Over the past 200–300 years, climate change has been documented using instrumental records and other archives. Some written documents and other recordings make information available about climate change in certain localities for the past several hundred years. Some records have been found that show climate change happened more than 1,000 years ago, but these are very rare. The only real question concerning climate change is: What can we do about it? I have heard all kinds of solutions, from the bizarre to the ridiculous. One suggestion to reduce global warming is for us to stop ironing our clothes. 

Other suggestions include painting our rooftops white to reduce absorption of heat, making highways white with black stripes instead of black with white stripes, becoming vegan, thereby reducing the need for herds of animals that emit methane gases into the atmosphere, not idling our vehicles for more than two minutes, and turning our thermostats to 68 degrees (F).

Other suggestions have been to create a giant umbrella that could block two to four percent of the sun’s rays and launch it into space; create plastic trees that could absorb carbon dioxide; eat insects instead of meat; bio-engineer future humans to be smaller, smarter, and with an intolerance to red meat; mass female sterilization; and, of course, we can’t forget the suggestion from NASA scientists to move the earth farther away from the sun.

Through all of this we are missing the one solution that could actually make a difference. 

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