A European professor that believes that Global Warming although an issue is not the most important issue facing the planet.
Who is Bjorn Lomborg?
100
Former Vice-President of the United States and vocal opponent of Global Warming.
Who is Al Gore
100
Any naturally occurring carbon or hydrocarbon fuel, such as coal, petroleum, peat, and natural gas, formed by the decomposition of prehistoric organisms
What are Fossil Fuels?
100
Precipitation falls after being mixed with harmful chemicals like Nitrous Oxide.
What is acid rain?
100
Denmark invested heavily in this clean technology only to realize they needed to tear it down and rebuild.
What are Windmills?
200
Cool It believes the secret to change is not making traditional fuels more expensive but, this approach to solving the global energy and climate issues.
What are cheaper forms of clean energy?
200
The sun emits three main wavelengths of energy that reach the earth. Which is responsible for global
warming, this one is responsible for global warming.
What is Infrared?
200
This form of energy is collected by panels which are exposed to the sun.
What is Solar Power?
200
Primarily caused by chlorofluorocarbons (CFC), this environmental condition discovered in the mid-80's caused an increase in exposure to UV rays which upped the rates of health issues such as skin cancer
What are hole in the Ozone Layer? (Ozone Depletion)
200
Scientist have realized that this natural phenomena in the 1990's was able to cool the earth. They have designed a way to replicate this as an emergency solution.
What was a volcano erupting?
300
Cool It focuses its solutions away from the feel good solution of An Inconvenient Truth and focuses on solutions that....
What is Do Good?
300
When the ice caps are frozen this percentages of the sun's rays are reflected. When they are melted, open sea water absorbs the same percentage of raise, thus speeding up the process of global warming.
What is 90%?
300
This fossil fuel is a extremely cheap and abundant. It will power the growing Indian and Chinese economies for the foreseeable future.
What is Coal?
300
The clearing of forests and expansion of agricultural areas often leads to the formation of dry areas. The process is known as this.
What is Desertification?
300
Cool It suggested this inexpensive solution for cooling cities several degrees.
What is paint black surfaces white?
400
As opposed to the alarming 20 foot rise in sea level predicted by Mr. Gore in An Inconvenient Truth, Cool It predicts sea levels will rise approximately this much. (the same level they have risen over the past 100 or so years)
What is 12 to 20 inches?
400
If the Ice cap on Greenland or a chuck of Anartica was to melt and fall into the ocean, Al Gore predicted that sea levels would go up by this measurement.
What is 20 feet?
400
This is the name given by MIT Scientists to the process of Atom splitting they developed for producing energy. It was named this because of the plants that inspired it.
What is artificial photosynthesis?
400
Refers to the range of all life on earth at all levels of classification—genes, populations, species, habitats, and ecosystems.
What is Biodiversity?
400
This process would put more moisture in the air in an attempt to create more clouds and reflect the suns rays to lesson the impact of global warming.
What is cloud brightening?
500
What is the point that Cool It is trying to make?
What is prioritizing global all issues is important and that Global Warming is not necessarily number one?
500
An increase in ocean temperatures means that these storms are predicted to increase in ferocity and frequency
What are hurricanes or typhoons?
500
The amount of this substance in the atmosphere has been carefully recorded and seems to have a direct correlation with temperature increase.
What is carbon?
500
This form of pollution affects about 1/5 of the world's population. It comes in chemical forms. It's physical form can be described using The Great Pacific Garbage Patch as an example.
What is water pollution?
500
The name given to the environmental impact made by each individual person on the planet.