What Causes an Ice Age?

Although I'm sure many of us have heard the phrase "ice age," what exactly does that mean? Is it true we're in an ice age right now? Today we're exploring questions like these to better understand this climatic phenomenon.
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academic.emporia.edu/aberjame/...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatern...
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www.pnas.org/content/112/27/8232
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www.nature.com/articles/ngeo2931

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A welcome change..

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Very refreshing actually

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- Remeber when the apex predators on earth were the zooplancton? - Yeah, rough times to be alive..

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Sponges: Am I a multi-cellular organism to big to understand this microscopic joke ?

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they didnt adapt with the meta

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*plankton

[@nicodemusation]

The production quality of this is just stunning. The editing and and the scenes really complement the whole plot of the video. Very nice work.

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BIG WORDS

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@@grampzplayz3667 big greenhouse politics too

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Yes there does appear to be a plot, methinks he thinks he knows all.

[@paulscottfilms]

It's from NASA and is a developing social science propaganda program that's why. Still. lots of accurate info along with the correct social think CO2 propaganda. < " Just a nudge is all it takes " [ 8.11] for CO2 to go out of control .

[@gregtanner1024]

Very impressive and thought provoking. Thank you!

[@bluemountain4181]

2:57 "The veil slowly lifted and the Earth transitioned back to a swampy lush jungle" 6:24 "For the first time in Earth's history plants began to grow on land" It might have been warm and wet after the Huronian Ice Age but I don't think there were swamps or jungles.

[@tomasvrabec1845]

I mean, you can have a swamp without plants but I am not sure about jungles. Swamp is just a wet and muddy plains.

[@mayawarrior3715]

​@@tomasvrabec1845I get what you're saying, but from a purely semantic standpoint, Red Ice is correct. Swamps are a sub-type of wetlands characterized by inundated forested land, so trees are a requirement. Definitions aside, I assume waterlogged areas could probably occur without plants, but they might only be temporary features. I may be mistaken, but I believe a big part of what lets wetland stay wetland are the root systems of plants keeping the water and soil from eroding.

[@AlexandreBFK]

@@tomasvrabec1845 yeah, but mud is literally the decomposition of plants, so without plants, no mud... at least not on on land

[@tomasvrabec1845]

@@AlexandreBFK i imagined something like clay mud

[@Cbreezy510]

Very civil comments section. Love the discourse!

[@MrNicoJac]

It's unimaginable that 300 million years ago, the first dinosaurs started to exist. And there's been an ice age that lasted 300 million years too.... 🤯🤯🤯

[@mattd2026]

Million?

[@Rishi123456789]

The last 5,000 years of human history were the blink of an eye in terms of geological time-scales.

[@yrok244]

Yeah nature be doin that

[@isaac-0889]

Imagine that in 300 million years in the future the humans are like "Man, I can't belive that our ancestors lived a heat-age for 300 million years"

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@@johnperic6860 wrong

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I thought the world was flat

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@ThatOneGuy Not diamond?

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SIMP

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[@coreytaylor447]

earth: looks like its time for another ice age! humans: Im going to do whats called a pro gamer move

[@ortherner]

lol

[@chronoflect]

"Pro gammer" move: sudo rm -rf *

[@coreytaylor447]

@@chronoflect fixed. guess you can say, Im not good at grammer

[@Jay-qb9gi]

I know this was a joke, but Earth has been ending it’s ice age before we industrialized. My point is that Earth is going warm again whether we like it or not.

[@skurge_collector]

@@Jay-qb9gi Well I do and I don't

[@Thumbsupurbum]

9:25 Big ship pushing through ice like a champ. 9:28 Little boat trying it's hardest.

[@anotherpersonontheweb5558]

It's mind-blowing to learn that life and its evolution have directly influenced global climate, changing it drastically. This was an incredible video!

[@Rishi123456789]

Ah yes, the Cryogenian Ice Age - also known as Hoth.

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Its a TRAP, oh wrong plan... i meant star

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Underrated comment

[@ermytanio7111]

So the Stark's was right "winter is coming" eventually

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Summer is coming first

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

Ermy Tanio yea after 50,000 years, and that’s if humans are not warming the planet (witch we are) Earths temperatures could heat up by 4C+ by 2100 and get even hotter after that, we’re likely go longer into a Hothouse Earth soon, the next ice age will be delayed by another 100,000 years.

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Were*

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[@imitatio]

The masterful use of text and image, audio and video, shows an uncommon understanding of how these interrelate in the “real time” that the brain requires to apprehend and comprehend incoming data. The natural processes by which our world was formed are complex and often difficult to visualize. By so superbly aiding our cognitive processes in this task of assimilation and integration, this production makes a significant contribution to the study of natural history. Heartfelt thanks to all involved!

[@alialsafaar6147]

Imagine that there is a civilization milions of lightyears away with roughly the same tech that we have and they are watching our planet right now but our planet still has dinosaurs

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[@aayushpatel2788]

Ali Yusuf I have thought about this so much thinking that if we could travel faster than time we could see the past and see earth being created

[@tylerdurden3722]

@Jaheim Barrett Alpha Century is only 4.5 light years away😅. It's the closest star to our sun.

[@huchung9886]

Imagine teleporting 100 light years away with an enourmous telescope and seeing the events of 1920 from space. I wonder if any sci fi universes incorporate this idea?

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Hu Chung there has to be one that does incorporate it

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That moment when he breaks the graph by putting todays carbon levels in the atmosphere, oh god

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I honestly didn't know it was _that_ bad. Yikes.

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@Alex Damian probs a disaster

[@sirmounted8499]

Who does not like warm weather? Stop complaining you babies, earth will move on with or without us.

[@SirFaceFone]

@@sirmounted8499 Sure, but most people want to survive.

[@PyroBlaze202_alt]

@@samarkand1585, we have >400 ppm co2 in our atmosphere right now, so it most definitely is not a projection.

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[@TakeWalker]

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Noone: Ice age collision course: SCrAtS AcOrN SenDs An AsteRoiD TO EARTH

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Last time i was this late, there were aliens

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"Only 30 million years were spent under the ice".... um....sure: just the blink of an eye!!

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Cold causes ice age...

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Cosmic Brain.

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Denialists of global warming find nothing here to support their hoax conspiracy theories...

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@@reuireuiop0 but non anthropological climate change deniers do.

[@lb5560]

2:58 Aahh yess.. The Huronian blue JUNGLES. What a time

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Excellent research work. Loved the way you made each fact understood.

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Short answer:Ice Long answer: solid state of water.

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“Predict 1 month ahead” Ima be honest with you my local weather station has failed to predict weather 15 minutes ahead of it happening

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Not as bad as I have experienced: it was raining and still the weather annoucer was saying "good morning everyone, we have a beautiful sunny day today".

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And yet people can predict what will happen in 10 billion years lol

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Your videos are very didactic, the graphics and animation are outstanding. Very valuable for anybody interested in learning about our planet and its history.

[@DoytNR]

The last Ice Age still remains in the Artic and Antarctica.

[@otterno.1128]

We're actually in an ice age - its glacial and inter-glacial periods you're thinking about - we're in a very warm inter-glacial right now. The ice that you're thinking of is the ice that remains from the last glacial period around 11,000 years ago.

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[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

French Mapping well technically yea, but human activity is causing Earth to go into a hot house likely in the next couple hundred years.

[@DoytNR]

@@PremierCCGuyMMXVI On Atlas Leo's 'Could Global Warming Start A New Ice Age?' Video he explained how climate change and human carbon activity can actually cause an ice age.

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

French Mapping however the thing is if enough CO2 is added, it could cancel out an “AMOC Ice Age” and Earth will likely get as hot as it was 50 million years ago as early as 2100.

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[@jacobdrum]

Hope to see this in the next video, but can you talk about the Gulf Stream/Little Ice Age/salinity cycle? Hope you do and thanks for this!

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Oh god, thank you for putting the chemical formulas for the reactions. Every science channel just mumbles the compounds and one is just left looking at the roof 'NH3... No sorry, it was NH4... But now I'm missing an electron'. So thank you for helping the not too chemically enlightened individuals of us. 🙌

[@jessemalone8083]

The equations were not balanced.

[@jasonreed7522]

@@jessemalone8083 equations dont need to be balanced if you say O2 + CH4 -> H2O + CO2 You are just as right as 2*O2 + CH4 -> 2*H2O + CO2 (Possibly incorrect balancing) Because sometimes you care about the exact ratios for manufacturing and sometimes you care about the compounds and not the ratios for tracing pathways like the carbon and nitrogen cycles as the amounts reacting are irrelevant to your analysis, and its not worth the work but any highschool graduate should be able to do it themselves if they cared. See also knowing the concepts not the equations in engineering. (You get an equation sheet on the tests)

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Wow!! I really enjoyed watching that, that was really interesting! I can't wait for Part 2!!

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I am speechless... how perfect these animations and video editing you got, besides the info of course

[@feynstein1004]

Atlas Pro: The weather is the most complex system known to man. Human brain: Am I a joke to you?

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*earth *Complicated

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Finally, a channel that gets it right, well thought through, great video!

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I found myself rewinding the video to catch your voice-over because I was just stunned by how beautiful this video was. You've outdone yourself here.

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What causes Ice Age? Answer: Ice age baby

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Dolphins have returned to italy 200 days later: Ice Age 4: Ice baby returns

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Isnt there a song that goes: ice ice baby

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Porpoises in the river Mersey Liverpool also - fairly amazing.

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I'm learning so many facts I'll probably never use but somehow need to know on this channel. Love it.

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MORE VIDEOS!! We dont have anything to do while in quarantine.

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@@johnperic6860 oh, no problem. I love being a proficient part of society 👍

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[@There-ought-to-be-clowns]

Nice, simple explanations for the changes in our atmosphere. Super!

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What an insane collection and preparation of data. Great Video!

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but prageru told me that climate is always changing wth

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Now Atlas Pro tells you the same. Damn conspirators..

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prageru is a propaganda organization.

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Angry Communist prageru is a respectable organisation

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The climate is always changing, but we as humans need to be aware of our effects on how it changes. Climate change may be natural, but the rate at which it is changing is not, and humanity may not be able to adapt to the changing climate fast enough and be severely harmed by it.

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I feel like i got more knowledge from this video than studying in school for 12 years. Thank you!

[@BananaCake26]

Two important tectonic processes that lead to the Quaternary Ice Ages are missing: 1. The formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current about 34 ma (million years ago). Antartica was separated from Australia and South America, resulting in ocean passages between the continents (Tasmanian Seaway and Drake Passage). Antartica was cut off from warm tropical ocean currents and the cold circumpolar current caused the glaciation of Antartica in the Southern Hemisphere and a first drop in global temperatures. 2. The formation of the Isthmus of Panama about 3 ma. 3 ma the strip of land between North & South America was closed completely. This had profound effects on the fauna and evolution of animals (aka GABI - Great American Biotic Interchange), but more importantly it prevented equatorial tropical ocean currents from circulating around the globe, redirecting warm currents towards the poles. This lead to a second drop in global temperatures and the glaciation of the Northern Hemisphere (which is what we generally call the last Ice Age, in reality Earth has been in an ice age for about 34 million years, the Quaternary only describes glaciation in the Northern Hemisphere). Another very important factor of Ice Ages are the Earth's astronomical cycles, known as Milankovic cycles, which cause fluctuations of about 100 thousand years during which warmer interglacial periods succeed "real" ice ages. We are living in such an interglacial period right now, the Holocene, which has lasted for 11.700 years now, so the next age is probably 80-90 thousand years away.

[@ameybirulkar7503]

Dude, he told about Antarctica and the cold water current.

[@blizzardkiehn2508]

And the interglacial periods

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[@Wouterium]

Bro man, if you were my Uni teacher I'd come to every class. This vid is once again so awesomely explained, just as I thought I would do it myself; I love it! Also a very, veeeery interesting subject that too few people actually know about

[@guswood6159]

I’ve never been a climate change denier but I’ve never really took it serious either. This is really worrying. I hope we can take steps as soon as possible to fix it.

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Thank you for making this video. This was really fascinating.

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Amazing video, subscribed!

[@booboodadfool8015]

So Earth's climate has a long history of being effected by biology? Therefore climate change can be both caused by human activity and considered perfectly natural? Yea, I like this way of thinking about it. Very nuanced.

[@solar7427]

its also as he said, while global warming and cooling is very natural the fact is that during the former events the earth had systems in place to make the warming and cooling happen. However currently we are the system that is causing global warming while at the same time destroying any system that could kick in and cause global cooling thus making the planet unable to cool itself off when a certain treshold is reached. So we should either a) slow down our production of global warming so that the planet can catch up with us. b) actively start taking siphioning our waste products back and become the global cooling agents ourselves or c) create equalibrium in what we produce, mean that we cool the planet as much as we warm it meaning no climate will change overtime. all of these require massive amounts of planning and foward thinking, and in our current system of short term profit thinking this aint working

[@grantduke318]

Right, who set the standard of thinking human's intelligence is unnatural?

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

beer battered buckshot I don’t think you understand. See, when bacteria or Alga or planets or whatever do it, it’s slow and balanced, but ever since humans started adding CO2, it’s been much faster and more extreme than anything Earth has seen before. Human caused Global Warming is not good, especially because our planet was expecting to go into another glacial period, so for it not will be devastating to Earths systems.

[@grantduke318]

SuperStormThunder So are you saying nature never intended for humanity to thrive? Why are we here then?

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

gman no, nature never I I intended us to build giant factories and pump CO2 into the air and destroy the environment.

[@ortherner]

Global Warming: You can’t defeat me! Humans: I know, but he can Ice Age:

[@skurge_collector]

Global warming:humans created me Ice age:ow wow (Ice age left)

[@louiscypher4186]

Well technically Global warming would win out in the end. 500-600 million from now the sun's luminosity will begin to cause the tectonic plates to stop moving, water to evaporate from the surface. No ice age will ever come again.

[@sbkarajan]

Stupid CO2 is not the cause of climate change in this massive earth. Do you even know how much CO2 is in the air by %? Nope? That's why you are so ignorant and following the POLITICAL agenda with the guise of science. Even Venus's hot temperature is not due to CO2, it just got a thick atmosphere which happened to be mostly CO2, and the hot temperature is most likely due to volcanic activity than greenhouse effect which is named very stupidly too. Greenhouse has nothing to do with visible and infrared light to keep itself warm.

[@chavezharding7820]

@@sbkarajan Thats where youre wrong. % is actually kind of misleading in this case. Literally look up how much CO2 0.04% is by mass. It's astonishing.

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

sbkarajan wow, yea it like totally Humans are not causing Earth to warm. www.google.com/amp/s/www.sciencealert.com/co2-is-only-a-tiny-part-of-our-atmosphere-but-it-has-a-huge-influence-here-s-why CO2 has a big impact m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqHLlaaCmLiHj7M Humans are warming Earth www.google.com/amp/s/climate.nasa.gov/evidence.amp climate.nasa.gov/causes/ Okay you tell me, if it’s not humans, Than what is it?

[@jeancorriveau8686]

Well explained and good animations!

[@epsvideos]

Impressive fast paced history of the planet with high quality production value, kudos

[@BattlewarPenguin]

12:03 that graph is freaking creepy, apart from the fact of the climate change, we don't fully know the extend of the damage we did to us.

[@Starfire_Storm]

We may die, but Earth will be around, the 400 ppm of CO2 we have today is nothing compared to what the Earth has had in it's history, like over 2000 ppm in the Jurassic period, or nearly 8000 ppm in the Cambrian.

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

Mighty Ant yup, we are going to keep adding CO2, so it will get much higher than that, potentially as high as 800 ppm by the end of the century and we could see really bad news.

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

Starfire Storm yes, but I think your forgetting the rate of increasing CO2, we could surpass 1,000 ppm within a couple hundred years.

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

John Peric why 0.5C? Current CO2 is at 413 ppm and we have already warmed by 1.1C. CO2 could rise enough to warm the planet up to 4C or hotter by 2100 on the current rate of warming. www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/how-much-will-earth-warm-if-carbon-dioxide-doubles-pre-industrial-levels

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

John Peric they have gotten the 100 year projects right. If you look at models, they have been correct. climate.nasa.gov/news/2943/study-confirms-climate-models-are-getting-future-warming-projections-right/

[@orderofazarath7609]

5:45 are you saying we can combat global warming by putting dust in the atmosphere?

[@wife_puncher_bot8483]

Yes and no, dust can form massive fires while making a shield from the sun making the temprature hot and cold

[@Lordboring1478]

Well yes, but actually no

[@cageybee7221]

there are actually proposals to dump dust-like particles into the upper atmosphere in order to counteract global warming, this is also how nuclear winter works.

[@colonel1003]

Simcity Jayplay cringe redditard just say yes and no

[@cageybee7221]

@@colonel1003 wtf

[@Aelipse]

An absolutely stunning video! Amazing job.

[@lucadevincenzi830]

Outstanding documentaty. Thank you. Luca

[@AstronautaVerdadeiro_77]

Nature when Industrial Revolution happened: *IT ALL BEGAN WHEN THE FIRE NATION ATTACKED...*

[@eterevsky]

About vulcan eruption releasing greenhouse gases: aren't they releasing even more sulfur dioxide, which act oppositely?

[@skurge_collector]

Yes 👍 thumbs up to you

[@jacquilayton2557]

Because the ash and smoke block the sun it lowers the earth's temperature. In the Roman period there was a three year period where they didn't see the sun which coincided with the eruption of Krakatoa.

[@Johny117x]

Fascinating video, can't wait to see the second part

[@wegottagamer]

This is incredible, educational and interesting. Thank you.

[@mew.shroom]

"accurately predicting weather a month in advance" All tropical countries: Okay ditch that, let's flood them without them knowing.

[@samarkand1585]

that's...what was said. That we can't.

[@axataman]

why at 9:50 do you misrepresent the CO2 and temperature correlation by not illustrating the well documented 800 year lag?

[@RyanRRodriguez]

Solid 12 minutes of information and facts about our earth.

[@bachmach1920]

Pretty nice explaining. I´m always scared to whatch Videos about this topic, cause I never know before, whether the editor is explainig something that fits best to his opinion, not to the facts. Here you can find a very balanced video with well researched information. I will leave an Abo :)

[@Pfh3dk]

2:57 "... and the Earth transitioned back to a swampy lush jungle." Pretty sure there were no lush jungles 2 billion years ago.

[@otterno.1128]

Yeah... especially weird as he went on to describe the first plant life forming over a billion years later.

[@MrAaaaazzzzz00009999]

i think he forgot to add it was a jungle of more diverse bacterial life. thats just my headcanon though

[@Deebz270]

Correct. The first land plants appeared around 470 million years ago, during the Ordovician period, when life was diversifying rapidly. They were non-vascular plants, like mosses and liverworts, that didn't have deep roots. . *Werrington Feasslefeet's* 'headcanon' is the most feasable(foot) response.

[@CenarosNL]

I just wonder how feasable it is to keep the planet in 'it's current state' if it's natural state is being a heavier greenhouse.

[@mrnnhnz]

Why yes, I did enjoy that. Thanks for your hard work, and presenting and uploading this.

[@jackeaton2142]

Loving that intro, Atlas, makes me more excited to see what you got coming at us lol