All perfect examples of the beginning to any Global Catastrophe movie.

@eeach

4 жыл бұрын

I know, right. I spent four minutes thinking "but doesn't sulphur dioxide become sulphuric acid when dissolved in water" and missed most of what else was said.

@Mr_Ron

4 жыл бұрын

@@eeach Yes. Which is what happens if you inhale it.

@suicune2001

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad he finally addressed the "but should we do it?" at the end because I was thinking that the entire video. Every time humans try to control stuff like that, it has gone horribly horribly wrong. We would be better off terraforming Mars into whatever want instead of messing with this planet.

@hannayoung9657

4 жыл бұрын

Snowpiercer was based on scientist trying to cool earth and instead freeze it.

@Kittsuera

4 жыл бұрын

like backfiring. the cooler temps on the cloud tops might make them worse. especially if green house gasses keep the heat in. cooler oceans might be safer, assuming it doesn't kill off any fish that rely on the warm water that time of year. but too cool and we get less rain as stated and thats a whole other issue. already several areas don't get enough rain and catch fire all too easy.

4: send me in.

@semaj_5022

4 жыл бұрын

That might be overkill...maybe we meet you halfway and send John Cena?

@jacksonpercy8044

4 жыл бұрын

You are the hero the world needs, but not the one it deserves. I look forward to your next comment in a few weeks from now.

@astrokattt

4 жыл бұрын

If things keep going this way, I’ll intervene. What will you do??? Intervene.

@jobriq5

4 жыл бұрын

He’s back baby

@JusNoBS420

4 жыл бұрын

Muscle Hank?? Lolololol nice

I feel like dumping sulphur dioxide in to the atmosphere in bulk would cause a little more acid rain than we should be making.

@valentinfelix1708

4 жыл бұрын

who needs plants anyway

@sagetmaster4

4 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure once it's outside the troposphere (where weather happens) it spends it's whole lifecycle up there

@pvic6959

4 жыл бұрын

as well as global warming no? I thought sulphur dioxide was another green house gas?

@Drasvin

4 жыл бұрын

@@pvic6959 Sulfur Dioxide is sort of an anti-greenhouse gas as it reflects light from the sun back out into space. It's still a pollutant, as it contributes to acid rain and is a respiratory irritant.

@pvic6959

4 жыл бұрын

@@Drasvin thats cool info, thanks! I just looked it up and it seems like its a weird gray area. seems like most people see it as an "indirect greenhouse gas"

Love you guys. You stay rigid to science when alot of other channels keep getting further into clickbaid and opinion

@dan_loup

4 жыл бұрын

Someone has to profit from the truth niche

@rhekman

4 жыл бұрын

No, instead they're just promoting another indoctrination program for kids.

@Aztesticals

4 жыл бұрын

@@rhekman sir please get out of here with your backwards antiscience Karen lookin life style metastasis riddled brain acting body. If you would kindly

@TwiStedTentom

4 жыл бұрын

@@rhekman What indoctrination program is that? I'd love clarification.

@aristotlespupil136

4 жыл бұрын

I hope this is sarcasm...

"Oh no, there's a global problem that needs solving" "The only thing for this is a webex meeting" "I'll fire up the router"

@moosemaimer

4 жыл бұрын

Whoops, looks like our license has expired. Who thought routing as a service was a good idea, again?

@rolfs2165

4 жыл бұрын

"What do you mean we have to pay another $20 a month for VLAN? That's more than my allowance!" "Give me an hour, I gotta update the firmware - again."

@666Tomato666

4 жыл бұрын

fire up? isn't fire inside dangerous? burn it outsid

"In our rush to see if we could, nobody stopped to think if we should." *(except Scishow, a few scientists, and Scishow followers based on comments so far. Nice to see this quote becoming less needed.)

Nothing could go wrong. Nothing at all.

perfect way to prevent hurricanes: remove oceans

@AsobiMedio

4 жыл бұрын

No...We must attack the problem at it's source, we shall...SET FIRE TO THE SUN!

@shitlordflytrap1078

4 жыл бұрын

@@AsobiMedio or extinguish it with the oceans.

@AsobiMedio

4 жыл бұрын

@@shitlordflytrap1078 You could actually do the reverse with the 'literal' Death Star method. Would take a long ass time though.

@dojokonojo

4 жыл бұрын

An easier and cheaper solution is just to block out the sun with space reflector panels. No sunlight, no hurricanes, 200 IQ mind blown

@cezarcatalin1406

4 жыл бұрын

Serious question: Why not just dump like 50000 metric tones of liquid air in front of an approaching hurricane ?

2:58 sulfur dioxide!? Isn't that what causes acid rain ?

@boulderbash19700209

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. But rain is generated in troposphere, while the proposal is to spread it in stratosphere, far above the clouds. Sometimes, clouds do climb up to stratosphere, though.

@cageybee7221

4 жыл бұрын

@@boulderbash19700209 there is also concerns for the oxone layer, which is why this is kindof a last ditch effort option.

@sumreensultana1860

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if the venus life forms Did that maybe

i think rather than asking "can we mess with this thing that has gone on since the dawn of the oceans and land masses" we should ask "should we be messing with this, what implications come out of this if we stop them happening?"

@braydonattoe2078

4 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing. Hurricanes are a natural part of our earth's climate and I'm sure many biomes heavily rely on the winds and water to sustain themselves. Just because they slightly inconvenience our extremely overpopulated species doesn't mean we should mess with preventing them

@babecat2000

4 жыл бұрын

Well hurricane kill people so I would at least like to see them weakened to save lives.

@ThePrufessa

4 жыл бұрын

@@braydonattoe2078 they bring lots of water inland. I'm sure there are lots of things that take advantage of that.

@naamadossantossilva4736

4 жыл бұрын

@@babecat2000 Hurricane-proofing houses would be a cheaper and safer way to do that.

@qwertyuiopaaaaaaa7

4 жыл бұрын

babecat2000 There are many ways we can lower the probability of severe life-threatening storms. The most important is reversing climate change. But beyond that we can incorporate built wetlands to naturally absorb the impact of storm surges. Call your elected officials and voice your environmental concerns!

We're going to put a bubble curtain around America, and the fish will pay for it!

Humans: “throw everything at it until it stops!”

More important than asking could we, is should we. It seems like hurricanes are probably an important part of the natural cycle.

@kcazseeley

4 жыл бұрын

dust man that may be the case but aren’t hurricanes becoming more common and more devastating as the world warms up?

@dustman96

4 жыл бұрын

@@kcazseeley So we further devastate nature? What happens then? Perhaps we should focus on sensible architecture in hurricane zones, or hurricane shelters anywhere there is risk. We keep trying to fix our mistakes with the same kind of thinking that created them.

@dustman96

3 жыл бұрын

@@jonmiller6787 Preservation of nature IS preservation of human life as far as I'm concerned.

So... You're telling me that nuking a hurricane ISN'T a great idea? (Edit: SARCASM ALERT)

@Kittsuera

4 жыл бұрын

no... all it would do is throw in acid rain into the mix. maybe some other bits of radiation. shoot, if anything it would make it worse. super heat the ocean and fuel it further. maybe even make a hot zone that makes more form in that area more often.

@JohnDrummondPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

@@Kittsuera I was joking, but all your points are obviously valid. I hope someone has so informed our president.

@kathleensmith950

4 жыл бұрын

We need more radiation like we need cancer.

@kathleensmith950

4 жыл бұрын

We need more radiation like we need more cancer.

@JustSomeGuyLass

3 жыл бұрын

I'm Donald Trump and I don't approve this message. Oh, and let's inject cleaning agents into Covid patients to kill the virus.

Last time I've been this early, Michael's hair was still two-toned.

@semaj_5022

4 жыл бұрын

Tbh I miss that hair :(

@fuglytard1293

3 жыл бұрын

did he gain weight? I dont watch scishow much but it seems like he put a couple pounds on.

@semaj_5022

3 жыл бұрын

@@fuglytard1293 he did gain a bit of weight, yeah. Before the lockdown he had dropped a few pounds, but he's out a little of the weight back on in the past couple months. Still love him though lol

@francofranco9815

3 жыл бұрын

Fugly Tard noticed that too. He's been wearing loose sweaters for quite some time now

I am a Hurricane Andrew survivor. I was only 11 years old when it hit here in Miami. And I would love to stop hurricanes right in their tracks but aren't they naturally needed? Meaning don't they NEED to bring that warm air up north?

@qwertyuiopaaaaaaa7

4 жыл бұрын

Hurricanes aren’t really instrumental in bringing warm air to higher latitudes, but they are important natural phenomena. What we can really do to prevent hurricanes is mitigate and then reverse climate change.

@Kyle496

4 жыл бұрын

@@qwertyuiopaaaaaaa7 Well actually... There is little evidence climate change makes more hurricanes, though there is some that shows it can (and has) make them stronger/worse. I believe scishow did an episode on that last year (whenever Harvey was).

@mykeprior3436

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe for ozone.

@anonymeister123

4 жыл бұрын

"We shouldn't mess with nature" "Greenhouse gasses caused by man are bad" Let's mess with nature even more 😩

I think that last proposal of improving forecast technology is the best option by far.

Stopping hurricanes aimed at Florida might be a bad idea. Those tropical systems are part of the rainy season in Florida and without them, the dry season will get even drier, and wildfires (which are already bad) will get worse.

Me: *Laughing in mediterranean

finally a sponsor that worth checking out.

I can hear “chemtrailer” heads exploding from here.

That bubble curtain is a good project for fugro.

There was an experiment I saw where people made a long tube with a check valve in it. And they used the action of tides and the swell to pull the water up. The bubble curtain would probably work a little better but could pump more carbon dioxide into the water making it acidic.

Awesome y’all keep up the good work

I like the bubble curtain idea, it could cover one square mile along the coast of hard-hit areas

I think that hot water and air streaming from urbanized land needs to be considered. We don't have to dump so much heat. We ought to be reducing our heat production. Literally directly heating the earth. Hot water, hit electronics, hit engines, hot asphalt. All contribute.

"Quadjet A320 doesn't exist, it can't hurt you" Quadjet A320 at 2:26

Can we just take a moment to thank SciShow for using Metric units so that most people understand?

Pretty cool

Great info and points of view. When you started talking about the first couple methods I immediately thought of scale and cost, which I figured would be the biggest obstacles. I think the only way something like this could be deployed (if all testing found ecosystems and environmental impact would be negligible to none) is if we could calculate the annual prevention cost against the destruction cost where the prevention is cheaper. Unfortunately, we always need to keep in mind that someone is going to have to pick up the check.

Let's become a K1 civilization.

@vdwhite687

4 жыл бұрын

Type 1 Am i right gotta get there

Neat video! Thanks for uploading!

Michael's hair is ON POINT in this video

See a tropical disturbance forming? Just drop a big ice cube into it!

Here's a solution: a series of giant fans perched atop a bunch of tall spires around coastal regions. A hurricane's coming? Blow it away! :)

@kathleensmith950

4 жыл бұрын

What to another destination?

@IceMetalPunk

4 жыл бұрын

@@kathleensmith950 Yep. If every coastal city does this, we can play ping-pong with the hurricane until it dies out over the oceans :D

But doesn’t sulphur dioxide mix with water to make sulphuric acid?

@qwertyuiopaaaaaaa7

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, sulphuric dioxide (SOx) is a very harmful pollutant. I am surprised and disappointed that SciShow didn’t mention the full climatological and environmental impact of that intervention.

@jacksonpercy8044

4 жыл бұрын

I recognised the name sulphur dioxide and couldn't remember why, and you've reminded me that it can lead to acid rain. Definitely not something you want a lot of in the atmosphere, especially if it doesn't succeed at preventing a hurricane and only makes it acidic.

@tomf3150

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, acidic water=> more co2 in the atmosphère.

Never been this early :) good video by the way

so is seawater in airplanes the new chemtrails?

@dynamicworlds1

4 жыл бұрын

They're talking about spraying dihydrogen monoxide! Even worse, they're mixing it with something used as poison gas in WW1!

Global Problem Solvers: The Series gives me a strong Captain Planet vibe.

Please do an episode about the weather phenomenon called "Derecho". It swept through the Midwest on Monday and caused more devastation than I can tell you. I lived through it, and just got my power back today.

Holy cow, you have made some gains!

I have a great idea of how to reduce the probability of strong hurricanes: reduce greenhouse gas emissions...

@zacharybarteky3040

4 жыл бұрын

And if that ship has sailed?

@little_forest

4 жыл бұрын

@Kurt Look7 I am just sarcastically stating the most sensible option. Also we do not just need thousands of people working on reducing greenhouse gas emissions but we need 7 billion doing that. Cause technology can help us only so far. In the end, every single person in the world has to work on it.

@GirtonOramsay

4 жыл бұрын

I worked in hurricane research. The correlation is not well-established that we have stronger hurricanes due to global warming due to limited accurate datasets. Regardless, it's still an open theory

@turbojack03

4 жыл бұрын

This comment feels passive aggressive

@little_forest

4 жыл бұрын

@@GirtonOramsay So the video is wrong and there is no direct correlation between water temperature and the development of hurricanes?

**creates artificial volcanic winter**

Is there a way to disperse cyclones that have already formed?

some of these weather scientists haven't watched Snowpiercer and it shows

Maybe going to mars will help us understand how tropical cyclones form🤷‍♂️🤣🤣

i vote that we make the entire world superpowers use nukes to dissipate hurricanes

@WindKing0

4 жыл бұрын

You didn't watch the credits, they linked to a video they already did on why that would be an *incredibly* bad idea: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pYOp0LZ-ma_QeNo.html

That's great and all, but what about sharknados? How do we stop those from showing up? There are 7 happened already or was it 8?

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Never change or play with the process of mother nature.

Can we use these methods to weaken storms after we already detect them and forecast their movements, by cooling the water that is in their path?

Yea!

There is one other thing that lowers ocean temperatures: tropical cyclones. If there was a way to artificially create tropical cyclones then we could just make enough small ones so that there wouldn't be enough warm water for big ones to form. I'm imagining something like a big space-based solar concentrator that can focus on warm patches in the ocean to get a tropical depression started.

i think its best to create buildings that can withstand those winds in combination with forecasts. like the dutch and floods. we have a flood defence system. but we also have other ways of getting rid of the water fast if those defences were to fail. like canals that lie lower than most houses. strong pumps in key locations. because messin with a global system like that is asking for devastation

Mama says she remembers and old black and white TV show where the hero pilot, maybe Sky King, flew his plane into the eye and shot out ice shavings to cool things down. I wanted to ask her if the shaving machine was hand cranked. But she had that look in her eye so I knew better lol

Woah woah woah... What else depends on warmer waters?!!

What about dropping a giant ice cube in it like they did in Futurama? Joking

They better not, Alta Mexico, California and Texas just gotta deal with it cause we need hurricanes to get our rain in Arizona haha

You can also just send out a group of ships ahead of the area where a cyclone is beginning to form and syphon cooler water from the bottom of the sea and spray it out on the surface of the ocean. The advantage of this method would be that you would not be required to place permanent bubble structures over a large area; just focus on a starting point of a cyclone, (say near the coast of Africa), and deploy the ships ahead in the path of the cyclone and commence spraying cooler water across the surface. The ships are mobile and could cover larger areas than a fixed bubble structure, and would be more cost effective since they would require limited maintenance unlike a bubble structure and the ships would only be required to be actively used during hurricane season.

In Australia we don't call them hurricanes or typhoons... we just call them cyclones!

So what you're telling me is we should somehow stimulate volcanoes across the world to erupt; Preferably simultaneously.

As airplanes go thru hurricanes maybe they could release dry ice or someother something to disperse it?

Hurricane Andrew, I remember my family spoke about it years later.

Florida needs to take notes

I think the main thing is "weakening typhoons/hurricanes" and not stopping them from forming.

I like and subscribed

i hope Micheal has good sleeps

It would be nice, no more Katrina like hurricanes!

@dylanwoods2418

4 жыл бұрын

those are the fun ones

sulphur dioxide in to the atmosphere + a really big train = SnowiPiercer

Do you want Snowpiercer, because that's how you get Snowpiercer.

I love that scishow is getting people thinking, but it makes me very nervous when discussions are about altering nature. Especially about a topic that doesn’t have a lot of ‘positive research’ behind it. I’ve spent all my life, minus one year, on the east coast. Most of that in Charleston S.C. You could keep me in a bunker for a year and only let me outside blindfolded and I could tell you when a hurricane or smaller tropical storm came through. They are literally nature’s giant AC units! The sudden reprieve they bring can be amazing! Since many aspect can affect these storms and where they hit, and how strong they are, it would seem more beneficial to change man’s behavior. Change where people live. Change requirements for how they must react if in high risk zones. There’s not a lot that can be properly “controlled” with nature. But there’s plenty that can be controlled with people!

If you look at the earthquake energy graph going back a hundred years, it is pretty much identical to the hurricane and tropical storm power dissipation graph. It does not match the temperature graph very well anymore since the temperature graph was altered to change the long-term cooling trend into a scary looking warming trend right before the election between a Texas oil candidate and a climate activist.

Good ideas. Perhaps too large a scope. Seems like we could spray in front of an approaching storm front if it takes on dangerous characteristics only rather than just take an approach that requires action over the entire ocean. That would mitigate cost and environmental impact while still having the possibility of weakening an inbound storm.

this is pretty interesting but the most tangible way of cooling the atmosphere is to prevent the release of green house gasses, and we should focus on that. You also didnt mention anything about injecting ozone

My thoughts on it are we create some sort of specialty missle we shoot at the center of it that collapses the center. A missile that either has hyper cooling features (to disrupt the “heat engine”) or a missile that creates some sort of vacuum in the middle of the cyclone to collapse the center of it and stop the rotation. When in doubt. Shoot missiles at it lol.

Imagining a methodology preventing natural disasters. Somehow.

Take all the water out from the ocean. No water, no hurricane.

My mom was in LSU when Andrew hit. It was the scariest thing she's ever experienced.

Today we stop hurricanes and tomorrow we colonize Mars. Dream on.

what about preventing earthquakes and volcanoes? you could make this a series

a bubble curtain would be fun for everyone

We need to start making rooftops white and reflect alot of light back into space it would be like a fake ice sheet

Weather manipulation vs weather control vs atmospheric research

Global Problem Solving as a service.

most people don't know that, but you can prevent hurricanes by nuking them! LOL too soon?

Friendly reminder the whole point of storms is to equalize temperature. If we stopped hurricanes, the equator would be uninhabitable

YO THIS IS THE FIRST VIDEO IVE SEEN OF HIM WHERE HE BLINKS

If everyone had adequate building codes and insurance, hurricanes would be less of a threat.

"Preventing a hurricane just might be more possible than you might think." *Suggested: Why Don't We Just Nuke Hurricanes?*

Am I the only one who thought "now we just drop a giant ice cube into the ocean every now and then"?

Hypothetically, what if we were to trigger another volcanic eruption?

Bruh hawaii dodged a bullet a hurricane almost hit

@AabluedragonAH

4 жыл бұрын

It actually did two crazy swerves and I honestly thought this was karma for Big Island and Maui taking the hit for us all the time lol

@homiej2548

4 жыл бұрын

And now Isiais is hitting Puerto Rico, the DR, and will soon hit the Bahamas and potentially Florida and other east coast locations,

@homiej2548

4 жыл бұрын

@@AabluedragonAH Douglas was an extremely impressive storm to watch. It rapidly istrengthened and then completed an eyewall replacement cycle over 25-26C waters.

@kfromthe8706

4 жыл бұрын

Homie J yeah

How do you have such awesome-perfect hair in the middle of a pandemic?!?!?!

This is one problem where treating the symptom is safer, cheaper and less likely to cause bad side effects than solutions to drastically alter conditions that cause them. Meaning that, seeding individual hurricanes to weaken them is a more sensible response than trying to stop them all with half-baked theories with alternative consequences.

Fun Fact: The government has considered using nuclear detonations to disrupt hurricanes, and discarded the idea as unfeasible... not because of the fallout and radiation, although those certainly weren't selling points, but because _they're not powerful enough._

I worried you might be talking about nuking hurricanes, but I didn't anticipate you'd be talking about chemtrails instead.

We all relieve pressure in our own way. Sometimes things are because it relieves some other more catastrophic danger. Stop hurricanes and you might find they happen for a reason thats necessary. Maybe not.. but still very dangerous. Try stopping earthquakes and see what happens.

I have a idea a line of solar power fountains bringing cooler water from the depths to the surface to cool the surface water and take away the heat that is making the storm would starve it out and make it go on a different path away from the land until it dies off

The could thing sounds good to me. Like, that would be basically doing the most important job of rainforests. Cause that they are needed most for is exactly milding down the global climate by introducing masses of moisture and clouds into the air. It might also help with global warming maybe? Question is just how to balance it so we didn't overdo it.

What about preventing the damage from hurricanes? You didn't discuss anything like building levees or flood walls. Check out the Netherlands and their defences.