Quarterly Quiz:

“Runaway Global Warming ”

Section 1 – The Event of Runaway Global Warming – Multiple Guess / True  or False / Fill-In-The-Blanks

1) Runaway global warming can occur when the albedo of a planet decreases to a certain level. Albedo is

1. Reflectivity
2. A term used by kooks to scare us
3. Scientific jargon used for the purpose of securing funding
4. Global dimming

2) Albedo is associated with white clouds and snow cover.     T or F  Read more...

Okay, so stop me if you’ve heard this one. An environmentalist, a blogger, and fossil fuel executive walk into a bar. The environmentalist walks up to the bartender and asks for, ‘A green planet, neat.’ The blogger says, ‘Hey, I’ll have word with you.’ The fossil fuel executive passes gas.

Ba-doomp-boomp. You know, Hadley a day goes by that I don’t think about the climate. Hadley as in Hadley cells? Hey Louie, where’d you get this bunch?  Read more...