Chemistry
The chemical formula for methane
CH4
Tennessee politician who posited for climate change being a danger with a movie.
Al Gore
Volcanic sulfur dioxide injected into the stratosphere causes global cooling by forming these reflective particles.
Sulfate aerosols
The year that "An Inconvenient Truth" was released.
2006
Three "proxies" used in paleoclimateology.
Ice cores, deep sea sediments, corals, rat burrows, tree rings.
The most powerful greenhouse gas in terms of ability to hold the most heat.
Water vapor
Lord Monkton of Great Britain
Skeptic
Some think this has an 11 year cycle and has much influence on Earth's warming climate.
The Sun
The year that "The Great Global Warming Swindle" was released by the BBC.
2007
The threshold of global average warming commonly associated with “dangerous” climate change and the target often cited in negotiations (in °C above preindustrial).
2°C above preindustrial (with 1.5°C as the more stringent aspirational target)
Name for all water movement on the Earth.
Hydrologic cycle.
The phrase for selective use of data or choosing a short timeframe to argue there’s no warming.
Cherry picking.
Home country of Milutin Milankovitch
Serbia
The mid-20th-century measurement series started at Mauna Loa that provided the first clear long-term CO2 record.
Keeling Curve
The policy approach that sets a fixed price per ton of CO2 emitted.
Carbon tax (fixed price per ton of CO2)
This greenhouse gas is the most abundant in Earth’s atmosphere but contributes little to warming directly.
Nitrogen
This fallacy attributes all observed warming to increased solar activity despite evidence otherwise.
Solar forcing
Milankovitch cycle associated with the tilt of the Earth.
Obliquity
Brothers who donated millions to climate change denial organizations.
Koch brothers
The concept of maximum cumulative CO2 emissions consistent with keeping warming below a specified target (often used to derive remaining carbon budgets).
Carbon budget
Molecule with three oxygen atoms that absorbs UV and is important in the stratosphere.
Ozone
A criticism that climate models are unreliable because they can’t perfectly predict this.
Weather
Milankovitch cycle associated with the shape of the Earth's orbit.
Eccentricity
Climate change denier who advocated for climate change being a hoax and that second hand smoke was not dangerous.
Fred Singer
The radiative forcing sign (positive or negative) for methane vs. aerosols (positive or negative).
Positive radiative forcing for methane; aerosols are negative