Sept 20 Ch 8 ?s – This Changes Everything.

Chapter 8:

1.      What is SRM?

2.      In 2006, who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his breakthrough research on the deterioration of the ozone layer?

3.      During the retreat held at Chichley Hall, the organizers separated the group into breakout sessions. Everyone received a piece of paper with a triangle on it, each point had a different word. What were the words?

4.      At the breakout session, one participant refused to place his views on the triangle (Bully for him!). Instead he wrote three questions on poster paper that he felt needed to be discussed first. What were they?

5.      The Royal Society was founded in 1660 as an homage to Sir Francis Bacon. What is the organization’s motto and how did it relate to the climate change retreat?

6.      David Keith once said of the threat of weakened monsoons from SRM that “hydrological stresses” can be managed “a little bit by irrigation.” The ancients called this hubris. What did the great American philosopher, farmer, and poet Wendell Berry call it?

7.      According to Martin Bunzl, a Rutgers philosopher and climate change expert (go philosophers!) what facts present an enormous perhaps insurmountable ethical problem for geoengineering?

8.      What were the three volcanic eruptions within the last three hundred years that had a significant impact on the global climate?

9.      Experts estimate that the global death toll from Iceland’s Laki eruption ranged from what to what and why is this even more significant than it would be today?