Inconvienced Truth

An Inconvenient Truth.

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

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

2. Why is the picture of Earth taken on Dec. 11, 1972 the most commonly published photograph in history?

3. Roger Revelle and Charles David Keeling were the first to propose measuring what in the Earth’s atmosphere?

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

5. What year did Al Gore go to Kyoto, Japan?

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

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?

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

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

12. What year was the hottest on record (so far)?

13. How many people died in the heat wave in Europe in 2003?

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

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

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?

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?

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

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

21. How far have polar bears been seen swimming in open water looking for ice?

22. At what rate does the water in the North Atlantic Ocean sink?

23. What continent was sent back into...