09/10 - Climate Change/Mitigation/Adaptation

Question 1

an issue with familiar resolution and reachable solution

Answer 1

Tame Environmental Problem

Question 2

regional short-term phenomena, state of the current atmosphere
data driven to develop a forecast, uniform and universal instrumentation use, expected anomalies and extremes

Answer 2

weather

Question 3

a climate phenomenon characterized by irregular and periodic variations in sea surface temperatures and atmospheric pressure across the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Pacific Ocean current variability

Answer 3

El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO)

Question 4

defined/understood in multiple ways, difficult to resolve

Answer 4

Wicked Environmental Problem

Question 5

long-term weather pattern of a particular region

Answer 5

climate

Question 6

regional long-term climate shifts (warmer, or cooler) and/or planetary
evidence that is 4G years old, >1°C increase current ~80y, glacial and periglacial melting shifting ecosystem regions, natural and anthropogenic-forced components

Answer 6

climate change

Question 7

increasing average long-term temperatures of the planet

Answer 7

global warming

Question 8

key atmosphere gasses trap heat, retard radiant energy loss to space

Answer 8

Greenhouse Effect

Question 9

gas contributing to the greenhouse effect, e.g., water, carbon dioxide

Answer 9

Greenhouse Gas

Question 10

rise of land masses depressed by the huge weight of past ice-age sheets

Answer 10

Isostatic Rebound

Question 11

contrarian to activist, political, ideological, economic, etc. agenda approach/tactic often taken: act, before all facts are in, pro-organization support

Answer 11

change doomsayer

Question 12

unconvinced, political, ideological, economic, etc. agenda approach/tactic often taken: don’t act, until all facts are in, counter-organization support

Answer 12

change denier

Question 13

scientific inquiry, examine ideas/claims beyond mainstream science approach/tactic often taken: precautionary principle, silenced, unless in the public eye

Answer 13

change sceptic

Question 14

consensus, agreeing with the majority, may miss the nature of science approach/tactic often taken: absolute resolve, unquestioning, no longer open to ideas

Answer 14

chance convinced

Question 15

strategies to reduce or minimize the negative consequences of a natural hazard

Answer 15

migitation

Question 16

agreed-upon carbon amount limiting global emission

Answer 16

carbon budget

Question 17

form of carbon pricing, government set GHG limits can be bought/traded

Answer 17

cap-and-trade

Question 18

carbon dioxide (CO2) is removed from the atmosphere and stored in carbon sinks, such as forests, soils, oceans, and geological formations. reforestation/afforestation/agricultural crops to ameliorate carbon

Answer 18

carbon sequestration

Question 19

maladaptation, incremental adaptation, transformation adaptation

Answer 19

1. Chosen action inadvertently increasing vulnerability for social groups/systems
2. Build on existing means to reduce output in context of climate change
3. New means approach/system to prepare for future climate risk

Question 20

international agreement, limiting anthropocentric carbon dioxide amounts greenhouse gas intensity – ratio of greenhouse gas emissions to economic output

Answer 20

Kyoto Protocal