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The rise of the Himalayas affected more than just the immediate area. Turns out, we may have them to thank for everything from the rise of giant flightless birds in Madagascar; to the disappearance of plants from Antarctica; to the expansion of the great grasslands of North America, and more.
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You guys need to up the mic and post production quality. Volume levelling needs work … sound is overly loud in places.
It’s almost like there was a time when the whole earth was under water…
A mountain underwater WOOOOOAAAAAAHHHHHHH😮
The scientific explanation in this vid would make TOTAL sense what I saw in the movie Fantasia No.1
❤ thank you 🙏
You say The Everest but the ancient name, going back thousands of years, is Cho-MO-Lung Ma. It has another name Sagar Mata. Both are more meaningful than the name of a mere surveyor.
Himalaya, a name given to the imposing range goes back tens of thousands of years. It means Hima (rhyming with Lima) AALAYA meaning temple. Yet the West continues to mispronounce the name, hurting our sentiments. When will all of you wake up. But for this, your video are well done and interesting.
Need a western ghats videos
Excellent. Thanks a lot for this wonderful video.
Aff
I think she made this video as a distraction to make us forget how she is constantly trying to get those poor poor Dalmatians.
You can't fool me Cruella…Never.😜🤣
possibly, potentially, may, unknown
lots of conditionals for something being discussed so thoroughly and certainly.
If the southern oscillation can change global weather patterns, it's not a stretch to assume the tallest mountains could not do the same. The hard part is finding data to back up this assumption.
I am from hamalias….
who's the beautiful woman narrating?
Excellent way to describe event
Bad fashion decisions make it hard to take the narration seriously. Sorry PBS
Watching this from Kashmir Himalayas! 🏔️🏞️⛰️
We are very closed to Himalaya. But can't go there as need to do many things. Hopefully, I'll go to the Himalaya someday in the future.
Himalaya means the king of the mountains
0:12 aww so cute!❤❤❤
What a weirdo the presenter is.
‘Die’-versify…
Everywhere I listen, the schwa sound is dying…Americans will all sound like Canadians in 20 years…
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
If there is no Tibet there won’t be any monsoon in India .
Millions of years ago? Oh come on.
Sorry for the thumbs down but too much to ads
🧐 🍃 The most transformative of nature is not the Himalayan but man himself. We will create the biggest change through innovative technologies and destruction of nature. We made it worse and Nature only reacted because of its self healing factors, like volcanic eruptions, typhoons and even earthquakes.
It makes a lot of sense that Death from Neil Gaiman's "Sandman comics" has a hobby of being a host on a paleogeology program on PBS. It's very much in her character.
Well explained. Thank you.
Geology is life
Is the presenter really that intelligent? Amazing. A window into higher intelligence. It felt like 5 lessons all in one. For me I will watch again. I was part in amazement of the announcer’s creative imagination, that distracted me from the presentation, so next I will try to see if I can concentrate for such extended periods of time, and learn what the announcer is presenting.
It’s rare to find such minds will such power of concentration. It’s one of the lessons some Buddhist learn.
The Karakorams are equally responsible for such changes
I wish I would have lived in Himalyas, cold climate 😊. But I live in North Indian Plains(U.P) Here temperature is typically above 40° for 2 Months(May and June) After that we have Temperature between 35°C to 25°C for 3 Months but you will still feel extremely hot due to high Humidity. After that in October we have pleasant and dry weather. Temperature remain between 32°C to 20°C. After that from November to February, we have enjoyable winter(24°C/11°C) which sometime becomes freezing
(12°C/4°C). In March we finally have Moderate Climate(30°C/14°C) but in April we have warm climate(37°C /22°C).
I liked the video until I saw the narrator, sorry I don't believe any cartoon character, really do you think anyone takes you seriously or as an expert with your appearance?
Maybe, but 55 million years ago is also when the Drake passage opened, letting antarctica freeze due to the antarctic circumpolar current. I wouldnt use Antarctica being glaciated as evidence for Himalayan chemical weathering causing a global cooling event. This video leaves out every other important event that happened at this same time.
Love this host
what did the prehistoric Himalayas say to the land northwards?
"Go be desert!"
(sorry)
One thing confused me ,if it was raining before the evolution of Himalayas on earth , same amount of rain would fall on earth after its evolution…so the amount of CO2 would remain constant …..no temperature change
But I have a question why Himalayas formed but no mountain of similar height at Arabian peninsula.
Not only is this video incredibly interesting and educational, but the production is also amazing. It's great to learn while watching all these visually stunning shots of one of the most brutally beautiful parts of this planet.
May I also recommend several of the 'Great Courses' from 'The Teaching Company', taught by geology professor Michael Wysession. You might be able to get these via your Inter-Library Loan service, like I did. Absolutely outstanding lecture series! He is a superb teacher of all things geologic!
I am so grateful for living in a time, in which I can freely further my education and learn more about the world. ❤ Thanks guys!
Free Tibet and then talk about anything…………….
Antarctica being frozen is also due to the Antarctic current that flows completely around it. It keeps warm currents from approaching Antarctica.
Plants or phlants
Proud to be a Himalayan !
Without the Himalaya india would've been much drier and arid
Him-AAH-lay-aas….not Him-uh-LAY-us
I feel like the role of tectonic shifts (& subsequent climactic/habitat changes) often gets under-emphasised when we talk about the history of evolution and how our current species and biomes came about, so it's always fascinating to see vids like this one which help provide that wider geographic context? ❤️
Living in New Zealand, which straddles a very active plate boundary, the way tectonics affects our landscape & how that in turn has impacted our natural biome and our human civilisations is something that has very immediate interest for us down here… and is very much an ongoing process, just as in the Himalayas! 😅