No issue in science is more controversial than greenhouse warming.
Climatology
Coral reefs and glacial ice
Where would you go if you wanted to study the retreat of glaciers at the end of the last ice age? To the northern parts of Europe and North America, of course. To the places where the glaciers lay upon the land. To the places where ice scraped rock, carved valleys, and deposited ridges of rubble and plains of silt.