Past climate changes led to extinction of many species, population migrations, and pronounced changes in the land surface and ocean circulation. The speed of the current climate change is faster than most of the past events, making it more difficult for human societies and the natural world to adapt.
Open-mindedness is needed for the emerging scientific ideas to be accepted (or : to not be rejected without consideration).
Additionally, open-mindedness as a attitude often leads to new scientific ideas emerging: it means that people are more comfortable to try out new things and to test new hypotheses.
A dependent variable is how they are recording, measuring or keeping track of the science experiment their doing.
A independent variable is the things/types there using to compare what is the most/least affective in the experiment.
A controlled variable is something that stays the same in the experiment or a group/set used for comparison
the moon phase is a Waxing Gibbous