Greenhouse Gases
This industrial era fuel source contributed nearly 46% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions since 1750.
What is coal?
This actress starred as a meteorologist named Kate in 2024’s Twister sequel, Twisters.
Who is Daisy Edgar-Jones?
Seattleites are extremely sick of this cloud type, associated with grey days, by the end of winter.
What is stratus?
In 1952, a cold, windless meteorological period consolidated air pollutants originating from coal burning to form a thick layer of smog over this city.
What is London?
This type of precipitation falls as supercooled liquid but freezes on contact with surfaces.
What is freezing rain?
This volcano hosts an observatory that boasts the longest direct record of atmospheric CO2 concentration.
What is Mauna Loa?
This 2013 movie saw a freak hurricane hit Los Angeles, bringing deadly aquatic life to terrorize the populace.
What is Sharknado?
This cloud type is present at surface level, particularly during atmospheric temperature inversions.
What is fog?
The name of the regulatory standard EPA uses to regulate criteria air pollutants (CAPs).
What is the NAAQS (National Ambient Air Quality Standards)?
This type of precipitation forms when supercooled water droplets in air are collected and freeze on falling snowflakes.
What is graupel?
This molecule is the most abundant greenhouse gas in the Earth’s atmosphere.
What is water vapor? (H2O)
2004’s The Day After Tomorrow posits a doomsday scenario caused by the instantaneous collapse of this important climatological circulation feature.
What is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)?
This type of cloud, often associated with fair weather, is featured in Toy Story.
What are cumulus humilis?
The most common pollutant in nonattainment in the United States.
What is ozone?
The rain on Venus never reaches the ground, and is made of this non-water substance.
What is sulfuric acid?
This international protocol successfully phased out chlorofluorocarbons, a greenhouse gas and synthetic refrigerant, due to its role in ozone depletion.
What is the Montreal Protocol?
In this 2026 release, Ryan Gosling is sent to space to investigate the mysterious dimming of the sun.
What is Project Hail Mary?
These rare clouds, typically occurring when a faster, warmer air layer moves over a slower, cooler, denser layer, look like ocean waves.
What are Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds?
Also known as Los Angeles smog, this type of air pollution is worsened by vehicular VOC emissions.
What is photochemical smog?
This year was the wettest on record for Seattle, recording over 55 inches of rain.
What is 1950?
This 1997 treaty, established to compel “developed nations” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, was never ratified by the United States.
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
This 2021 film starring Timothee Chalamet and Jennifer Lawrence is a metaphor for climate inaction.
What is Don’t Look Up?
The first depiction of this rare ozone-depleting cloud type is said to be Edvard Munch’s The Scream.
What are polar stratospheric clouds? (also acceptable: nacreous clouds, mother-of-pearl clouds)
This major epidemiological study by Pope and Dockery helped establish the connection between fine particulate matter pollution and reduced life expectancy.
What is the Harvard Six Cities study?
In 1916, Seattle recorded its largest one day snow total: a whopping ___ inches.
What is 21.5? (will take anything from 21-22)