Question: By what percentage have flooding incidents increased in Southern Florida in the past 10 years? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: This is caused by the one-two punch of melting ice in Greenland and Antarctica, combined …
Tag: Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Energy Required to Run the Internet
Question: How many electronic devices are connected to the Internet? What percentage of the U.S. total energy consumption does this represent? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: U.S. Federal Government May Be Aggressively Destroying the Environment, but U.S. Cities Sure Aren’t
Question: How many U.S. cities have pledged to go to 100% renewables for their sources of electricity in the next few years? What’s the most recent one? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Climate Change
Question: Approximately how many years intervened between these photographs of the Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole, one of the world’s northernmost inhabited areas? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: The melting of the ice caps …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Net Neutrality and American Democracy
Question: It’s almost certain that the FCC will repeal the net neutrality regulations, as Republican nominees dominate its leadership, but what percentage of Americans–of all political stripes–say they are against the move? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Scientists Warn Humanity
Question: In 1992, 1,700 independent scientists signed the “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity.” The letter warned that “human beings and the natural world are on a collision course” and if environmental damage was not stopped, our future was at risk. Yesterday, …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: You Can Predict the Future of the Energy Industry
Question: Who said the following, and when did he/she say it? When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Trump and Climate Change
Question: When Donald Trump takes office next January, he will join how many of the other 200+ world leaders in his belief that climate change is a hoax? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: We’re a very different …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Melting Arctic
Question: As we go into the winter season, how many degrees Fahrenheit is the arctic region above its historical average? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: The ice caps are melting at an ever-accelerating pace, and this is …
