Carbon Cycle and Energy Security 6.8

What model tests the hypothetical relationship between envionmental quality and economic development?

• Clark-Fisher Model

• Kondratieff Waves

• Rostow Model

• Kuznets Curve

What is the point reached in the Kuznets curve when attitudes towards the environment change towards conservation.

• critical point

• tipping point

• critical threshold/tipping point

• critical threshold

The Artctic is an early warming system for the rest of the planet, it acts as a "what" of the environmental impcats resulting from fossil fuel climate forcing.

• RCP

• kuznet curve

• barometer

'Sea-ice loss' and 'carbon feedback' are examples of which feedback loop?

• Negative

• Positive

Which are the effects on the carbon cycle in the Arctic?

• warm water flowing into Arctic, rising air temperatures, changing saliity of water

• destabilsation of wetlands and sea floor deposits, thawing permafrost, increased forest fires