Coal
True or false: Clean coal is the energy of the future
What is false? (coal is never clean)
True or false: We have an estimated 50 years of oil reserves left
What is true?
True or False: The US produces more natural gas than any other country
What is true?
Today the earth has already warmed this much
What is 1.2-1.4 degrees Celsius?
False or misleading information intentionally spread to deceive, often for political, economic, or strategic goals.
What is disinformation?
What is first?
Oil production in the US began in this year
What is 1860?
This method of extracting natural gas dramatically increased production but is also very dangerous.
What is fracking/hydraulic fracturing?
This many congresspeople, and this many senators do not believe in climate change.
What is 123 congresspeople and 23 senators?
The closest we have come to a Montreal Protocol style agreement to deal with climate change.
What is the Paris Climate Accord?
While the US has moved away from coal, this country still received 60% of its power from coal in 2018.
What is China?
Birth defects and lower birthweights are a consequence of this.
What is living near oil extraction sites?
20 years after emission methane in the atmosphere is ____x more powerful than CO2
What is 80 times?
If the earth warms this much, 85% of all plant and animal species could be in danger of extinction.
What is 3 degrees Celsius?
The Heritage Foundation (conservative), Brookings Institute (progressive) and Pew Research Center are examples of the following.
What is a Think Tank?
This event caused the US to rely on coal once again to meet our energy needs.
What is the 1970s Energy Crisis?
Often put on our lips or dry skin, this is actually a byproduct of oil production.
What is Vasoline?
This European event in part fueled a boom of LNG exports from the United States.
This 2017 event made the Paris Climate Accord functionally useless
What is the US dropping out of the agreement?
This global catastrophe caused the US to 1) encourage people to conserve power and 2) invest in domestic oil and gas production.
What is the 1970s Energy Crisis
New York closed its last coal fired power plant in this year.
What is 2020?
This 2009 disaster was the biggest oil spill in history
What is the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill?
Natural gas heats this many homes in NY state
What is 6 out of 10 homes?
Give one "tipping point" we could hit that would take us to or above 4 degrees Celsius of warming.
What is the melting of Greenland and Antarctica's ice OR the collapse of the Amazon rainforest?
This company spread disinformation about climate change through right-wing think tanks in Latin America.
What is Exonn Mobil?