Climate Change and Sustainability Exam 3: ES 200 - Prof. William Winner, Exams of Environmental Science

Download Climate Change and Sustainability Exam 3: ES 200 - Prof. William Winner and more Exams Environmental Science in PDF only on Docsity! Climate Change and Sustainability: ES 200 Exam 3, Version 1 Name: ________________________ ID No. _____________________ 1. (T/F) The IPCC has finished its reports on climate change, and will disband with the termination of the Kyoto Protocol. 2. (T/F) Rachel Carson wrote the famous book, Silent Spring, documenting the declining bird populations due to widespread use of antibiotics. 3. (T/F) Cap and trade mechanisms worked for reducing SO2 emissions in the U.S. and were legislated as part of the Clean Air Act through the U.S. EPA. 4. (T/F) The average resident in North Carolina uses more electricity than the average American because of the demand for air conditioning. 5. (T/F) Amory Lovins explains how those in the U.S. can save money, grow the economy, develop safe and sustainable energy, mitigate climate change, and phase out use of fossil fuels by 2050. 6. (T/F) There is unanimous agreement the Kyoto Protocol failed to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases for any nation, or at global scales, and the Protocol should be allowed to end in 2012. 7. (T/F) The Supreme Court ruled the U.S. EPA should determine whether national greenhouse gas emissions pose a risk to human health and wellbeing, and the EPA did find significant risk. 8. (T/F) The U.S. signed, but did not ratify, the Kyoto Protocol and therefore is not obligated to comply with it. 9. (T/F) External costs and external benefits are included in Cost-Benefit Analysis. 10. (T/F) The U.S. EPA is responsible for forming and enforcing all environmental laws in the U.S. 11. (T/F) Any costs of climate change policies paid by those in the Southeastern U.S. will not benefit us, because most of the warming is at the poles. 12. (T/F) Climate change is not a threat to human health and therefore policies affecting climate change are a low priority. 13. (T/F) Costs of mitigating climate change will lead to creating jobs, new technologies, and reducing costs of climate change impacts. 14. (T/F) Direct temperature measurements from several thousand weather stations, operating around the world for more than 100 years, document sharp increases in mean earth temperature during the past 50 years. 15. (T/F) The IPCC is the only agency with extensive reports documenting climate change is accelerated due to greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. 16. The lectures given in the social sciences part of this course include the following people: a. Winner, Lovings, and Kochtcheeva b. Winter, Lovins, and Kocheeva c. Winner, Lovins, and Kochtcheeva d. Winner, Lovings, and Kochtcheeva e. All of the above 17, Controversies surrounding the Kyoto Protocol include: a. Disagreements over costs on domestic economies b. Disagreements on penalties for non-compliance c. Disagreements on mechanisms for allowable emissions trading d. Disagreements on verification of monitoring greenhouse gas emissions e. All of the above 18. The cost of a wind turbine for my home is $10,000 and over a ten-year period, I estimate saving $100 each month for 10 years in my electrical bill. What is my return on investment at the end of the ten-year period? a. 2% b. $2,000 c. 20% d. 10% e. 5% 19. The sinking of the Titanic is an important symbol for Climate Change and Sustainability because: a. It shows how the best science, engineering, and design of the day can lead to unexpected failure b. It shows how climate change, in the form of iceberg drift, can play a role in shaping human events c. It provides a lesson so that such an event can never happen, again d. a and b, above e. a, b, and c, above 20. When Amory Lovins talks about Reinventing Fire, he is referring to: a. His latest book b. The idea that we patent fire to get royalties for new technologies for burning fossil fuels c. Providing a plan for moving the U.S. to the end of the fossil fuel era d. Harnessing solar energy, and using energy efficiency and conservation, as a new “Fire” providing for human needs e. a, c, and d, above 21. What is a “Negawatt?” a. 1000 watts b. 100 watts c. A conserved or not-used watt of electricity d. A measure of the watt efficiency e. None of the above 22. What is “Drilling in the Detroit Formation?” a. Finding new oil drilling locations near Detroit b. Finding shale gas near Detroit that can be used for cars c. Finding “New oil” by building cars that require less petroleum fuels d. Finding water from a new aquifer near Detroit e. None of the above 23. The Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard in North Carolina: a. Requires all electricity from the State to be from renewable sources b. Moves the State towards a portfolio, or mixture, of ways to produce electricity from renewable energy sources c. Applies to both the commercial production of electricity and to transportation d. Does not allow nuclear power in the category of renewable energy