Climate Change Quiz

What be the bound of yon long-term warmth ascension the world's leaders vowed to cap global warming at, in the year of our Lord 2015?

• 2C

• 1C

• 1.5C

• 3C

Pray tell, what was the ascension in temperature from the second month of Anno Domini 2023 to the first of 2024, as chronicled by the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service?

• 1.48C

• 1.60C

• 1.52C

• 1.55C

What be the chief propellant of yon long-term warming trend, as per the text?

• Volcanic eruptions

• Deforestation

• Industrial waste

• Burning fossil fuels

What be the natural climate-warming phenomenon that hath given air temperatures an extra boost o'er the past year?

• Tornado

• Monsoon

• El Niño

• La Niña

What great tempest might we usher within the span of a decade, should we persist in our current folly of emissions?

• 4C warming

• 2C warming

• 1C warming

• 3C warming

What be the threshold in yon climate system that, once crossed, doth lead to swift and irreversible changes?

• Breaking points

• Tipping points

• Turning points

• Critical points

What hath rendered the dire predictions of a world warmed by 4C under current policies much less probable?

• Oil drilling

• Deforestation

• Coal mining

• Renewable energy

What action is paramount to curb the warming of our globe?

• Maintaining emissions

• Increasing emissions

• Doubling emissions

• Halving emissions

What be the chief architect of yon greenhouse effect that doth lead to the warming of our globe?

• Deforestation

• Industrialization

• Burning of fossil fuels

• Agricultural activities

What be the name for yon current geological era, marked by the hand of man upon nature's brow, including the warming of our globe?

• Pleistocene

• Holocene

• Anthropocene

• Neogene