It’s a common refrain in coffee shops and online forums: “The climate has always changed. Why are we panicking now?”. History backs this up. Thousands of years ago, the Sahara was green. Millions of years ago, crocodiles swam in the Arctic. Earth is a dynamic system that has cycled through deep freezes and scorching hothouses long before humans ever struck a match.
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Is Humanity Facing an Existential Threat? Separating Fact from Fiction on Global Warming
The conversation around global warming often swings between alarm and skepticism. On one hand, we hear dire warnings of impending climate catastrophe; on the other, some argue that Earth has always changed, and humanity will simply adapt. Let’s cut through the noise and summarize what the science, particularly from incredible sources like polar ice, tells us, and what our path forward looks like.
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The Ice Chronicles: What Polar Ice Tells Us About Earth’s Climate Story
For many, “global warming” feels like a modern problem, a product of our industrial age. And in many ways, it is. But to truly understand the climate changes we’re witnessing today, it helps to appreciate Earth’s long and often dramatic climate history. And nowhere is that history more vividly recorded than in the vast, silent archives of our planet’s polar ice.
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