Climate Change


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What is the Paris Agreement, and what are its goals?

The Paris Agreement is an international treaty aimed at limiting global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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Climate Change Quiz

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Volcanic dust released into the stratosphere can increase the amount of insulation reaching the surface, warming temperatures.

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Mitigation against worst-case warming scenarios is unnecessary because solutions will always be found for runaway heat.

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Over of the world's people live within 100 kilometers of a coastline.

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What international treaty involved nations coming together to reduce greenhouse gases by about 5% below 1990 levels?

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Adaptation in climate change means decreasing the load of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

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Climate Change Knowledge Test

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Sea level is projected to rise another to {blank_2} feet by 2100.

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More CO2 increases the amount of trapped in the lower atmosphere.

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The scientific evidence regarding climate change's impact on human societies and the planet is now unequivocal.

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Ocean acidification is a direct effect of decreased dissolved CO2 in the ocean.

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Increased extreme weather events like floods and deadly heat waves are not considered troubling signs of climate change.

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Cutting carbon is the only long-term solution for avoiding climate impacts.

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Climate refugees are people being forced to their homes for safer places.

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What contributes to flooding in cities like Atlanta due to extreme precipitation?

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What is the impact of climate change on mountain landscapes?

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The Arctic Ocean is expected to become essentially -free in summer before mid-century.

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What are examples of glaciers that have shrunk dramatically worldwide?

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Our climates are entering new due to enhanced greenhouse effect.

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What is the Paris Agreement, signed in 2016, considered?

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Between 3.3 and 3.6 billion people live in climate change hotspots, spread across regions like Africa and South Asia.

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What threat do thousands of low-lying islands and coastal cities face by the end of the 21st century?

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How do rearrangements of continents and oceans contribute to climate change?

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Hundreds of millions of people are pushed into and famine due to climate impacts on farming.

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Volcanoes emit only about % as much CO2 as humans do.

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What is the effect of warmer climates on disease-carrying insects like mosquitoes?

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Urban ecology studies how ______ and nature interact in cities.

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