An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth

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An Inconvenient Truth

1. When was the first picture of Earth (called “Earthrise”) taken?

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Answer any 30 of the following 38 questions. You may skip any 8 questions.

11. What have all occurred in the last 14 years?

12. What year was the hottest on record (so far)? 2. Why is the picture of Earth taken on Dec. 11, 1972 the most commonly published photograph in history? 13. How many people died in the heatwave in Europe in 2003? 3. Roger Revelle and Charles David Keeling were the first to propose measuring what in the Earth’s atmosphere?

14. How hot did it get in India in 2003?

4. Why did they choose the middle of the Pacific Ocean for these measurements?

15. How many cities in the west were hit with alltime temperature records in that same year?

5. What year did Al Gore go to Kyoto, Japan? 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.”? 17. What African lake has dried up in the last few decades into almost nothing?

6. What percent of people in the world get their drinking water from glacier meltwater?

7. Name one of the warm cycles that has occurred in the last 1000 years.

8. How far back does the CO2 record go in Antarctica? 9. What is the most powerful relationship between CO2 and temperature?

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?

10. What happened on April 3, 1989 that shook Al Gore’s world?

19. By how many percent has the Arctic sea ice extent and thickness dropped over the last 40 years?

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20. How soon could the Arctic sea ice be gone in summer?

31. What crop did Gore’s family used to farm over the summers?

21. How far have polar bears been seen...