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| What happened 18 months after Apollo astronauts photographed the first "earth rise"? |
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| Environmental movement begun |
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| What is one of the common myths concerning the environment? |
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| Humans have no impact on the environment |
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| Which part of the earth is most vulnerable to human impact (as thin as varnish on a globe)? |
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| What type of radiation is trapped in the earth's atmosphere by greenhouse gases? |
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| Who was Roger Revelle (what did he do)? |
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| 1st person to propose measuring CO2 in atmosphere |
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| What location did Charles David Keeling chose to measure CO2 in the atmosphere? |
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| Why do CO2 levels go up and down each year? |
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Spring/summer - produces leaves that breathe in CO2 fall/winter - leaves die and give off CO2 |
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| During what season does carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rise? |
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| What year did Keeling begin to measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere? |
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| According to Lonnie Thompson, when will glacier ice disappear from Mt. Kilimanjaro? |
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| When will the glaciers completely disappear from Glacial National Park in Montana? |
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| What % of people in the world get their water from glaciers in the Himalaya Mountains? |
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| How does Lonnie Thompson determine how much CO2 was in the atmosphere in the past? |
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| How does Lonnie Thompson determine what the temperature was like in the past? |
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| O16:O18 ratios in the ice |
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How far back in time can we trace CO2 levels in Antartica ice? |
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| Did CO2 levels ever rise above 300 ppm (until the 20th century)? |
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| According to Al Gore, is global warming an ethical problem? |
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| How many of the hottest years on record have occurred within the last 14 years? |
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| What is "presently" the hottest year on record? |
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| What happens as oceans get warmer? |
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| In what year did we set the all-time record for named storms? (26 tropical storms/hurricanes) |
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| In 2005, how much rain fell in India in a 24 hour period? |
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| What impact has global warming had on Lake Chad in Africa? |
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| Dried up to almost nothing |
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| Two areas of the glob are particularly sensitive to global warming (canaries) - name one. |
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| What causes forests of "drunken trees"? |
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| Trees put their roots down in perma frost, it melts, then the trees go every which way |
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| Why will global warming have a negative impact on the Alaska pipeline? |
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| When will the ice covering the Arctic Ocean completely disappear? |
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| where is global warming the greatest? |
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| Why are polar bears beginning to drown? |
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| Long swim to find ice (over 60 miles) |
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| What drives the "ocean conveyer belt"? |
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| What happened when this ocean conveyer belt shut down near the end of the Ice Age? |
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| Europe went into another ice age |
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| What country is producing the greatest amount of CO2 pollution? |
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| How is global warming having a negative impact on breeding among some birds? |
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| Food sources are peaking much earlier than chick hatchings |
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| How is global warming killing pine trees? |
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| Pine beatles are killing them, because they aren't dying, because it's not cold enough |
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How is global warming affecting human health (what tropical diseases are spreading)? |
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| SARS, ebola, tuberculosis, west nile, avian flu |
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| How is global warming affecting species diversity? |
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| 2 areas of the globe are particularly sensitive to global warming (canaries) - name another. |
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| What happened to the Larson Ice Shelf in Antarctic in 2002? |
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| How much would sea level rise if the ice on either West Antarctica or Greenland melted? |
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| What country will soon be producing as much CO2 pollution as the U.S.? |
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| It took 10,000 years to reach 2 billion people; how long to reach 9 billion? |
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| Where does 30% of CO2 pollution come from? |
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| Old habits + Old technologies result in? |
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Is there really a disagreement among scientists concerning CO2 and global warming? |
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| Is the problem of global warming really too big for us to do anything about it? |
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| What is the one thing we lack to resolve the problem of global warming? |
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| What 2 nations have not ratified the Kyoto Accord on global warming? |
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| United States and Australia |
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