[QUIZ] how well do you Know climate change?

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Gilles Brien

Wednesday, 28 February 2018 15:05

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Climate change is certainly one of the topics of greatest concern of the moment.

• To DO: [QUIZ] What do you know about climate change?

While Quebec saw a warm spell and pronounced that Europe is freezing, make the point on this phenomenon, confusing.

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QuizQuestion #1 planet warms, we’re told. The average temperature of the Earth has increased by how much since the beginning of the industrial era?

3°C

10°C

1°C
According to the intergovernmental panel on Climate change (IPCC), the surface temperature of the Earth has increased by 0.85 degree C since the first meteorological readings taken conducted in the world in the 1880s.Question #2the Earth has experienced many ice ages since its creation. The last glacial period in Quebec came to an end when?

There are 12 000 years.

There are 100 000 years.

There are 12 000 years.
Surveys geological surveys indicate that the last glacial period in north America has begun its end there are about 12 000 years ago.Question #3On often speak of a scientific consensus behind global warming. What is according to you which statement is true?

97% of scientists do not believe in the warming of the planet.

97% of searches on the topic are consistent with the warming of the planet.

97% of searches on the topic are consistent with the warming of the planet.
According to the work of the IPCC, 97% of the scientific literature on the climate support the consensus that the Earth is warming primarily due to carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere since the beginning of industrialization.Question #4Quel is the natural disaster the most important and the most common in Canada?

The hail

The floods

The floods
According to the statistics, natural disasters, the most important and the most numerous in Canada are floods. They cause the greatest damage.Question #5Depuis 2015, Quebecers pay a tax to the carbon at the pump in order to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. What is the amount paid per liter for this tax?

3 to 4 in the liter

15 to 25 cents per litre

3 to 4 in the liter
To finance the carbon market and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions generated by the transport sector, drivers in Quebec will pay their gasoline from 4 to 5 cents more per litre from 1 January 2015.Question #6 carbon dioxide, or carbon dioxide, has increased by 37% in the atmosphere for a century. Methane, a gas 25 times more warming generated by the decomposition of plant and mammalian digestion, has also increased. How is there more methane in the atmosphere today compared to 100 years ago?

100% more

200% more

150% more
Over the past twenty years, the methane in the atmosphere has experienced annual increases unprecedented. The last value, as determined in 2017, has reached a concentration of 1850 ppb (parts per billion), or about 150% more than it was 100 years ago.Question #7 Paris agreement on climate change was signed in December 2015 in Paris by 195 countries. The agreement aims to prevent the increase of the temperature of the Earth to exceed a certain critical threshold relative to pre-industrial times. What is this threshold?

4°C

9°C

2°C
The Paris agreement set the objective of keeping the increase in global average temperature below 2°C, the threshold will likely be crossed, taking into account the current commitments of reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, insufficient. Question #8Selon the estimates of specialists, the world’s known reserves of oil are expected to be exhausted in how many years approximately?

50 years

100 years

50 years
According to estimates by the world energy Council, the oil reserves of the world have a potential of fifty years. The wells should be dry to 2070.Question #9Depuis the 1980s, the planned increases of the elevation of the sea level have generally been under-estimated. The first forecasts in the 1960s were counting on an increase of 2 mm per year, whereas there is 3.2 mm per year since the 1980s. By and large, the rise in the level of the sea is how many times greater than expected?

100% larger

200% larger

200% larger
According to current research, increases in the level of the sea have been up to 200% higher than anticipated values in the past for many parts of the world.Question #10-a warming of cities and the effect of urban heat island are likely to increase mortality among the elderly in Quebec. How do we the total of deaths of Quebec due to the heat here in 2065?

10 000 deaths

20 000 deaths

20 000 deaths
According to the project Office of climate change Ministry of sustainable Development, the Environment and the Fight against climate change, the number of cumulative deaths related to the heat here to 2065 is estimated to be 20 000.Share your result on Facebook

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