Greenland: The Land Of Ice Embracing Climate Change | Foreign Correspondent

Big nations might be struggling to avoid a two-degree temperature rise but the Arctic island of Greenland is welcoming it. A beautiful look inside how the island nation has changing attitudes about climate change.
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[@jeffgold3091]

he grew up during a cold period from the 50's to the 80's , ; the 20's and 30's were warm in greenland with melting similar to now .

[@agentxyz]

now i've got my Greenland playlist

[@martinking5040]

They should do a yearly update on the documentary.

[@brucefrykman8295]

How about 1000 year updates, far cheaper and a whole lot less boring.

[@Stacie45]

Those guys hit the jackpot with climate change. The rest of the world gets a coastal flood but the Greenlanders get a brand new continent.

[@maxheadrom3088]

That will also happen to northern Russia. The problem is what will happen to the rest of the world. Brazil, where I live, is probably going to dry out.

[@Stacie45]

@Dander Spat Here in California they want you to get solar but you never stop paying. Illegal to unhook from the grid. Even if you produce more than you use you must pay if you can afford to because someone has to pay for maintenance of the grid and it will not be paid for by the millions of people who get it for free.

[@brucefrykman8295]

Oh how we all wish California and New York could sink along with all their worthless socialists - We can only dream !

[@brucefrykman8295]

@@maxheadrom3088 RE: Brazil, where I live, is probably going to dry out." It's about time, you Portuguese drink far too much.

[@Stacie45]

@@brucefrykman8295 Unfortunately if those places sink the socialists will just move to other places, take over the government there and ruin those places too.

[@granskare]

I recall flying over Greenland and seeing dark places- I did not know what that meant at the time.

[@elizawalton3378]

What music do they use in this documentary?

[@yesno-cv2cd]

who decided the backround music for this vid

[@edispaghetti7263]

Can someone please tell me the name of the song at the beginning? It sounds soo beautiful but I cannot find it myself. Is it from Nanook?

[@knarf58]

EdiSpaghetti. Yes it is from Nanook

[@princesskimo2821]

I am from Pakistan and I just love Greenland. It has the most fantastic nature ever. Hope to visit it one day!

[@mvnorsel6354]

Strange as my 3 favourite countries are Greenland, Pakistan and Norway.

[@maryjeanjones1940]

Definitely in the Arctic Circle due to no trees. The sun never sets in the summer and winter has only a couple hours of sun per day. Would not be an easy place to call home.

[@mvnorsel6354]

Always glad I visited Greenland for 3 months in 1990. No country has helped me as much.

[@adayinforever]

1:49. That lisp lmao. Reminds me of Neil from Family Guy.

[@ssk3192]

What is the name of the song at 15:37 ???

[@paxwallacejazz]

The thing thats never mentioned is that as the Greenland ice sheet melts so quickly then the whole landmass will rise is rising this in turn might have the unexpected effect of increasing awakening volcanism all over Greenland.

[@brucefrykman8295]

Aw shit, I never considered that....Godzilla is hibernating there. I read a "science" article all about it.

[@robertfiacchino7602]

What are we , the best engineers on the planet , doing to conserve or capture need fresh water ?

[@johncash4671]

LMAO! I always get a good laugh when I read posts like yours! ROFLMAO

[@trevorlorde8843]

very interesting...the very last song is very haunting and interesting...who is the artist?

[@DeletriusX]

14:57 Ice yeets pass behind the man

[@denisp8214]

ily

[@vegasstevo]

Real clean lab. The guy is handling fish taken from the gut of a bigger fish without gloves or sanitation protocols.

[@GR33TINGSEARTHL1NGS]

It's a fish. It isn't uranium. But then again, I'm sure you, the KZbin commenter has all the expertise that he lacks?

[@Kungs.]

This won’t be the first time climate change has happened for Greenland. Eric the Red named it Greenland partly because in those days there was nowhere near as much ice as there is today and temps were warmer. But During the Middle Ages the little ice age occurred and Greenland became too cold and the resulting harsh living conditions caused the Vikings to abandon Greenland.

[@rangemog21]

As a child in school, I learned that mountians where made by pushed up land. Now only the sea can rise. That there are still vulcanos to remind us that we live on the thin crunch of a verry hot liquid ball dus'nt matter for some " cientists " . When I sit in a train in a station and my mind wonders of trough the window, and the train next to the one I sit in go's off , it looks for some seconds that my train is moving. So, we walk and drive and build on land, so that is the solid reference. Stupid is the best word. And it's not that it is warmer in one country that it not is colder in others.... Who is mesuring the temperature of the air above the oceans ? The fish ? ( 75 % of the earth surface... )

[@torefoss7654]

"Who is measuring the temperature of the air above the oceans ?" I was planning on a little ironic answer, but let's be polite. You have probably heard that meteorologists have used satellites for some time to measure high and low pressures, temperature, wind-speed and direction?. The first weather satellite, Vanguard 2, was launched on February 17, 1959. Of course capabilities have improved greatly since then. The first satellite with high-resolution FTIR spectroscopy capabilites was launched in 1998. FTIR Spectroscopy has the capability to see how much heat the different greenhouse gases radiates back into space. Water vapor is the winner, but we can't do much with that as it is linked to the temperature of oceans and athmosphere. CO2 comes in on a good second place, and that we can do something about. You see, add a little CO2, it gets warmer thus more water vapor....and there you go.

[@1lightheaded]

It’s obvious that you learned little in school . You didn’t learn how to express yourself in grammatically correct sentences

[@rangemog21]

@@1lightheaded You are right sweety, I learnd shit at school, most of it was brainwashing by priests and brainwashed teachers. Grammatically I learnd Dutch and French, my English , German, some Polish, Italian and Spanish, and all the rest I know, I teached myself. It costed me 71 years and I stil learn. That people like to play the man and not the ball. That school is the way to learn and that learning end at the school. Some paper on the wall or a name on a desk. And that's making you and the rest of the bunch, autoretys and " experts" . If you know subjects better then me, write it down in grammatically correct sentences. O, by the way, computerprogrames have shown where we will be with the climat in 2050. That ther's nobody who has feed his computer with the positive results for the climat by the Covid-19 , the backdrop of the economie and transport, etc proofs that nobody knows what 2050 will bring if they where not capable to know what 2020 brought and 2021 and the next years will deliver. It's posible that we go back to 1945 in the economie if it's not to the stone ages. They make fast some vaccins and the virus faster mutations. Do the name Darwin rings your schoolbell ? I see on your open mouth that I and the rest of the world will not have your reply.

[@Larkinchance]

Beautiful kids... Happy kids

[@Luanne_Ashe]

Change is frightening, but also a constant in this world. The beauty of humanity is ADAPTATION and INNOVATION. Greenland has not always been ice. Ask the Vikings.

[@Luanne_Ashe]

@Dark Abyss duh.

[@Funkteon]

I grew up near the beach in Tasmania, and have now lived near the beach in Melbourne for 15 years, and in the last 30 years, the sea has not risen anywhere near me, not one bit. When I look at old photo's and paintings of the area, even from 100 years ago, the beach was identical to what it is today..

[@sackarsch6572]

It has risen on average maybe two inches. In some areas thats a lot.

[@Seychelles-10.]

That proves nothing. In the Atlantic Ocean, close to where I live the difference between low and high tide is around 2 meters. North of France the M'ont Saint Michel. In the low tide is surrounded by sand and quick sands. In high tide it's an Island. The difference there is around 15 meters. So forget about the reef corals that became islands retaining sand and called some strange names like Seychelles, Maldives, the ones you blew up, the Bikini islands. (The first H bomb was tried there. Don't go visit. Polynesian and Micronesia are Islands are a dozen or less feet above sea level. Check some videos on KZbin and you'll know. Yes the sea level is rising.

[@markstevenduke]

When ice melts in a glass of water the level does not rise!

[@Seychelles-10.]

@@markstevenduke Because the ice was in the water. The ice from Greenland is on Land. So it will be added. The same goes to Artic Ice. Most of it is salt water Salt water ice shrinks when frozen, if it melts it will increase in volume. The same can be said about the huge glaciers in Antarctica not to speak of the liquid water that's dilating because of the warming up. Try a better Science project next time.

[@markstevenduke]

@@Seychelles-10. Ya! If it is on land your right..The geoengineering of our weather is making everything worse.

[@earthn1447]

Great video! Thank you

[@justinemassey]

It must be crazy having to adjust to such sudden changes in their environment. This is a good example of how challenging climate change can be. It makes things that used to be stable suddenly very unpredictable.

[@lucbos7516]

Record ice and cold will teach them a lesson Climate change is a hoax

[@derekborkent2899]

I'm absolutely panicking about that 0.01° C per year temperature increase. Ffew!!!

[@sh0werp0wer]

I always think it's kind of insulting when documentaries from English speaking countries put on subtitles whenever a foreigner speaks perfectly intelligible English, just because he has an accent. I had no problem at all hearing or understanding what he said.

[@massatube]

Yes but in the end the guy speaks in his native language. Did you understand that, without reading the subtitles?

[@sh0werp0wer]

@@massatube Nope, but that's not the part I'm referring to, either. I'm referring to when he's speaking English, which he does pretty much the entire show.

[@massatube]

@@sh0werp0wer IKDat (I Know Dat)

[@yoman5136]

Might do it for hard of hearing folks that have trouble with accents.

[@firebird01]

01:13 i like that Song. Whats the Name of it? ^^

[@nojlen]

allannguteqarusuppunga ( Frederik Elsner )

[@Exonesmovie]

This is best place to live ,,,

[@davidmatthews631]

I haven’t noticed sea levels rising. Not it getting warmer.

[@naturalremedy8092]

-This is a message from the oil industries- Fun Fact : The Earth is actually cooling so more fossil should be burned to compensate

[@Lamalas]

I'm confused. How do the lakes dry up with more ice melting?

[@marleenmathews]

Lakes dry up due to the rise in temperature. It dries out the soil so much that it can no longer absorb any water, so all water that comes down from the melting glaciers due to the same rise in temperature, has no where to go but to cause floods and mudslides or until it finally does reach soil that can absorb some of the water.

[@geoh7777]

The lake in the last part of the video mostly drained when the part of the glacier that was damming it up melted.

[@Lamalas]

That sounds logical. Is the following thinking also correct?: the arctic warms faster then the rest of the planet, so the temperature differential is smaller, leading to less condensing watter in and therefor less rain?

[@thejarjosh]

m.phys.org/news/2016-02-parched-earth-sea.html

[@derPetunientopf]

@@Lamalas One effect of higher temperature rise in the arctic is that the weather will be more stationary. The Wind that moves the rain clouds and in general weather is mostly caused by the different temperatur of the arctic and the lower parts of the planet. Less difference in temperatur means less wind. So you get a flood at one place and another place not to far away will at the same time get not enough rainfall. We already experince this in central europe.

[@mickpeacher5162]

The Vikings sailed to a beautifull island that they called Greenland because it was covered in trees and vegetation they stayed there for three hundred years but then it got colder and froze. So now it is thawing...

[@bsmith8950]

You forgot to say that 1000 years ago the Danes and the Vikings colonised Greenland in large numbers and set up farms. This was during the ''medieval warm period '' when global temperatures were about 5c hotter than todays, and large areas of ice disappeared so farming could take place , this lasted about 400 years until the northern hemisphere went into the ''little ice age '' in about 1400 and the ice sheets returned and the Danes and Vikings left. So Greenland being ice free is not a new phenomenon, it has happened many times over the last 18,000 years.

[@dias3244]

Tunas Yansen studying fish... could help myself.

[@robertbissett]

Well done video and they make a pretty strong case. But you can never take such things as face value. Gotta do a little checking. In just a few minutes searching I discovered that Greenland was just as warm back in the thirties. It cooled off about 1.5 degrees till the 50's, then started warming up again. Seems odd they failed to inform us of this important fact. Important why? Because it means something other than CO2 caused the warming in the 30's and that something could well be doing it again.

[@EveryoneWhoUsesThisTV]

There are short, medium and long term term trends and cycles in temperature from many sources, it always gets dumbed down for general audiences. We have entered a sun cycle called the Modern Grand Solar Minimum, so we get some relief for 25 or so years, but the overall long term temperature trend will likely continue upward I expect the cool cycle will be used as evidence of major global cooling by those who will benefit from that narrative

[@lucbos7516]

Record ice and cold will teach them a lesson Climate change is a hoax

[@OmnisLibertas]

A minor glimpse in time given the changes over the past million years.

[@rainbomikie]

How strange indeed seeing that God spoke this Universe into being only six thousand years ago.

[@freedem41]

It is so weird that folk cannot make logical steps. A high school science class can fill a closed fish tank with different gasses and measure how much each will absorb different wavelengths of light. Careful measurements and you can know precisely how much per pound of carbon. It is also not a difficult exercise to get a ball park figure of how much fossil carbon has been burned. Every bit of that carbon is no longer fossilized and the total heat is also added to each hour so that is more than 100 years ago, and what was added then is also hanging about. You can point to other things all you want , but that thing remains the huge non natural thing that swamps everything else because the scale is also a part of the calculation,

[@joemonroe9456]

The ground and space are giant heat sinks. Co2 has negligible effect on climate which is why we never had run away global warming .

[@freedem41]

@Porcelain Throne fossil carbon would be naturally still underground but for humans digging it up and burning it. You can call that natural but then the natural result is mass extinction as has happened many times before. The question is if humans are smart enough to not make it worse.

[@freedem41]

@@joemonroe9456 the earth is net positive for heat so no heat sink there. Space can be and has been the primary heat sink except that greenhouse gasses change the balance causing the heat to accumulate. The big difference is all the fossil carbon reintroduced that was locked away. It is not just what has accumulated to date that has caused what we see, but more added every day means the rate of change will accelerate as the total increases.

[@freedem41]

@Porcelain Throne you may not care and inanimate things may not care, The rest of the worlds critters do care but can't do anything about it. Only the empathetic part of humanity are capable of doing anything, and there may not be enough of them soon enough. They say that with bacon and eggs the chicken is involved but the pig is committed. Well Boomers may indeed be involved but Millennials are increasingly committed and that is the last hope.

[@freedem41]

@Porcelain Throne actually that is an interesting question very throughly investigated by the writers in the several years of the original Star Trek. Spock started out as a superior being but as the exploration wore on he ended up very maimed by his lack of emotions. This was not a planned thing but a place driven by trying to write for that charector. You will notice that when they redid the show they had the anti-Spock as Data. Rather than having enotions and trying not to, Data does not have emotions but seeks them out. Lor his "brother" also lacks emotions and sees them as a weakness. All this of course is "literature" but the writers actually struggle and discuss this in the episodes and beyond and that is a big part of why they are so classical. In point of fact there are people who have brain damage and lose all emotions, and they are indeed extremely disabled as the foundation of every action starts with emotions, even if logic helps with specifics in achieving the goal it is emotions that set every goal. Empathy of course is another matter of discovering in yourself how others would feel in a circumstance. The ripping babies out of their mothers arms never to be seen again is a perfect example of a total lack of empathy, added to the lack of understanding of almost everyone else who had the slightest amount of empathy would also react. This is of course quite different from sympathy of only a positive response as those with the empathy for the folk deciding to grab the children would have a much more negetive reaction of horror that such a mind could exist.

[@Plainsman1300]

Do some history of the Viking settlements from 900ad to 1400ad when GREENLAND was GREEN.

[@SouthernInquirer55]

Beautiful production.. ominous message.

[@Barskor1]

The simple solution to Greenland's drying out is to put many small rock and earth dams and planting reeds and willows on and around that slow the flow of water so it can be absorbed into the surrounding land this has worked in Australia it would also prevent the evident soil loss in the muddy waters flowing out to the sea.

[@Seychelles-10.]

Excellent idea. If only the water wasn't ICE 3.5 Kms deep. And it doesn't take much more than 100, 200 meters to have ice as hard as Rock.

[@Barskor1]

@@Seychelles-10. Did you watch the video? There are streams of water running off the glaciers that cross open land that is the areas to target.

[@Seychelles-10.]

@@Barskor1 Those streams are the result of the melting of glaciers. The more you see, the more you should worry. That water is going deep inside the glaciers and make it easier for them to slide towards the Ocean. We don't want that, do we? (Sorry for this message. I got word from KZbin that a post related to me had been posted today. I answered and I saw your post. I hadn't seen it before. So, there is why so long to get back). Cheers.

[@Barskor1]

@@Seychelles-10. Sunden glacial movent would be devastating In Washington State USA hundreds of miles where turned into wasteland from such water and ice release in the distant past a massive flash flood and avalanche all at the same time.

[@bohdanharasymiw4441]

too large,too late,too slow,under ice flow. too cold. greenland doesnt do trees atm

[@life42theuniverse]

Most of North America was at one time covered in glacier ice... "so vast it will never melt entirely" is not a thing.

[@kymuddy]

Some guys went to Greenland to recover a WW2 airplane it was 250 Feet under the ice after 10 years they recovered the last piece. they left a tractor on the ice shelf and went back 2 years later to try to recover another plane the tractor was under 40 more feet of ice. you need to get your story straight. or quit lying.

[@timahlf694]

The most it could be in 2 years is 12 feet that doesn't account for summer time melting.

[@simonreeves2017]

No one is saying it doesn't snow here in Winter anymore - it does. What is changing is the balance between new snow/ice in Winter, and melt rate in Summer.

[@danielwales7108]

Nice happy music. No probs here folks. Isn't it fun?

[@donnabailey947]

What language do they speak there?

[@borninjordan7448]

Greenlandic.

[@majbrittdidriksenraal1244]

Kalaallisut (Greenlandic), danish as second language, english, german and french and so on...

[@ia8018]

Kalaallisut (Greenlandic) is the official language

[@MiguelMendez-ug1nn]

Very different from when I was there 55 years ago.

[@charliebennett6335]

Seven meters of sea level rise.

[@ArmChairKoalaBare]

the mackerel migration is the species final attempt to survive......so why not fish them completely off lol

[@nani3069]

song title?

[@ditteberthels9070]

Artist Frederik Elsner they play more than one of his songs

[@chevtruck1000]

With all the panic caused by the ice melting off Greenland raising the oceans water level and at the same time the Ogallala aquifer running dry why isn't one being redirected into the other ? Perhaps there is value in letting clean fresh meltwater just dump into the ocean but I don't see it.

[@europaeuropa3673]

During medieval warming Greenland was farmed for such crops as barley by VIkings. It was a lot warmer back then then now.

[@donnabailey947]

Greenlanders no doubt.

[@hl8560]

Where did that Greenland name come from?

[@josemiranda9644]

Because a few tausends years was green but the whether change and became icy

[@brucefrykman8295]

@@josemiranda9644 it was actually *one* "thousand" years ago and how could we know anything about this "weather" change, because the world should have already ended because of it according to our current crop of worthless socialists.

[@TheKayaLM]

From Eric the Red, who came from Iceland and wanted people to follow him North, so the first propaganda was formed. He was outlawed and feared death if he stayed in Iceland, and didn't want to be alone in his new place.

[@brucefrykman8295]

@@TheKayaLM Vikings were growing barley and corn on Greenland 1000 years ago. Its is not possible today, far too cold.

[@TheKayaLM]

@@brucefrykman8295, yes?

[@nani3069]

0:28 what song ?

[@SimonSozzi7258]

The guy singing with the speech impediment is very courageous!🤟

[@nicodabastard]

Haha legend!!!

[@The_Mother.]

what speech impediment? what you hear is Kalaallisut! the language of Greenland... it just sounds like that!

[@mattematsson554]

January 29th - Isn't pitch black 24/7 that time of year? Today, 12th of March 2020, it's 43 degrees below zero Celsius. I check every day.

[@MICKEYISLOWD]

Despite the dire warnings from these kinds of docu's ABC does a really wonderful job and they make these docu's so easy and enjoyable to watch. I have saved these and watch them a few times over..pls do more like this because we need much much more on U-tube.

[@yousifatobiya7279]

How to reduce the heat of the earth and atmosphere? We must supply the earth with a natural cooling places... Results: ---------- 1- To balance the water vapor which produces between the( ground)and the(seas and oceans )... 2- To balance the pressures of the air in the atmosphere... 3- To balance the directions of winds which caused the climate change... 4- To control upon the storms and harricans... 5- To revive the the first theory of climate change (dynamic horizontal movement). 6- To balance the percentage of gases forming the atmosphere... NOTE :The lack of water vapor is of land not of seas and oceans... These studies had completed and sent on July 26th 2000... Yousif A Tobiya Forcibly displaced

[@shannonhunt7966]

The planet has been changing since day one. We are fool's to think we are changing the planet or currently can prevent the changes from happening

[@Craine28]

if greenland is the land of ice why isn’t called iceland?😂

[@hwaitingang9427]

I have a question: "Will doping/adding salt properties into the ice or ice surface increases the melting point of ice, thus prolonging the ice melting process?". Although i know it is not even close to be a good solution, and further studies have to be taken seriously to study on the effect and side-effect. "Is there any side effect out from this proposal, such as increase in water alkaline/acid concentration per volume of water or effect on marine life, even the ecosystem?"

[@selah71]

How about huge tarps?

[@yoman5136]

Salt melts the ice ! I iced the streets in Coupeville WA by my restaurant, The Seagull so people wouldn’t slide down the road. The bike race scene in “Practical Magic” has my brick home in the background then the restaurant in the Front Street shots the whole town was whitewashed and everyone got a check for $350.

[@yousifatobiya7279]

The summary of climate change is easy. It is the change of humidity in atmosphere, which produce between the (land)and the(seas & oceans) on the other hand... Occurring of rains, snow, storms, and floods at time and in unexpected places, confirms my theory(the change in the directions of winds)which must be balanced... How to reduce the heat of the earth and atmosphere? We must supply the earth with a natural cooling places... Results: ---------- 1- To balance the water vapor which produces between the( ground)and the(seas and oceans )... 2- To balance the pressures of the air in the atmosphere... 3- To balance the directions of winds which caused the climate change... 4- To control upon the storms and harricans... 5- To revive the the first theory of climate change (dynamic horizontal movement). 6- To balance the percentage of gases forming the atmosphere. NOTE :The lack of water vapor is of land not of seas and oceans... These studies had completed and sent on July 26th 2000... Yousif A Tobiya Forcibly displaced

[@gens2661]

When the first Viking name that island, they find wild grape. Maybe now if temperature rise high enough grape will grown again.

[@tomcochran6616]

Absolutely right nothing stays the same

[@thomasjones7115]

not understanding how just 1 or 2 degrees can devastate the earth's climate ultimately leading to an uninhabitable planet ... can anyone explain it in layman's terms ? ... thank you ..

[@Hendrikhendrik-om5ys]

what gets into the ground when oil and gas are taken up? what material has the ability to stabilize the subsoil as good as oil and compressed gas nothing can replace Oil and Gas so subsoil worldwide is and will be unstable.

[@laetitiavisagie2632]

Being from South Africa I find Greenland facinating, however, with the Antarctic so close, we can see similarities. If Antarctica was inhabited by humans, we would have seen a lot more concern for the way climate change is affecting the weather patterns of Antarctica

[@robertbaker6277]

Maybe the Vikings will come back now.

[@derekmoore2779]

The volcano's could be the cause of ice melting. It's called Greenland for a reason,

[@so-oo6ti]

I am concerned that Japan is trying to discharge radioactively contaminated water into the sea.

[@AllrightNOR]

Firsts song name:)?

[@jaaqum]

Nanook is the band but I don't know about the song.

[@jean-pierredevent970]

I looked at those coasts and had expected green pine forests but while there is a (thin?) layer fertile ground around that farm, you see also that when the ice melts, often barren rock is exposed .So I wonder if climate refugees in Greenland will have success there in growing grain.

[@brucefrykman8295]

Give it a rest. Greenland isnt changing at all.

[@jean-pierredevent970]

@@brucefrykman8295 Not yet, but soon it will be green again with forests and big cities like the vikings had during the warm medieval period.

[@jean-pierredevent970]

@@brucefrykman8295 I am not very left but more a science fan. I never read an article about one of our European scientists on the list of wealthiest people because he was funded. But there is much at stake here that republicans don't see: America is losing the lead in tech to China. It even doesn't matter is the earth warms or not, renewable energy is a very interesting technology. Storage is a problem, yes... but China wants to largely solve that with a global smart high voltage power grid They have more and more "soft" power. I personally wished USA could be the leader in all this because for now Chinese values seem to go all about money..

[@brucefrykman8295]

RE: "I am not very left but more a science fan" "Fan" - short for "fanatic" Fanatic definition: "a person filled with excessive and single-minded zeal, *especially for an extreme religious or political cause* ." A scientific mind abhors fanaticism, it is the antithesis of reason. Mediocrity and socialism are the handmaidens of cultural decline; government scientists, as their fellow welfare recipients, are contented with a their steady paychecks and their promise of lifetime employment for doing nothing. A "climate scientist" will never win a Nobel for this very reason: nothing useful results from their "work" Measuring "things" and endlessly clanging the alarm bell over short term variations, ever present in nature, is not science; it's nothing other than a clamor for more "funding" and more "careerism," the bane of progress. RE: "America is losing the lead in tech to China" Nonsense, China does not innovate, their language and their culture is not appropriate for it; they copy and mass produce using cheap labor. While the socialists force unworkable "green energy" solutions for non-existent problems on us, they will be on hand to sell it to the fools cheaper than anyone else. China is still building coal plants at a breakneck pace (more than one a week) in order to power windmill and solar factories to sell to socialist governments in their effort to convince the idiots that they can predict and even change weather patterns. Such gullibility is truly alarming. RE: "I personally wished USA could be the leader in all this because for now Chinese values seem to go all about money. I personally wished USA could be the leader in all this because for now Chinese values seem to go all about money. All about money? what does this mean? Isn't this what government is all about, I don't see much in the way of volunteer movements among the bureaucrats; they feed on other peoples earnings like starving sharks in heavily chummed waters. The USA will continue to lead the world as long as we hold onto capitalism; our government is furiously working to end this through the "education" of our malleable and gullible children.

[@jean-yvesmayer5026]

Stop the ships in the oceans.

[@dodgedriver9720]

buy greenland property ,, great news this climate change ...

[@nooneunique]

its not funny anymore. grow up, r u 12? i bet even 12 year olds are more mature about the subject than You. We are talking about Full Global Extinction. Not Funny. Hope Your Children Like Cannibalism because they will be the biggest food source for all the refugees. When things get real

[@dodgedriver9720]

@@nooneunique hahahaha what a moron .. i lived long enough to have seen all the bullshit scares ,, the ozone layer was depleting in the 80,s we were all going to burn up ... BS ,,,,, Al Gore film said we were suppose to be under water by now , then he buys a mansion on a California beach last year .. wake up , its a scam ...

[@Seychelles-10.]

@@dodgedriver9720 The Ozone layer depletion was so real that even the USA signed a World wide treaty to stop producing CFCs. And that layer protects us from Ultraviolet Radiation. It doesn't burn anything. You feel it as much as the X Rays you have had before. Finally, Al Gore. Lost the Presidential Elections so he decided to act like a true American. Lying to make money. In this case, he dramatized the future and told us 6 months, that's all we have. And that called Audiences and Book buyers and... a mansion was it? Why not a Castle. There are many in Scotland for sale. And we wouldn't have to hear about him for years. I agree with you on Al Gore.

[@yousifatobiya7279]

Lost of (????)L daily as a form of vapor of water from the ground,has a big effect to rise or reduce of temperature by veiling the rays of the sun,and decreasing the earth's radiation... Vapor condensation creates clouds that veil the sun totally,earth and atmosphere ... This a mount of water vapor became produced from(seas and oceans)... This means,the percentage of water vapor which produced from the ground and the (seas&oceans )is difficult... This means the pressures of the air in the atmosphere are different too... This case means the change in the directions of winds,which some called climate change and some called global warming, and then NINO and then LANINA, and this year they called global cooling... Results : These directions of winds, must be balanced... These studies had completed and sent on July 26th 2000... Yousif A Tobiya Forcibly displaced

[@Kvothe1994]

Why is he sad about glaciers melting?? It's like a bedouin getting sad that there is more grass in the desert

[@CHAOSmusic-2019]

______ In this debate to debate whether climate change exists or not, we forget the real and present problem, the pollution that kills millions of people every year in every breath we take. So we have to do something anyway __________

[@CHAOSmusic-2019]

@Porcelain Throne I do like your last sentence... And we have each our ways to see it. It's called democracy and respect of each other.

[@CHAOSmusic-2019]

@Porcelain Throne indeed .. fighting is unproductive... Even the "blame game" is unproductive as well. Let's just try to do the best we can individually... this is where the energy must be put ✌ and..is it indiscretion if I ask you from which country you're from ?

[@CHAOSmusic-2019]

@Porcelain Throne ok thanks...and me from your upper neighbor

[@CHAOSmusic-2019]

@Porcelain Throne lol winter is magical here but not when it reach minus 20 celsius. Otherwise, it's ok and now it's melting slowly at last. Lucky you, in Florida lol But you have the tropical storm problem....and here we have the snow storm problem lol

[@rocco1458]

Planet earth is slowly becoming as planet Marc.

[@jakebarratt5652]

Wish I could directly tag Trump

[@yousifatobiya7279]

The occurrence of stoms,rains,ice, and floods at times and in unexpected places,confirms my theory the end of the (dynamic horizontal movement )which needs to balance and it sill under control or balance... But about earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, sinkholes, tsunami, dry lakes and rivers, flow of water from the mountains and hills,explodeand of eyes water from the ground, formation of new mountains or islands, collaps of mountains ,and cracks on ground,& ,& ,&,they are out of control or balance... Yousif A Tobiya Forcibly displaced

[@ericsoh4995]

To prevent further dangerous levels of climate change I personally think that oil extraction should be reduced. Massive amount of oil extraction will lead the heat from both Inner and Outer core of earth dissipate easily. Therefore investing and implimenting in green technologies such as electric vehicles must accelerate ...

[@donnabailey947]

Dam spellcheck. I meant Greenlanderese .

[@josemiranda9644]

For the girl likes the hot weather she just have to go to America latina.

[@Habib_Osman]

It is a blessing! Not a problem. Let it melt please :)

[@georgechoquette5735]

It's funny how KZbin included that obligatory Global Warming article, now even on pro GW videos. Their AI system is losing it's mind!

[@HenningDiesel]

Make Greenland green again!

[@rajaterra]

Dude, I almost died laughing when I saw this, Good job.

[@HenningDiesel]

Cool, but I wasn't even joking.

[@brucefrykman8295]

MGGA I love it. If we only could, but then we cant control the climate, we can only control the gullible.

[@brucefrykman8295]

@@HenningDiesel I'm all in for it, how can we get 'er done?

[@HenningDiesel]

@Bruce Frykman Produce and release more CO2 + more solar activity.

[@aughalough1]

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds ... @

[@notprovided3208]

How can someone want climate change It’ll be nice because it’ll be warmer If you want warm weather move somewhere warm intead of desiring climate change

[@OnlineSinifAcademy]

it is stupid to blame 13 years old girl for wishing hotter climate... she doesnt know the scale of the disaster, but people around the world know what is climate change, and still live how they lived

[@gregjones335]

Awesome. Moving to Greenland.

[@yoman5136]

Greg Jones Want to live in a refrigerator and freezer ?

[@gregjones335]

@@yoman5136 how do you think the white man got to be white. Smaller,weaker, driven out of Africa into the Frozen North?.

[@yoman5136]

Greg Jones I’m just saying it’s REALLY cold up there living on the N Cal coast it gets cold enough to want to stay in Hawaii in the winter

[@gregjones335]

@@yoman5136 I get it sounds reasonable. But not something to be what? Worried? Conserned about? I'm not really getting you're point?

[@yousifatobiya7279]

Three theories or forces dominate or control upon the planet of the earth... Firt: The forces or the theory that dominates upon the atmosphere is the end of the first theory of climate change and global warming (dynamic horizontal movement)... The occurrence of storms,rains,snow, and floods at times, and in unexpected places ,because of the end of the this theory,which needs to balance... Second:The force or theory that dominates upon earthquakes, sinkholes,cracks on earth , volcanic eruptions, dry lakes and rivers, flow of sweet water from the side of dead sea,the formation of new islands, or hills and mountains, and collapse of mountains, & , & ,&... These phenomenons because of the end of the second theory of climate change and global warming(dynamic vertical movement)... This theory becames of of control or balance... Third: The water is revolving or orbiting the earth... Note 1:The earth has a new Note 2:The earth has tilted 2 degrees... These studies had completed and sent on 26th July 2000... Yousif A Tobiya Forcibly displaced

[@jordanmaerz7852]

No matter what with or without human help the world will warm

[@miked5106]

And that's the $64,000 question.

[@rangemog21]

They have found 2 hyena teeth in the ice of the Artic....now they look for his snowboots.... a giant wolf head ( 45 cm ) in the therma frost of Siberia...dated between 850.000/ 1.300.000 years old.... has to be killed by a car.... type Flintstones.....

[@slowbill432]

i don't see anything wrong...more fish and spuds.......go south ...winter...north summer...perfect life

[@nickyr7582]

Every individual should own electic cars, solar panels and recycle which should be passed as a law to stop global warming and save the glaciers. Turn global warming to global cooling.

[@davidholland8934]

Climate is always changing food production is actually going up not down so please tell me how that’s bad and carbon is plant food, your entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts

[@gushutchinson8758]

RAGE NOT EMBRACE

[@azscab]

It's been a year and half since this video and look at all the climate disasters that have gone down since then. The deal is definitely going down and our population growth and consumption keeps increasing exponentially. Hard to imagine 5 years from now.

[@massatube]

Name me all the climate disasters over the 1.5 years then go back and name all the ones 20 years ago and tell me the difference? My guess is there won't be much difference. Also population growth is not increasing exponentially.

[@azscab]

@@massatube www.google.com/search?q=graph+of+human+population+growth&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjm5KLJ8YHjAhVGKqwKHWfNA3cQ_AUIECgB&biw=1517&bih=694&dpr=0.9#imgrc=frMsdnv3W95z7M:

[@azscab]

Just ignore the perpetual disaster going on. Move along there's nothing to see here.

[@massatube]

@@azscab Correct, disasters happen all the time you ninny

[@RK-ve4xp]

Climate change is myth. Show some glacier melting and create problem out of thin air. Ice melts. It is normal. Also all natural disasters have been happening all the time. Nothing new. Nowadays they are exaggered due to media and internet.

[@yousifatobiya7279]

The world loses hundreds billions of dollars,because of the phenomena and disasters of global warming, and climate change (the change at the directions of winds )... 60% of the(land)breeze and the(sea)changed in Iraq and this difference arrived at other countries of the world... This difference caused the change of the directions of winds,which needs to balance... You spend more than 80 years to study the age and the thickness of the ice at the poles(north and south ),but you didn't spend one day to return ice to his place... Yousif A Tobiya Forcibly displaced

[@Mordalo]

What a load of BS. The water got warmer off teh north east coast because of an underwater volcano. Otherwise Greenland is actually gaining ice again. By the way, until about 1000 years ago it was called Greenland for a reason. It was also abandoned for a reason, it got too cold.

[@ementormike]

There are warm/cold fluctuations historically, in Greenland. Perhaps, it seems likely that the warming cycle is overwhelming the cooling cycle, given the fact that the glacier in Prince William sound; that was shown in this video, has retreated several kilometers. Inuit are not known as farmers, but it has warmed so much that they are farming and even on a commercial scale. Btw., Greenland got it's name from a Viking named Eric the Red and historians in several videos about him and the Vikings and the discovery of North America, by his son Leif Eriksen, have said; that Greenland was given this name, in order to appeal to and attract new settlers, to come there.

[@Mordalo]

@@ementormike So what is your point? As a whole, Greenland is gaining ice, not losing it. Same as Antarctica. yes some areas are losing ice, yet again, as a whole it is gaining. And what does Prince William Sound have to do with Greenland? FYI, as the glacier is retreating, they are finding tree stumps that are about 2K years old. In other words, this is not new and the glacier actual advanced to where it is in the last 2K years. So much for the AGW BS line.

[@greg5326]

Seriously, the climate changes all the time and we know it. To what extent we are in any danger is debatable at best. What we should really be measuring is how much panic can be generated as the ocean levels rise another inch and the planet becomes a growers paradise.

[@nobodyisprfct]

Already happened in 1922. Who has ever read about the 1800 froze to death? It takes place in 1816.