question_answer 4)

Why is Antarctica the place to go, to understand the earthy past, present, and future?    

Answer:

Although human civilizations have been around on this earth for 12,000 years, it is hardly a Jew seconds on the geological clock. In our brief stay here, we have exploited nature and depleted our resources. Concretization of our earth, population explosion, and the burning of fossil fuels, has created a blanket of carbon dioxide around the world, which in turn is increasing the average global temperature.   The changing climate threatens to melt the West Antarctic ice sheet entirely and the Gulf Stream ocean current can be disrupted. It could also lead to the end of the world. Antarctica is the only place in the world that has never sustained a human population and therefore, remains relatively untouched. In addition, it holds in its ice-cores half-million-year-old carbon records, trapped in its layers of ice. Hence, if we want to study and examine the earth's past, present and future, Antarctica is the place to go.