((PKG)) CLIMATE IN DEEP TIME
((Banner: Climate in Deep Times))
((Reporter: Deborah Block))
((Camera: Mike Burke))
((Adapted by: Martin Secrest))
((Map: Washington, D.C.))
((NATS))
((Pop-Up Banner: The Deep Time exhibit traces the
changes on Earth over the past 3.7 billion years))
((NATS))
((Kirk Johnson, Director, National Museum of Natural
History))
The mission of this museum is to understand the natural
world and our place in it, and this exhibit does just that. It
takes the story of life on Earth and puts humans right in the
middle of a story and challenges a visitor to understand their
place in planet Earth and its incredible story. As they do
that, you've got to deal with things, topics like geologic time
or evolution or climate change, extinction by asteroid. These
are complicated topics that science itself has only recently
wrapped its head around.
((NATS))
((Scott Wing, Curator, National Museum of Natural
History))
Earth is sometimes compared to a spaceship and the
spaceship has a logbook and the logbook are the fossils and
the record of changes in the past. And if we study that, we
can sometimes understand how life responds to these very
big changes in climate, and since we know we are causing
very big changes in climate, studying the past may help us
understand how the future will play out.
((NATS))
((Siobhan Starrs, Curator, National Museum of Natural
History))
You're never going to go to a fossil hall anywhere else,
where the message feels as timely as it does here. We
really explain and let you explore for yourself, what the
meaning is in something that might have happened 55
million years ago. And these are moments ripped literally
from the geologic record, hidden under all of our feet, as we
walk on the planet today, that tell us a lot about the impact
we're having now.
((NATS))
Coal connects the climate of the deep past to the climate of
today. Ancient carbon has fueled our modern way of life.
((Siobhan Starrs, Curator, National Museum of Natural
History))
I think we can really change the world with this exhibition,
and I know that sounds idealistic, but I think we can,
because we're going to see 50 million people through this
hall in 10 years, and that's a massive number of people.
And what I would really like is to see people getting
connected to this story of the impact that we're having on the
planet today, and to really wake up and see our impact, and
start making smart choices. Start looking at the things that
people are doing around the world to direct our planet
towards a hopeful positive future.
((NATS))
((Banner: Climate in Deep Times))
((Reporter: Deborah Block))
((Camera: Mike Burke))
((Adapted by: Martin Secrest))
((Map: Washington, D.C.))
((NATS))
((Pop-Up Banner: The Deep Time exhibit traces the
changes on Earth over the past 3.7 billion years))
((NATS))
((Kirk Johnson, Director, National Museum of Natural
History))
The mission of this museum is to understand the natural
world and our place in it, and this exhibit does just that. It
takes the story of life on Earth and puts humans right in the
middle of a story and challenges a visitor to understand their
place in planet Earth and its incredible story. As they do
that, you've got to deal with things, topics like geologic time
or evolution or climate change, extinction by asteroid. These
are complicated topics that science itself has only recently
wrapped its head around.
((NATS))
((Scott Wing, Curator, National Museum of Natural
History))
Earth is sometimes compared to a spaceship and the
spaceship has a logbook and the logbook are the fossils and
the record of changes in the past. And if we study that, we
can sometimes understand how life responds to these very
big changes in climate, and since we know we are causing
very big changes in climate, studying the past may help us
understand how the future will play out.
((NATS))
((Siobhan Starrs, Curator, National Museum of Natural
History))
You're never going to go to a fossil hall anywhere else,
where the message feels as timely as it does here. We
really explain and let you explore for yourself, what the
meaning is in something that might have happened 55
million years ago. And these are moments ripped literally
from the geologic record, hidden under all of our feet, as we
walk on the planet today, that tell us a lot about the impact
we're having now.
((NATS))
Coal connects the climate of the deep past to the climate of
today. Ancient carbon has fueled our modern way of life.
((Siobhan Starrs, Curator, National Museum of Natural
History))
I think we can really change the world with this exhibition,
and I know that sounds idealistic, but I think we can,
because we're going to see 50 million people through this
hall in 10 years, and that's a massive number of people.
And what I would really like is to see people getting
connected to this story of the impact that we're having on the
planet today, and to really wake up and see our impact, and
start making smart choices. Start looking at the things that
people are doing around the world to direct our planet
towards a hopeful positive future.
((NATS))
