Climate change Quiz - 46 Trivia Questions!

Which 19th century physicist proposed the greenhouse effect?

Which English chemist and physicist discovered that nitrogen and oxygen are transparent to radiated heat?

What name is given to the phenomenon of a reduction in the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface between 1961 and 1990?

What is the name of the Swedish teenager who led a school strike in 2018 to protest climate change?

What is the main source of energy in the world?

What are the most significant carbon sinks on the Earth's surface?

What gender is more likely to be concerned about climate change?

What has the Earth's climate cycled through over the last few million years?

What international agreement was signed in 2015 to limit global warming to well under 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century?

Which industry is responsible for about 13% of all industrial emissions?

What colour is the global surface temperature reconstruction based on data from tree rings, corals, and ice cores?

What city hosted the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference, which resulted in a global agreement to limit global temperature rise to below 2 degrees Celsius?

What name is given to people who deny the scientific consensus on climate change?

Which university press published 'The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate' in 2019?

Which was the first country to declare a climate emergency?

What is the cause of the increase in heat content in the Earth's oceans?

What is the term for the process of adjustment to current or expected changes in climate and its effects?

Which major food crop has been affected by global warming?

Who was the first scientist to warn of the dangers of global warming?

The Paris Agreement states that the global temperature must stay at or above 1.5 degrees Celsius for how many years to pass the 'tipping point'?

Which 1987 international treaty banned the production of ozone-depleting gases?

What is the title of Al Gore's 2006 film about global warming?

What is the name of the type of vegetation that can be used to reduce the effects of sea level rise?

Which area of the world has seen a rise in temperature of up to 4 degrees Celsius in the last century?

What is impacting humans everywhere in the world?

What is the main greenhouse gas emitted by the world's livestock?

What is an example of a trade-off between adaptation and mitigating the effects of global warming?

The most severe effects of climate change are likely to be in which continent?

What is the term for the point at which global warming becomes irreversible?

What name is given to the period of global cooling that occurred between the Medieval Warm Period and the 20th Century?

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), how many gigatonnes of carbon dioxide must be released to keep global warming below 1.5

What is the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the world?

The Climate Change Performance Index ranks countries by their emissions of what?

What is the long-term effect of climate change on the oceans?

What is the main cause of the increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere since the industrial revolution?

What island nation is threatened by sea level rise?

The rate of global loss of what has approximately doubled since 2001, to an annual loss approaching an area the size of Italy?

The 2015 Paris Agreement on global warming replaced which other treaty?

What is expanding as a result of global warming?

Which Swedish scientist first calculated the greenhouse effect in 1896?

What is thinning as a result of global warming?

Half of the carbon absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere comes from what?

What is the main greenhouse gas that traps heat near the Earth's surface?

What type of soot reduces global warming by reflecting the sun's rays?

What instrument was used to measure global temperature in the mid 19th century?

The North Pole has warmed faster than any other part of the world, mainly because it is in which hemisphere?