Birth of Britain 2of3 Ice Age

[@patriciahadley2374]

Tony Robinson could talk about arthritis in the knee joints of the common cockroach and make it seem fascinating. His choice of words, his humour make any subject come alive. I absolutely adore his programmes. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@juliaforsyth8332]

Weirdly enough I would find this interesting!

[@LeeAnneGuerin]

I'm all ears👂 tell me more...

[@lindsaycaress450]

Yes he is renowned for his rhetoric

[@nomegustaperonoquieredecir3514]

Best comment. So true.

[@miken891]

I suspect that finding a common cockroach who was willing to appear on television might be difficult

[@dnoanoa]

As an american, I'd only ever known Tony Robinson as Baldrick, and never bothered to look beyond that role. Wow, I am so impressed with these docs and his brilliance as host...bravo Sir Tony!

[@joannmay-anthony1076]

you need to watch the time team serious then. also the one where he walks the paths of ancient brits.

[@dnoanoa]

@@joannmay-anthony1076 I've seen the ancient paths episodes...my favorites so far

[@Llllbbb.123]

Tony-brilliant as always. A force to reckon with himself. Well done.

[@dbbrown1949]

I really love Sir Tony...whether history..science,he has an unique talent for communicating information...

[@theskip1]

he has a unique talent for remembering a script !

[@emsnewssupkis6453]

Alas, he has to tell us we MUST have a 'natural' ICE AGE meaning 90% of us will die. This phobia about it being warm puzzles me.

[@stalinsghostux3318]

Emsnews Supkis we would rather have global warming than global cooling at least you can grow food when it’s warm

[@stalinsghostux3318]

I like him too his voice is good for telling you things

[@malcolmlockridge1853]

Special subject, turnips.

[@carolmckissock8366]

I really enjoy Tony Robinson. Between Time Team and his historical documentaries I think he's really fabulous.

[@Zenmyster]

Come a long way from Baldric

[@kurtbogle2973]

AWSOME, Tony Robinson that was interesting. I'm being to think of you as instructor Robinson. Between Time Team, and your documentaries I am enjoying all the new information about old stuff. Nature, History, Archeology, and Geologically. Topics that are rewarding to learn about. Thank you!

[@DavidAndrewsPEC]

He is our national antiquities teacher, for sure. He left school with four O-levels: English language, English literature, history and - interestingly - geography. Bristol uni gave him an honorary MA 'for services to drama and archaeology', but - to be honest - I reckon he earned that. You see - he studied archaeology in the uni's extra-mural studies department.

[@ShenaThompson-wi7te]

The man is undeniably a genius. To turn interests and passions into a completely different career and taking a large number of people along for the ride can only be described as genius. Thank you, Sir Tony, you definitely earned your "gong". Bravo!

[@tommeijer5979]

Wow. Danielle Schreve is in this presentation. When still working on fossil molluscs in the Geological Survey of the Netherlands we met each other several times. I visited several outcrops with interglacial to interstadial deposits containing non-marine molluscs. The Strait of Dover and the Channel were formed during the last stage of the Saalian during a catastrophic event when the landbridge at the South of the North Sea breached.

[@kittyxrx]

POV: school sent you here

[@darceythesillygoose6606]

Yes

[@wizaard6270]

tru

[@shenzechang4887]

Imaging your teacher send you the link of this video and gave you some qs to do base on this video

[@jw_4321]

Yeah

[@janetritchie7499]

@@jw_4321 Gee, poor you!

[@grahamhgraham]

Always amazes me how they manage to find so few people with Scottish accents when they come to Scotland.

[@PibrochPonder]

They are speaking posh Scottish, so they basically sound like the English.

[@joannmay-anthony1076]

be thankful, cuz the thick brogue can be really hard to understand.

[@aserta]

One of the coolest things i've seen in my life, is in Canada. I won't disclose its location at the bequest of the guide, but coming down a former glacier's path, was shown a smooth, but gouged exposed section of bedrock. Not even a km from it, in the exact orientation, the rock that must've carved it. A stone as big as a double decker bus, with half of its flat edge visible from beneath, in what was a small cave of erosion. It felt so surreal, to see a process that was older than anything you could see at a human scale, because everything else is macro to us.

[@themysticnavigator]

Love to know more please?

[@clioflano421]

Ever hear of Mike Alder?

[@skippymagrue]

When I was a teenager in the 90's, I remember scientists talking about how we were coming out of a mini ice age.

[@barleyarrish]

we are between ice ages

[@MichaelTarailo-st1nv]

Now they try to make you believe global warming is real

[@chitskirits]

Sir Robinson, I love you documentaries and I learned more about Great Britain's history from these documentaries than in school.

[@samuel10125]

Well thats just it school teachs us the basics the rest we have to figure out ourselves

[@d.hanafin5204]

Outstanding doc, thank you very much.

[@allanlank]

I live in Toronto Canada. Those ice sheets were also here. Moraines, glacial valleys and the Great Lakes were formed in all of Canada. Lake Superior, formed by the motion of glaciers, is big enough to hold the island of Ireland.

[@kimstyles4006]

Thanks🍁 from Central Florida🐊🌴

[@CurmudgeonExtraordinaire]

@@kimstyles4006 -- The last time we had an Ice Age, Texas and Florida actually had acceptable climates. :)

[@scottwhitley3392]

Massive glaciers flowed into the North Sea from the mountains of Norway flattening the whole area, a line of Moraine under water several hundred miles long created Dogger Bank which took thousands of years to flood over, these glaciers would have covered over 100,000 square miles

[@gazgandalf5358]

I could listen to Adrian Shine (of Loch Ness fame) all day ... what a voice and what an interesting chap.

[@annoyed707]

Epic beard.

[@cruisepaige]

I Have a huge crush on him.

[@janetritchie7499]

He certainly is a unique man. I would love to take a long vacation and learn about Loch Ness and the geological history of Scotland from him.

[@linzearth]

Hey Tony Tony,Tony Tony Tony Tony Robinson. Love his work.

[@StereoSpace]

Milankovitch Cycles are a bit more involved than was depicted. It's actually three cycles overlapping each other.

[@janetritchie7499]

Yes. I tried to teach my ecology class about them, but many of my students found it too confusing. Of course, with climate change caused by human activity, these cycles are also being disrupted. We do not really know what the outcome will be over the next 10,000 years.

[@albertsteenbergen3375]

Can't stop seeing him as Baldrick :)

[@michelegyselinck5400]

While on a cruise to Alaska I read a book about glaciers, and the first sentence was, "Give a glacier enough time and it will move mountains."

[@glenkelley6048]

You are a fine story teller Tony. I enjoy everything you produce!

[@seanpaula8924]

Our area of Michigan is called The Irish Hills. Glaciers carved Hills, valleys and lakes.

[@josephmclaughlin8972]

Who else here in lockdown

[@zGJungle]

For 2nd time now!

[@trapscreen1338]

second lockdown lol

[@willgreen3109]

3rd time

[@sil3ntjack180]

@@willgreen3109 ballbag

[@UFOzNoJoke]

Nope. I'm From the Future.

[@lyndajordan6479]

Thank you once again for this very interesting video, full of information on our history.

[@_vickyandthat_]

me just wanting to push that 'rocking rock' into the loch xDD

[@a.j.carter8975]

❤ me too👍👍

[@Tedster0]

We have to do this for school. It’s gonna take ages.

[@ririkachabashira8112]

I knoww

[@derpyto3z]

Were these your questions??? Which processes does the video happen? What does the video show about the evidence for an Ice age in the UK?

[@elliemaemiddletonmedia]

@@derpyto3z yes

[@Rob-zv1oz]

Have you finished yet?

[@derpyto3z]

@Amanda Jane 🌹 alright grandma let's get you back into bed

[@radioguy1620]

made me more worried about global cooling than anything.

[@oldladywhocares3223]

Exactly the same as in the Missoula valley where Glacial Lake Missoula formed with the ice dam in what is now Sandpoint, Idaho.

[@belgianqueen4435]

Lost Lake , Montana follows the Loch Ness features. In the Sierra Desert they continually find remains of sea life.

[@masa461]

There is an interesting series of lectures on this topic on the Central Washington University youtube channel.

[@richardevppro3980]

Great show and loved it thank you,Did you notice how the drum hills looked like the tear drop shaped island in rivers, goes to show that a few mtr of ice cold water was shaping the land.

[@mariashelly4812]

31:43 Oh my goodness. I wonder if Tony fell and ripped the knee of his trousers? I hope he did not get hurt.

[@jennifernorman9655]

Well spotted. He seems in good spirits for that bit anyway.

[@MurderCrowAwdio]

Sir Robinson is the best tv presenter of all time imo.

[@MauriatOttolink]

Bludclot...Well . a bit stretched but I know what you mean..Good Guy!

[@DavidFraser007]

He's good , but he can't say Loch, keeps calling it a lock, which it isn't , It's not a lake either.

[@MauriatOttolink]

David Fraser... I know what you mean but it was ever thus. The English always say sing "For the sake of old lang syne" instead of "Auld lang syne." They think that 'Scotch Eggs" are from Scotland instead of 'scorched eggs.' They don't realise that the Scots language is not 'English spoken with a Scots accent" but a separate language drawing on some (SOME) common roots! I'm 5/6 generations English but from Caledonian origins related to Lord George Murray of Blair Atholl and I have the same surname. My brother's forenames are Neil Fraser... David.. I hope that you enjoy strawberries. I know that you will understand that strange remark when English folk don't. Lang may yer lum reek! From: A bum Englishman, who married a lassie frae Glesgae tae top up the Scottish blood!

[@alexanfe]

MauriatOttolink It's not just the English that can't pronounce syne correctly but the majority of folk apart from Scots. They tend to say "zyne" as opposed to "sign" though. Also Your correct in saying Scots is a different language rather than English with a Scottish accent. They both share a common ancestor. Scots is a northern variant of Anglo Saxon just as Anglo Saxon was a northern German variant of the old Germanic language that so many Northern European languages come from. I love strawberries but I'm missing your meaning here. Lol.

[@DavidFraser007]

Syne just means Then, my grandads generation used it all the time

[@smokert5555]

I watched another show that said the loch was formed when a hunk of North America ran into Scotland. The valley, discounting the silt sediment at the bottom, does not have the classic U-shaped valley, but rather a V-shaped valley.

[@og_haq8941]

who else is here watching the video because the teacher set it as work because we are in lockdown

[@janetritchie7499]

Nice assignment! Your teacher sounds like a good instructor.

[@Mrbfgray]

I was 7 when compiled a dozen childish rock examples for a school project, specimens I can remember today were the glacial polished granite's that most intrigued me and made sense as explained by my geologist dad... 'machined' wavy glossy rock you'd not normally expect. That was the sort of rock we'd love to drive our Matchbox Cars on. :D

[@globalheart]

6100 BC is when the final portion of land bridge (what was left of Doggerland) to Europe was enveloped by the Channel and submerged, after a shelf slide off the coast of Norway. This video ends with misinformation, Doggerland is well known beneath the depths.

[@clairekos9197]

Great show, thank you 🙂

[@andygray9285]

Thank you for your uploads

[@josedess8823]

Mr Tony Robinson is a fantastic teacher good orator has a very high knowledge of history geography and know how

[@georgerobartes2008]

We found the clay line in Romford as kids nearly 60 years ago in the sand and gravel pits that were extensive around the East of London . I live at the bottom of one of the terminal moraines from the Ipswichian glaciation period , a series of parallel mounds of sands and gravels that created the river courses that flow West to East from the Thames to the Orwell at Ipswich . What was missed in this episode was the ancient forest exposed on the North and South banks of the Thames near Purfleet and Erith which were probably killed off by the low temperatures that were present during that last age . Don't be fooled by this 10000 year cycle thing and the planet should be getting colder . Historically it never happened like that and the Earth , ancient writings , early recordings and continuous record keeping since the 17th Century has shown that along the way we have had mini dips and peaks in temperatures , with much smaller dips and peaks within those that may last 50-100 years that take part in that extremely gradual cycle . The last period of major cooling was in the 17th century when the great Thames itself froze over with Ice so thick , bonfires and fairs were held on it and it was used as a highway and crossing . Harbours froze and summers very cold and wet . Climate change caused by industrial activity , not a bit of it . UK had very little industrial output up until that time and was mainly agricultural with ' as green as you can get ' technology wind and watermills driving heavy machinery such as cannon boring machines and a population much much smaller than today , that the recorded death toll at the Battle of Naseby in the Civil War of around 880 in a total of some 28 000 participants was huge and made headline news in the ' Chapman ' papers , the early newspapers of the time sold by tradesmen and journeymen all over the nation . I'm no " Climate Change Denier ".how can I be I've just spoke of climate change in geological and historical record terms , I just haven't seen the evidence that we are in a long period of global warming caused by population growth or industry because , to put it simply the science doesn't go back that far . At the beginning of the ' Age of Enlightenment ' also in the 17th C , there were just as many scientists with crackpot and crazy theorists in order to try to gain from fame , as good ones that were entitled to enter the hallowed halls of the Royal Society . Now that science has spread from the Old World around the globe , I'm guessing the same is as true today as it was 350 years ago . Human nature is just simply that and unchanged in the homo sapiens species for millennia .

[@George.Andrews.]

I remember hearing about the skeletons of monkeys and lions a third bigger than anything we have today found in the railway cuttings near Romford. According to the natural history museum in London Earth is below its average temperature now but in the rising phase

[@pauldirac808]

At last common sense . Thank you . Unfortunately it’s now being used as a hammer to tax and restrict peoples movement . It has become the religion of business and government propped up by media lying by omission .

[@iandennis7836]

So you don't think that pumping gigatons of CO2 and other shit into the air and water is having ANY effect at all? Riiight....(backs away slowly keeping eye contact)

[@darrellcross4538]

Hi Ian, ( roll my eyes lol) I think your taking what was said a bit out of context, I don’t believe George R was saying our pumping out billions of tons of carbon didn’t or doesn’t have an effect, I thought he was making his own observations and thoughts known and good on him. As for carbon…. Well throughout the history of this planet there have been many times when carbon in the atmosphere was way higher then now, some era’s 6x some 8x. Those stages in Earths history are referred to as “green Earth” periods and for 85% of earths history the Earth was hotter and greener than now, so there where forests etc on both the (ice free) Artic and Antarctic land masses. We are currently in an ice age (defined when there is ice at both poles) and are in an interglacial of that ice age. An interglacial is a period of warming during an ice age and we are (maybe not now lol) going back into the ice age proper, should take another 8,000 years to get back to ice covered Europe and a mile of ice on top of New York (maybe not now though). With all the carbon we have been pumping out we’ve managed to raise the earths temp by 1.5 degrees in 150 years, well during the green earth periods earths atmosphere was on average 6 degrees warmer then now so we’ve a way to go yet. So we stop carbon pumping and go into to an ice age, doesn’t sound like fun to me. We keep on pumping out carbon and end up with higher sea levels but have freed from ice all the land currently under ice. As in Earths history only 15% of the time has it been gripped in ice ages being a lot greener and warmer is actually more the “normal” then what we have now. As for pollution etc, fully agree that we should be a lot more responsible in our undertakings, we should aim for more renewables, recycle, reduce waste etc etc but carbon is not the enemy people are led to believe. Patrick Moores “planet of the humans” is worth a watch or the BBC has IN OUR TIME “The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum”. Both on KZbin Cheers,

[@townview5322]

@@iandennis7836 In the previous episode, we watched volcanoes spewing millions on cubic metres of dust and smoke and lava into the air. That surely would have made a difference to the climate. I'm all for pollution control, but no, I don't think we're entirely responsible for the climate change we've been experiencing.. I also saw a documentary in the 1970's which calculated that if every car was replaced by a horse, pollution would be worse. Who knows who to believe?

[@meeeka]

Thanks for these; might you also have the third episode?

[@1984potionlover]

Savage Britain! Just look at what happened to Tony's pant leg at 31:42!

[@amadillo666]

love your uploads Reijer thank you so much

[@captainkrunchthewall]

like no scientist in this series can keep a straight face i bet its cause they feel like theyre talking to baldrick

[@philmcgroin7770]

It's all part of his "cunning plan".

[@imbwildrd3693]

Unfortunately "Chris" doesn't know much about drumlins. He's very wrong about how they form. They don't just form egg shaped mounds from the pressure of the ice. As the glacier moves forward it pushes and gathers boulders, dirt, rocks, sand, organic debris, etc. When there was a large/heavy enough bunch of material, it would settle out of the glacier. It is well known that drumlins are composed of rocks, boulders, dirt, sand, and silt, among others. A pile of that stuff doesn't just appear because of a mile high glacier's weight as "Chris" suggests.

[@Pauldjreadman]

I still have Boldrick in my head. I have never seen this series before.

[@jenniferholden9397]

Pauldjreadman He has a very cunning plan for Captain B. It was the beast Blackadder.

[@gg-gg-gg-gg]

really? he's made so many documentaries. great presenter.

[@gg-gg-gg-gg]

I know him as Fat Tulip first and foremost.

[@THESECRETSPECTRUM]

very nice documentary....love Britain from india

[@MrsRosencranz1]

Fabulous. Thanks so much for these!

[@adamsjerome1839]

I am in Ontario, Canada. All of the developments in Toronto have to take into account the rebound of bedrock when designing a tall structure.

[@petenielsen6683]

I guess if I ever get to go visit Loch Ness I should consider myself forewarned since I am a MacDonald.

[@jean-lucpicard5510]

Your Hamburgers are too small.

[@kaloarepo288]

That rock looks so precarious it probably would only take a couple of chaps to send it hurtling down the cliff side!

[@creativeusername5867]

who else here from their geography homework

[@ahiyanali7231]

Creative Username lol

[@ahiyanali7231]

Same

[@ririkachabashira8112]

Same

[@rebecca.cookson3318]

same

[@annoyed707]

Having lived in or near the Canadian Rockies, much of the scenery from the highlands looks familiar.

[@Rancid_One]

14:28 “ The Earth’s climate isn’t always the same “ .. like Tony , I knew that .

[@stephenjohnhopkinson8096]

Where was this hiding it's excellent 👌❤

[@PaigeDWinter]

I could just listen to Tony say "Glacier" all day!

[@derpyto3z]

Glassier

[@verylikelydeath4500]

you dont

[@briandoyle667]

These eco warriors need to watch this kind of education. Very excellent!! I spent a while in Canada and saw what the ice age did at carving that country out. I remember seeing a round boulder at the side of the road with a plaque by the side of it. The sign stated that this huge boulder was left by the last ice age. I love this kind of stuff and really appreciate the amount of time and energy that these educated people put into it. Fantastic Tony!!!

[@dianahutsel-demers1306]

Tell Chris he missed a drumland hill, He has to recount them,,,,,,lol.

[@larrygrimaldi1400]

Tony does such great documentaries, you learn a lot about geology.

[@emsnewssupkis6453]

And we know that normal Interglacials last..10,000 years which is about how long our own Interglacial is at this point in time.

[@emsnewssupkis6453]

Naturally, they end the story with 'global warming' which is childish. A little bit of gas isn't going to stop vast, titanic, ASTRONOMICAL forces that drive the Ice Age cycles.

[@dancingwithnature5303]

So Glasgow was formed when a glacier laid some eggs!

[@TheRickie41]

A perfect geohistorical documentary. And glimpse of the near future, too, as our interglacial comes to an end.

[@jamesellsworth8147]

Drumlins were created by the water rushing underneath the ice and held their under pressure by the ice not by the ice bringing them off otherwise they would have been flat

[@katiemacaffer3834]

POV your here in a geography lesson :)

[@marksadventures3889]

"Excuse me Mr. MacDonald, follow me ....yes just stand there whilst I push that rock". "We've known for ages that climates change regularly" - tell Greta.

[@adamlea6339]

It is the rate of change and the ability to adapt that matters, which is the major issue with anthropogenic climate change. Transitions to ice ages and interglacials take place over many thousands of years, not a couple of hundred, and even then there are mass extinctions.

[@ENZEEVIDS]

super interesting series. i wish there was more docos of this quality available. thanks for posting ;]

[@elirien4264]

I found this weird little Britcom a while back. I can't remember what it was called, but it was set in Ancient Rome. And Tony made a guest appearance and the best part, he played and archeologist.

[@chiggsytube]

At 3:00, Adrian Shine is so cagey about what he's seen at the bottom of the loch! Instantly does the verbal equivalent of a squid's ink cloud with the answer and changes the subject! Adrian! What have you seen? Brother Shine! What have you seen?

[@philmcgroin7770]

Sasquatch.

[@cruisepaige]

He is God.

[@cruisepaige]

He would not denounce the myth, it would be economically damaging to the tourism industry of the area.

[@grip2617]

It must have been a very gradual process, enough time for people to adapt.

[@grindupBaker]

British had a famous saying in the Ice Age "Mustn't grumble. Could be worse. Could be raining."

[@sarah-jaynemackay2740]

Absolutely brilliant 👍

[@TheEvilDruid1]

Dr. Christina Bell,.....yum. SOLD! Where do I sign?

[@YABBAHEY1]

Second that, she didn't get much air time did she ?

[@chattykathie7129]

So the ice isn’t a true indication of man’s use of fossil fuel influencing the climate.

[@jocla1]

Very interesting. Thank you. For what it is worth my house is on the side of a hill made of Morrains and at about 300 feet above the fjord that was left by the glacier. So this really hit home even though I live in eastern Canada.

[@elliewood6638]

So many people were sent this for school. I'm just scrolling down the comment section.

[@darceythesillygoose6606]

Same 😂

[@dawnarobertson9577]

There was another HUGE factor, not mentioned, that formed the division of Britain from the Continent-the events re: the Storegga landslide and the subsequent drowning of Doggerland. I wish that had been discussed.

[@kenwinston2245]

Miles, feet ... yeah. Sounds like not all the rest of the world has gone metric 😃 love your shows Mr. Robinson.

You moron.

[@CurmudgeonExtraordinaire]

The Brits are a mix of metric and Imperial measurements... When you are driving, the longer distances on the road signs are measured in miles, the shorter distances (like to the next exit) are measured in yards, and bridge clearances are measured in meters. And beer is mandated to be sold in Imperial pints (20 oz per imperial pint, but each ounce is slightly smaller than a US pint which results in a beer of just slightly over 19 US ounces). Some things get measured in kg, but people might refer to their weight in stones and pounds. Although the metric system tried to be based on some sort of natural constants, in the end, it is just another arbitrary system of measurement. As an engineer, I can deal with either of the systems. Even in the US system, we sometimes use decimals instead of fractions for certain types of measurements. Our gasoline is dispensed in decimal gallons. Machinist use decimal measurements (1/1000ths of an inch) for tolerances and other sizes measurements on lathes and milling machines. When I'm reloading ammo for my firearms, I measure the length of the brass cartridges and overall length of the reloaded cartridges with a caliper that measures in 1/1000ths on an inch. The powder charges are measured in 1/10ths of a grain (7000 grains per pound). With the metric system, you might measure powder in grams, but to get the same sort of accuracy, you'll need to measure in more than 1/100ths of a gram since 1/100th of a gram is about twice what 1/10th of a grain would be. The Brits usually use the Celcius temperature scale, but sometimes they use Fahrenheit. To maintain a similar level of granularity with the Fahrenheit scale, you need to use half degrees in Celsius. There's nothing magical about the metric system, it's just another arbitrary system of measurement.

[@cruisepaige]

We have miles in the US but they are different from UK miles!

[@CurmudgeonExtraordinaire]

@@cruisepaige -- I think the UK miles are the same as the US miles. Their gallons are larger which is why you see cars over there quoted as getting better gas mileage than the same car here.

[@cruisepaige]

Grumpy OldMan oh yeah it’s gallons!!

[@ganryu415]

The glaciers and ice sheets that covered the northern U.S. during the last ice age were thousands of times larger. I live at one end of a moraine that stretches from just North of St. Louis clear up past the Great Lakes. That means the Glacier was over 700 miles long. And that was one of the small ones. The entire Great Plains were formed by such glaciers.

[@annk.8750]

@Adam, just south of me in Ohio there is a long chain of small lakes and gravel pits, marking the most recent limit of the ice sheets here. Sometimes an ordnance survey map can give you sufficient evidence to plot the extent. Lake Erie has a number of raised shorelines that are quite distinct. On the western part of the state, it went further south, to a town called, fittingly, "Moraine".

[@RicTic66]

Really glacier envy/competition? This is a documentary about the ice age in Britain. What the hell has glaciers in America got to do with anything. There are glaciers today in Antarctica, Greenland and the Arctic bigger than anywhere else, but no one felt the need to mention them as their relevance to the Ice age in Britain is zero. Ok well done America had big glaciers thousands of years before it was America. You win 😩

[@scottwhitley3392]

The ice sheet that covered Britain also covered the entire North Sea, Scandinavia, northern Germany, Poland, the Baltic the Baltic Sea and western Russia. There were once massive glaciers flowing from the Norwegian mountains into then dry North Sea creating massive deposits of Moraine that when the ice melted and the North Sea filled up with water took several thousand years to flood over again.

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

@@RicTic66 They are very insecure, bless em. New kids on the block, so they have to boast about everything. And the rest of us go ' Yeah, right, you keep chewing on that teething ring!'

[@adamlea6339]

@@RicTic66 Always seems to be Americans that have to prove they have something bigger and better. Behind the bravado they must be deeply insecure.

[@polyboroides2615]

I believe that the next Ice Age will begin when the Gulf Stream Drift stops flowing.

[@gbeachy2010]

John Muir, a native Scot, originally theorized that glaciers carved Yosemite.

[@JohnS916]

The whole Sierra Nevada mountain range where Yosemite is located was heavily shaped by glaciers. I live below the Sierras and have driven over them more times than I can count. Evidence of glacier activity is obvious everywhere.

[@annk.8750]

Scotland, being relatively bare of overlying soils, is a wonderful place to observe geology. Indeed, Hutton and others pioneered many of the hypotheses that were borne out by much later science. We were on a nice little trail dedicated to Muir in Dunbar, where you can walk along the shore of the Firth of Forth on many steeply-tilted layers, thus being able to traverse millions of years all at one signposted level.

[@benediktmorak4409]

as i said already in part 1,looking forward to see part 2!

[@Irmushka]

Can we get the link to the interactive map from Glasgow university

[@rileyhoffman6629]

Sir Tony: you are a treasure talking about treasure. What could be a more wonderful way to spend the minutes? Thanks.

[@kathardman2152]

Talk 'bout Ice Age! Here in US,GNWest we had the same, 3 miles thick in Seattle, then the Missoula floods, the Bonneville floods 12,000 years ago. Voila! The famous Columbia River Gorge.

[@MauriatOttolink]

Would the southern edge of the sheet have been a cliff face or a gradually thickening layer..as you might say the shallows?

[@scottwhitley3392]

It would have been a gradually thickening later like you see on the coast of Antarctica and Greenland

[@MauriatOttolink]

@@scottwhitley3392 Thank you Scott. So I guess that it advanced in that format at the start?

[@scottwhitley3392]

MauriatOttolink the ice sheets in Europe would have first formed in the Scottish highlands and Norwegian mountains and slowly advance to lower elevations as the snow fall built up over the years

[@josephwolfe1833]

I was cruising through the comments and noticed nothing from creationists! Maybe they don't watch You-Tube!!!

[@briancaldwell7305]

Joseph, I' m one! Since God has been around forever we are now greatful to science to show us how He did it. I guess Moses didn't have all the details right: he got the general idea.

[@eoinociarain7986]

they prefer a book, maybe you should read one as well.

[@larapalma3744]

@@briancaldwell7305 oh jesus yes ancient fukking goat herders

[@veldawells2839]

Superb. Educational. Wonderfuy presented. Great examples to paint a picture of glaciation. Britain's landscape is so beautiful and full of hidden historical treasures. Great episode. I think Tony Robinson is a national treasure. He deserves recognition for his role in teaching, presenting and showing us all about archaeology, history and the natural environment.

[@tinahedge5569]

Kinda funny that I've learned FAR more about this planet from the internet, than 16 years of school. Now,..... If everybody would get their shitt together on geological time frames, events, etc. THAT would be less confusing. And are they frikkkin GlassyErs... Glaciers..... WTH?.....

[@kimstyles4006]

They speak English, we speak North American. Just saying.☺

[@davehallett3128]

You can hear tony say glaciation not glassiation at the top of the building and once he forgets the pretense on the ship with adrian shine and says glacier so no rules to british pronunciation

[@phantomwalker8251]

tru..education is mainstream,not educational,as in our history,where we came from,its all keep them dumb but make a shit load of money.look up dogon,zulu,myths,hindu scripts,,they all say we came from the stars,sirius,orion,?,theres 3.forgot the last.the dogon knew of sirius,2 stars,before we knew sirius existed.the egyptions settled in egypt,after,,,the pyramids were thousands of yrs old..they were part of a world wide power grid..but dont tell no one...

[@CurmudgeonExtraordinaire]

There are so many different accents in British English that I suspect that you can go just a few miles and find it pronounced differently.

[@ScottWilliamson]

Drink a shot each times he says "glaciers".

[@1984potionlover]

It's a program about the last Ice Age, so talking about glaciers is a given. If this was a video about making swords, would you be surprised to find that the word "sword" is likely to crop up a fair bit?

[@Malegys]

No mention of Doggerland & the UK being connected to Denmark?

[@bungy007]

I was looking forward to that!

[@kennicholson1590]

They did mention being joined to France.

[@PerryTribeMetalBaker]

there is a time team special dedicated to just that :)

[@phantomwalker8251]

you missed it,look again..

[@wanderingohm]

That was the last episode

[@alexhayden2303]

The South Coast is sinking, at the rate of 1 inch/100 years, as Scotland rises, due to a return to pre Ice Age conditions. Is the supposed current warming, in anyway related to a change in Earth's orbit?

[@adamlea6339]

No. Changes in the Earth's orbit happen over cycles of tens of thouands of years. Current climate change is happening over a couple of hundred years and has been established to be caused by the increase in greenhouse gases.

[@slook7094]

Loch Ness may be a glacial lake, but it's in the Great Glen Fault, which already existed before the ice age.

[@samuel10125]

And all of Britains volcanos are dead.

[@scottwhitley3392]

Yeah Loch Ness would have been there regardless of an ice age just not as deep, it’s lochs like loch Tay, loch Rannoch and loch Morar which were carved out by ice

[@blaggercoyote]

I used to live in Hornchurch - more than 55 years ago. No idea of the geology!

[@lesliefranklin1870]

I'm a little confused by the timing of when Great Britain was connected to Continental Europe. My understanding that they were connected by Doggerland about 8000 years ago, circa 6500 BCE. The narrator says it was hundreds of thousands of years ago. There seems to be an inconsistency here.

[@phantomwalker8251]

i heard that u.k,came up from around africa,to where it is now.may be thats how the lions ect got there.

[@13minutestomidnight]

Probably because the White Cliffs of Dover and the shaping of the south of England alongside the basic shape of the channel was during that very severe ice-age - which was what he was referencing - but the channel was much shallower a few thousand years ago and still functioned as a landbridge? As far as I can remember anyway, but google will confirm how faulty my memory is Edit: Yep, I'm really that lazy

[@ianrutherford878]

Leans bike against a Glasgow lamp post and walks away----cut! Crew rush and put bike in a van before someone else rides away on it.

[@angusmcbastard4252]

" ...and till now he has found nothing...no surprise there , then...wait, wut...NO! , oh God no!! Please NO! NO!! Aaaaargh ! "

[@sheilawhite8314]

I remember being on a caravan holiday with my parents and going to Loch Ness went to car park they all got out I stayed inside and our dog trixie was getting closer to the edge . Was rocks and then black dark I said get her away it wasn't nice I can tell you in back in the 60s

[@chhetripravin736]

Baldrick is much smarter than projected by Blackadder 😂😂😂

[@scottwhitley3392]

He’s an archaeologist by trade, he did show called time team, were they dig up ww1 battle sites ect

[@grahamcook9289]

The Great Glen, including Loch Ness, is a rift valley. The glaciation is just a superficial feature.

[@rainforestbogeyman]

It’s so amusing to see how he avoids even to mention the other half of the story: what happened to that 2000ft thick ice sheet? He explained how was formed, but nothing about what melted the ice sheet and made it retreat 3-4000 miles north to the Arctic sheet? The stone agers roasting their deers on fires?

[@badfairy9554]

What a rock star.

[@bastrous9121]

Where would the ice bellow the level of Glen Coe have moved to. How can you say the ice carved the loch to seven hundred feet?

[@stephanynovais01]

I'm only here because I have to watch this for school.... Am I the only one?

[@foonghost]

Same

[@1984potionlover]

Oh the horror of learning something because it makes you more knowledgeable! Were you born "lame", or is it something you are working on? The brain in your head is actually there for more than just insulation for your cranium, or so that the wind doesn't whistle through your ears.

[@stephanynovais01]

@@1984potionlover relatable 😂😂😂

[@ianrutherford878]

probably not and I think the dramatic music and his voice are tiresome,BUT I learned more at 72 from watching this and skipping some of his boring shit than I learned from any school teacher, so I think you are ,on balance fortunate to be able to see this.

[@ronnronn55]

So did you pass?