Question: The years 2016 – 2020 saw a huge exodus of scientific experts at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, due to firings, re-assignments, and simply leaving out of frustration, seeing that science itself had been demoted to a lower role, …
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Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: A Bit of Oil-Related Justice
Question: Donald Pols and Channa Samkalden are top bananas in the Dutch environmental organization Milieudefensie. Why are they so happy? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: Allowing Big Oil to ravage our planet and its people with …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Wind Turbine Placement
Question: There are at least three central problems with the idea put forth here, i.e., installing wind turbines under bridges. What are they? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: A great deal of thought goes into siting …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Science and the U.S. Presidency
Question: For the first time in its history, Scientific American is endorsing a candidate for the U.S. presidency. In what year was the magazine first published? Who was president at the time? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Global Warming and Hurricanes
Question: Only one of the following five statements is correct. Which one is wrong? a) Global warming is decreasing scientists capacity to predict the strength and direction of hurricanes. b) Global warming is increasing the frequency of hurricanes. c) Global …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Environmental Toxicity and Flooding
Question: What do these elements have in common: Arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, manganese, mercury, nickel, selenium, zinc. Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: In a new report released today, A Toxic Relationship: Extreme Coastal Flooding & Superfund …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Climate Change
Question: The building shown here is (was) in Siberia, but it’s falling down. Why? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: It’s also the cause of a 20K gallon oil spill in the same region.
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Townspeople Face Unusual Weather, Climate
Question: There are two unique but related things about the small town of Verkhoyansk in Siberia, about 50 miles north of the Arctic Circle. What are they? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: If climate change weren’t …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Energy–Reducing CO2 Emissions
Question: For how many consecutive years has Kansas managed to reduce its CO2 emissions? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: This is what happens when there is a rapid replacement of coal with wind. Bravissimo! …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Energy–The Year in Review
Question: This one comes from the American Energy Society: Which Roman emperor would have been most comfortable in 2019? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
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