Mount Tambora: The Year Without a Summer

[@geographicstravel]

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[@boazknooihiuzen2628]

Could you make a video about fred Hampton?

[@fredi1908]

“First time I forgot to press record” lmao me

[@pakde8002]

I love that shirt

[@nathanlittle2707]

The VEI index goes up to 8

[@owenoliver1561]

You should do a geographics or side projects video on Camp Century and Operation Iceworm, the US Cold War experiment to have a nuclear powered ICBM base inside a Greenland Glacier

[@chrismccarter6875]

Tambora also led the the invention of the bicycle. There was no food to feed horses due to failed crops, so Karl Drais invented the Laufmachine, the first iteration of the bike in 1817

[@skeeblyboggs4914]

Interesting, thanks for the info

[@ella17734]

Necessity is the mother of invention.

[@Pecinta_kaela]

I guess the invention blows up

[@rizkyewin7857]

Tambora trigger everyone to survive, so nature is the one who make us adapt

[@edpscupcake108]

Also because riding the horses became extremely expensive

[@cypherbrittainnethegodofsl4988]

Fun fact : Mount Tambora before 1815 was originally around 4300 meters tall. After the eruption it's only around 2800 meters tall.

[@tomislavkuna2265]

😵

[@miliba]

When I watched St. Helens blow its cap off I was stunned but the Tambora truely makes St. Helens look like a wet fart

[@tomislavkuna2265]

@@miliba hot fart. Only makes sense. Hehe

[@bryce33197]

To lose almost 30% of the height seems a bit excessive in how much power that would take.

[@tfs203]

I release more Sulphur than 1815.

[@Kurorito]

To put it simply, each time Indonesian volcanoes erupted, either it would be population bottleneck or summer less year. Or both.

[@Lut28]

only once every a few centuries, thankfully most eruptions are not deadly

[@RejectedInch]

@@Lut28 No one us typing here is in the position to make such statement simply because the deadly eruptions ( we had many, not of the same magnitude of Tambora, but deadly still) often happened in " some far away land that no one cares about". Another reason why we cannot state that " most eruptions aren't deadly" is because we haven't whitnessed one. YET. A quick reminder of how flawed is your stament is the very much deadly eruption of what was left of Krakatoa...End of 2018. Not 3 centuries ago. Not to mention Pinatubo, Mount St. Helen and many other very deadly eruptions that happened just in the last 50 years.

[@Lut28]

@@RejectedInch i was referring to the original comment, eruptions causing "population bottleneck and summerless year". by deadly i mean "that" deadly. sry if it wasn't clear enough

[@Lut28]

*population bottleneck or summer less year

[@chunellemariavictoriaespan8752]

@@RejectedInch Now makes me wonder whether my country's population reached bottleneck that time or had a colder summer...

[@Sacto1654]

Here's the scary thing: there are *MANY* volcanoes in the Indonesian Archipelago capable of a Tambora-level eruption, given that Archipelago is one of the most geologically active parts of the world. And on the island of Sumatra, the Lake Toba supervolcano is *NOT* considered extinct, just dormant. A more recent eruption that had catastrophic climate effects was the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. That ejected so much ash as sulfur into the atmosphere that (for example) California experienced above normal rains for nearly a _decade_ .

[@mrconfusion87]

And booted the US out of its Clark and Subic bases! And that eruption was at most just 1/10th the power of Tambora!

[@Dfathurr]

No joke. I myself just live in the vicinity of that sort of volcano. Indonesians ans volcanoes are sort of like *dog and postman* situation.

[@alexcarter6446]

OMG 😨 And I wanted to go to the Philippines to get laid. Not sure sex is worth it while drowning in lava.

[@Flugmorph]

toba will not produce another supermassive eruption, though

[@johnlacey3857]

I was in Manila on the day Mt Pinatubo erupted in 1991. By 3pm the next day it was dark as night; so much ash in the air that it was difficult to see traffic lights🚦 from the street.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:35 - Chapter 1 - The ticking bomb 5:10 - Chapter 2 - Destruction 8:35 - Mid roll ads 9:55 - Chapter 3 - The year without a summer 13:10 - Chapter 4 - The modern prometheus 16:50 - Chapter 5 - Coming to america 19:35 - Chapter 6 - Death in the time of cholera

[@iimuffinsaur]

Ty for the timestamps.. the mid roll ads one is especially useful

[@aaravcreationstv5537]

thank you

[@jjg1815]

My family still remembers it. At the time, they planted Abenaki maize (Native American cultivar for the area roughly around Maine and Quebec), which has a short growing season and is cold hearty. They lived in Virginia and normally used Abenaki maize because they could barely squeeze two crops out (for the hogs). They report that the first crop, planted in March, came in well enough by June, but the next crop failed mostly with frosts and snow in August. Fortunately, they had food, but there were widespread shortages and the next year they only managed to get a single crop. So family wisdom is that you always plant a stand of Abenaki maize just in case. And I still do.

[@SuperTonyony]

Cool story. 😊

[@mattiemathis9549]

Great history passed through the generations. Awesome!

[@FYMASMD]

You don’t plant anything

[@bloodyfluffybunny7411]

Nice fishermans tale

[@venturefanatic9262]

NIce relatable history lesson.

[@alexbaum2204]

Sumbawa, besides the giant caldera of Mt. Tambora, still shows signs of the eruption today. The island is smack dab in the middle of the Lesser Sunda archipelago. This is basically Indonesia’s driest region, as it is heavily influenced by the dry desert winds that roll off neighboring Australia. That said, on the islands to either side of Sumbawa, canopy rainforest can be found as one begins to climb in elevation. Trees there can still reach immense height and girth. Sumbawa itself is also quite a mountainous island. The peaks are not as tall as Rinjani on Lombok or many of the volcanic massifs on Flores, but they’re substantial enough that montane rainforest and cloud forests would be expected. But if you ever travel the island, you’ll quickly notice that while it can be lush in the mountains and places that are not in rain shadow (mostly westward-facing slopes), the trees look as though they’re stunted. They do not seem to grow as tall nor as large around as those of their neighbors. They often seem to be of uniform height. They don’t seem to grow in such variety of species either. I’m not entirely sure of the mechanisms at work, but it’s clear that this is what happens when the forests of a land are completely decimated. Even 200 years since the event, the forests of Sumbawa look as though they are still just growing back. It is a strange sight if you traveled much of the rest of the country.

[@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache]

Mt. Rinjani is also interesting, as its twin volcano, Mt. Samalas also had a freak eruption in 1257 which had caused so much death that it caused people in London to bury their dead in mass graves, a practice that would become continent-wide a century later with the coming of the plague. There's a really great documentary about a group of researchers trying to find out what phenomena was responsible for the mass death at the time where they trace the mountain off of only ash samples in Greenland and Antarctica, I'll try to link it if I find it. Edit: I couldn't link it as youtube tries to delete my reply when I put links in. It's titled NOVA - Killer Volcanoes - Season 44 Episode 16 on youtube though.

[@redbarchetta8782]

Rinjani is another nasty volcano on that island.

[@saldan3985]

This is the second Indonesian volcano to be featured in this channel, Can't wait for Krakatoa.

[@krisaaron5771]

And then, I want Simon to tell us about Toba, which blew HER top (never piss off a female volcano) around 72,000 years ago and nearly wiped every one of our ancestors off the face of the earth. In terms of volcanic particles spewed into the atmosphere (an estimated six billion tons of sulphur dioxide), Toba was far larger than Tambora and nearly made an ash of humanity's future. According to the genetic bottleneck theory, it's believed our species survived in tiny pockets of "civilization" and some estimate everyone alive today came from one of 500 fertile women. AND THEY WEREN'T WHITE!! So racists can stop with the smug attitudes about their pretty white skin, because great great (etc. etc.) grandma was from South Africa or India. Suck on THAT, Stephen Miller!

[@gasergaming7713]

Ok t RX

[@gasergaming7713]

Thanks

[@LuvBorderCollies]

@@krisaaron5771 Oh boy,,its hard to keep track of all the volcanoes, massive floods from melting glaciers and other disasters. The one you mention I'm not familiar with so I'll look into it. Thanks for the tip. I've said for years we are one or two good sized volcanoes away from unthinkable disaster. And it could happen tomorrow. Last week I learned of a new to me extinction event so massive it poisoned the oceans as well as land. The event layer was so distinct, a solid black stripe. The scientists said there were fossils below the stripe and fossils above the stripe. No fossils in the stripe, just total devastation. A volcano event so catastrophic as to poison all the earth's oceans killing 80% of water species. I forget the age of this event but it was longer than 70,000 years.

[@iconic762]

@@krisaaron5771 you had me until you went crazy sjw

[@shindari]

Mount Tambora's eruption, when you think about it, radically altered human history. Before Tambora, Europe was stuck in a colonialist, quasi-Feudalist, monarchical state of running the world. While "emperors," like Napoleon, had virtually united the continent into one powerful country under his rule. After Tambora, Europe's urge to "colonize the world" faded from its' previous urgency, and replaced traditional Monarchies with more modern systems of government, most notably dictatorships, democracy, and communism. Before Tambora, the United States was really just a massive, unsettled country, with the vast majority of its' population living on the East Coast. Most of the west was still just populated primarily by Native Americans, and Latin American Spaniards. After the fateful year 1816, America started pouring west, and kick-started the anti-slave/pro-slave politics that would ultimately lead to the American Civil War. Before Tambora, China was a remote, self-contained imperial juggernaut, that wanted little to do with the rest of the world. It was powerful, but very, very isolated, and ignorant of the threat of European colonists. Afterward, well... We all know what happened to China in the 19th and 20th Centuries... "The Year Without a Summer" changed human civilization to such a degree that you could arguably restructure all of human civilization, as a whole, to two new divisions of history: "BT and AT" (Before Tambora and After Tambora)! The world that has existed since 1815 is so radically different from how it looked prior to that fateful year, that it's very nearly as radically different as the difference between the "Bronze Age" and the "Iron Age!"

[@SAOrules]

Communism isn’t a modern system or government

[@shindari]

@@SAOrules It is and it isn't. The idea of Communism certainly dates way back. But it wasn't really utilized until the 20th Century, when Russia tried it. So from a practicality standpoint, it kind of IS a modern system of government. Just not one that is seen as terribly reliable these days.

[@duanesamuelson2256]

@@shindari there have been multiple societies through the centuries which have tried, and failed, with communism. Even the original mayflower charter was basically communism and probably far closer to true communism than the USSR. It failed very quickly, and the charter was abandoned.

[@Zorro9129]

I'd say that's coincidental.

[@shindari]

​@@Zorro9129 Watch the video, and you'll see that it's more than just coincidental. Tambora triggered a lot of the changes that would ultimately turn the world into the world we know today. Without that eruption, and its' changing of the Earth's climate, we'd be living right now in an entirely different world than the one we know.

[@marrieamoerazenobia6794]

I will share my experiences while in Indonesia 2010, 2015, 2018 (Queen Mother Nature's Journey). I'll be honest when I talk about Indonesia, so I apologize in advance. An experience like no other, because I was very happy when I was on a land that has a beautiful, unique, diverse and captivating natural history but also has the biggest, deadliest and most natural disasters in the world. I'm talking about mother nature not about man-made. Indonesia has no less than 500 volcanoes (both active and inactive and underwater volcanoes). Indonesia symbolizes the elements of water, earth, fire, wind and plants combined into one. INDONESIA, at first I didn't know anything about Indonesia. In the end I got a news of a natural disaster in Indonesia, I immediately went to a large library in Europe. It turns out that there is a book that immortalizes the great natural disasters that occurred in Indonesia. The name Indonesia has been recorded and engraved long ago in Europe without us knowing it. I will talk about nature. The advantages of tourist attractions in Indonesia : 85% of tourist attractions in Indonesia are natural and 15% are man-made, even UNESCO labels Indonesia as a world heritage. Nature in Indonesia is very beautiful, charming, unique and different but also saves a lot of dark history written by the International. Talking about nature, Indonesia is second to none because of the world level. Disadvantages of tourist attractions in Indonesia : Indonesia is a country that is labeled as an area prone to natural disasters, not only that but also the most deadly and dangerous. There are so many dark history, natural disasters in Indonesia claimed a lot of victims in the world, most often occur and can also have an impact on other countries. It's all written in the history of the world. It is undeniable, the power of Nature in Indonesia is far more frightening, very strong and deadly. Not Chile, Japan, Philippines, USA, Italy, New Zealand, India, China, Russia, Iceland, Greenland, Finland and Canada. Because the largest number of victims of natural disasters in the world is Indonesia. The number of natural disasters in Indonesia from 2016 to 2020 was 17,032 events. That's a 5 year calculation, What if the total is from 1800s? Could be more. In fact, the most earthquakes in the world are not Japan or Chile, but Indonesia. Not only that, hurricanes, tsunamis, landslides, floods, storms, typhoons, earthquakes eruptions and others phenomenon. Very brutal and deadly. Overall, Indonesia has been named a QUEEN MOTHER NATURE, if it wakes up from its sleep then a big event will repeat itself. Nature in Indonesia cannot be used as a joke, because physically Indonesia's geography is included in "ABNORMAL". Nature in Indonesia has a very different level compared to other countries, because it is completely beyond human reason. Many historians, scientists, researchers and volunteers are involved in the "RAGE OF QUEEN MOTHER NATURE IN INDONESIA". The total points for natural attractions in Indonesia are 10/10. Queen Mother Nature brutal power level. >JAPAN : 10 (NORMAL NATURE). >PHILLIPINES : 8 (NORMAL NATURE). >CHILE : 10 (NORMAL NATURE). >NEW ZEALAND : 9 (NORMAL NATURE). >USA : 10 (NORMAL NATURE). >ITALY : 8 (NORMAL NATURE). >CANADA : 8 (NORMAL NATURE). >MALAYSIA : 5 (NORMAL NATURE). >CHINA : 7 (NORMAL NATURE). >ICELAND : 7 (NORMAL NATURE). >THAILAND : 6 (NORMAL NATURE). >GREENLAND : 8 (NORMAL NATURE). >AUSTRALIA : 9 (NORMAL NATURE). >BRASIL : 8 (NORMAL NATURE). >PANAMA : 9 (NORMAL NATURE). >INDONESIA : GOD LEVEL (QUEEN MOTHER NATURE). Please find out how many total deaths are caused by major natural disasters in Indonesia, they occur too often, in fact many other countries have cooperated with Indonesia but have not been able to control natural disasters in Indonesia and are finally labeled as "ABNORMAL". Other countries also experience natural disasters but not as strong, as much and as brutal as nature in Indonesia. It is clear that the physical geography location of Indonesia, which is far apart, seems to be torn apart by nature. Previously, Indonesia territory was not shaped like that but was still connected to Southeast Asia and Australia. Even the governments of many countries have warned the Indonesian government to remain vigilant about natural disasters there, it's no joke because the dark history of the major natural disasters in Indonesia is written and documented by the International. Natural brutality and so scary in Indonesia, among others. >Indonesia has experienced earthquakes for 32 years. The history of the longest earthquake in the world. >Indonesia once covered the whole world in a year without a summer. (Tambor 1815) The occurrence of global poverty affects many countries (Europe, America's, Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania). >Indonesia has experienced the collapse of a very large landmass called SUNDALAND. The split of the islands of Sumatra, Kalimantan, Java, Bali, East Nusa Tenggara and West Nusa Tenggara. Then the mainland was separated from Thailand, Malaysia and Brunei. Everything fell into the sea. >Indonesia once made an earthquake and caused a tsunami that hit 14 countries. (Tsunami Aceh). The collision between the Sumatran plate and the Indian Ocean in the Aceh region of Indonesia caused 14 other countries to experience large tsunamis, even reaching India. >Indonesia has a super volcano that has been designated by UNESCO as an International GeoPark, which results in the death of 90% of mankind in the world. (Toba Supervolcano). Humanity is almost extinct and makes the territory of Indonesia volcanically active. >Indonesia was also previously connected to mainland Australia but collapsed and separated. Not only in the western part of Indonesia, but in eastern Indonesia, there is a collision between the Australian plates. >Indonesia also has a volcano that is recorded as having the loudest sound in the world and causing a tsunami. (Krakatoa 1883). The explosion was much larger than the Hiroshima bomb, generating a tsunami as high as 40 meters, volcanic ash, the loudest and recorded sound in modern world history. >Indonesia also caused flash floods to Timor Leste. The cause of flash floods between the eastern side of Indonesia and the country of Timor Leste was also affected. >And others. There are too many major natural disasters in Indonesia. Too many. In fact, throughout 2022, Indonesia has experienced 954 natural disasters, outperforming other countries. Mother Earth Queen in Indonesia often rages and is very domineering. No other country in the natural category can match it. Other countries also have natural disasters but when compared to natural disasters in Indonesia it is nothing. Queen Mother Nature in Indonesia is of a different class. "The more beautiful you look, the more dangerous you are". (Indonesia is the throne Queen of all the Queens of Mother Nature). The rampage, power, brutality, deadly of nature in Indonesia are at their maximum level : THE REAL QUEEN MOTHER NATURE. Nature in Indonesia has claimed many lives and has an impact on other countries, no matter where they come from. When it goes berserk, its true power will destroy and kill anything in its path. If I write down one by one the major natural disasters in Indonesia, then you will know that what I am typing is a 100% real event.

[@anastasiaaryani8581]

Ooogghh.. this is scary... i'm indonesian and i think all those earthquakes, landslides, flashfloods and erupted mountains happend as frequently in other countries...

[@Caterfree10]

There were a number of individual events mentioned that I had no idea could all be traced back to one volcano's eruption. The butterfly effect is well and truly a solid theory, tbh.

[@I.am.Sarah.]

Yes, but that is a massive butterfly 8)

[@alvianekka80]

Butterfly? Too small. It's Mothra Effect.

[@Stichting_NoFa-p]

It wasn't the butterfly effect because it was so strongly linked.

[@stellathefoxgirl3648]

…that’s not the butterfly effect

[@kennethnielsen2513]

Wasnt a butterfly....

[@fratercontenduntocculta8161]

The chain of butterfly effect events after the eruption is the wildest series of recorded events I’ve ever heard. Crazy to think two of the horror genre’s greatest titles were written because of a volcanic eruption.

[@Joe_Potts]

Mount Tambora: "Ahem." *(EXPLOSIVE CRESCENDO)*

[@j-bob_oreo]

why did i see "v" from v for vendetta conducting this symphony in my mind

[@Joe_Potts]

@@j-bob_oreo YESSSSSS

[@j-bob_oreo]

@@Joe_Potts amazing

[@DontDisapPyrrha]

From pp to fffffffffffffff real fast

[@SephirothRyu]

Plot twist: It was singing the Anvil Chorus.

[@lieuwestra]

Just read Mount Tambora: The Year Without a Summit. Which is technically correct.

[@YeeSoest]

Not sure about the "year" part but I giggled so it counts ;)

[@Jaeden_Phoenix]

Well yes, but actually yes.

[@thedorsinator]

I read it that way too

[@vikiwalters8767]

Underrated comment!

[@nlwilson4892]

Look it up on Google maps satellite view - you can see it from some distance up, the crater is about 6 to 7 km across.

[@ManOnTheRange]

catastrophes like this reminds me of that the earth is not made for us, we are here just as guests...

[@DominicNJ73]

r/im14andthisisdeep

[@shadowwarrior7218]

Fukn Oath

[@kelnhide]

@@DominicNJ73 well I mean, he IS right after all. Human will go extinct just as the dinosaurs did, but the earth will stay until it gets eaten by the sun

[@gotanon8958]

Considering the pace of human technology its going from a certainty to a posibility.

[@DaFishy2]

@@gotanon8958 are technology is getting better but the actual human species is getting worse and unhealthier

[@tylerp4130]

The amount of material that blew out of the mountain is just....mind boggling. I really can't get my head around it.

[@matthewpicard4463]

It really is. The crazy part is that volcanoes can eject way more as well. Like Taupo around 26,500 years ago erupted more than 1,100 cubic kilometers which is amazing

[@LuvBorderCollies]

3/4 of a mile of a mountain pulverized, blasted to ash. Even if I saw it from a "safe" distance I still could not fathom the sheer power needed to blow it apart.

[@matthewpicard4463]

@@LuvBorderCollies Yeah, I'd just be in awe. Hopefully I'd remember to film it haha

[@razorransom1795]

It may have had a rhyolite, dacite, or andesite mixing with basalt below making a huge gas and magma implosion. Otherwise beware of salt water or hydrothermal eruptions, other unpredictable one.

[@theshermantanker7043]

Remember: The most powerful nuclear bomb we've ever built is only 1/16 as powerful as Tambora's eruption was

[@zsoltsandor3814]

The bicycle is also a result of the Tambora. Horses either died or they were eaten, but the postal service had to deliver mail. Without horses it would have been impossible, thus a replacement was created: the velocipede.

[@bettyswallocks6411]

“Our familiar friend, pestilence.” Good grief, Simon, who do you hang with?

[@alexroselle]

the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, just guys being dudes

[@littlejourneyseverywhere]

Pestilence, apparently 😂😂😂 😳

[@Fisinocean]

Honestly if Simon says that hes this immortal ancient being i wont be suprised

[@thegreatpestilence5143]

He WISHES he was my friend!

[@DianaDeLuna]

Well we're all familiar with pestilence now, aren't we? Major Pandemic every 102 years: Cholera of 1816 (caused by sudden cooling) that helped dismantle the British empire. Swine Flu Pandemic of 1918 arrived 102 yrs later, and then our happy friend 'Rona visited us starting in 2020. Coincidence?

[@smokymcpot5917]

I live 100 miles from my st helens in yakima and when it erupted the ash turned my city dark like it was midnight. Street lights came on and couldn't see ten feet infront of you. That was scary and I knew what had happened. Can't imagine what ppl were thinking when tambora erupted. Great video.

[@BigCroca]

*joke about how many channels Simon has*

[@micahphilson]

reply about Simon doing cocaine

[@A7XFan800]

No, seriously how many does he have? Today I Found Out, Geographics, Biographics, SideProjects, and what else?

[@micahphilson]

@@A7XFan800 Top Tenz was the first, Business Blaze is the new up-and-comer, The Casual Criminalist is his podcast, Megaprojects (you know sideprojects and not that?), his newest one Xplrd, and Highlight History, which is kind of dead now I think, it gets a couple new videos whenever they remember it exists or something.

[@carmenburton4918]

8 channels.. geographics..biographics.. infographics..mega projects..side projects.. the casual criminal. Business blaze.. TopTenz... I can't think of any others

[@carmenburton4918]

@@A7XFan800 geographics..biographics..

[@mikeklein5184]

I love how Mother Earth throws these disasters at us and sees how we’ll do. Might name my next cat Tambora.

[@133Nomad]

Please do.

[@Smaug555]

Can’t wait till she throws Yellowstone at us

[@SunayanaSB1998]

@@Smaug555 God knows how much more can it do

[@smolfry3438]

@@Smaug555 bruh why are u saying u can't wait for yellowstone u know yellowstone makes the tambora eruption look like a firecracker

[@cmaxz817]

Oh, while at it. Let me give you a background story of the name Tambora. The name consists of "ta" which means "invite" and "mbora" which means "to disappear", combined meaning "an invitation to disappear". The story goes that there was an almighty Buddhist monk meditated there and he finally reached moksa, his soul and body disappeared becoming one with the mountain. After the event, people often see him wandering around appearing as ghosts for those who are able to see. That's why the mountain is called "Tambora".

[@Br0nzeBar0n]

I wonder which one of Simon's personalities would win in a friendly knife fight

[@chrisobrien06]

My money would be on Blaze 😁

[@SplashMountain_EpicSave]

Put me down for Top Tenz, since that took some self control to do the Lord of the Ring's list

[@MisterAndrewBuckley]

Danny

[@dp6447]

Coked up Business Blaze Simon no doubt.

[@Aztesticals]

Blaze one. He is on cocaine and enormous amounts of coffee. He won't go down without like 20 stabs

[@zolacnomiko]

How come I never learned about Mount Tambora in a World History class at school? I was kind of vaguely aware of Tambora causing "The Year Without A Summer", but without much detail, and mostly as it pertained to Mary Shelley. None of this other stuff mentioned. Absolutely fascinating seeing so many societal changes hinging on this one volcano and the horrendous, disastrous weather.

[@Aolady]

Nah, I didn't remember reading this during my school years too. But eh, too many things hidden and watered down in our school edition's history books.

[@applekrumbles]

I don’t recall this either. I found a lot of history class to not be contextual enough. You have to imagine why and how things happened due to what came before because it’s not explained what people were experiencing and you have to connect the dots yourself.

[@therealist1103]

They don’t like you thinking for yourself about climate change.

[@JKSSubstandard]

Most schools, especially in the US, follow a broad strokes approach. Only noting the largest of the large. At this point, even some US history classes barely have time to cover Korea or Mexican American war, so you can imagine that the sanitary revolution and migration of some people become footnotes. There's a lot of fascinating history out there

[@jasepoag8930]

An all year long severe winter sounds considerably more miserable than 2020. I guess things can always be worse.

[@carmenburton4918]

If Cascadia goes..and San andreas fault goes.AND Yellowstone stone goes...at the same time.. we are F...KED. throw in the Ring of fire and Krakatoa and the ones in Hawaii.. humanity might not make it.. 😕

[@jasepoag8930]

@@carmenburton4918 I'm inside the "definitely immediately fucked" zone for Yellowstone. That's a bit of quiet existential dread that's been living in my head since I heard about it 15 or so years ago.

[@LuvBorderCollies]

Oh yes, yes it can get worse and at the worst time.

[@carmenburton4918]

@@jasepoag8930 does it ever even make any sign of activity.. coz if I was there.. and I saw smoke.. a tiny rumble. ..I'd be like "later bitches..I'm.out!" I've never lived near a volcano ..I don't know these things.. but can a volcanic eruption be predicted with certainty? I don't think you can with Fault lines. .. Damn America also has tornadoes.. and quakes.. and fault lines and a mega volcano.. and potentially at future tsunami...

[@jasepoag8930]

@@carmenburton4918 this is a super volcano, most of the midwest is in the "immediately fucked" zone. I don't actually live anywhere near it. As for activity, all the hot springs and geysers are part of it. I think water levels in some of its lakes have been affected because the ground is swelling from all the magma building up deep below.

[@maxt.5457]

THE HOLY HAND GRENADE OF ANTIOCH

[@razorransom1795]

Welp, it ripped Sodom and Gommorah, and another did Atlantis in. Thus never lover look or downplay super volcanoes/mega calderas and their eruptions neither flood basalt flows either. Also a mantle plume under a fault is always very bad news. Look up the mantle plume or hor spot that scortched the underside of the east USA plate.

[@StevenSeven]

"Isn't that one of the holy relics brother Maynard carries with him?" lol 😂

[@maxt.5457]

Steven Seven yes, yes it is

[@andrewj3177]

And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once at the number three, being the third number be reached, then, lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.' Amen

[@StevenSeven]

@@andrewj3177 LOL !!

[@scooby45247]

Im glad this wasnt on the Casual Criminalist.. Mount Tambora: The Year Without a Summer.. The story of an evil masterminds volcano lair..

[@--enyo--]

Well the volcano probably holds the highest kill count.

[@allangibson2408]

Look up Jules Verne - The Mysterious Island… (it’s the sequel to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea).

[@YoutubeBorkedMyOldHandle_why]

You mentioned Thera and the demise of the Minoans. From what I understand, Thera only erupts on the average, about once every 20,000 years ... but of course when it does, it's a big one. Sadly for the Minoans, one of the greatest ancient civilizations, purely by chance they happened to build a spectacular city ... smack on top of the thing. And when Thera erupted, the city was 'literally' vaporized, and the world changed completely. We mere mortals can only imagine what history would look like today, had Thera decided not to erupt until a few thousand years later. We like to think that we are in control, but are occasionally humbled by such natural events. You should do a video about Thera, because almost everything we know and understand today, can probably be traced back to that one eruption.

[@abid5087]

I would love to see a video about Thera

[@Lessinath]

First, yes, I am aware I am a year late. But this is worth saying. ... It is not accurate that Thera/Santorini erupts only once every 20k years. It has had several small eruptions in the last 200 years alone! Most recently in 1950. The thing is, it takes a long time to rebuild a large and structurally unstable magma chamber for a caldera forming eruption. That does indeed take tens of thousands of years. In the meantime, volcanoes like Thera continue with normal, small to medium sized volcanic eruptions. Many of them are even effusive, aka lava flows with little ash emission. We have a few clues to what is going on underneath Thera, and it's not great news. The first is its history of large caldera forming eruptions - 180,000 years BP (Before Present), 70,000BP, 21,000BP and of course, 3600BP. Yes, this is more common with time, but that doesn't actually mean anything on its own - this can be highly random. We need more information. The second clue is that those younger eruptions have built a new island roughly in the center of the caldera. That isn't normal for post-collapse calderas, normally the central magma system is totally destroyed and future eruptions come up around the edges of the caldera, with little to no activity from the true center. In Thera's case, that means that the central part of the magma system was not destroyed by the 1600BCE eruption. Indeed, this is the case for the previous caldera events there too. This is a very resilient volcano, and that is very bad news for us. And the third clue is the lava that it erupts. It is thick, so viscous that it cannot flow effectively and often builds up into big heaps of lava - called lava domes. This is perhaps the worst piece of news, because these types of magma are very good at trapping gas that results in intense explosive eruptions. So, if we look at a typical magma supply rate for this kind of volcano at 0.1 to 0.01km^3 per thousand years on average, Thera should be nowhere near ready to have another caldera forming eruption but if that were true it shouldn't have had the magma supply to do what we know it did in 1600BC. So, this basic assumption about supply cannot be correct for Thera. It must be far higher than that. But we can still take volume erupted divided by time to get a useful number for this. There is precedent for this kind of insane supply rate in the Mediterranean. Etna is 2.9km^3 per 1k years. If Santorini's magma supply rate increases to even a tenth of that, we have a big, big problem on our hands considering its tendency to produce highly explosive eruptions. Some basic math reveals it isn't just over a tenth of that, but it must be at least half of Etna's supply rate. For some perspective on how insane this is, Etna's magma supply rate is as high as the supply rate for some entire volcanic arcs! And if Santorini is at half of that, the Greek islands around it are a poor place to invest in real estate. Greece is too corrupt, and monitoring mostly underwater volcanoes too difficult, to get good and decisive answers for exactly how dangerous this volcano is. But we can come to some conclusions anyways: - This is a volcano that is capable of highly explosive and extremely voluminous eruptions with Mediterranean-wide impacts, and potentially global impacts. - It has an apparently enormous magma supply rate. At 18k years to build up 30km^3, this must be a minimum of 1.6km^3 per 1000 years. More than 10x higher than what you'd expect. - Its central conduit has survived all of its previous caldera collapses, meaning a new one does not need to be built for another cataclysmic eruption. - It will probably do another large caldera forming eruption again, but it probably isn't ready yet. It likely needs to build up magma for at least a few thousand more years for that. However, in the meantime, large eruptions are still possible. They just are unlikely to be cataclysmic. For now.

[@scottgindroz1474]

The eruption of Thera inspired the tale of the destruction of Atlantis recorded by Plato.

[@oldschooljack3479]

The year without a summer. Also referred to as "the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and froze to death"

[@santo4911]

If i can remember correctly, "froze to death" more popular word in USA but the "year without a summer" more recognised globally, right?

[@chriswaldeck1119]

Genuinely, this is the hardest working man on KZbin.

[@Simon-nw9bf]

Holy shit. Really puts contemporary "disasters" in perspective. We live such comfortable lives today

[@onwong]

I subscribe to all channels (i think, definitely 3). This is by far my most favorite video out of all channels. The range and lasting effects of one single event are always underestimated. Being able to put together the event and the lasting implications of the event is the reason why history is valuable! Keep keeping on!

[@johncase1353]

I still remember the stories my Great Grandmother told me that her Great Grandmother told her of what life was like back during the year without a summer.

[@herresgoon829]

Lol...liar

[@jtom2958]

@@herresgoon829 might want to recheck your perception of time. Depending on when you were born and when your ancestors had their kids your great grandparents great grandparents would’ve been born. Those people would be your 4th great grandparents. Most of my 4th great grandparents were born between 1800-1830. So if their 4th great grandparent was born around 1800 they would’ve been a teen during this time.

[@jtom2958]

@@herresgoon829 actually I have several 4th great grandparents who were born in the 1780s

[@herresgoon829]

@@jtom2958 yuppp

[@BoydHeath-fu3fi]

I just turned 64, in Sept., and two of my 2x great grandfathers were born in the 1790s (1791 and 1795).

[@spooky_lxix9042]

Mount Toba: **(exploded)** Mount Krakatoa: dad nooo Few year later Mount Krakatoa: I'll do it for you dad **(exploded)**

[@stephenphillip5656]

Anak Krakatoa.. ("Son of Krakatoa") rumbles and belches nowadays.

[@vexile1239]

"Child" of Krakatoa = Anak Krakatoa

[@Fisinocean]

Krakatoa jr be looking pretty terrifying this day

[@ezekielshorizon6]

@@vexile1239 Correct! Son in Indonesian is "putra" and daughter is "putri" but here we just say "anak" to address children.

[@vexile1239]

@@ezekielshorizon6 I'm an Australian so my interactions with most other languages are limited even though I live in a large city (Brisbane) and I have only interacted with a non-English speaker once in my 30+ years and that was a Japanese tourist trying to get to a tourist hotel near the city

[@WickensWickedReptiles]

these videos are so well done dude, amazing

[@Noohee]

As Indonesian, I didn't know that the eruption of Tambora literally changed the world. It's so mind blowing!

[@TheCradM]

This is one of the best videos I’ve ever had the pleasure to enjoy. Snowball effects in history have always grabbed me something fierce. I can’t believe I’ve only just heard about Tambora

[@pamelamays4186]

I saw a video about this on another channel last year. It was informative, but didn't go into as much detail as yours did. Kudos to your research team!

[@Ivair.Alcantara]

If the northern hemisphere didn't have a summer, how cold the southern hemisphere winter got specially in places that are already cold like Chile, Southern Australia and New Zealand?

[@kalburgy2114]

The Southern Hemisphere's weather is moderated by having more ocean vs landmass.

[@przybyla420]

It got pretty cold in the U.K. it is an island with a jagged coastline, can’t get more surface area touching ocean than that.

[@Jake_n_bakke]

@@przybyla420 I think it’s more to do with open ocean, although Britain is an island, it’s close to shore as compared to the bottom of South America or the Horn of Africa for example, lots of open seas to move air quickly around there

[@LuvBorderCollies]

I've wondered the same question. In all these volcano disasters I never hear about the Southern Hemisphere.

[@riverAmazonNZ]

@@LuvBorderCollies Me too, sadly we often get forgotten “down” here, but I guess it’s because the majority of the world’s population lives in the northern hemisphere

[@coralaune4006]

In high school, I remember learning about some of the fall out from the volcanic eruption. Your summary was easy to follow - thanks for adding to my knowledge on this event.

[@shannonpincombe8485]

Every time Simon says "Eruption" all I can and hear is EVH. Some part of me wishes that each time "eruption" is uttered a whammy altered, screeching guitar riff would play. Aah....Eddie. I miss you too much already. BTW....I love your work Simon. 👍👍

[@jaredmism]

This particular episode reminds me of an old show called “ connections “ by James Burke i Good on ya

[@IAmAnEvilTaco]

Connections is one of the best science and history tv shows of all time. It's up there with Carl Sagan's Cosmos.

[@psbsean]

Connections with James Burke is one of my favorites

[@ZOOMPZ00mp]

That was a great show!!!!

[@MK_RS5]

"forgot to press record" XD classic

[@michaelgmyers]

Pesky record button

[@adamk8639]

Ugh, as a teacher I had a huge film project with my year 1 class that I made towards the end of the year... It was only later that I realised at some point I had mixed up the record/stop record... So I had like two hours of "behind the scenes" footage and none of the front of the scenes footage!

[@pakde8002]

I currently live 180 miles from Mount Tambora and 25 miles from Mount Agung. I think every island in Indonesia has at least one active volcano.

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

Emigrate.

[@Ann_niana]

Java has a lot of volcanoes. Where I live is surrounded by 3 volcanoes

[@yodorob]

With a big eruption in or near Java along the lines of Krakatau or Tambora, Java in particular and Indonesia in general would be in serious, serious trouble.

[@saucywench9122]

Of course. That's why they're there in the first place.

[@mrconfusion87]

@@kimberlyperrotis8962 A volcanic eruption will fuck things up for a while, but after at least 10-15 years the soil will be more fertile!

[@ramal5708]

Tambora, prior to eruption in 1815 was the highest peak in Indonesia with about 4,300 meters ASL and after the eruption it has been reduced to 2,800 meters ASL.

[@djohtoep]

1815 - Nerfed Tambora's height

[@whitlatch1999]

A suggestion: tornado alley? And what amrrica has done to deal with it

[@jakealter5504]

Or the Tri-State Tornado

[@HrZD16]

I wonder how that would work out honestly, Tornado Alley is kinda nebulous being that it covers multiple states and locations plus there's Dixie Alley in the southeast us that gets a bunch of tornadoes

[@Werebitch_Lanoire]

Cool idea! I love it!

[@mizzshortie907]

Nothing the answer is nothing

[@mifi5913]

That’s what all those windmill farms are for, they turn those on in storms to try and disrupt the wind currents.

[@michellehean4941]

0:12 It is sweet to know that even an experienced KZbinr with millions of subscribers can forget to hit record now and then. I admired your self-control. Love your videos; exploring your other channels in the days and evenings to come. Thank you from Peterborough (no, not YOUR Peterborough, but the one in Canada, eh!) Teeheehee. Thank you again. Stay safe.

[@TorreFernand]

8:10 "Had modern science existed, they might not have been so blassé"? Have you SEEN a climate change denier, Simon?

[@randomsandwichian]

This one, 😙👌 MMMWAH~~!!!

[@jaeboogie2786]

~standing ovation ~ for this comment 👏

[@grandspringdale1564]

I would agree, but unfortunately there's no such thing as a climate change denier. You know? Kinda like there's absolutely LZERO evidence that the climate didn't start changing until humans started using fossil fuels👍

[@frankvandorp9732]

And of course, there is always some obnoxious smug jerkass who wants to use interesting videos about history to attack his (real or imagined) political opponents. Get a life, Fernando.

[@lestatsgames7426]

I’m 62. When I was in grade school (1st - 6th grade), we had American History where I know today is not true. Going over their accomplishments, i first heard of Poor Richard’s Almanac. It gave weather predictions, and most people thought Franklin was crazy due to his prediction of snow on the 4th of July. Over the years I’ve wondered if he made the prediction of snow or if it’s just folklore. When (or if) Franklin made his prediction for snow, I can’t see him knowing about Tambora. Any no one would have linked the eruption and it’s effects on the global weather.

[@OPN3rdEYE]

This might be literally your most poignant video…it’s important to realize things can turn on a dime globally, and by no fault of any human.

[@amandajones6481]

Thank you, that was an amazing video. I loved the way you pulled all those disparate stories together to demonstrate how everything was interrelated. Fantastic!

[@zachsmith8633]

I like when Simon's personality comes out in hia channels. Business Blaze Simon leaking into everything else

[@jwenting]

maybe it's time for a Biographics episode about Danny?

[@angielotl]

Simon you do give me mush needed info. You deliverer like no one else does. My go to info overload. A new history I didn’t know existed until now. Love my history. I will research more into this. Thanks from me to you. Much respect from a want to be info KZbinr 😊

[@Lionslycer]

When the apocalypse inevitably come, I will remember the good times when Simon Whistler narrated me to sound sleep knowing tomorrow would be as good as I could make it.

[@ChristmasLore]

Download some episodes and buy some small solar panels🍃 That's what I'm gonna do . I already have a huge digital library of books, movies and tv shows, music. I do not get rid of my old smartphones, I keep them as backup.

[@jacquelinemsoucek1542]

I requested this one on one of this channel's first videos!!! Thank you so much Simon!!! ❤

[@wc4201]

As bad as Tambora was it was nothing compared to Mt Toba which literally almost caused humans to go extinct.

[@pennyfleming3006]

Love your storytelling. I even love the speed with which you narrate it. I also speak quite quickly bc I comprehend quite quickly. Love this channel

[@Ericlee-ne7du]

Well as bad as this whole COVID-19 thing has been, at least we aren't living through the Mt Tambora eruption.

[@kevinyaucheekin1319]

It be maybe 20× worse. America lost its strategic food reserves a few years after the cold war ended. However America has maybe near 70% of its population overweight. That cause Covid 19 deaths but in a VEi 7, situation would buy maybe 6 weeks.

[@ivanbima5877]

You just haven't heard the even worst eruption yet. There is one volcano in Indonesia as well that erupts so big that some even claim it's more catastrophic than Yellowstone. Although i need to point out it happen thousands of years ago

[@SunayanaSB1998]

@@ivanbima5877 are you talking about Krakatoa? It is the most violent and loudest explosion in mankind history. Something worse than that, I don't think world will exist after thar

[@phenton91]

@@SunayanaSB1998 Krakatoa was a VEI 6, Tambora was a VEI 7. Krakatoa killed more people though. Maybe Mt Samalas

[@keishasalsabila4512]

@@ivanbima5877 You mean supervolcano Toba? The number 2 largest eruption In The World after La Garita? One of The Vei 8 eruption?

[@ggEmolicious]

At the tail end of the video as Simon was recapping I started thinking hopefully some good things will come of this whole covid situation. Perhaps somewhere out there someone who got “let go” from their job because of the ‘demic had the time they finally needed to sit down and start writing a great piece of literature or were allowed to devote more of their newly freed time to furthering their craft and that in a few decades we will be able to look back and see a silver lining.

[@brainnotfound337]

And less than 75 years later, just 1400 km to the west, the second biggest, & loudest ever recorded, volcanic eruption in modern history occurred....

[@adnannaemaz1989]

Toba??

[@aronnecroman]

@@adnannaemaz1989 Krakatoa

[@SAFC_Luke]

@@adnannaemaz1989 toba hasn’t erupted for 75,000 years

[@SunayanaSB1998]

Yup. The island got blown away. 2 of the biggest explosions. The second one was more violent and the loudest explosion

[@aronnecroman]

@@SunayanaSB1998 *The loudest voice ever recorded. Apparently

[@Anonymouscommentor99]

Such an excellent channel. In a sea of crap it’s refreshing to see some quality content. The major plus is the balance of the elements that make the show. consistent quality and well researched educational entertainment. Well done

[@jackjmaheriii]

It’s cool to see the channel switched back to AD from CE. It shows the team has recommitted to historical accuracy, and I love it!

[@Tautolonaut]

We've only just entered the CE (Covid Era) recently. AD turned out to be "Approaching Disaster" ;)

[@jackjmaheriii]

@@Tautolonaut Oh Bob... I work in a place with a lot of dark humor. I suspect that you would fit right in!

[@allangibson2408]

Unfortunately AD is not historically accurate... It is at least six years out.

[@jackjmaheriii]

@@allangibson2408 Yeah, we know. The problem is the changing of the genesis of the the timeline for political expediency.

[@linny9842]

I am so happy ive been waiting for this one.

[@rich7787]

Excellent video! The Tambora explosion certainly should be more well known

[@StallionStudios1234]

For once I took a recommended sponsor and went and joined curiosity stream. Very cool service. I enjoy it very much. Thanks for not schilling crap Simon!😁

[@-Awareness]

Isn’t 1812 the same time of the massive New Madrid earthquake in the US... and didn’t Napoleon march into Moscow, only to find the city empty and abandoned in the same year?... seems like the whole world went through a massive reset like events EVERYWHERE in 1812... Interesting...

[@saucywench9122]

Yes. Both were because the planet was in the base of a solar minimum which is what brought about the eruption and quakes in the first place. Think of it this way, when the sun is active with lots of sunspots everything on earth is as it should be with occasional eruptions at low VEI and earthquakes of about 7. When the sun is quiet and the magnetosphere weakens and jet streams breakdown and switch from zonal to meridional flows, any solar activity no matter how mild causes catastrophe. More extreme weather, volcanoes, earthquakes, crop failure, resulting viruses. It's pretty cool actually. It's hot in places where it's usually cold and vice versa. Hurricanes and tornadoes increase in intensity, all along with the usual side effects.

[@MarkCrosby_Smitix]

I liked the way this video reminded me of a show called "Connections" that I watched back in the 1980's. I think James Burke was the narrator. In case you needed yet another channel, something that followed that premise would be interesting. The premise being following connections through time, showing how one thing lead to another, in usually unexpected ways.

[@paulqueripel3493]

Correct, it was JB.

[@133Nomad]

Someone hit the Earth’s “Brown note”. I’ll show myself out.

[@razorransom1795]

😂

[@katie-kb6qd]

the fact that illinois joining the union, frankenstein, modern vampires, the first bike (wasn’t mentioned in the video), opium crisis, and sanitation were all indirect results of a volcano exploding 💀

[@seandalt]

I visited Tambora a few months ago. It’s insanely beautiful from the ocean. Pumped to see one of my favorite creators making a video about it 🙌🏼

[@malectric]

Simon, thanks for producing all the entertaining and informative videos. The liberal sprinkling of humour adds greatly to the experience. With regard to the mention of sulphuric gas ejections from Tambora I well remember the effects of Mt Pinatubo in the same vein although obviously nowhere near the magnitude of Tambora's burp. The year following Mt Pinatubo, a particular plant in my garden flowered twice, the only time it has done so. And there were other effects too although I remember that particular one well.

[@dezzodarling]

The modern island that was Tambora is today's Sumbawa, 3 islands away from the famous Bali. I spent 8 days there back in 1980 - the beaches still have black sand! The various sub-species of Rosewood found on that island make modern paraphernalia found in the local markets highly prize though I doubt few know of its bleak and deadly History!!

[@andrewhealeymusic]

Great video mate. I've binged hundreds of your vids and always enjoy it, but I love the direction you took here - great work. Thanks from Australia!

[@geefreck]

It's just like I always say "Never underestimate the power of a huge sphere made of mostly molten rock" -Bowser

[@oswb8225]

Excellent video. So interesting the impacts and effects of the volcano eruption. Man, my home town of Calgary probably had snow and ice all year after that eruption.

[@DearChanel]

it said there are several kingdoms around tambora at that time, and when the 1st mt tambora erupted, those kingdoms are wiped out overnight

[@davidhollins870]

Tamboura famously affected Waterloo in 1815, but there is another similar event. In Dec 1808, a volcano, probably in the High Andes, went off and four months later, there was heavy rain in Central Europe as Austrian troops marched into Bavaria as the 1809 war began.

[@humancattoy7767]

Indonesia is home to more devastating volcanoes. This is quite unique and very interesting to me.

[@LuvBorderCollies]

I watch the earthquake activity with an iphone app. The earth shakes every day usually in the same general area. Indonesia is a frequent flyer on the daily list of earthquakes.

[@razorransom1795]

@@LuvBorderCollies ditto new Zealand and USA and south America and Anartica on the ring of fire side are nothing to seize at either. But Campai and Laachar worries me in Europe

[@LuvBorderCollies]

@@razorransom1795 You are right. I should've made area plural and I was well aware but sometimes my fingers don't get the whole message from the command center. :) The same regions keep popping up. Turkey is one shaking place!

[@razorransom1795]

@@LuvBorderCollies aye, so is Italy and west USA with central america. Japan, indonesia and new zealand oh and the islands with Cuba and domican republic and south america straight down the west side as well. The whole earth is shaken and aquaken.😎'

[@LuvBorderCollies]

@@razorransom1795 "Shaken not stirred" I wonder if 007 got that from seismologist?

[@jamesowens7176]

Spectacular video! Thanks for the great content!

[@arcticdino1650]

Imagine being a British soldier arriving to stop what you think is an enemy invasion, only to learn that that's not canon fire, it's the local volcano

[@LuvBorderCollies]

A loud rumbling volcano gives off a vibe of fear. Easily see why ancient people formed legends and stories about volcanoes.

[@yodorob]

And people really didn't know about plate tectonics at the time - in fact, that theory wasn't discovered/confirmed until the 1950s-1960s!

[@beautyforashes2022]

Excellent video as always, Simon. Thank you.

[@DurinSBane-zh9hj]

I'm not worried about Tambora. I'm worried about the mountain that everyone ignores

[@yodorob]

Yeah, the active, (almost-)continuously erupting volcanoes are much lower VEI than dormant volcanoes that would explode with such a loud bang like Pinatubo and up. (Pinatubo wasn't well-known before the early 1990s.)

[@mrconfusion87]

It will take at least a full millennia of sleep or so before Tambora can muster another eruption of that sort... Sumbawans will be fine for the next few centuries!

[@Ronirvan]

Hello pestilence my old friend.... I've come to scratch you again....

[@mizzshortie907]

Hello pustilence lol

[@valiroime]

Simon and Garfunkel might even approve.

[@NonyaDamnbusiness]

One thing we've learned from modern eruptions in Europe has been pretty much the complete grounding of lots of planes in the affected areas and those areas become huge "no fly" zones because volcanic ash particles and jet turbines do not mix. It destroys them in-flight or on the ground when taxiing. Falling ash particles can also be sucked into modern ground and sea transport engines rendering them useless as well. Ash-covered satellite dishes don't work anymore. Point-to-point microwave transceivers on cell phone towers can't penetrate the ash cloud thus shutting down cell phone comms. Ash clouds also interfere with radio wave propagation causing even the best amateur radio operators on the planet to be completely ineffective at communicating with anything in the affected areas. Ash covers solar panels and gets into wind turbine engines causing them to seize up. And then there's the power plants and their giant coal-burning furnaces which require constant coal stock replenishment from long trains which will no longer be able to operate due to their engines sucking in ash particles and being destroyed or at least rendered inoperable. That means the power goes out, the lights go out, and humanity as a whole in the affected areas fall into chaos and bloodthirsty panic. The follow-on effects of a giant blast in modern times will make what happened back then look like nothing. If you don't live in a country that allows you to own firearms and ammunition in your own home, then move to a country that does and stock up.

[@kellyrobinson6663]

I love it when you guys do the vids on natural places, many thanks for another awesome one ☺️

[@tomislavkuna2265]

Awesome episode! Worth reading twice, Simon!

[@worldsgreatestdude1784]

As a Texan, I would LOVE to have a year without a summer. Our vegetation is dead for all but 2 weeks of the year anyways

[@mariashelly6392]

0:39 did he really say it blew its top so spectacularly it made other explosions sound like "wet farts by comparison"???😆😆😆😆😆

[@ShepherdsCreek]

I actually spit out my coffee

[@muhajir8469]

Learning something new every time with ya'll. Keep up the good work.

[@abdelkarim8381]

Humans in the 19th century: We're at the top of history, we can do anything A random volcano:...... Humans in the 21st century: same story A random virus:.......

[@allangibson2408]

Wait for the random volcano… (the twentieth century was historically quiet).

[@bsadewitz]

@@allangibson2408 Mankind picked up the slack.

[@allangibson2408]

@@bsadewitz Mankind isn’t even in the same league as Mother Nature’s tantrums… (but humans have been killing each other in the millions for millennia (we have just made it less labour intensive with time)).

[@beauttty072]

@@allangibson2408 I wonder why volcanoes exist

[@elizabethroberts6215]

@@beauttty072……bc they’re part of the earth’s make-up…………they also saved the earth when it was locked in ‘snowball’ frozen situation, thank goodness………

[@IndoWild]

Thanks for this video! I have been to the bottom of the caldera. 5 day hike. It’s huge!!

[@zachdenham84]

It’s amazing how many events occurred around the world just because of this single volcano, imagine is that happened in today’s time

[@carmenburton4918]

It would have recommendations on YT and we'd see the horror from a thousand angles like the Tsunami and earthquake in Japan in2011... the 10 year anniversary was on the 11032021.

[@Ann_niana]

@@carmenburton4918 Aceh Tsunami in 2004 also in Indonesia, had more bigger effect than Japan tsunami.

[@joelchauveau1813]

Currently preparing my final oral exam of French school on the Tambora eruption, this video is wonderful !

[@phodisomphophatshwane9639]

In 1815 crops started to fail and Famine was rampant in Southern Africa, leading to a period known as Mfecane which saw the rise of Shaka Zulu. Tribes fought for the little resources available. Could the Tambora Eruption have lead to this period?🤔🤔🤔

[@nevadag606]

Definitely! Volcanoes and their eruptions greatly influence nature and the atmospheric conditions. Early 1800’s civilizations would have had to either fight for resources or figure out how to work together to share,.. which even today we can’t do the second option so it makes sense it would have started a period of war and famine!

[@saucywench9122]

Yes.

[@ferryfernandus1423]

Krakatoa, Tambora, Toba and hundreds of other volcanoes... and me living just 200 km from former krakatoa.... a blessing and a curse living in indonesia

[@mvcharisma]

Scary to think of the number affected by famine if we went a whole year without a summer in modern times.

[@LuvBorderCollies]

It could happen. With all the people in the world it wouldn't take much of a reduction in crop production to bring on starvation. It will be every person, group or locality for themselves. Total disruption of civil order....back to the Dark Ages.

[@razorransom1795]

@@LuvBorderCollies we are due for a scientific dark age and such to occur like 526ce-540ce to 600s again but worse.

[@valiroime]

Either “the number of people affected by the famine”, or “the number of people suffering from the effects of the famine”. Just saying.

[@LuvBorderCollies]

@@razorransom1795 I am afraid you're right again. Except it will be much worse because today's 1st nation citizens have none of the skills to survive like the people of the Dark Ages.

[@razorransom1795]

@@LuvBorderCollies exactly. Unless your Amish or grew up on a homestead, basically, it will be hard to survive. Most forests have been built up and there is nor much farmlands foe people to attempt to plant their own food, let alone know how to prepare from scratch many dishes we can just buy now..

[@valentinavisnyei2387]

Just discovered this channel and pressed like straight away when you said that you forgot to press record. Brilliant 😀

[@ajf1060]

I still find it impressive how many of these videos you put out! Great quality, accurate and overall just very well done. Thanks for putting them out!

[@melanezoe]

Simon, I think this is my favorite of all the channels you narrate.

[@luvondarox]

That is genuinely a fantastic beard, sir.