While a
great deal of climate change and global warming research remains
highly debated, scientists work to discover more information and to
find a better understanding of the planet's physical systems and the
role that humans truly play in the grand scheme of earth's
environmental history and future. Some experts studying ice core data
argue that despite the indisputable facts about how much carbon
dioxide humans have produced over the last century, that the earth is
on it's own timetable of warming and cooling, and our own attempts to
control this change is somewhat futile in the larger time scale. What
we can do, however is provide a healthy and relatively stable
environment for ourselves and our future generations to inhabit,
without radical environmental shifts caused by accelerated global
warming. The first step is education- so that we can all better
understand what our roles are in the processes around us.
Smithsonian
National Air and Space Museum