Climate change and biodiversity

Question 1

What is the IPCC partnership?

Answer 1

World Meterorological Organization and United Nations Environment Programme

Question 2

What is a negative feedback loop?

Answer 2

When inputs lead to reduction of inputs.

Question 3

Why are feedback cycles important?

Answer 3

they make models more complicated, and positive feedback cycles accelerate warming

Question 4

what is the atmosphere at 10 km above the surface?

Answer 4

troposphere

Question 5

What is the atmosphere at 10km to 50 km?

Answer 5

stratosphere

Question 6

What do cook stoves contribute to global warming?

Answer 6

Black Carbon

Question 7

How do bark beetles contribute to global warming?

Answer 7

They kill drought-stressed trees, which cause burning, and release carbon dioxide and black carbon

Question 8

Methane is a precursor to what?

Answer 8

The troposphereic ozone

Question 9

How much will global temperatures increase by 2100?

Answer 9

1.1C and 6.5C

Question 10

What evidence is used to determine whether we are entering the Earth’s 6th mass extinction event?

Answer 10

The modern rate of extinctions compared to the background rate.