Noticing
Genetically modified organisms
What are GMO's?
Plastic is made from _____
What is oil?
First country in Asia to place a carbon tax on coal
What is India?
_______ both solves our problems and causes new ones down the road through unforeseen side effects.
What is technology?
The world's largest coral reef -which rising water temperature, increasing acidity, and pollution from agriculture runoff are causing damage
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
Something that deceives the eye by appearing to be other than it is.
What is are optical illusions?
A group who's name is meant to hid who it is and what it's promoting.
What is a front group?
World's largest emitter of greenhouse gases
What is China?
After the 1969 Santa Barbra oil spill, president Richard Nixon created the ______
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
Europe suffered more than 70,000 deaths in 2003 due to a ____
What is a heat wave?
Two restraints keep our population numbers low for millennia.
What is food shortage and disease?
Addressing this in the future would cost up to 20 times as much as addressing it now.
What is climate change?
Nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania that suffered a partial meltdown in 1979.
What is the Three Mile power plant?
an economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses.
what is free market?
A term for economic pressure to over exploit a shared resource, like fish or grazing land, until it's destroyed
What is 'the tragedy of the commons'?
To cut back on _____, several local cities have passed restrictions on single-use plastic bags.
What is plastic trash?
climate change in the Arctic include rising air and water temperatures, loss of sea ice, and melting of the Greenland ice sheet
what is arctic melt-off?
Largest dam in the world -when it was filled the weight of the water was so great that is caused a wobble in the Earth's rotation
What is the Three Gorges Dam?
In 2009, hackers released e-mails from climatologists and claimed they were manipulating data.
What is Climatgate?
The first international climate summit in ____ , the U.S. delegation's attitude was that America's standard of living wasn't up for negotiation
What is 1992?
The birthplace of coal-fueled industrial revolution
What is England?
trying to influence politicians through persuasion and campaign donations
what are lobbyists?
Eight climate-related disasters in 2011, including the extensive wildfires in Texas did more than $____ in damage
What is 1 billion?
This planet's poisonous atmosphere has been described as the product of a "runaway greenhouse effect"
What is Venus?
An act that pledged to cut emissions an astounding 80% below 1990 levels by 2050
What is the United Kingdom's 2008 Climate Change Act?