The Collapse of a Glacier

[JimsGeminiTube]

Nice Enya song for this video! A lot of vids don't have good tunes.

[carmium]

@JimsGeminiTube Except that it's about Africa. 8-)

[Stynger01]

A special treat, thanks for sharing.

[MrRobbo1995]

Grow up, realize what's happening around you... the world is ending! Global warming is effecting everything! You need to start and try to stop this effect! Not cheer about it!

[ocortiz79]

I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE ARE HAPPY TO SEE GLOBAL WARMING HAPPEN RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM.

[stopmotioncom]

My life is complete

[Shirley20Kwan]

Those people were cheering for the collapse?????

[metalero87blog]

@Shirley20Kwan It happens erevy couples of years. The Glacier (Perito Moreno) expands over the "Argentine Lake" (Lago argentino) and then it collapses. And the cicle starts again.

[hellnbk]

Watching the planet go down he tubes always makes me go Gee WOWWWW!

[hellnbk]

Watching the planet go down he tubes always makes me go Gee WOWWWW!

[winterstellar]

Calving has always been going on. But almost all the world's glaciers are melting/retreating now, it's like 98 or 99 percent of them. In Antarctica, Greenland, the Alps, the Andes,all over the planet.

[seyeruoynepotsuj]

Brilliant!

[Brilliantchildarts]

... Cool!

[SneakyC9]

It's called "calving" and it's been going on for millions of years, you liberal knuckleheads. Why should it stop now?

[SergiosTorrents]

if you go to Antarctica on google maps in the panoramic view, youll be depressed....

[jjmillr420]

Don't forget to bring a helmet

[xpez]

@ 2:37 the people turn into trees!!!

[stevenvdwekken]

@xpez wtf xD

[xpez]

probably dont wanna hike over there across the river... :P

[stegatops]

sigh.....how much would i pay to see that? One day...one day....

[87earth]

that hole looks like my ex's vagina, its big and its falling apart

[jowah]

Enya and Yanni and other new age artists are cool and everything, but I want to hear the ice!

[MsJadedmind]

Really bugs me that people talk about stuff they know nothing about. To you its only speculation. You all are not scientist and do know go out into the world and study all of this, so why argue about something that you know nothing about, only read about?

[MarkMck1994]

You can get Fire Work Displays. Stunt Displays. Water Displays. Marine Life Displays. Car Displays. Fire Displays.

But nothing ever beats Mother Natures Display.

[K1w1scot]

It would be interesting to measure how far the ice projectiles were able to travel. Because it sure as hell looks like it was farther than the crowd-line in the picture. Anyone able to inform me?

[shadowxgohan]

9 PEOPLE SHOULD BE SENT TO THE moon....as there r no GLACIERS .........!!

[transdrole]

Why do people scream and clap? The ice is not performing for you.

[FRANKyyyyy100]

Nature is just the most wonderfull.  Great video. Thanks.

[ChibiNinjax002]

that took forever to watch it fall i would of thrown a grenade at it :D

[richardtheone]

i only have my own observations to rely on in regards to global warming,and point in fact , where i live here on the atlantic coast of nova scotia there has been no change.. let me say that again there has been no change.... i live about 10 feet above sea level have lived here in the area all my life and things are still the same as they have allways been . the water level is the same the temperatures are the same..there actually is no evidence of so called global warming here..

[uknowispeaksense]

@richardtheone your use of the words "so called" indicates that you don't believe global warming is occuring. is that true?

[uknowispeaksense]

@richardtheone okay. i just went to the canadian weather website and looked up climate variations. For the 63 years until 2010, Canada all of Canada has experienced an increase in temperature of 1.6 degrees C. Yes, the area known as Atlantic Canada has not experienced temperature change as high but ut has gone up by 0.5 degrees in the same time. There are places in canada like the Mackenzie district that has experienced an increase of 2.6 degrees C. cont....

[uknowispeaksense]

@richardtheone cont...just because you personally haven't observed "evidence" of climate change in your tiny part of the world doesn't mean it isn't happening. Mind you, i am currently reading a lot of published papers on the effect of increased ocean temperatures around Nova Scotia resulting from global warming and its effect on the biodiversity in your little part of the world. Very interesting stuff. I may end up knowing more about your place than you do.

[richardtheone]

@uknowispeaksense okay what you know is what you have from research.. i have done research as well and what i find out is that all iknow is what someone else says.. real time on the gound here at home things have not changed any in the last 40 years.. i can show you pictures from the 1880's of lake banook in dartmouth with no ice in january...maybe cycles who nows for sure .. i'm not denying climate change is happening i'm just saying i don't see it here.. as for global warming caused by man...

[uknowispeaksense]

@richardtheone as for global warming caused by man..... the evidence is overwhelming.

[richardtheone]

@uknowispeaksense whose evidence? the evidence i just presented to you does not in fact bear this out.. do you have any personal experince that global warming is in fact happening or that man has created this situation...just playing devils advocate here with you...

[uknowispeaksense]

@richardtheone what you presented is anecdotal evidence. the overwhelming consensus in the scientific community is that AGW is a fact. there are more peer reviewed scientific papers demonstrating it than you can poke a stick at. I am not going to start listing them here tonight as its 2am where I am and I'm going to bed. I am more than happy to send you references but if yougo to sciencedirect or ebscohost you can search the scientific literature yourself.

[AlanMaiden619]

Argentina ♥

[zilla81]

spectacular, loved it, thanks for shareing

[shaldana]

How sad that whomever did this video opted to cover up the natural sounds with some music instead of letting us hear.

Ruins it. :(

[jacques19999]

do they not realise this is bad lol

[MrBuggaLugs]

@jacques19999 Why is it bad?

[jacques19999]

@MrBuggaLugs Cause this is cauing sea water to rise and if it rises a couple of Cm is can fuck alot of shit up

[MrBuggaLugs]

@jacques19999 So no glacier should ever collapse at its end? As the giant body of ice sinks into warmer climates, it should just stay frozen forever creeping further and further into unfrozen lands? Till eventually the whole planet is frozen? :|

[RainFTWs]

@jacques19999

ugh, dude you know nothing....

[morroida9966]

people are cheering... they should be worried about global warming

[Parslow193]

@morroida9966 glaciers dont melt only when we have global warming, dont be fooled by the media (but i do know global warming is being sped up by human activity). this happens every year in spring, so they will not be surprised to see it happening, just impressed by the events.

[audgeyp]

@morroida9966-It has nothing to do with global warming/climate change. It's a naturally occurring feature where glaciers calve and then rebuild themselves. Read nacexc's comment below.

[cattynip1]

i love this

[mlo03063]

beautiful.  Mother Nature puts on a great show once again

[SeaFox10]

If we could just stop all this gravity, this would never happen! :p

[nasanut]

That is very cool!

[callofpaul]

this video tells me that the earth is dieing.

[RainFTWs]

@callofpaul

no its not

[stegatops]

Surely one of the best videos on youtube.

[Liquadia]

weeeeeeeee lets all go watch ice drop into the sea. well document and record all you want because in another 20yrs time theres going to be a hell of alot less ice around! this change is permanent and not just overnight! thousands of years for ice to be created into icebergs and cover the poles and only hundreds to remove it all..

[gcracka95]

Cool. So beautiful

[gizmoalt]

whats the name of the song that running in the background?

[stegatops]

"Storms in Africa"  by Enya.

[youcytube]

As of mine, starting from the 1709s Global Warming has occured!

During the last 100 years, sea-level has rasied 15 meters and tempature heating by 3.93 degrees above normal! ITS THE END OF THE WORLD!!!!! Why do people are happy?

[Incredibleman100]

@youcytube Yawn? do you seriously belive the world is gonna end? go to a mental hospital, yr probably safe there...

[jwboll]

@youcytube

15 Meters in 100 years?

that's pretty far.

I think you might be misinformed.

relax, that glacier has been melting for 10,000 years. It's almost done, finally, in a few thousand more years some trees can grow there. some cute furry animals can live in the trees too. win/ win.

[AlienThe1]

This video is like from late 80's... Global warming was not the issue that age, and guys GW will not just happen in these few years, it cant.. its a slow prosess, even if it gets disturbed by human... It is still slow prosess. BUT! how ever we still need to make pure energy just for sake of ourselves......

[AlienThe1]

more and more people get astma, cancer, diapetes etc. WE need to not just change some things, WE need to change all things. Our habits, way of life and so on... We need to change as persons, not by acts, because our acts will work as so far.. thats human way.. but if we change our thinking method we change everything...

[hwieldr]

There are a lot of wrong conclusions around:

1. glaciers always melt at the end (and may do so by collapses), the question is whether it melts faster than it grows and most of the glaciers are doing that now.

2. global warming doesn't mean that there will be no cold winters anymore: it's a trend, but year-by-year variations are really large, you only see the trend if you look at multiple years

3. the fact that global warming occurred before, doesn't mean, that it's nog manmade this time.

[pennilesshippo]

Wherever glaciers calve, so too Enya will promote her new age melodies. It's the law of the Universe!

[dhpstudios2009]

What do you mean by warming up, i live in Holland and we have now a winter like never before, much much snow and temperatures below minus ten are every day, it seems normal for us now, finnally a long cold winter.

[neil73]

Same here, across the water in England. Now that its finally getting warm (springtime) it feels red hot!

[karst007]

I think this is funny... so many people are like OMG!!! the world is coming to an end!!!! GLOBAL WARMING!!! EMISSIONS!!! i dont disagree with the fact that we are destroying the atmosphere. Were vehicles and technology around to warm the world to melt the Bering Strait 19,000 years ago? no... so technically the earth has been warming since then. EAT IT!! its nature taking its course. it will warm up all the way eventually, and the poles will melt.

[baalyezidi]

yeah not only the earth but all the planets are heating up... its as solar system thing not an earth thing...

[rounddot5827]

it would be so awsome to be there

[MrBrendann]

BEAUTIFUL

[flosan23]

I agree

[nekohellboy1]

the pepole o is claping are idiots.

This is verry bad to the world.

[MrBrendann]

@nekohellboy1 beautiful

[elcl3m]

This case is an exemption, the perito moreno ( in argentina ) is the only glacier who is still growing. Every 10 years ( not sure ) it creates an ice brigde and blocks the river ( which separates two huges lacs ) and with the force of the water on both sides, it collapse . And it starts all over again. But it is an expetion in the world I agree with you, stil it is amazing, I which it had collapsed when I went there, but the Ice Bridge was'nt to big .

[samsagitarias]

@elcl3m Thank you for sharing that, never heard of this glacier, totally fascinating - didnt know that - thank you.

[trubin06]

Music: ENYA - Storms In Africa

[khaadimone]

Thank you very much! God bless

[Wabitfan]

blue ice, isnt that a milloin years old

[TheKingdomofErnor]

it's too bad the perspective of the camera makes the thing look 1/10th its actual size

[samsagitarias]

@TheKingdomofErnor - well its a hell of a lot smaller now thats for sure. Its very distressing to see this happening - not like we can just stick it back on with some sticky tape . Its like you want to grab it and stop if from falling, because you know that what your seeing is really the result of our bad management of the planet , and our own undoing if we are not smart and get to grips with whats happening. - I am ranting a little i know, but this is a subject that i feel strongly about.

[puncheex]

@samsagitarias: No, there's nothing wrong about this - it is natural and normal. Glaciers flow down hill, and they calve. That is part of their life cycle. If they didn't, then pretty soon he entire earth would be an iceball. Glaciers do that in the summer even if glacier's weren't retreating. You can see that at some point in the recent past that glacier dammed the river, and where the water eventually broke through.

[samsagitarias]

@puncheex Yes, I understand that, but its happening more and waaaaaay faster than it should - the glaciers are reducing far far far faster than is normal - without them things will get rather dodgy to say the least - still as sad a sight as it is, it has to be said that it is an amazing and terrifying sight to see

[puncheex]

OK, I can agree. However, melting glaciers are a symptom of the deeper problem. They themselves are doomed to recycle just like everything else eventually; in a given day you are seeing the same thing whether we had global warming or not; this could as well be happening a century ago as today.

[samsagitarias]

@puncheex Its interesting, when you think of that senario - thing is, we are supposed to be in or heading to a long over due ice age, where these things are formed - think thats what i learned in Geography at school was a long time ago, but if things are not as they should be, and this cycle of ice age and then coming out of it is disrupted, what, will the consequeces be. I do understand that some of what is happening is supposed to be, but not so much and not at this speed as earth cant keep up

[longlivecrow]

2:26 Epic.

[valiumsummer]

these videos always end to soon. I would like to see how it looked after the mist settled :(. Great video none-the-less :). 5 stars.

[1200200m]

Super Video

[Laialinaymaamar2]

Glaciar Perito Moreno- Argentina

[usmcalx]

hahaha

[sphinxrising58]

That is not a " Collapse of a Glacier " you moron, it's called calfing FFS, get an education, lol

[luckyphilster]

spelt 'calving'...., moron

[spacejockeycyrano]

This is great - melting glaciers make terrific viewing. More melting glaciers please!

[jetblue70]

wow. 2:26 was awsome!

[moocowjr]

I don't understand why people who are commenting are so sad and angry about people celebrating. Think about it for a second, the glaciers were not always here, they formed during the ice age. Now, as the earth slowly warms back up and returns to it's normal state, the remains of the ice are melting off and things are returning to normal.

[tomcatlizzy]

i agree... it's an amazing spectacular event.. it's so cool to see on a video, imagine having been there?... I also can't stand people who have to belittle others because of how they word something, or if they think they're smarter... they must be jealous because they weren't there to see it!!

[PlaygroundJoe]

How long did it take in real time?

[happyheba23]

Sobhan Allah

[carlottzz88]

(-_-") i don't wanna argue..

[carlottzz88]

i think they are showing what will hapen if global warming continues..

[StarJekker]

global warming????? HAHAHAHAHAHA... we've had more snow and colder temperatures here (western canada) this year than in like the past 15 years

[Mustatuuli]

Well, if you read it carefully you may see that it states GLOBAL warming, not "warming especially in western canada". This "global warming" is many kinds of things all around the world and not only warming in Canada. Floods, droughts, storms etc.. One winter doesn't tell the whole truth. I do not know about Canada but here in scandinavia temperatures might drop quite a lot if the Gulf stream weakens due to the melting of glaciers of the North pole.

Greetings from Finland =)

[draconite420]

@Mustatuuli global wamring in a sence that was know maybe .2% of why its caused, more evidence of that .2% falls to the earth cycles thingy... makes sence, ice melts than it comes back better to be here when it melts or when it comes back?

[audgeyp]

StarJekker-a more correct term would be climate change. Where cold weather gets colder and hot weather even hotter. None of which have anything to do with this particular glacier, though.

[cozajapierdole]

i think it's spring

[AGENTARMES]

Global Warming? That was the product of Chuck Norris farting.

[lmaestro]

I feel I need to contribute because wrong things are said here. This is Perito Moreno Glacier, Patagonia. It's a unique glacier for 2 reasons 1) It's the only one still advancing 2) It's famous for the rupture phenomenon (what you are seeing in the video). The glacier advances against a peninsula and creates a bridge. Because the lake on the right side is close, the water raises to a point where it breaks the ice and the bridge collapse. It occurs every 18-24 months.

[bloodriver3lol]

@lmaestro all nz glaciers are advancing due to global warming you faggot

[transdrole]

@lmaestro Fail. From the Wiki: The glacier first ruptured in 1917, taking with it an ancient forest of arrayán (Luma apiculata) trees. The last rupture occurred in July 2008, and previously in 2006, 2004, 1988, 1984, 1980, 1977, 1975, 1972, 1970, 1966, 1963, 1960, 1956, 1953, 1952, 1947, 1940, 1934 and 1917. It ruptures, on average, about every four to five years.

[Shalinar45]

You are just a know-nothing city-boy that never gets out and actually does anything....haul your ignorant behind up here to Alaska and we'll show you what real is, Bubba!

[james32870]

That is so fuckin fake...you people actually can't see the edit??? What's pathetic is that a news station actually played it....man people are gullible

[iforgotwhatiwasdoin]

Are you that stupid?!?! These things DOOOO happen! If you would be so kind to point out the edits mister (oh i am an expert in identifying edits in a glacier video) Why don't you do the world a favor and melt in front of a TV. Leave this to people who actually appreciate it.

[qaetr]

cool

[SomeStonerGuy]

It's the cycle after we melt we freeze again.

All the planets in our solar system are getting hotter because....do you know why?

No not green house gasses, SUV's, how many cows you have or how many cigarettes you smoke

NO!

The sun's getting hotter so that means the earth is as well along with the rest of the planets.

Then why all the GREEN movement carbon emotion stuff?

TAXES TAXES TAXES all sorts of them.

Beware the Green movement and the Obama administration they will rob you blind!

[pedro27mumble]

I do think that goverments are using the global warming thing to generate more taxes

[chamda1]

cuando sucedió el desprendimiento yo lo estaba viendo, la verdad que fue una experiencia hermosa.

[juan85dw]

it`s so, crazy.. why those people are happy....come on!!! that`s global warming

[rushanz]

2 men were killed yesterday in new zealand from one of those collapsing on them.

[mcrider1960]

Wish I could have been there to see it happen.

[Gabrisssel]

sad...

[adriandeone]

yeah it's an amazing sight. but I wouldn't be clapping for it =\ it certainly won't be amazing when all that glacier becomes shorter.

[adamlui]

wtf are these retarded people clapping about?!

[csklmf86]

show this to all damn oil-drilling companys.

[Thylerwave]

they dont know why the glacier collapse,it collapse because the earth become warmer and warmer

[abelardo97]

It is very sad what it is happening on earth but i really dont understand why they are celebrating

[jackyyip2002]

so sad...

[Okpakok]

What a beautiful but sad video...Glaciers will soon be non existent and be but a memory in less than 100 years. How sad =(

[drako11211]

Not it we find a way how to alter the earths main properties p.s learn how to spell you fucking retard =)

[j17de]

its amazing to see but i wouldnt be cheering. there was a mini icu age from the 17th the late 19th century, some climatologists are saying the climate is going to cool down over the next few years.

any1 help me on understanding why? cant seem to get my head around it!!

[untouchable1412]

fuck this shit......

how come the people is cheering and celebrating...

do they know that if this keeps going, we are all going to die?

why?

because of the sea level, it will go up if glaciers keep on melting

[SneakyC9]

We're all going to die if the sealevel goes up? Don't be so dramatic there, partner. Earth's been warming and cooling for billions of years. Nothing new.

[GodBlessTheUSA1]

Exactly you have a brain my friend :D

[adriandeone]

exactly. the earth has been warming and cooling for billions of years. and we obviously were not on the earth for billions of years. but today, we are experiencing large amounts of glacier decrease, which would have effect on our oceans and leave sea levels rising.

[MerrildH]

Why do you think, that there's so many people on that exact spot? It's annual event..

[Troyson666]

So it is cool to see... But it isn't supposed to happen!! This isn't a good thing.

[wrboone]

We're going to Patagonia in 2009. If this is what we have in store for us I can hardly wait! Great video. Happen to be at the right place at the right time.

Bill

[risingphoenix35]

Polar Bear Listed as Threatened Species

ALASKA DAILY NEWS BULLETIN 5-14-2008

"WASHINGTON -- Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced Wednesday that the agency will list the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, a decision that could cast the bears as the enduring symbol of the effects of global warming."

THANK YOU Secretary Kempthorne !!

And thank you Al Gore, Greenpeace, Arnold, National Geographic, the EU... etc. you made a difference.

[RashardLewis9]

Sign the fucking Kyoto Protocol everyone!

[jedimastersupercat]

En este caso, este glaciar, El Perito Moreno, está en 'equilibrio', es decir, no está retrocediento. Estas rupturas son normales; ya que el hielo va avanzando hasta tocar tierra nuevamente. De hecho, hoy ya está el bloque de hielo otra vez puesto sobre tierra. En algún momento la presión del agua irá haciendo mella en la estructura y la misma cederá. El glaciar que sí está en retroceso es el Upsala.

[productors]

La mansa cagada...bonito..bonito...pero­, la mansa cagada , a este ritmo el glaciar va a desaparecer..y a nadie le va importar un puto carajo.

[lcubino]

El glaciar es un río. Helado, pero un río; y como tal sigue su curso y desemboca en un lago y luego en el mar. El hielo se agrieta por la presión de avance del glaciar, despues cae y despues se funde. ¿Consideras una tragedia que los ríos viertan su agua al mar?

Si no lo sabes, el perito moreno es un glaciar que está creciendo en los últimos años. Tiene más hielo que antaño. No ocurre en otros glaciares, pero en este sí. Eso es lo excepcional y lo grandioso de este sitio. Saludos

[nacexc]

Like I said before this particular glaciar is not receeding, but in the same park there are other glaciars receeding. This glaciar is 230 feet tall, and the people you see in the video are on the top of a hill. People used to watch this show at lake level, but some died because of the small ice pieces thrown away with speed from the collapse. I hope I answer all your doubts.

[nacexc]

In this video you cannot apreciate the side of the front wall of the glaciar which is around 230 feet tall. The people you see in the video are on the top of a hill. People used to watched this show at lake level before, but some people died cause of the small ice that flown away like bullets during collapsation. I Hope I answer all your doubts.

[nacexc]

This event doesn't have nothing to do with global warming. This event used to happend every 4 years, but in 1982 it was the last time it happend until last year when it started again, and this year also, these are images from this year's collapsation.

[nacexc]

This is the Perito Moreno Glacias, in Calafte, Argentina. Its one of the only active glaciars in the world. This means that the glaciar collapses and it build's it self back again. This glaciar its between to lakes that connect to each other. When the glaciar blocks the connection between the two lakes, the water in one lake rises. Then the water pressure causes the collapsation of the glaciar.

[greeley1688]

its cool to see that but its also sad to see how quickly glaciers are receding

[fiddleup]

Damn that global warming!!!

[cowboybootstomp]

where is that? amazing

[Puntaltenses]

Argentina

[grossebanane]

je comprends pas que les gens applaudise en voyant cela , c'est peut-être beau oui mais messemble que c'est mauvais signe que nos glaciers fondent...

[stu57stu]

Amazing

[dbp120872]

MOTHER EARTH AND AMAZING NATURE....