Why Does Earth Have Deserts?

Subscribe - it s FREE! - http://goo.gl/EpIDGd And please support us on Patreon - https://goo.gl/ZVgLQZ Your contributions help us make more videos! Why Does Earth Have Deserts? For the same reason it has Rainforests: Hadley Cells!!! Thanks to ScienceAlert for support - http://www.sciencealert.com MinuteEarth is on facebook - http://facebook.com/minuteearth And twitter - http://twitter.com/MinuteEarth MinuteEarth provides an energetic and entertaining view of trends in earth s environment -- in just a few minutes! Created by Henry Reich, with Alex Reich, Peter Reich, Rose Eveleth, Emily Elert, and John Guittar. Music by Nathaniel Schroeder http://www.soundcloud.com/drschroeder Special thanks to Ryan Loomis and TED-Ed for contributions. Paper referred to in the making of this video: Persson, A. 2006. Hadley s principle: Understanding and misunderstanding the trade winds. History of Meteorology 3: 17-42. http://www.meteohistory.org/2006historyofmeteorology3/2persson_hadley.pdf