It's a very common misconception that climate change is solely causing these heavy short rainfalls. But another big factor, also caused by humans, is the lack of what's called green water. Blue water is rain formed by oceanic evaporation. As kids, we are taught in school that it IS how rain forms. This is only partially true. On the planet, about 60% of the rainfall is from green water, IE rain that takes its source from clouds formed by vegetation perspiration, soil evaporation, and inland lakes and rivers. But what does mankind do ? They drain wetlands like in the Everglades to build cities and factories. They cut down wild forests for timber and to plant mono culture of pine trees. Pine trees are rubbish at forming clouds. Yet they form most of our plantations in Europe. We also cut down most of the hedgerows in our agricultural fields. We stopped having wild fields as fallow land. We put drains to remove excess winter rain. We straightened rivers so we could build easily nearby. Our soils are often naked between crops. We build greenhouses from which almost no water goes back to the sky. All of this contributes to the inability of our geography and natural landscape to recycle water when it falls, and to SLOW IT DOWN before it reaches the oceans. Instead, water will fall as one, often near the coast or when mountains stop the clouds. In the past, it would rain less, more frequently, and the rain would "hop" from one region to another region inland. Now you have rainshadow regions, not shadowed by mountains (like Death Valley for example) but by the lack of vegetation. Such a region in France is around Perpignan, where there is a severe drought. Rain used to travel from the Atlantic ocean towards the region near the Mediterranean sea. But now it doesn't... Pine forests, no hedgerows, naked soils... The WHOLE of France has had its aquifers recharged this winter thanks to frequent welcomed rains EXCEPT this one which is STILL in the red, and has been for 3 years straight...
@Athena_Athena00 Says:
I would love to dance in the rain with music playing on masive speakers
@arthurau67 Says:
How do I apply for Petr’s job? I can provide character references 😂
@pratiknath1712 Says:
Meghalaya says whaaaat ?
@VividOrigins Says:
Philippines whenever a typhoon enters the PAR (Philippines' Area of Responsibility)
@lawrencium940 Says:
nah this is hidden of the mist village😂
@isajakwa4059 Says:
kumogakure
@cowculator4465 Says:
Cool video, but why does derek say "data" and not "data"? that's confusing...
@duryeal26 Says:
How many rain drops have fallen since water existed on Earth?
Over/under the current number of stars in the universe?
I'm guessing over, but would love to see a deep dive into the question.
@FatNinjaWalrus Says:
Did that guy just say "rain doesn't make dirt more slippery, it just decreases friction between the particles"
Isn't that functionality the same thing?
@zmarfion Says:
japan is basically natural disaster survival
@user-um7uv7bn2n Says:
As a fellow Australian, Derek you should know that the heaviest rain ever recorded is when you and your mates try to play soccer on the field at lunch and god just doesn’t want you to
@Mazarty Says:
Rainforest 🚫
Warehouse ✅
@roynaba7669 Says:
Fun fact: The wettest/rainiest place is in India.
@Stehvee Says:
Would’ve thought Scotland was the rainiest place on earth but i guess here we are
@wayne-td3oq Says:
Average day in the uk
@tigershark4469 Says:
Why the hell does Youtube say it has so embarrassing to do with climate change?
@Yozo_official Says:
3MO
102K L
3,1K C
15,5M S
4 398 977 V
@radharamandwivedi7609 Says:
300mm of rain? pretty normal in north indian state Uttar pradesh 😂
@MASPlanesMalaysianaviation Says:
and i thought india was rainier...
@clairpahlavi Says:
Global climate changes are dependent on the Sun and the rapidly decreasing magnetic field.
Man's use of "geo-carbon" fuels is irrelevant to the issue of weather or climate.
One volcano emits 10 years worth of man's total CO2 contribution to the atmosphere.
Plants love it. Crops love it.
What's the problem? Too much rain? A drought?
If you can't handle the weather, get out of farming.
CronySocialism wants our resources.
Biden sells our oil to China. Then, makes us buy it from Venezuela and The Arabs.
Sen. Schammer won't allow a pipeline, and he's an owner of the railroad that gets used instead. Cha-ching!
Give me Trump
☆ 2024 ☆
or
Give me Death
@muogie Says:
в Ялте подождливее )
@krystaburchett4479 Says:
Wow god be peeing a lot
@johneregino3706 Says:
I can now say that there's two countries acting like a shield. I wish both Japan ang Philippines Collab to make a plan for any typhoon's that are coming and make the citizens know what should do when there's a typhoon.
@omarkhalid4823 Says:
Bro Dubai 💀
@diogoferreira6175 Says:
I need proof of global warming please , it does not exist .
@vinyei_ Says:
Philippines: yall r so dramatic about flood
(Floods arent a joke i js wanted to comment this)
@ZxroAlex Says:
the water bill 💀💀
@arismahmudi7995 Says:
remind me of Three Body Problem, Japan is the best candidate of Trisolarans planet
@salimaslam8007 Says:
meh.. that 300+ mm of rain in Holt example just looks like a normal thunderstorm in southeast Asia..
@Ocean_bIvd Says:
Thickest rain like bullets
@budderbear Says:
Runs a science channel but doesn't understand that Volcanoes produce much more CO₂ than humans... tried to push global warming agenda. /yawn
@krushnamali6183 Says:
i thought you went to northeast india
@harry8601 Says:
Come to cherapunji......the place with the most rainfall......😮😮😮
@GopalSingh01 Says:
FYI India's northeastern Meghalaya state is home to the two wettest villages in the world: Cherrapunji, which sees 464 inches, and Mawsynram, which gets 467 inches—making it the “wettest place on the planet.”
@ariefhazim1715 Says:
Switching to the producer really made this feel like a discovery channel show
@andreteixeira9158 Says:
Dr. Derek is a hockey fan. Now i know how he lost his 2 upper front theeth. 😅
@Saddamhusseinstoaster Says:
He obviously hasn’t been to Scotland before
@Sjoerd_0733 Says:
no its the netherlands
@_darkbrian Says:
The Government of Dubai had to watch this video last week!
@ScoRPy22 Says:
Not kidding. When I read title of the video, I thought he's in India
@cheradenine1980 Says:
Sorry Peter. 👎🏼
@rohitchatterjee2327 Says:
Dubai: Hold my falafel
@EruptionIsCool Says:
Isn’t nied also earthquake simulation
@landermortier2245 Says:
Welcome in belgium guys
@LukebeingLuke Says:
They should have looked at this video in Dubai
@TGenoRock Says:
Well, there you go again.. documenting and entertaining..
But finishing with unscientific and gratuitous.. and apparently reflexive fear porn comments about "dealing with the root causes of climate change"... cue the dramatic music!.. this statement about increases in natural disasters simply isn't grounded in facts and science. Then of course, the bad guy of gasses, CO2.. is just regurgitated fear porn.
@Mohammadmohammad-fx5bz Says:
'' it doesnt make soil slippery but it reduces friction ''
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