Answer 30 of the 38 for marks. Answer more for BONUS
Question 1
What year was the first picture of Earth (called“Earthrise”) taken?
Question 2
2.
Why is the picture of Earth taken on Dec. 11,1972 the most commonly published photograph in history?
Question 3
3.
Roger Revelle and Charles David Keeling were the first to propose measuring what in the Earth’s atmosphere?
Question 4
4.
Why did they choose the middle of the Pacific Ocean for these measurements?
Question 5
5.
What year did Al Gore go to Kyoto, Japan?
Question 6
6.
What percent of people in the world get their drinking water from glacier meltwater?
Question 7
7.
Name one of the warm cycles that has occurred in the last 1000 years.
Question 8
8.
How many years (how far back) does the CO2 record go in Antarctica?
Question 9
9.
What is the most powerful relationship between CO2 and temperature?
Question 10
10.
What happened on April 3, 1989 that shook Al Gore’s world?
Question 11
11.
What have all occurred in the last 14 years?
Question 12
12.
What year was the hottest on record (so far)?
Question 13
13.
How many people died in the heatwave in Europe in 2003?
Question 14
14.
How hot did it get in India in 2003?
Question 15
15.
How many cities in the west were hit with all-time temperature records in that same year?
Question 16
16.
Who warned the Europeans that “The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.”?
Question 17
17.
What African lake has dried up in the last few decades into almost nothing?
Question 18
18.
35 years ago, there were 225 days each year that you could drive on the Arctic permafrost. How many days can you drive on the permafrost now?
Question 19
19.
By how many percent has the Arctic sea ice extent and thickness dropped over the last 40 years?
Question 20
20.
How soon could the Arctic sea ice be gone in summer?
Question 21
21.
How far (how many miles) have polar bears been seen swimming in open water looking for ice?
Question 22
22.
At what rate (gallon/s) does the water in the North Atlantic Ocean sink?
Question 23
23.
What continent was sent back into “ice age” conditions for 500-1000 years when the ocean conveyor shut down?
Question 24
24.
Approximately how many new diseases have emerged in the last 25 years?
Question 25
25.
How fast is the current extinction rate compared to normal levels?
Question 26
26.
What is the “alarm bell” for global warming?
Question 27
27.
What year did the Larsen B ice shelf break up?
Question 28
28.
How much (how many feet?) would sea level rise if West Antarctica melted?
Question 29
29.
How many people in Calcutta and Bangladesh would be displaced if Greenland or West Antarctica melted?
Question 30
30.
How long will a frog stay in a pot of water that is gradually getting hotter and hotter?
Question 31
31.
What crop did Gore’s family used to farm over the summers?
Question 32
32.
Why did they stop?
Question 33
33.
What percent of scientific articles disagree with global warming?
Question 34
34.
What percent of articles in the popular press disagree with global warming?
Question 35
35.
Who said “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it”?
Question 36
36.
In the balance of the economy vs. the environment, what is weighed against the gold bars?
Question 37
37.
How many times has Gore given his slideshow?
Question 38
38.
We already have the technology to reduce are emissions below the level they were in what year?