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EnviroSci chap 14

Intro to Enviromental Sustanablity chapter 14 test questions

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The Kyoto Protocol was intended to ______? Was intended to reduce emissions of six greenhouse gases to levels lower than those of 1990
What is the difference between weather and climate? Weather is local and occurs over a short period of time, hours and days, while climate occurs over large geographic areas and longer periods of time such as seasons and years
The US Senate has so far opposed emissions reductions on the grounds that _____? It might hurt the economy
Reports from the _____ are the most widely accepted information published on climate change. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
What factors determine Earth's Climate? The sun, The atmosphere and The ocean
_____ is a type of indirect evidence that can give clues about environmental conditions of the past? Proxy indicator
Since the onset of the industrial revolution, global atmospheric concentrations of which of the following gas(es) have shown a great increase? Methane and Nitrous oxide
Keeling's reports from Mauna Loa demonstrated _____? An increase in tropospheric CO2 from the 1950s to the present
Carbon dioxide is _____? The main anthropogenic greenhouse gas produced in the United States
Earth's climate _____? Is changing as a result of natural and human processes
How long have we been making direct measurements of carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere? Since hourly air samples were recorded from a monitoring station in Hawaii in 1958
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is _____? Is an international panel that reports on how climate change influences biomes and economies
Growing rice results in the release of ____ into the atmosphere? Methane
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