Dealing with Climate Change is Difficult
True or False: Climate Change is a planetary emergency.
True
Most analysis of climate change say that mitigation is more important than adaptation. True or False
False: combination of both approaches are needed.
Humans activities have played the key role in raising the earth's atmospheric temperature by how many degrees C?
1 degree
What is the best way to curb CO2 emissions?
taxing carbon
What are 3 vegetables that are green?
artichoke, broccoli, green beans etc
Why is phasing out the use of fossil fuels controversial?
Some possible answers: could disrupt economies and lifestyles, threaten economically and politically powerful fossil fuel and utility companies
What is mitigation?
slow down climate change to reduce or avoid its most harmful effects
Climate scientists generally agree that to avoid some of the severest harmful effects of climate change, we need to limit the global average temperature to _____ degrees Celsius.
1.5
If a carbon tax was introduced when would the tax keep rising?
Until the reduction of goals are met
In the rainbow, what number position is green?
ROY G BIV...4th
Climate changed can be slowed by not stopped. The excess of CO2 that we add to the atmosphere stays there for at least how many years?
100 years
What is climate change adaptation?
we have waited too long to act and we need to adapt to some of the harmful effects
Why is nuclear power not the best choice in creating cleaner lower carbon energy?
nuclear power fuel cycle which also releases greenhouse gases into atmosphere
Uranium
What is one advantage and one disadvantage of carbon and energy taxes?
Answers will vary
Name a gemstone that is most commonly green
emerald
How do higher latitude countries benefit from climate change?
higher crop yield, fewer deaths in winter, lower heating bills
What do climate models project about adding CO2 at our current rate?
severe climate change for hundreds of thousands of years
We need to cut CO2 emissions by ____% by 2030 to limit atmosphere warming.
A. 45
B. 50
C. 55
C: 55%
The typical tax on carbon is about $8 per ton. But what is the tax recommended tax by the World Bank...by 2030?
$20-40 per ton
$40-80 per ton
$60-120 per ton
$40-80 per ton
What two primary colors can be mixed together to make the color green?
yellow and blue
The future atmosphere levels of ______ and ________make for uncertainty in the effects of temperature change.
CO2 and CH4
Carbon Dioxide and methane
What is climate change tipping point?
a critical threshold beyond which a system reorganizes, often abruptly and/or irreversibly
According to scientists what is a good starting place for cutting greenhouse gases emissions?
decreasing black carbon (component of soot) and methane
What is cap-and-trade?
a system for controlling carbon emissions and other forms of atmospheric pollution by which an upper limit is set on the amount a given business or other organization may produce but which allows further capacity to be bought from other organizations that have not used their full allowance.
What is the name of the pigment in green plants that gives them their color?
Chlorophyll