I am the major European city that made a HUGE deal regarding climate change.
What is Paris?
100
I happen when the temperature of the atmosphere increases with altitude, cold air underlies warmer air at much higher altitudes.
What is temperature inversion?
100
I am the many compounds emitted directly into the air.
What is a primary pollutant?
100
I am often time called the ozone layer.
What is stratospheric ozone?
100
I am a change in global and regional temperatures around us.
What is Climate Change?
200
I am a regional cap and invest program focused on
reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from power plants.
What is RGGI? (The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative)
200
I happen when a living organism lets a toxic substance build up. This would be a build up in a trophic level, such as fish.
What is bioaccumulation?
200
I am formed in our atmosphere with the involvement of chemical reactions. (hint: involves sunlight)
What is a secondary pollutant?
200
I am a type of gas that absorbs and emits radiation at certain wavelengths
What is a selective gas?
200
I selectively absorb and transmit infrared radiation produced by solar warming of the Earth's surface.
What is a GHG (Greenhouse Gas)?
300
I aim to keep the rise in global temperatures "well below" 2
degrees Celsius from preindustrial times to the end of this century.
What is the Paris agreement?
300
We are a family of chemical compounds developed over 9 decades ago. We are a safe and non-toxic alternative to dangerous substances.
What are chlorofluorocarbons?
300
I am the comprehensive federal law that regulates air emissions from stationary and mobile sources. (hint: I have had many things added to me since I was first established)
What are the Clean Air Act?
300
I am made up of three bound oxygen's. I also block UV radiation in our atmosphere.
What is ozone?
300
I constitute about 90% of the radiation coming from the sun?
What is shortwave radiation?
400
In past years I have required a review of all components of the RGGI program
What did the RGGI 2012 review require?
400
I was signed in 1987 by over 25 different nations.
What is the Montreal Protocol?
400
NOx , SO2 , Pb , PM ,CO, O3
What are the criteria pollutants?
400
I was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization.
What is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?
500
In a CPP summary , I was instructed to reduce carbon pollution from existing power plants and maintain an affordable, reliable energy system.
What is the Clean Power plan's goal in the RGGI?
500
I present data that depicts the ongoing change in carbon dioxide in our atmosphere.
What is the Keeling curve?
500
I am the law that authorizes the Environmental Protection Agency to establish National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) in order to protect public health and public welfare.
What is the Clean air act (CAA)
500
CFC's will significantly deplete the ozone layer in the up coming decades. We believe there will eventually be a hole developing in the Earth. (hint: later known as the Antarctic ozone hole)
What was Rowland and Molina's prediction?
500
2070
When do scientists predict that the ozone will be completely healed?