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What is something that alters the stability of climate of weather?
Forcings
What was the peak human population during the Holocene?
Where is Mesopotamia found today?
Iraq
What is the marked the start of the Anthropocene (Not actual years)?
The Great Acceleration
What is the name of the movement started in Sweden by Greta Thunberg?
Fridays for Future
How wide is the troposphere?
7 Miles
How many years ago did the Holocene start?
11.7 thousand years ago
What started the Northgrippian Period of the Holocene?
The Laurentide Ice Sheet collapse
Where was Alexander the Great from?
Macedonia
What is a period of warmth between ice ages called?
Interglacial Period
What is the process of using the rings of trees to infer data about the past climate?
Dendrochronology
Which historian was responsible for the creation of the History of Climate and Society (HCS)?
Dagomar Degroot
Who labeled the "Great Acceleration"?
J.R. McNeill
What are climate records from people who didn't have access to climate recording technology?
Narrative Records
What fraction of carbon dioxide does India emit per person compared to the US emissions per person?
1/7 - India produces 1/7th the amount of carbon dioxide per person compared to the United States
What cycle reflects the fact that the Earth has different cycle that has different amounts of solar energy on the surfaces of the Earth?
Milankovitch Cycle
What is the name of the Coldest millennium that lasted from 12,900 to 11,700 years ago?
Younger Dryas Period
According to Michael McCormick what was the worst year ever?
536 BCE
Who were the first people to use the word Anthropocene?
Paul J. Crutzen and Eugene F. Stoermer
What is the graph of increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere called, who is it named after, and where did he research the graph?
The Keeling Curve, Charles David Keeling, Mauna Loa, Hawaii
What is the order of the atmosphere's layers (Lowest to Highest)
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and Exosphere
What was the name of the International Council of Scientific Unions study of a single year according to its creator Lloyd Berkner? Bonus points for what year.
The International GeoPhysical Year from July 1957 to December 1958.
Who are the two authors of "Merchants of Doubt", centered around the realties with tobacco smokers?
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
What was the George C. Marshall Institute and what did it do?
What was the name of the act passed by President Joe Biden for the largest source of government fundings of climate-related issues and how much money was it?
Inflation Reduction Act, $369 Billion