UCSB ENGL23 midterm exam questions & answers 2023/2024
Has the U.S. ever passed a carbon tax? - ANSWER-no
What is a carbon tax? - ANSWER-a tax imposed on those who extract fossil fuels that taxes them proportionate to the amount of carbon they dig up
What are two countries that have pass...
Has the U.S. ever passed a carbon tax? - ANSWER-no
What is a carbon tax? - ANSWER-a tax imposed on those who extract fossil fuels that taxes them
proportionate to the amount of carbon they dig up
What are two countries that have passed a carbon tax? - ANSWER-Netherlands and Norway
The U.S., Russia, and the EU have put what percent of all greenhouse gas emissions into the
atmosphere? - ANSWER-2/3 or 66%
Who's the UN ambassador for climate change? - ANSWER-Leonardo DiCaprio
What country is the world's first major renewable energy economy? - ANSWER-Germany
What percent of energy does renewable energy supply in Costa Rica? - ANSWER-98%
what company sent scientists to the North Pole 40 years ago in order to hypothesize what would happen
up there because of climate change? - ANSWER-Exxon
Where does wood come from? - ANSWER-air
What is the ppm of CO2 today? - ANSWER-415
Are CO2 levels higher during spring or fall? why? - ANSWER-fall because that's when plants are beginning
to decay and die, which causes them to release CO2 as they decay
, Why doesn't the southern hemisphere offset the fact that our global CO2 levels go up slightly in winter
and down slightly in summer? shouldn't it even out - ANSWER-Because 68% of landmass is in the
northern hemisphere, so there are more plants dying and decaying and also growing and consuming CO2
What created fossil fuels? - ANSWER-The plants and animals that died and decayed millions of years ago
through anaerobic decomposition. With this process, CO2 was not released and it was instead stored
underground where pressure and heat compressed it into oil, gas, and coal
CH4 is how many more times harmful than CO2? - ANSWER-34x
What are the sources of methane? - ANSWER-Hydraulic fracking, food systems (cows), land mining,
landfills
What two things make up 2/3 of all methane release? - ANSWER-Fracking and food systems(cows)
What percent of greenhouse gas emissions is CH4 responsible for? - ANSWER-1/6 or 16%
from 1959 to 2019, how many ppm did CO2 rise? - ANSWER-100
what is the greenhouse effect? - ANSWER-how the earth's atmosphere is able to trap heat from the sun
within our atmosphere due to a layer of gases
How many major extinction events have there been? - ANSWER-5
Which extinction event is symbolic of the one that we are facing? - ANSWER-#3, the permian-triassic
extinction where a volcano erupted and spewed CO2 into the atmosphere which warmed temps and
eventually 97% of all life died
How much faster are we adding CO2 to the atmosphere than the eruption during the Permian-Triassic
extinction did? - ANSWER-10x
how many species are lost every day? - ANSWER-150
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