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What is "Climate refugee"
What is a person displaced by global warming called?
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What is it doesn’t require changed behaviour
What is the appeal of geo engineering?
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What is the IPCC
This United Nations group focuses on Climate Change
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How can Scientists analyze the composition of the air to measure things like carbon dioxide or methane concentrations.
As ice forms, small bubbles of air are trapped within this ice.
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When is 2030
By what year will the final tipping point of climate change arrive?
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What is conscious consumption
What is the best way individuals can “solve” climate change?
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What is the Rio Conference
This conference was the UN’s first major climate change conference
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Which natural resource is the most efficient at absorbing energy?
coal gas
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What is Canada
Due to climate change this country may have a longer growing season
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What is geological sequestration
This involves sending carbon dioxide back into the ground
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What is the Kyoto Protocol
This conference took place in 1997
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Why did the weather in 1970 get cooler
as a result of a postwar increase in aerosol particles that deflected sunlight away from the planet
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What is the carbon cycle
Human activities, such as burning fossil fuels, influence this cycle
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Who is Alfred Wong
He proposed the idea of sending carbon back into space
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What is the Bali Conference
Canada’s oil sands industry was discussed at this conference
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what are the impacts of global warming
Rising sea levels
Shrinking mountain glaciers Ice melting at a faster rate than usual in Greenland, Antarctica and the Arctic Changes in flower and plant blooming times. weather changing changes within the air |
What is Nitrous Oxide
This greenhouse gas is more powerful than carbon dioxide and methane but impacts global warming less
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What is economic, political, technological, and lifestyle
Name 3 of the 4 types of changes required to “solve” climate change
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What is grizzly bears
This bear is threatening the existence of polar bears through interbreeding
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Why are countries not doing anything about climate change
-money
-conflict with other countries -Countries are adamant on not making any changes. |