What aspects of climate change are having the greatest international impacts now? What recent developments most increase the urgency of action in the international arena?
What will be an ideal response?
"Higher temperatures, rising sea levels, heat waves, droughts, intense precipitation events, shifts in seasons, melting ice sheets, and Arctic thawing—these are happening right now, even as greenhouse gas emissions are continuing to rise." Recent developments, like rise in sea level that threatens island nations and other low-lying areas, increase the urgency to enact a lasting change. Soon we will have emigrants fleeing their countries because of climate change.
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In a battery-powered circuit it is correct to say that electrons flow
A. through both the battery and the devices making up the circuit. B. from the battery and into the circuit. C. from the negative terminal to the positive terminal of the battery. D. none of the above
Vast outpourings of lava covering many thousands of square kilometers in multiple flows are called ___
a) pillow basalts b) flood basalts c) rift basalts d) sheet basalts e) regional basalts
How do the continents move in plate tectonics without being broken up by the stresses involved? What will be an ideal response?
Lake Crystal MN recently experienced a 20% increase in electricity rates. What action would you recommend residents take to use electricity more efficiently?
A) Purchase a plug-in hybrid car. B) Purchase a gasoline-electric hybrid car. C) Install light-emitting diode (LED) light bulbs. D) Install incandescent light bulbs. E) Install compact fluorescent (CFL) light bulbs.