How Do We Know?
Moves from general to specific. Sherlock Holmes claimed this as his method of investigation.
What is deductive reasoning?
The gradually changing circumstance of weather patterns over a long period of time.
What is climate?
The journey or relationship between atmospheric CO2 concentrations and global temperature.
What is climate sensitivity?
Process of replacing fossil fuel across all sectors of the economy (transportation, heating, heavy industry) with electricity generated from renewable sources (wind, solar, batteries > grid-stable energy year-round via sector coupling and damage management).
What is clean electrification?
Outcomes tend to favor financial interest of a study's sponsor.
What is Funding Effect?
A secondary change reduces the effect of an initial climate change, helping to stabilize the climate system.
What is stabilizing or negative feedback?
A representation of something happening in the climate.
What is a climate model?
Emissions that will be released by existing industrial plants, vehicles, and furnaces already in operation unless they are retired early.
What are committed emissions?
False info presented as legitimate. Usually done to change peoples opinions or make money (personal gain
What is fake news?
Stores over 90% of excess heat.
What is the ocean?
the link between humans and warming as a fundamental chain of causality within the "mechanics of climate change
What is "global warming potential"?
What are negative emissions?
Never take the first one, ask permission, listen for the answer, take only what you need, minimize harm, be grateful, use what you take, reciprocate gift, share what you’ve taken. "take only what's given." its not the land that’s broken, it’s our relationship with the land.
What is the Law of the Honorable Harvest?
Eons, Eras, Periods, Epochs, Ages
What are the units of time in geological terms, in order from longest to shortest?
What countries, in order are the top 4 biggest contributors of greenhouse gases?
China, United States, India, European Union
Returning the Earth to pre-industrial conditions (roughly 275 ppm of atmospheric CO2) where humanity and the biosphere are known to thrive.
What is "getting back to the Holocene"?
Those who are disadvantaged and live in humbler circumstances.
Who does environmental injustice affect?
Order the following lowest to highest:
- Thermosphere, Stratosphere, Exosphere, Troposphere, Mesosphere
1. Everything is connected to everything else
2. Everything must go somewhere
3. Nature knows best
4. There is no such thing as free lunch
What are the four ecological laws?
People are more influenced by those they perceive as similar to themselves.
What is Similarity Bias?