A Snowball Earth: How The Ice Age Nearly Wiped Out All Of Life | Catastrophe

It is the greatest climate disaster to ever have hit the Earth. Over 650 million years ago a cataclysmic ice age sealed the entire planet beneath ice and snow, wiping out nearly all life.
In this truly spectacular documentary series, we go on a journey through the history of natural disasters. We'll be investigating from the planet's beginnings to the present, putting a new perspective on our existence and suggesting that we are the product of catastrophe. For each disaster led to another leap forward on the evolutionary trail form single celled bacteria to humankind itself.

[@NakedScience]

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[@pac1fic055]

Excellent and informative. I like the question and answer format of the episode.

[@eyetrollin710]

20 + years ago when I was in school for geomatic engineering I remember bringing this up with one of my professors as the theory was still gaining ground but he dismissed it,, I love how science Works how it's always growing and checking itself and improving fledgling theory is now General consensus.

[@swagnilla_ice]

This seems like a copy of the same BBC series with the same name, with a different guy narrating it. Exact same clock analogy, exact same sequence of events, no new information.

[@edbrown6985]

Recycled of course.

[@MarbleThumbs]

Happens all the time, I've watched history documentaries hosted by one person on the BBC but another when it aired in America, narration mostly the same, b-roll exactly the same, only footage of the hosts on location/narrator voice changing.

[@Scemoth]

It is 😅 Tony Robinson presented the original series

[@ianrobinson863]

Yep, that’ll be some shit AI voice…….

[@RealLifeandAveragePeople]

Love it how scientists come up with this stuff. Nothing is certain when it comes to pre human time. We weren't there. This type of science is based on speculation.

[@brandonjerue1205]

He even pronounced Matanuska right! I'm awake professor! Alaskan here

[@jdwilmoth]

Yeah I remember when this happened It seems like it was just yesterday I'm surprised I survived it

[@MarcelAspenite]

Very informative and well put together documentary. I hope more people watch this and come to realize how the effects of temperature change can have a catastrophic effect on our planet. There's no planet B.

[@WilliamDearthwd]

I remember an old 90s educational CD ROM about dinosaurs where they have a guided tour feature, one about a hypothetical journey through timelines... as they talk about a while into the paleozoic era... "Did you feel that jolt at the 650 million year mark? That was the big extinction event!"

[@annikkianttila]

Interesting programme

[@francus7227]

So.... We don't need to save the planet. It is very resilient.

[@tonycucca4499]

Save the planet was always a dumb choice of words. It should've been save the race. The planet will be just fine once we're gone.

[@adamokuhle9753]

I've been looking for a documentary where they talk about earth's wobble and also about how the sahara was once covered in water. Anybody seen it?

[@bimmjim]

I was waiting to hear the GAST during the snowball Earth period. (Global Average Surface Temperature). This GAST was not given. ..

[@BobSmith-ew5oi]

We are doing our best to avoid another ice age but still need to increase emissions to give us a few more hundred years before the big freeze.

[@dort5436]

Does the Ocean have orphan rocks dropped off by glaciers? Vent creatures at bottom of Ocean would have survived

[@longjohnsilver7986]

Evidence of the snowball period was first dkscovered by swiss geologist Agassiz, more than 100 years ago

[@robertab929]

Just poor science in this series. This episode is especially bad. Eukaryotes are not bacteria, and they appeared more than 2 Ba (billions years ago). And cyanobacteria are not their ancestors. Eukaryotes and many bacteria different than cyanobacteria survived many episodes of Snowball Earth. Eukaryotes evolved after Snowball Earth during Big Oxidation Events 2.4-2.05 Ba. Opisthokonts evolved 1.3 Ba and gave beginning to Metazoa (animals) and Fungi. So they had to survived Snowball Earth :) Cyanobacteria gave only beginning to chloroplasts used by Archaeplastida (Rhodophyta, Glaucophyta, Viridiplantae), but even this happened way before Snowball Earth: sometime before 1.2-1-6 Ba (billion years ago). Multicellular Rhodophyta (red algae) appeared on Earth at least 1.05 Ba (billion year ago). Rhodophyta are one of groups of Archaeplastida.

[@SeethaRamaiah]

💚

[@derekcopeland477]

Why no mention of the evolution of plants?

[@titan8976]

you failed to mention where did the water come from ?

[@proteusaugustus]

CO2 isn't the only variable. Period

[@tigertolliver5199]

And never cease to amaze me. How they know all this is it speculation and conjecture somebody help me out of here😊

[@Little_Fymth]

Just best guess based on all evidence, usual thing for past and present

[@mikelarry2602]

I believe it's all entertainment !

[@Roarmeister2]

Did you ACTUALLY watch the video?

[@paulford9120]

It's called science.

[@richardbudgell2374]

How many years ago was it 😂

[@douglasschmidt2869]

The more I read up on Gobekli tepe the more it sounds like the Walmart of ancient times. Or a swap meet I guess. And it makes me wonder what people 12,000 years from now are going to dig up from our civilization and think about us. Like Mount Rushmore. Or the giant statue of a McDonald’s big Mac. Will they even know it was something we ate? Will they even be able to read our language? The thought of them seeing those four faces on mount Rushmore and thinking we worshipped them as gods, I can’t help but fucking laugh 😂. I feel like carving “you been rickrolled!” Somewhere on there. Rickrolled is as much a part of American culture as any president was!

[@callmethreeone]

They would likely think the way we think, given humanity can survive another 12,000 years. We keep historical records, future generations will likely have access as we do. Unless you mean another species, humans are people. Too many people look for conspiracies or do not take the time to understand anything today. You should read more on Gobekli Tepe.

[@douglasschmidt2869]

@@callmethreeone if we end up more like Star Trek sure. But if we end up suffering an asteroid strike and mankind bottlenecks again, no. Almost Nothing we’ve made will survive 12,000 and years at that point. And that is a matter of when not if. they aren’t gonna know what a thumb drive even is 12,000 years from now. English won’t be the same if it even exists at all. You would never be able to understand the English language just 1,000 years ago. Maintaining the society takes incredible effort as I’m sure you’re aware of. If humans disappeared, the land will take over and nothing will be recognizable. All bldgs will collapse. Who knows if we’ll ever discover electricity again. Without electricity, none of this was possible. Without electricity or knowledge of electricity you wouldn’t even know what any of the stuff was for 12,000 years from now. But again that’s assuming mankind suffers another catastrophe. Which it will. We all know it will eventually. We’re not an immortal race after all. We’re just very lucky actually.

[@callmethreeone]

​@@douglasschmidt2869 Progression and regression are two opposite things. Asking someone to decipher a language when you have a primitive vocabulary that may differ from locale to locale, is far different than someone who speaks a structured language with a robust vocabulary and equally as robust record keeping. You "dig up" a civilization when it is gone, so you can see my confusion in extinction and "bottle necking". If humanity only "bottle necks" you have nothing to worry about. I do agree, the data so far does seem to show we are very lucky, still a very small sample.

[@JamesDavy2009]

They're calling this part of history the Cryogenian Period.

[@hans.stein.]

Clouds covering the earth (from primordial atmosphere and /or vulcanoes) cooled it. Not a lack of CO2. H2O vapor and clouds is much more relevant.

[@dkj7176]

Why did volcanoes suddenly start erupting after 25 million years of the ice age? Why didn’t they erupt to prevent the ice age?

[@nickd717]

Did snowball earth write this? Seems overly favorable to that icy hellscape.

[@JohnSmith-fl6qd]

It's too bad that politicians weren't around before this Ice Age so they could have instituted a carbon tax on folks. They could most definitely have prevented this ice age😅 Or not

[@whereswaldo5740]

I was hoping you were going to say that they were some of the species that went extinct.

[@JohnSmith-fl6qd]

@@whereswaldo5740 while they may not have been able to prevent the ice age at least they would end up Philthy Rich

[@joechang8696]

pointing greenhouse gasses as the driver for everything is just stupid. the direct effect of CO2 is weak. the argument for anthropogenic global warming requires the argument of strong amplification by other sources. So, let's just ditch the stupid CO2 argument. What caused the current northern hemisphere ice age? there are two factors: 1) land mass at the high latitudes, 2) warm ocean current to the high latitudes. this increases precipitation, in the winter leads to snowfall, landmass allows snow to accumulate. if sufficient to last through summer, then much of the sun's light is reflected away. Milankovitch cycles only modulate the cycles.

[@jeetendrasingh2823]

Copy or not i understand one thing (mother has a way to reset her self and no science can stop her )

[@Abdi-libaax]

What was the Sun doing all that time

[@zaneseligman1313]

Ice is the only thing that can move rocks. I guess that explains the pyramids

[@andrewadius142]

Pretty cool 😂

[@rinocon1]

The opening statements are absolutely idiotic

[@jamesbugbee9026]

Microscopic Slime; we need a flag

[@asunuk1368]

Wait are there 2 naked science channels because one this rips off is the same BBC series Catastrophe episode 2 again by Naked Science but the original was done 10 years ago.

[@solarcasarao7445]

So much bs... 😅😅

[@TheVkaz]

4 am ??😂

[@RyanPhillips-y2w]

Thing are happening now that GOD told us way way back thousands of years ago.He knew,knows and is the only one that has always been right.Man can't tell you what's for breakfast tomorrow morning.creator or the created.Wjo are you going to rely on for truth and facts.

[@krisb1233]

So when we hit the next ice age. What is our government going to do? More taxes to raise the temperature!!

[@kittygirl_thetortie498]

😂😂😂😂

[@DaveWest-q9i]

Time to leave earth for a while okay yall I'll come back down to earth when this is over

[@jeffsiegwart]

SCARY BS! 😢

[@saviourojukwu893]

If earth went into an ice age animals would almost go extinct but some animals will have survived

[@christianhoffman7407]

I think The Snowball Earth, where ice reached all the way to the equator , happened before The Cambrian Explosion even so there were no animals - just different types of bacteria and protozoa.

[@saviourojukwu893]

@@christianhoffman7407 oh yeah I forgot to mention bacteria and other eukaryotic cells and protozoa

[@tarstarkusz]

Not a single one would survive the conditions portrayed in this video. First, all sea animals would die from lack of oxygen. There is no wave action dissolving oxygen or carrying it away into the deep sea. Not a single land animal would survive either with ALL of the land buried in a mile of ice. Not a plant in sight. Therefore, no food. But it's actually worse than all this. The sea being deprived of oxygen would become saturated in hydrogen sulfide from bacteria. Remember, they are claiming 25million years of this ice. The entire ocean under the ice would be full of hydrogen sulfide.

[@tarstarkusz]

@@christianhoffman7407 What prevented the ocean from becoming hypoxic and bacteria producing massive, massive amounts (over 25 million years) of hydrogen sulfide?

[@robertab929]

@@christianhoffman7407 Animals evolved before Cryogenian (Snowball Earth). Multicellular red algae appeared on Earth at least 1.05 Ba (billion year ago). This video is just poor science. It was written by somebody with poor biological knowledge.

[@calvinlockett2963]

this is lying nonsense right from the start. wtf???????????????????????????????

[@robertcgage]

Climate change is just another way of saying weather.

[@przemog88]

Weather is not the same as climate, you can learn about that in elementary school.

[@LightLadd]

​@@przemog88 And, You should learn the difference between "man made" and "made up by man"... or better yet, "man made" and solar influence... Yup, turns out it's the SUN causing global warming... who'd of thunk it eh!?!. Weather and climate ARE interconnected, but what causes change of both... oh that's right, the SUN.

[@przemog88]

So you are suggesting that scientists ignore solar influence in their research? Please provide evidence for this claim.@@LightLadd

[@LightLadd]

​@@przemog88 I'm more than suggesting that they do this, they CLEARLY are ignoring solar evidence..... where have u been for the past 10 years? what type of 'research' have u been doing?, They proclaim "man made global warming" when it's clearly, scientifically, not man made. The real question here is, what do YOU consider to be reputable "scientific evidence" and "reputable sources" ? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Fauci and cnn are NOT reputable sources, neither are they scientifically accurate. If you're expecting me to site specific scientific journals of specific reports from off the top of my head then ur sht out of luck, you need to start to do ur own research that is not from one single source (mentioned above), I work for a living and can't do this type of research on the office network, however, if I get the time I can locate these specific journals that clearly shows that the sun is going nova and is the major contributor of total solar system planetary warming, that;s right, I said solar system, I'd like to hear from Greta and Mr schwab (aka dr evil) of how my car is causing Mars to heat up!?!.

[@victimovtalent6036]

human was bacteria😅

[@robertab929]

There is a lot of poor science in this video.

[@wizquinn8021]

What about the water? Where did the H2O come from? Theos collision would've evaporated all the water.

[@JoshuahWelshSmith]

It came from aliens d'uuuuuuh !

[@wizquinn8021]

@@JoshuahWelshSmith LMAO 🤣. Good one!

[@calebhollen5316]

Fake science 😅😂

[@tr476009]

So the scientists that were mentioned in this video were not alive billions of years ago. So there thoughts while real respected are just a guesstimate. I don't see there points in the Holy Bible and that should be considered or at least recognized as a possible conclusion. Just saying, I don't mean to offend anyone.

[@kittygirl_thetortie498]

No you are right. All life forms from plants, animals, humans all were created instantly by magic out of nothing in a day by this elusive being called "God". No you are right. This makes more sense than a slow process called evolution related to climate changes😂😂😂

[@seanmcleod7417]

It’s hilarious watching these people talking like this is all fact.

[@darkstar18498]

Sounds like a bunch of crap

[@lukebieniek9069]

Pure nonsense. How many degrees of deception, can makers of films like these, present as fact or science, and still sleep well without heavy duty chemical aid???

[@kittygirl_thetortie498]

No you are right. All life forms from plants, animals, humans all were created instantly by magic out of nothing in a day by this elusive being called "God". No you are right. This makes more sense than a slow process called evolution related to climate changes.

[@RiazAhmed-cl5yh]

Not by chance ....God is the creater.

[@Mogulz80]

Probably shouldn’t be too sure about a concept you can’t even spell. (Creator)

[@fenrichlee2867]

God helps those who helps themselves...

[@curiousuranus810]

Complete chance - god was made up in the Bronze-age.

[@douglas.wang63]

🤔🫣😱

[@kennygrande9478]

We are done with religion, it's killing millions of people and taking everyone absolutely no where.

[@drummer265]

So cool there's so many geologists, climatologists, and evolutionary biologists in the comments.

[@gg456stormy]

So cool those woke self serving geniuses defunded their colleagues and forced them out of their professions for having questions about the "science".

[@brandonjerue1205]

Go wash a movie about airplane and there's a lot of pilots in the crowd

[@marlbankian]

I think it was the ice getting dirty from the volcanos, that accelerated the ice melting.

[@hans.stein.]

That's a very good and plausible thought.

[@terenceiutzi4003]

@@marlbankian that is exactly what the so-called scientist proposed in the 70s! Cover the Arctic ice with coal dust to keep it from freezing

[@donkenmuir9504]

This is a very good documentary very well done. This is a good film worth the watch

[@billsadler3]

Moving sugar tubes... DNA package delivery services available always, mostly.

[@joemichaels6735]

Will constantly be increasing my taxes because of climate change prevent another Ice Age?

[@owbeer]

yes

[@siz4sean]

Undoubtedly.

[@shawnsanborn2057]

Indeed so…

[@zaneseligman1313]

Its the ONLY thing that will prevent it

[@orionred2489]

lol, first you deny it's happening, then you deny we caused it, now you complain about the cost to fix it when it would have been cheaper 20 years ago. YOU made it expense, so pay up.

[@bbroeschi]

I have never heard erratics called drop stones before this program.

[@Siddarable]

They're called Erratic's when dropped on land and Drop Stones when dropped in the ocean. They said death valley was a sea at the time of the Drop Stone so I'm assuming the same applied to the Australia one.

[@EdwardM-t8p]

650 million years ago: Moon: You chillin' bruh? Earth: Not just ch-ch-ch-ch-chillin', I'm f-f-f-f-freezing!

[@okboomer6201]

Lol. We are in the middle of a interglacial period of an ice age right now. It will return.

[@MarinCipollina]

We're actually technically still exiting the last ice age.. But you are correct, they are cyclical.

[@themanifestorsmind]

​@MarinCipollina no, they were right. We're in the middle. That's why everyone makes a big deal about climate change. Without human activity, earth would naturally be getting colder and moving back to full glaciation.

[@MarinCipollina]

@@themanifestorsmind You are incorrect.

[@eyetrollin710]

​​@@themanifestorsmindwe still have Ice caps and glaciers away from the ice caps. We are still in an ice age, the planet must be totally free of ice that lasts more than a year to be out of the ice age. One of the newest and fastest growing glaciers is on mount st.helens, No where near the poles.

[@ArchFish-zm9vl]

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[@midwestguy1983]

Baldrick did this better, this is the worst thing to happen to him since Speckled Jim was shot by his commanding officer

[@zaneseligman1313]

It’s interesting how this is presented like it’s an absolute fact. To be presented any other way than a guess discredits the video and the production company.

[@Rory-q5p]

Way to many ads for a not so original video. Try BBC or PBS for something better

[@RyanPhillips-y2w]

You believe this you will be as far as you can get from what is the truth.

[@tom-c1j2p]

MOON IS HOLLOW, ALIEN HEAD QUARTERS, SATELLITE

[@riaanbotes3509]

so lot of nonsense

[@releasethememe]

Just needed some hoomans to warm it up.😅

[@wizardchairman3691]

Old stuff, recycled.

[@dmimz7691]

That’s not how the moon formed. Off to a rocky start here

[@meegz149]

@dmimz7691 huh?

[@ggates2500]

Nicely done )) Anyone else hear the chords from Mishale by Andru Donalds repeated in this?

[@JoshuahWelshSmith]

An ad every 4 minutes? Seriously? I guess the uploader thought the video was so boring that they put ads every 4 minutes for the audience to stay entertained.

[@justinburns7093]

That's why I don't have basic YT. The ads were killing me with how many were in hour long videos

[@starlust777]

Pay $11 and that stops. I can't do adds..

[@paulford9120]

The uploader has no impact on the ads you see. Get a decent ad blocker and enjoy.

[@frischirl3092]

@@paulford9120the uploader can place as many ads as they want

[@MatCendana]

Just pay the monthly subscription and you'll be free of ads. Including at YT Music too. I'd say it's very reasonable, depending on where you live (MYR19 or equivalent of USD4.10 for me in Malaysia)

[@bubbles25403]

So do they know why the Earth was dormant for 20 some million years with no seismic activity or volcanic activity?

[@pac1fic055]

Not of the scale necessary to break the freezing cycle. This probably necessitated an event like the one that created the Deccan or Siberian traps.

[@Sucksuphere]

😊

[@RogerSmith-p6n]

What makes you think it DIDN'T

[@NICOLAI_VET]

Isn't it called "Slush ice" earth today?

[@MarinCipollina]

Not universally

[@timesurfingalien]

Bold statement. How do you know different life would have evolved in the cild. Mighty presumptuous

[@douglas.wang63]

Let me guess, you are religious right?

[@LightLadd]

​@@douglas.wang63 I found ur comment both shallow and pedantic. Let me guess... u think contemporary science isn't a religion based mostly on hypothesis and theorem? (aka- guess work), LOL. Why do u think they came up with panspermia?... I'll tell u why, it's because they realized that evolutionism was impossible so they had to come up with an explanation of meteorites or aliens delivering life here, but not the idea of a God? because that would be too impossible?!?... Just because ur too brainwashed to think out side the box that they've created around ur mind doesn't mean everyone else is. What a joke!.

[@saviourojukwu893]

Do you even know about adatability and evolution

[@MarinCipollina]

@@davidlightman372 Religious cranks are the bane of science. That's always been true.

[@kittygirl_thetortie498]

No you are right. God magically created animals and humans out of nothing of course. No you are right. THIS audacious scientist are SO presumptuous but the religious "leaders" spewing tales from books are not.

[@tugg59]

nice FAIRY TALE

[@curiousuranus810]

All true, if you had the wit to understand it.

[@douglas.wang63]

Let me guess, you are religious right?

[@LightLadd]

​@@curiousuranus810 Oh the irony of ur witless comment. No doubt u think we magically came from swamp monkeys!?! Can you please be the first person in the world to show ANY proof for "change of kinds"?????????????????, I'll wait for ur answer over the next 3000 billion, catrillion, mega mazillion years and there still won't be any proof for "change of kinds". Grow up! and start thinking for yourself.

[@JamesDavy2009]

🕗🔔🐦

[@MarinCipollina]

All the faerie tales are in religious texts

[@TheAnarchitek]

If such a thing happened, it was one of geologists' favorite measurements, "millions of years ago". Generally, they're wildly wrong about the use of that phrase, but in this case, it fits. Earth may have been "detritus" scattered by a supernova, some 20-50 million years ago! It wandered through interstellar space for close to a million years, following that event, before being "captured" by Sol, shortly before Jupiter joined the ragtag circus of planets and debris circling our current primary. That's according to the ancient Greeks, who tell us Jupiter (Zeus) came along to scatter the Titans (Saturn/Cronos, Uranus/Poseidon, Neptune/Oceanus), in the living memory of men. Any other attempt to push "Ice Ages", or drag them into the time of Man, is disingenuously wrong.

[@judithgillette144]

....at 8:27am..... disaster struck.