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The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) was established when?

1987

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Milankovitch cycles are patterns related to the relationships between what? 

The Earth and Sun

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What is an interglacial period defined as

warm period between ice ages

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According to the Social Science Resource Guide and a United States government report, approximately how many million people are forced to move their homes due to extreme weather events each year? 

30 million

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What percentage does wind and solar energy make up in the total energy globally produced in 2022? 

12%

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The term "black gold" is often used to describe what? 

Oil

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A person's individual contributions to climate change has been termed their what?

carbon footprint

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The Gelasian Age corresponds with which Subepoch of the Pleistocene

Lower Subepoch

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The date of 476 CE marked what? 

The collapse of the Western Roman Empower

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Which decade did the Kyoto Protocol begin? 

2000's

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The Advisory Group on Greenhouse Gases was created with the main purpose of what? 

Sharing Scientific knowledge regarding climate change with policy makers and the public

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The book of merchants of Doubt, published in 2010, was written by historians of science ___

Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway

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How many times did the United States Chamber of Commerce advocate against the climate change action in 2022? 

25 times

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How long ago did the Last Glacial Maximum occur? 

20,000 years ago

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What year did Rachel Carson publish her book Silent Spring? 

1962

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Together, the United States and which country accounted for 42% of global GDP in 2021? 

China!

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According to the IUGS, the Holocene began roughly how long ago?

11.700 years ago 

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Cooling during the LIA occurred in how many distinct periods? 

three

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The Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) was a subcommittee of what group? 

ICSU

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Where is Indus Valley located in modern-day? 

Pakistan

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Cooler temperatures of the Northern Hemisphere in the late 1600s and early 1700s corresponded to a period of ___

low solar activity

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Sea level rise is an aspect of climate change mostly closely related to which sphere of the earth? 

Hydrosphere

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The Anthropocene is dated to have begun in approximately what year? 

1950's

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What empire was the origin of human civilization typically associated with? 

Mesopotamian Empire

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What greenhouse gasses was roughly 11% of total U.S. Greenhouse gas.

Methane