Climate change in developing nations
Climate change and consumption
Climate change and oil
Climate change and Species at risk
Climate Change 101
100
The Marshall Islands are at risk of disappearing, due to rising tides caused by melting what?
Glaciers
100
Which Global sector consumes 70% of accessible freshwater annually?
The agricultural sector (With current water consumption trends this is estimated to increase to 84% by 2030)
100
What is defined as an accidental or intentional discharge of raw or refined petroleum products on land or at sea?
Oil spill (Oil spill causes have disastrous consequences, and can take weeks or even to years to clean)
100
What threatens the habitats of species like the Ontario swift fox, and tiger salamander?
Human activity (Agriculture and urban development, mining, deforestation, and pollution have caused the Ontario Swift fox and tiger salamander to move closer to extinction.)
100
What greenhouse gas created by the burning of carbon-based fuels is the major cause of climate change?
Carbon Dioxide (Its dissolved form, carbonic acid, increases the oceans pH and causes coral bleaching)
200
How many additional deaths attributable to climate change in developing countries every year?
150,000 deaths
200
What oil found in approximately half of all packaged products globally, and is the most widely consumed?
Palm Oil ( The production of palm oil is one of the leading causes to rainforest deforestation, which releases trapped CO2 into the atmosphere and threatens countless endangered species)
200
Oil causes harm to through physical contact, ingestion, inhalation, and absorption. Floating oil can also contaminate food sources, such as what invertebrate largely consumed by whales?
Plankton ( Floating oil can also contaminate algae, fish eggs, and the larvae of various invertebrates.)
200
How many countries around the world have legislation to defend and determine species at risk extirpation or extinction?
36 (legislation like Canada's Species at Risk Act are difficult to pass, and is the first step toward effective policy to protect endangered species)
200
Many developing countries located around water face as face a severe increase in what due to global temperature increase?
Flood
300
Core countries supporting developing countries financially to decrease climate impact, and to attempt to keep global surface temperature increases under what °C ?
2°C (If surface temperature surpasses a 2°C surface temperature increase the planet with face catastrophic consequences)
300
According to The World Wildlife Fund’s 2014 Living Planet Report, at what percentage is humanity as whole using up the earth’s natural resources faster than they can be replenished?
50% (In the United States Alone Resources are being using 600% percent faster than they can be replenished)
300
Oil contamination can damage germination in marine plants, including algae. However, algae can also become more abundant due to oil contamination, creating what?
Algae blooms (Algae blooms deplete nutrients and oxygen levels in water, and shade other marine life from sunlight.)
300
According to the Canadian Species at Risk Act, taking care of the land, air, plants, animals, and culture in such a way that they can be passed on to future generations is called what?
Stewardship (The legislation encourages this to protect species at risk)
300
What staple crop is easy to grow in many developing countries, but is surrounded by water during growth and would be affected by absorbed carbon in the water?
Rice (Due to rice production and its high permeability it is very susceptible to water pollution)
400
A study for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology forecasts that due to climate change in India main crops will decrease by what percent within the next 30 years?
4.9 - 9% decrease
400
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on climate change’s 2014 report, global population growth and subsequent increase in global consumption will lead to what level of surface temperature increase by the end of the century?
3.7 - 4.8°C (The effects of this will be catastrophic, just with consequences such as extreme weather, and raised sea levels.)
400
In 2015, What company agreed to pay $18 billion in fines after causing the largest oil spill in history?
BP (British Petroleum paid the largest corporate settlement in the United States' history after spilling 4.9 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico)
400
Human activity changing environmental conditions such as access to food and amount of space, are the main cause of species to involuntarily what?
Migrate (Altering migratory patterns by interfering with habitat can permanently hinder reproduction in species.)
400
Torrential rain, floods, typhoons, heat waves, and drought are increasing in frequency in response to rising temperatures, and are categorized as what?
extreme weather events
500
Some farmers are moving toward more diverse crops, and use this technique to increase crop gain so that they will still have some crop even if others die off?
Mixed-crop farming (The effects of monocrops disproportionately affect farmers in peripheral and semiperipheral nations.)
500
According to Statistics Canada, in 2011, what percentage of Canadian households use alternative energy sources?
Less than 2% (1.3%) (Roughly 171,505 households in Canada used alternative sources of energy such as wind and solar in 2011, and 0.4% increase from 2007.)
500
In what non-lethal way does physical contact with oil impair animals?
Impairs reproduction (This can severely decimate animal populations)
500
In 2010, what number of animal and plant species within Canada were risk of disappearing?
521 (This is figure is from the 2010 SARA report, but the number of species at risk globally continues to grow.)
500
What percentage of scientists globally agree that climate change is real, and caused by human-made greenhouse gases?
97% (Climate deniers still exist somehow)
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