Climate quiz. How climate literate are you?

@jeanne-mayell

Same as you, got one wrong x

@jeanne-mayell

I got the same one wrong as you.  

Paywall, can't access it...

@Laura F, here's the quiz. You probably can't click for the answers, but you can look them up.

1. What has the scientific community concluded about climate change?

2. Which of these factors most contributes to current global warming?

3. What is the greenhouse effect?

4. True or false: Climate change is heating the world evenly.

5. What famous goal did 195 countries affirm in Paris in 2015?

6. Which country announced in 2017 that it would withdraw from that Paris climate agreement?

7. In a “high-emissions scenario,” how much do scientists predict the Earth will heat up by the end of the century, compared with the average temperature between 1986 and 2005?

8. True or false: Climate change and extreme weather are linked.

9. Combined, how much mass are ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica losing annually?

10. Extreme heat in Siberia has caused permafrost to melt. The remains of which ancient creature are now emerging from the frozen ground?

Let's set up our own climate quiz but asking questions and then we can put them together. 

I have a few people might want to get tested on. 

1. Name 3 or more climate hot spots in the globe, including one in the U.S., where climate change is happening faster than the rest of the climate.

2. What is the significance of the Gulf Stream and climate change?  (Hint: this was the main premise behind the movie The Day After Tomorrow. 

@jeanne-mayell

I took the quiz from your previous post and got two wrong (#5 I said A but it was D, and #9 I said B but it was C).

On your question/quiz my answers are:

1. The Arctic, NY/NJ and Europe (Spain, Germany, Austria, Switzerland etc). I have family in Germany and growing up I remember summers were very cool, now their Sept was in the 90s when I was there and we had no air conditioning!

2. Hotter temps in Europe/UK and more natural disasters would be my answer.

@jeanne-mayell

For your quiz, these are my answers,

1) The entire Arctic region, the northern Great Plains of the US (Minnesota and the Dakotas), and the Indian subcontinent.

2) Melting of the Greenland ice sheet will slow down the Gulf Stream, which in turn will result in much colder winter temperatures for Europe and the British Isles (and also less precipitation). 

Coyote, correct. As you mentioned in a previous post, the US Eastern Seaboard from Cape Hatteras to Maine is also a hotspot where we are seeing double the global sea level rise.   

@jeanne-mayell

Interesting quiz.  I missed one and it turned out to be the same one you missed.