Some quick questions just for fun?

Question

Adapted from a list of questions posed to students and delegates after a tour / discussion about climatology, global warming, climate change etc. None of the questions seek to prove or disprove global warming and climate change, all have factual answers.

How did you do? After the discussion / tour most people get about 12 or 13 out of 20 correct. There's only 17 questions here and they're not following a discussion in which many of the answers are mentioned. I reckon 5 or 6 would be quite a reasonable score, more than 10 would be really good.


1) The earliest reliable temperature record dates from...
A) 1559, B) 1659, C) 1759, D) 1859, E) 1959


2) What are the first three letters of the name of that record?
A) Had, B) Has, C) Her, D) His, E) Hot


3) Which of these five figures is closest to the AVERAGE amount of water vapour in the atmosphere?
A) 0.01%, B) 0.05%, C) 0.1%, D) 0.5%, E) 1.0%

4) Which of these five figures is closest to the MAXIMUM amount of water vapour in the atmosphere?
A) 1.0%, B) 2.0%, C) 3.0%, D) 4.0%, E) 5.0%


5) What nationality was the scientist who first theorised that levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide led to global warming or cooling?
A) Austrian, B) Danish, C) German, D) Italian, E) Swedish


6) What name is given to the part of Earth's atmosphere closest to the ground?
A) Exosphere B) Mesosphere C) Stratosphere D) Thermosphere E) Troposphere


7) What is the average year-round temperature across the surface of Earth?
A) 12°C B) 15°C C) 18°C D) 21°C E) 24°C


8) In simplified terms, which gas is 23 times as effective at retaining heat than the default gas (or, which gas has as 100 year GWP of 23)?
A) Carbon Dioxide B) Methane C) Nitrous Oxide D) Ozone E) Water Vapour


9) N/A

10) When and where was the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change established?
A) 1975 in Rambouillet B) 1988 in London C) 1992 in Rio D) 1996 in Shanghai B) 1997 in Kyoto


11) Which of the following units is most likely to be used to measure the concentration of a gas in the atmosphere?
A) Parts per million by volume B) Parts per cubic metre C) Mass per cubic metre D) Volume per cubic metre E) Parts per litre


12) Which of the following years was the hottest?
A) 1100, B) 1300, C) 1500, D) 1700, E) 1900


13) Which of the following years was the hottest?
A) 1200, B) 1400, C) 1600, D) 1800, E) 2000


14) N/A


15) N/A


16) Which of the following would you be most likely to find at Concordia?
A) A climatologist taking ice samples, B) A geophysicist taking soil samples, C) A marine biologist taking animal samples, D) An oceanographer taking water samples, E) A paleogeologist taking rock samples

17) Which is the hottest country (annual average) on Earth?
A) Ecuador, B) Egypt, C) Equatorial Guinea, D) Eritrea, E) Ethiopia


18) Which of the following was once largely atmospheric carbon dioxide?
A) Coal, B) Granite, C) Limestone, D) Oil, E) Sandstone


19) Cold, Polar, Temperate and Tropical and four of the five world climate zones as classified by Koeppen. What is the fifth?
A) Arid, B) Continental, C) Desert, D) Dry, E) Tundra


20) Which of the following would be measured in Watts per square metre?
A) Radiance, B) Irradiance, C) Spectral Radiance, D) Radiant Intensity, E) Radiant Flux?



ANSWERS
1-B, 2-A, 3-E, 4-D, 5-E, 6-E, 7-B, 8-B, 9-A, 10-C, 11-A, 12-A, 13-E, 14-C, 15-B, 16-A, 17-E, 18-C, 19-D, 20-B

Answer 1

Very informative. Thanks.
BTW, Mr. Jello, you're insane. These are questions taken from a questionnare that explain ways in which atmospheric conditions are measured. You're ranting shows you to be the biased one.

Answer 2

Thanks for these - just an interesting little snippet.

If the first reliable records were made in 1659, how confident are we that 1100 was really a hotter year than 1900, and 2000 was hotter than 1200?

Answer 3

Wow! Talk about selective science. You totally leave out temperature proxies like tree rings, ice core samples, and ocean sediment.

All of these proxies are proved to provide evidence of a temperature record.

I can only surmise that these readings don't fit your template that only the 1900's were warm, so you discard them.

Global warming is the most selective, subjective science since phrenology.