Evidence

Question 1

What organization has the shortened name WMO?

Answer 1

World Meteorological Organization

Question 2

What organization has the shortened name UNEP?

Answer 2

United Nations Environmental Program

Question 3

What organization has the shortened name IPCC?

Answer 3

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Question 4

What year was the IPCC created?

Answer 4

1988

Question 5

What is the role of the IPCC?

Answer 5

To assess the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of human-included climate change

Question 6

True or False: IPCC does are their own research and bases their reports on their own results.

Answer 6

False: the IPCC does none of their own research and their information is obtained through peer-reviewed and published scientific journals.

Question 7

The IPCC has three different working groups. What is the job of working group number one?

Answer 7

Assesses the scientific aspects of the climate system and climate change
-is the reported info actually occurring

Question 8

Which working group accesses limiting GHG emissions and decreasing climate change? Basically, what are we going to do about our climate change problems?

Answer 8

Working group number three.

Question 9

What is the job of working group number two?

Answer 9

Addresses the vulnerability of socio-economic and natural systems to climate change, negative and positive consequences of climate change, and options for adapting to it
-How is it going to affect us

Question 10

During the IPCC WG1 sequence, in 1990 what did the IPCC research?

Answer 10

broad overview of climate change science, discussion of uncertainties and evidence for warming

Question 11

In what year did the WG1 5th Assessment Report come out?

Answer 11

December of 2013

Question 12

The 5th Assessment Report was written by 1000 authors from 63 different countries, with three different drafts being written and checked over. What was the baseline of the AR5?

Answer 12

The world’s quality of life was declining and we needed to do something about it fast

Question 13

True or False: The 5th Assessment Report was not sure if global warming was actually occurring.

Answer 13

False: the IPCC were sure global warming was/is occurring

Question 14

Why did the 5th Assessment Report state the climate change will continue in the future?

Answer 14

The carbon emissions humans have produced over the past however many years have not even hit the earth yet- meaning we have not felt its effects yet.

Question 15

In what year could the earth no longer absorb CO2?

Answer 15

1960

Question 16

What was the key statement of the 5th Assessment Report?

Answer 16

“warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950’s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The atmosphere and oceans have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished, sea level has risen, and concentration of greenhouse gases has increased.”

Question 17

True or False: According to the AR5 each of the last three decades has been successively warmer at the earth’s surface than any preceding decades since 1850.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

What did the AR5 say dominated the increase in energy stored in the climate system, accounting for more than 90% of the energy accumulated between 1971 and 2010?

Answer 18

Ocean Warming

Question 19

In meters, what levels of the ocean, starting at the surface, warmed from 1971 to 2010?

Answer 19

0-700 meters

Question 20

As of 2018, how much has the Arctic summer sea ice extent decreased?

Answer 20

Down to 4 million km^2

Question 21

According to the AR5, Over the past _ decades, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have been losing mass, glaciers have continued to shrink almost worldwide, and arctic sea ice and Northern Hemisphere spring snow cover have continued to decrease in extent.

Answer 21

2 decades

Question 22

How much has the Northern Hemisphere warming added to the global sea level?

Answer 22

8 mm

Question 23

The global sea level increased by ____ between 1901 and 2010.

Answer 23

19 mm

Question 24

True or False: According to the AR5, over the past 800 000 years, the levels of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide have stayed relatively constant.

Answer 24

False: they have increased to alarming levels.

Question 25

Since pre-industrial times how much has the worlds atmospheric CO2 levels increased by (in %)?

Answer 25

40%

Question 26

How much of the anthropogenic and carbon dioxide increase since pre-industrial times has the ocean absorbed? How has this affected the ocean?

Answer 26

The ocean has absorbed 30% of the increase, leading to ocean acidification.

Question 27

True or False: According to the AR5 global precipitation will increase with global temperatures increasing.

Answer 27

True

Question 28

True or False: There is low confidence that the contrast of annual precipitation between dry and wet regions and that the contrast between wet and dry seasons will increase over most of the globe

Answer 28

False: There is very high confidence that these events will happen.

Question 29

With an increase in global precipitation, what would occur in disaster regions (i.e. India Monsoon Areas)?

Answer 29

Disasters in disaster regions would also increase.

Question 30

According to the AR5, what will increase in the high northern latitudes by the end of the 21st century and why?

Answer 30

Flooding from the increase in spring and winter precipitation.

Question 31

True or False: in the past 100 years the 3 greatest floods have happened.

Answer 31

False: only in the past 30 years.

Question 32

What are the variable(s) will our future climate depend on?

Answer 32

Inherent variability
Social and economic choices
Response of the earth system

Question 33

RCP’s encompass a range of plausible futures- what does RCP stand for?

Answer 33

Representative Concentration Pathways `

Question 34

According to the AR5, global temperatures are likely to exceed __C for all RCP’s except RCP 2.6 by the end of the 21st century and likely to exceed _C for RCP 6.0

Answer 34

1.5, 2

Question 35

True or False: According to the AR5 temperature changes will be uniform

Answer 35

False: they will not be uniform at all

Question 36

Very high confidence that globally averaged changes over land will exceed changes over oceans. The arctic region is projected to ____ the most.

Answer 36

Warm

Question 37

What place in the world could lead to a 7 meter rise in sea level?

Answer 37

Greenland

Question 38

If monsoonal season shut down in India, what that be a positive or negative event for the country? Why?

Answer 38

It would be a negative event for the country, for India would become a very dry place.

Question 39

Atlantic circulation patter, arctic sea ice loss, amazon forest and monsoonal circulations are all examples of what?

Answer 39

Changes in the climate system that could potentially exhibit abrupt or nonlinear changes.

Question 40

When are we supposed to get the next IPCC report?

Answer 40

April of 2021.

Question 41

What years did the 4 IPCC WG1 sequences occur?

Answer 41

1990, 1995, 2001 and 2007