What If Antarctica Were a Rainforest?
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Date: 2023-11-26
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Tobias
Thanks to you guys, nice video!
I disagree in some points:
>Antarctica had rainforest. most likely when it was part of Pangaea. so it was in a region more north with more equal distribution of sunlight trough the year.
>Lets say Antarctica would be rainforest today. it would have a new water holding capacity (e. g. groundwater, soil capturing lots of water, lakes and rivers) - therefore its not right to suggest, that all which is ice today would go into rising the level of the ocean
>one could green the existing hot deserts (Sahara, Australian desert, Arabian desert and so on) and would possibly equal out the sea level rise. You could store much more water on the land, than we do today and prosper by the way with lush landscape. Just look at all the ancient remains of lakes and riverbeds in the Sahara desert and imagine how much water they must have stored long long ago)
>when Antarctica was a rainforest CO2 levels were at around 1400 ppm. Thats more than tripple of now (400ppm. As we know today, more CO2 makes plants grow faster, stronger and bigger. Therefore more CO2 in the atmosphere would be very beneficial, if man manages to provide enough water and nutrients to green our existing deserts (including cold and hot deserts.
>Evapotranspiration has a stronger cooling effect than the loss in Albedo. In other words, the reflection of the ice in the Antarctica today could be replaced by an even stronger cooling effect from plants called evapotranspiration. Which means that water is evaporated into the air and thereby cools the surrounding (just go trough a well irrigated forest and you can feel it. Enough water supply is the requirement.
>Warming up the poles would mean an increased food resource for all species in that regions as much more plants could grow. Live would flourish. In terms of very specialized species the question remains, if they would adapt fast enough. We do have some examples though. Penguins live in South Africa. Polar bears live in Zoos in many places around the globe, some food and water to cool themselves provided. To turn the question around, where did polar bears live, when Antarctica was a rainforest (lets say as part of Pangaea?
My opinion: Change was always there. Humans have the responsibility to lead it into a prosperous direction.
Thanks for your comments!
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Thanks to you guys, nice video!
I disagree in some points:
>Antarctica had rainforest. most likely when it was part of Pangaea. so it was in a region more north with more equal distribution of sunlight trough the year.
>Lets say Antarctica would be rainforest today. it would have a new water holding capacity (e. g. groundwater, soil capturing lots of water, lakes and rivers) - therefore its not right to suggest, that all which is ice today would go into rising the level of the ocean
>one could green the existing hot deserts (Sahara, Australian desert, Arabian desert and so on) and would possibly equal out the sea level rise. You could store much more water on the land, than we do today and prosper by the way with lush landscape. Just look at all the ancient remains of lakes and riverbeds in the Sahara desert and imagine how much water they must have stored long long ago)
>when Antarctica was a rainforest CO2 levels were at around 1400 ppm. Thats more than tripple of now (400ppm. As we know today, more CO2 makes plants grow faster, stronger and bigger. Therefore more CO2 in the atmosphere would be very beneficial, if man manages to provide enough water and nutrients to green our existing deserts (including cold and hot deserts.
>Evapotranspiration has a stronger cooling effect than the loss in Albedo. In other words, the reflection of the ice in the Antarctica today could be replaced by an even stronger cooling effect from plants called evapotranspiration. Which means that water is evaporated into the air and thereby cools the surrounding (just go trough a well irrigated forest and you can feel it. Enough water supply is the requirement.
>Warming up the poles would mean an increased food resource for all species in that regions as much more plants could grow. Live would flourish. In terms of very specialized species the question remains, if they would adapt fast enough. We do have some examples though. Penguins live in South Africa. Polar bears live in Zoos in many places around the globe, some food and water to cool themselves provided. To turn the question around, where did polar bears live, when Antarctica was a rainforest (lets say as part of Pangaea?
My opinion: Change was always there. Humans have the responsibility to lead it into a prosperous direction.
Thanks for your comments!
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After Antlushticas flood:
THE FORTY-NINE STATES OF AMERICA
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
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Norm
I had thought the rainforests were there when it was not quite at the south pole yet, but more in line with Tazmania, when it was still connected to South America and Auatralia. Its highly suspected that Antarctica breaking away from all other landmasses forming the Drake Passage essentially disconnected it from the rest of the worlds warmth and prrventing ice from melting and eventually freezing all the available water in that isolated water cycle and keeping it that way. i believe much of the actual ice mass that sits there currently accumulated just as lake effect snow accumulates around the great lakes as evaporative moisture frim the seas far south of it that but thats an explanation for another story
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I had thought the rainforests were there when it was not quite at the south pole yet, but more in line with Tazmania, when it was still connected to South America and Auatralia. Its highly suspected that Antarctica breaking away from all other landmasses forming the Drake Passage essentially disconnected it from the rest of the worlds warmth and prrventing ice from melting and eventually freezing all the available water in that isolated water cycle and keeping it that way. i believe much of the actual ice mass that sits there currently accumulated just as lake effect snow accumulates around the great lakes as evaporative moisture frim the seas far south of it that but thats an explanation for another story
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Yosef
Contrary to what the video is asserting in the last third or so, it's NOT so simple as saying that man-made carbon dioxide in the atmosphere profoundly and negatively changes the global climate, complete with sea level rise and what not. To start with, man-made CO2 is only a pinprick compared to the naturally-occurring CO2, let alone all the atmospheric gases. Also, sea level rise is occurring only gradually, not really rapidly. What's really happening is that all this extra CO2 is contributing to more plant growth all around the world.
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Contrary to what the video is asserting in the last third or so, it's NOT so simple as saying that man-made carbon dioxide in the atmosphere profoundly and negatively changes the global climate, complete with sea level rise and what not. To start with, man-made CO2 is only a pinprick compared to the naturally-occurring CO2, let alone all the atmospheric gases. Also, sea level rise is occurring only gradually, not really rapidly. What's really happening is that all this extra CO2 is contributing to more plant growth all around the world.
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Maria
We won't find anything unusual in the Antarctica rainforest because it needs to re-populate first - with both flora and fauna. Which means it would initially have similar species to the other continents - at least until they evolve to new ones. If the ice melts there wouldn't be some frozen tropical forest waiting to come to life - plants and all - there would be a vast desert waiting to get re-populated
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We won't find anything unusual in the Antarctica rainforest because it needs to re-populate first - with both flora and fauna. Which means it would initially have similar species to the other continents - at least until they evolve to new ones. If the ice melts there wouldn't be some frozen tropical forest waiting to come to life - plants and all - there would be a vast desert waiting to get re-populated
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tonysoldan
Some day in Antarctica:
-Hey, legend has it there used to be colossal continents far from the shores where billions of people lived and prospered in massive buildings that touched the sky-s clouds.
-Pfft. Listen at that idiot. This tale sounds faker than Atlantis.
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Some day in Antarctica:
-Hey, legend has it there used to be colossal continents far from the shores where billions of people lived and prospered in massive buildings that touched the sky-s clouds.
-Pfft. Listen at that idiot. This tale sounds faker than Atlantis.
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Arfan
In some alternate timeline:
Global cooling is the cause of depopulation and so much tree planting also we should emit co2 into the or we will lose our planet so we HAVE to increase our population growth rate or our planet is gone.
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In some alternate timeline:
Global cooling is the cause of depopulation and so much tree planting also we should emit co2 into the or we will lose our planet so we HAVE to increase our population growth rate or our planet is gone.
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ALL
People alway talked about global warming etc like it impact Antarctica, it just large ice, it not gonna less forever. Global warming might have a impact on it. But it doesn't change the fact that it would less forever.
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People alway talked about global warming etc like it impact Antarctica, it just large ice, it not gonna less forever. Global warming might have a impact on it. But it doesn't change the fact that it would less forever.
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Joshua
What if Antarctica had rainforest. Then Global warming goes this could be bad. I must be the only person going hmm seems good time. I don't mind living in a time when the world was green like dinosaurs Era.
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What if Antarctica had rainforest. Then Global warming goes this could be bad. I must be the only person going hmm seems good time. I don't mind living in a time when the world was green like dinosaurs Era.
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Sidewinder99
The Earth's climate changed so much prior to the existence of humans that Antarctica was once warm enough to sustain a rainforest. Yet leftists still think 'climate change' is due to humans.
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The Earth's climate changed so much prior to the existence of humans that Antarctica was once warm enough to sustain a rainforest. Yet leftists still think 'climate change' is due to humans.
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Jubert
The title would be better if -what if antarctica turned into rainforest- since you talk about melting the ice and some stuff, instead of antarctica isn't ice at all in the first place
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The title would be better if -what if antarctica turned into rainforest- since you talk about melting the ice and some stuff, instead of antarctica isn't ice at all in the first place
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Niranjan
Humans: why don-t we turn deserts green
Also humans: why isn-t this shit working?
Antarctica turns green
Again humans: Ah shit! Why does this always happen to us?
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Humans: why don-t we turn deserts green
Also humans: why isn-t this shit working?
Antarctica turns green
Again humans: Ah shit! Why does this always happen to us?
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Stanser
The video begins on 1: 50. Before this the idiot shows of a trailer of this same video and constantly repeats the header. Just watch it from 1: 50. Don't thank me.
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The video begins on 1: 50. Before this the idiot shows of a trailer of this same video and constantly repeats the header. Just watch it from 1: 50. Don't thank me.
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Maksiu
Yea i think it would be a good thing cuz id rather freeze to death than be cooked by a earth oven
Edit: i live in poland so i wouldent get flooded
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Yea i think it would be a good thing cuz id rather freeze to death than be cooked by a earth oven
Edit: i live in poland so i wouldent get flooded
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Deez
also all of the dormant volcanoes could possibly errupt again which would destroy the whole purpose because the lava would destroy all the rainforests
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also all of the dormant volcanoes could possibly errupt again which would destroy the whole purpose because the lava would destroy all the rainforests
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XxA_OxX
Imagine the abundance of life that is buried there waiting to be rediscovered, who else knows what other secrets Antarctica has to offer.
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Imagine the abundance of life that is buried there waiting to be rediscovered, who else knows what other secrets Antarctica has to offer.
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Blixsterz
If many species survived when antarctica was a forest and evolved into us than maybe it turning into a forest might not be that bad -
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If many species survived when antarctica was a forest and evolved into us than maybe it turning into a forest might not be that bad -
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F5Storm1
Climate change is natural its not man-made, let it take its course, even if we stop polluting the planet it'll continue to change.
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Climate change is natural its not man-made, let it take its course, even if we stop polluting the planet it'll continue to change.
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Welcome
hey, what if antartica never turned into a frozen continent because theres a theory about antartica had once a tropical climate
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hey, what if antartica never turned into a frozen continent because theres a theory about antartica had once a tropical climate
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Sunayana
God has created everything with a purpose. It is our duty to preserve it instead of exploiting and ultimately destroying it.
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God has created everything with a purpose. It is our duty to preserve it instead of exploiting and ultimately destroying it.
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Roman
It clearly means that we have to hide for couple decades until Antarctica is completely changed and earth is again habitat able
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It clearly means that we have to hide for couple decades until Antarctica is completely changed and earth is again habitat able
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education
All the indigenous peoples would have probably been killed by the Europeans their land would have been taken from them
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All the indigenous peoples would have probably been killed by the Europeans their land would have been taken from them
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Kenneth
What if Antarctica were a rainforest?
I think it's cool, but I'm afraid it will be destroyed by human activities.
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What if Antarctica were a rainforest?
I think it's cool, but I'm afraid it will be destroyed by human activities.
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Ancient
I told you guys. by hundred times. Antartica never was green and is from always that cold world we all know. peace
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I told you guys. by hundred times. Antartica never was green and is from always that cold world we all know. peace
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Kaketoe
you know what we should let global warmin do it's thing and move a shitload of animals to the now green antarctica
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you know what we should let global warmin do it's thing and move a shitload of animals to the now green antarctica
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Fnvka
The thundering check lovely punch because motorboat currently whip amidst a fanatical mole. mixed, gaudy opinion
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The thundering check lovely punch because motorboat currently whip amidst a fanatical mole. mixed, gaudy opinion
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Pennsylvania
UGH
I would more like if it changed to be half rain forest half ice like some of the water froze over
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UGH
I would more like if it changed to be half rain forest half ice like some of the water froze over
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Aftab
What if we dig saharah desert and Pour all The Antarctic Melted water into it.
Congrats We are safe -
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What if we dig saharah desert and Pour all The Antarctic Melted water into it.
Congrats We are safe -
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