold Winters and snow ❄️ but as I got older I noticed getting much warmer and less cold I love the change growing up because I did not like the cold growing up in West Texas we had a lot of cold but now being 62 years old the heat has gotten much worse especially in the Dallas-Fort Worth area where I lived for over 35 yr I noticed that vast areas around the Dallas-Fort Worth area had become large population and I could see rooftops and highways forever I know that cutting back on carbon will help but it can also hurt cutting back to quickly on energy can hurt people that are retired and on low-income even middle-income you'll drive the cost of everything like your food exedra , I noticed all across the world even in Europe that people will cut down trees to keep their homes warm in the winter because they have cut back on fossil fuels this is not a good thing for this will drive us quicker to global warming if anything we need to plant more trees all across the world I see trees being cut down this is not a good thing we need to plant more trees by the millions and millions we need to use materials on rooftops that will not get as hot 🥵 and figure out ways we can use asphalt on highways that do not get as hot 🥵 there are more factors in play than just someone driving their car electric cars do help but they are not the answer there's a lot of problems with that , cutting back on population is a good thing but it needs to be done slowly because the younger generation needs to pay for the older generations retirement cutting back on fossil fuels would be a good thing but we have to do this slowly or it will hurt so many people we have to have new technology to make cheap energy that controls the price of our food and our way of life the government today talks about cutting back on fossil fuels but they do not talk about how much it hurts the people I would agree with them but they have done nothing to prove that what they are doing will help in the future they are not looking at the facts there are technologies that help pull carbon out of the air planting more trees and using materials on rooftops and highways that don't get as hot 🥵 all these things together to make a difference but we cannot let the government control our lives over global warming because pretty much that's all they care about is being in power and controlling our lives China in India put more China than India are putting out more carbon than anyone and China is building more coal power plants that will even put out more carbon in the future but the very wealthy power to be are making a lot of money off China so they ignore this and this is not a good thing for as much as we try and destroy our way of life China will raise carbon emissions very high and with us cutting back on energy-independent it will make us weaker and China stronger and then we will have no control over climate change , we have to stay energy Independence and strong and demand that China work with us on cutting back on carbon emissions and global warming together we can achieve a better world but we have to stay strong to do this China does not care about anything but power and taking over the world 🌎 and buying up our government to do so if you want to have a better world for your children and their grandchildren we have to demand that our government stay strong and energy Independence and stop taking corrupt and evil money and control from the communist CCP they are our main enemies of the whole world 🌎 but if we all stay strong we can control them we have to demand to our governments all over the world that we watch China and control them and do not let them control us do not let our government take any more corrupt money from the communist CCP to do their bidding
Its a good thing there never been a major meteor impact....... oh wait.
Let me save you some time. That walk of text could be condenced into one word. "Overpopulation".
The earth and it's species are marvelous adapters..but only when the change is gradual. Too much change too fast causes chaos. That is what we're experiencing right now, the chaos (that's really just begun) from all the massive changes we've created in such a very short time frame.
I live in an area where constant cycles of excess and drought are simply a fact of life. In the middle of a drought, we can get a flood washing through. In the middle of a wet period, we can go two months without a single drop of rain. I've see hot years. I've seen cold years. To us, it just _is_ .
I've known about Milankovitch cycles and the "Goldilocks Zone" for decades now. What amazes me is that the distance of Earth from the sun doesn't vary at all that much, and our axial tilt doesn't vary all that much. But when it does...it produces things like the "Mini Ice Age" of 1815.
And just so people understand why Milankovitch cycles are a thing, there are a few things to consider.
1) The physical property of impulse, as related to motion. The idea here is, imagine you have two boxers throwing punches. If one boxer moves away, stands still, or moves toward the other boxer, the amount of pressure damage he'll suffer will change, depending on his velocity, relative to the punch thrown at him. Or, put another way, the additive result of velocities will tell you how much damage something will cause -- or as here, how much energy the Earth will receive from the sun.
2) Milankovitch cycles can be thought of like a car on a road within painted lanes. The idea is that a car can move laterally while going down the road. This is what it is for Earth to be in the "Goldilocks Zone," which isn't a fixed distance from the sun. We have variance within that zone that very much determines if our average temperatures per year will be hot, warm, or cold. And it has to do with the the impulse of the energy the Earth receives, relative to our axial tilt (increase or decrease of surface area of the EM Field that allows solar radiation penetrate into the atmosphere), as well as where we are within our "lane" as we go around the sun. Are we closer to the sun (receiving slightly higher frequency radiation), or are we further away (receiving slightly lower frequency radiation)?
It is these things that I believe have more to do with overall climate change than any amount of anthropogenic climate change mankind could ever actually do. Not only is the Milankovitch cycles constant or continuous, but climate change is about radiative and ionized energy from the sun. It's always been about that -- not a "devil compound" that life on this planet needs to live.
2:45 you just made an upsi right there.
The tilt of the earth does cause the seasons, but not because one area is "closer" than the other, but because of the angle of the sun's rays, same amount of sunshine in a larger area means less hear, and viceversa.
It makes sense that the periods of greater extremes in the northern hemisphere would be the ones to coincide with ice ages, ..as you have far more landmass in the north, and the potential of a much greater change in albedo, and feedbacks, due to snow/ice cover.
Do CME's also have impact on weather patterns?
Fantastic, educational video.
Interesting, sometimes winters in Alaska last for 6-8 months. Summers vari.
Winter is so beautiful and dangerous season. Love it
Its already mentioned in "Surya Siddhantha" sanskrit manuscripts treatise in Indian astronomy dated to 505 CE in fourteen chapters.
Superb video with excellent commentary. This is probably the most well balanced, and the scientific explanation of how our seasons change and how the climate cycle works. Excellent.
Great Video. Mythologies all contain the precessional ages. 2160 years per sign as the sun recesses through the ages.
I don't believe the equatorial regions have fewer seasonal changes because they are "closer to the sun", as this video states at the start. Rather, it is the angle of the sun, not the distance, which causes seasonal effects.
We were taught this in school, briefly, so this video is appreciated
Love that picture of cooling towers belching all that steam. No attempt to mislead at all.
The small town in Norway mentioned is the very place my great great great grandfather left to emigrate to NewZealand. The sun doesn't set in summer... I wonder if that has anything to do with my proclivity to wake each night at around midnight and return to bed 2 to 3 hours later ?
2:47 Not distance, but sun angle. The distance varies by quite a bit during orbit, but it makes little difference compared to sun angle and even length of day, at least in this phase of the Milankovitch cycle. That's why the southern hemisphere's summer isn't much more or less extreme than the North in similar biomes
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@Hugh Jones So why does it get cold in Colorado _before_ it snows?
Sorry but you are wrong, one of the reasons the North experiences more severe cooling is that most of the land mass is in the Northern Hemisphere and as such snow has a greater capacity to reflect and cool as there is more of it. At the extreme of the orbit the distance from the sun is reduced by as much as 40% of incoming radiation, more effective than the tilt angle difference of 1.7 degrees. It's a combination of all the extremities of the cycles that add to the massive drop in solar energy, hence every 100,000 years, and not the 26000 for the tilt angle.
@Mr Baab I’m not sure the temperature of the earth can be modeled with the simple eqn Q = mcDeltaT that would make the temperature directly proportional to the EM energy.
@Bynk333 Yes, but not by enough to really matter at this point in the milankovitch cycle
Just a small correction @2:14. The Norwegian town of Tromsø is not at a higher altitude, it is at sea level. You should have said Higher LATITUDE ;-D
It is not the distance of an area from the sun that causes seasonal variation, as it is said at 2:45. It is the angle of the sun's rays with respect to the local vertical.
Good video. Add in 12 thousand year solar cycles and it lines right up with ice age events. The last one was about 11,700 years ago.
In the past we never experienced a so called greenhouse effect. There where warmer periods but it never spiraled out off control even when there was more metane or co2 in the air.
As someone who lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and was born in another state which borders Canada- New York, having graduated from Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, I have thought long and hard about the seasons and the really severe changes in climate between winter and summer in the northern areas. The difference between winter and summer, which is severe in most of the places I have lived, is not a consequence of what most people think. We are always the same distance from the sun. Seasonal changes to not make a significant difference in the *distance* we are from the sun. Huge differences between winter and summer are the result of a dramatic difference in the number of hours of daylight. This may seem counter-intuitive, but after you give it some disciplined thought you will understand that it is indeed the difference in the number of hours of daylight which makes the huge difference between summer and winter. Anyone who has stood patiently and watched the full extent of a total solar eclipse really appreciates how cold it gets when the sun is almost completely blocked for even a few minutes. The number of hours of daylight is truly the essence of the difference between summer and winter. I urge you to do some deep thought on these issues.
Learned this today in a meteorology course, we did some brainstorming on variables that influence the temperature of earths surface. Makes a lot of sense!
@Larry Cox Of course I agree with you.... you are restating the obvious... my point is that it was only recently that I really started to think about the huge difference the the number of hours of daylight between winter and summer - you are just restating the obvious - my point is just that people don't seem to think about the huge difference in the number of hours of daylight at high latitude @
Why did my dumbass think our orbit was not completely even around the sun
You need to check your diploma at the door. Our planets tilt determines the amount of hours of sunlight we receive.
Pretty sure that we AREN'T always the same distance from the Sun...🤔
What an honor to see Milutin Milankovic's thesis addressed here
@Nicolas Buzzbuzz "scientists paid by lobbies ignore his work" LoL! Do you think that Milankovitch cycles are the reason that the world is heating up right now? The cycles are currently in a cooling mode. Nobody is "ignoring" or suppressing his work. It's basic undergrad material.
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What about when the poles invert? Will that affect the weather also or in concert with?
So, seasons aren’t actually primarily dictated by “how close to the sun you are,” but by the restive angle of the ground to the incoming sunlight (or the angle of the sun in the sky)
Once I read that if it was not for the current amount of green gas currently in the atmosphere we would be already back to ice age.
Another point to consider is that the position of continents is also a factor since no ice age was confirmed during the 200 million years of dinosaur era and I guess earth didn’t start orbiting the sun only after that 😀
This video reflects a year without a summer during George Washington's time, it was snowing in the USA Northeast in July due to a volcanic eruption of Tambora.
less ice means less reflected sunlight, but warmer also means more water vapor, which means more clouds, which means more reflected sunlight
Also, yes the S hemisphere is in phase with being closer to the sun in their summer and further away in winter but they don't have more extreme seasons because there is much less land mass and more water which moderates their seasons.
Also the icy polar eye is blocked almost completely and no freezing air breaks out north, like in the northern hemisphere the polar air is doing.
Land mass both north and southern hemisphere is equal
Plus the latitude explanation given at the start is very basic. The UK and North Western parts of Europe are on the same latitude as Canada but have much milder Winters due to the gulf stream. The major Oceans are massive players in the distribution of heat and cold, Fresh water melt from glaciers spilling in the the sea is another one to.
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Yep! We are about to go through a freez , not global warming by humans , but by Cycles . Awesome video !👌
@No Great Reset "CO2 gradually goes up after temperature": indeed. But CO2 is also a green house gas. Contrary to what you write, CO2 stays long in atmosphere, more than 100 years (methane, less long, but then becomes.... CO2). The issue is that Earth temperature is due in part the the content of green house gases. Main GHG are water vapor and CO2, their content in atmosphere define which temperature equilibrium we get. CO2 added by human activities (content was 280ppm before industrial age, now 400ppm) is increasing average Earth temperature. We could well reach +4 or 5°C if we do not strongly reduce CO2 emissions. And +4-5°C is not peanuts, it's the temperature gap between the last ice-age and our times (holocene). Also it's happening very fast, hence the threat for humanity.
Well get prepared. It's only 10,000 years from now. The current temperature is warming at 10 times the normal post-glaciation rate which is contrary to all natural cycles... we should be slowly cooling.
difference between Tromso and Cairo, say, isn't about how close to the sun they are. they are very nearly identical distance to the sun, differing by less than 40 ppm. it's about how much sunlight at what incident angle, the place gets, each day
Brilliant, Alex. This is so simple and yet so important to know. We should play it to everyone who is arguing about global warming, and teach them some things. Cheers. 🙂
We are in an ice age. What we're in is a glacial minimum. If it weren't for Antarctica, winters would be much warmer. When Africa was at the south pole, conifer trees grew there, showing that ice doesn't have to last year-round on the southern pole.
i believe humans will develop such great understanding of the cycles that we will never again experience ice ages or any other extreme temp ages because humans "can" adjust C02 levels at will once we become 100% renewables.
Seasons are theoretically more extreme in the Southern Hemisphere because of the amplification of the sun's rays in summer by closest approach to the sun, and their diminishment in winter by being further away. However, the Southern Hemisphere as a much lower land-to-ocean ratio than the Northern Hemisphere, so the greater amount of water buffers the theoretically more extreme seasons.
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@Vivian Brégier The Earth receives 7% more sunlight at perihelion in January than at aphelion in July. That is significant. My point is that if the Southern hemisphere had the same landmass distribution as the Northern hemisphere, it would be much hotter than it is, because the land mass distribution favors the Northern Hemisphere by better than two-to-one, and in summer, land is hotter than water. The Southern Hemisphere gets 7% more intense sunlight in summer than the Northern Hemisphere gets in summer, but the Southern Hemisphere has less than half the landmass of the Northern Hemisphere, so the heat effect of the additional sunlight intensity is negated.
@Alan Sewell Distance to the sun due to Earth’s eliptical orbit matters slightly (summer in southern hemisphere is still hotter than winter in southern hemisphere, because this effect is still way smaller than inclination of sun rays)
Distance to the sun due to earth’s axis tilt, that I was commenting because it is what this video presents, is totally negligible !
@Vivian Brégier It's about distance too. The Earth has an elliptical orbit that takes it several million miles closer to the Sun on January 5 than it is at its furrtheret distance in July. The distance variation accounts for a 7% difference in solar radiation: At the time of perihelion, Earth is about 91,398,199 miles (147,091,144 kilometers) away from the sun. On average, Earth's distance from the sun is 92,955,807 miles (149,597,870 km). When our planet reaches aphelion in July, it will be 94,507,635 miles (152,095,295 km) away. The fact that the Earth gets 7% more heat during the Southern Hemisphere's summer is offset by the fact that the Southern Hemisphere has more water to absorb the extra heat.
No, it’s not about distance. It’s about the angle of sun’s rays, which causes them to be spread over a wider area in winter, and the duration of the day. In winter each area gets less power, for a shorter amount of time per day, than during summer.
When I watch videos like this it really puts human history in perspective. What we call "civilization" is a very recent thing...and likely very temporary. Unless future humans invent new ways to artificially manipulate the seasons and temperature of the earth, this brief period of human prosperity and advanced technology is likely going to come to an end in a few thousand years.
Between the years 1600 and 1814 the northern hemisphere was experiencing a mini ice age when winters were very cold and even the river Thames in London froze , looking at history our climate has always gone through changes warm and cold,,
@RP S actually over any time scale greenhouse gasses have a major role in our planet’s climate
You do realize that the LIA was a regional event that barely effected the global temperature? As a whole the past 10,000 years have seen earth have a very stable climate.
Also just because the climate has always changed doesn’t mean co2 can’t be a cause of that change (it has especially so for much of the Earth’s history, so much so co2 has been caked the earth’s thermostat) and it doesn’t mean humans can’t cause it now.
We know it depends on the the time scale on what is the main driver of Earths climate -
Tens of millions of years, plate tectonics rearranges ocean circulation.; tens of thousands of years, Milankovitch cycles; thousands of years to decades, greenhouse gases and aerosols.
The most profound statement ever made is 'History repeats itself'