SOCIAL SCIENCE & PHILOSOPHY - CLIMATE CHANGE

This refers to the totality of a region’s or planet’s weather conditions over several decades or longer.

• CLIMATE

• CLIMATE CHANGE

• WEATHER CONDITIONS

• ACCLIMATIZE

• MICROCLIMATE

What is IPCC?

• Intersocial Panel on Climate Change

• Intervironmental Panel on Climate Change

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

• Interchangeable Panel on Climate Change

The greater the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the warmer Earth’s climate is expected to become.

• True

• False

• Yes, it's true but it depends.

• Maybe

Climate scientists study the causal links between greenhouse gas emissions and changes in weather and climate.

• True

• False

• Yes, It's true but it depends.

• Maybe

The IPCC defines vulnerability as ‘the degree to which a system is susceptible to, and unable to cope with, adverse effects of climate change, including climate variability and extremes’.

• True

• False

• Yes, it's true but it depends.

• Maybe

The issue of anthropogenic climate change cannot be divorced from questions of _______________________.

Are gases in Earth's atmosphere that trap heat.

Extreme weather, food supply disruptions, and increased wildfires are other effects of _____________ caused by greenhouse gases.

When the gases in our atmosphere trap heat and block it from escaping our planet.

• Greenhouse Gases

• Greenhouse Effect

• Global Warming

• Anthropogenic Climate Change

• Microclimate

The following phrases below are correct and a legitimate information about the Climate Change topic, EXCEPT for ONE which is.

• The greater the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the warmer Earth’s climate is expected to become.

• The occurrence of a few cooler-than-average years in a row or one especially hot and dry summer would not qualify as climate change, as the timescale considered is too short.

• Sociologist Steven Yearley suggests that, unless more is said about how expert judgment comes into play, this acknowledgement ‘opens to the charge that judgments have been made in tendentious ways or also the reports are not compelling since a different set of authors might have reached a different set of judgments’ (2009: 398).

• Vulnerability is understood to be a function not just of the anticipated exposure of a population to variations in climate and the sensitivity of the population to those changes—which together determine only the potential impacts.

• Climate scientists must develop global temperature datasets; there is no thermometer from which they can simply read off the average near-surface temperature of Earth’s atmosphere, so temperature records from around the world have to be collected, subjected to quality control, and carefully combined.