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Chapter 2 Flashcards

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What is the IPCC? When was it created? What does it do?

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  • Intergovernmental panel on climate change
  • the top association of climate scientists
  • created in 1988
  • scientists volunteer to provide a summary of what is known about the drivers of climate change
  • UNFCCC binds member states to work toward an international treaty on climate change
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What is the NIPCC

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  • Non-governmental panel on climate change
  • organization of climate deniers funded by fossil fuel companies
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What percentage of people actual deny climate change according to a Harvard study?

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10%

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Why is there debate over the reality of climate change?

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  • because it is both a physical phenomenon and a set of cultural ideas
  • our discussions about climate change as a physical phenomenon are filtered though ideas about what it means to us (threat, challenge, blessing, etc.)
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Greta Thunberg and EU’s largest school strike

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  • 1.4million students joined Greta to protest climate change
  • what is your circle of influence?
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Our Children’s Trust and Kelsey Juliana

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  • sued the US government in 2015, claiming they violated the younger generation’s rights to life, liberty, and property
  • climate change as an issue of inter generational justice
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Climate Fatigue

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hearing too much about climate change, fear you cant help, and hoping it wont be so bad; fed by corporations

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Climate Denialism

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emotional state similar to denialism that mourners and victims of trauma experience; usually related to deep beliefs in conservatism, market fundamentalism, and Christian doctrine

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What is climate change?

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  • long term pattern of temperature and precipitation averages and extremes at a location (NOAA)
  • WMO requires 30yrs of data before determining a ‘normal’ climate
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Climate vs. Weather

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  • Weather = what’s possible for temperature and precipitation in a location
  • Climate = what is likely
  • with climate change, extreme weather is more likely
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What is the Holocene and what is its significance to climate change?

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  • The Holocene is the period that humans evolved in
  • it had an unusually stable, warm climate which allowed humans to create agricultural civilization
  • If our current environment conditions have changed from those of the Holocene period, civilization must change as well
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What causes climate change?

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  • Changes in atmospheric chemicals (greenhouse gases)
    Increases in carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide trap more solar radition
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What are environmental “sinks”?

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things like soil, plants, and oceans which can absorb some greenhouse gases

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What is anthropogenic climate change?

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climate change caused specifically by humans

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How does lag time relate to climate change?

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  • The Earth has a lag time between a change in course and when you actually see the results of said change
  • you won’t see the changes until the moment they instantly happen
  • we are just beginning to see the effects of climate change
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How much does carbon neutrality cost?

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  • IPCC Special Report 1.5
  • $2.4 trillion annually over 20yrs
  • this is only 2.5% of global GDP
  • the US spent 3.5% of GDP on defense in 2018
  • When investments to reduce climate change are combined with those to reduce global poverty, synergies multiply their effectiveness
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How can we reduce global carbon emissions 50% by 2030?

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By reducing emissions of the richest 1/6th of people

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What is WEIRD and how does it relate to carbon emissions?

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  • Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich Democracies
  • How and why carbon is emitted varies according to a local culture’s traditions and capacities for using fossil fuels to achieve what WEIRD calls ‘the Good Life’
  • EH gives us new ways to imagine ‘the Good Life’ that are symbiotic rather than parasitic
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What is a Sacrifice Zone?

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  • Originally degraded environments used for nuclear testing
  • Now refers to places that industrial society writes off as collateral damage in the name of progress
  • these places are almost always where poor and minority populations live

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