Global Warming Literacy Test (Al Gore, conspiracy, environmentalists, Obama)

[Sci Fi Fan]

Interesting forum post of a quiz that any self educated, self righteous "climate change denier" should take.

I say this because most of you guys would horribly fail a high school honors physics test, and wouldn't even try to address any scientific question...unless if that question has political implications, in which case you suddenly, magically become experts on the matter. Suspicious?

StarDestroyer.Net BBS • View topic - Just for fun: global warming literacy quiz

1. Why did scientists first devise the "greenhouse effect" theory?

1. To justify increased spending on environmental research and technologies.
2. To explain why the Earth is not mostly frozen over.
3. As an excuse to oversimplify highly complex and unpredictable environmental patterns.
4. To explain the so-called "hockey stick" pattern, which showed global temperatures rising in the late 20th century.
5. They are being controlled by a conspiracy of liberals, environmentalists, and UN leaders whose shared goal is the destruction of America.
6. It was an accidental mathematical prediction deriving from unrelated research, and researchers seized upon it.

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2. Who first publicly argued that human industrial activity could contribute significantly to the greenhouse effect?

1. Al Gore in 2006, in his documentary called "An Inconvenient Truth".
2. Stephen Hawking in 1993 at Cambridge, UK.
3. Linus Torvalds in 1991 at Helsinki, Finland.
4. The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) at the UN, in 1988.
5. Svante Arrhenius in 1896 at Stockholm, Sweden.

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3. The mechanism underlying the greenhouse gas theory has been extensively modified since its simplistic origins. How does the present-day "greenhouse effect" theory work?

1. Greenhouse gases are theorized to trap some of the Sun's rays, so that they cannot be reflected back to space.
2. Greenhouse gases are theorized to block some of the infrared radiation from the Earth's surface, keeping it from escaping into space.
3. Greenhouse gases are theorized to block some of the infrared radiation from the Earth's surface and atmosphere, keeping it from escaping into space.
4. Greenhouse gases are theorized to regulate atmospheric temperatures through complex mathematical models in which they alter the electromagnetic frequency of solar radiation as it bombards the Earth, thus changing its energy content.
5. The "greenhouse effect" theory is a fraud. It does not work.
6. None of the above.

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4. Researchers have conducted experiments to determine that even a one third reduction in the concentration of CO2 in a gas chamber would make only 0.4% difference in infrared radiation transmission. Therefore, they concluded that changes in atmospheric CO2 concentration would make no significant difference.

1. The above statement is true, and proves that man-made CO2 makes no difference.
2. The above statement is true, but the researchers erred in their methods and conclusions.
3. The above statement is true, but we have not heard about it because the mainstream media is not interested in reporting the story.
4. The above statement is partially true, but it contains numerous misrepresentations.
5. The above statement is false. No one is certain who first began spreading this story.

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5. The most important piece of evidence for the "greenhouse effect" theory is:

1. The IPCC's "hockey stick" graph of temperature increases in recent decades.
2. The melting of glaciers.
3. Unusually violent and unpredictable weather patterns in recent years, such as hurricanes.
4. Meterological data dating back to the early 20th century.
5. Gas radiation absorption experiments.
6. NASA's detailed modeling of atmospheric patterns conducted in the 1980s.

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6. Ice core sampling data has shown that ancient geological warming periods at the ends of ice ages began before sharp CO2 increases in the atmosphere. Typically, they began about 800 years earlier. In short, when the ice ages ended, the warming began before the CO2 increase, not after.

1. The statement above is true, and indicates that CO2 was not the trigger for past warming periods. However, this does not disprove CO2 greenhouse gas theory.
2. The statement above is true, and indicates that CO2 was not the trigger for past warming periods. This disproves CO2 greenhouse gas theory.
3. The statement above is partially true, but we lack the precision to be so accurate with our time estimates of such ancient events, so global warming deniers are taking advantage of measurement uncertainty in order to force a preferred conclusion.
4. The statement above is a popular mythology. The story was originally manufactured by conservative bloggers and took on a life of its own through the Internet.

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Suggested Reading:

• http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar ... #Responses (common AGW arguments and responses)
• The Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Effect (a brief summary of the history of the theory from the American Institute of Physics, with links to more detailed information)

EDIT: slightly improved the wording of the questions, added a few more false answers to make guessing more difficult, and added one more question. Also added links to suggested reading material.

Let me know how well you do.

[delongchampsnoir]

What difference does it make?

[pknopp]

Hardly anyone denies that climates change. Why do people rail against ghosts?

[Colorado Rambler]

Originally Posted by pknopp

Hardly anyone denies that climates change. Why do people rail against ghosts?

Well, that was a disingenuous reply if I've ever seen one. There's plenty of folks on this board who refuse to accept that the climate is changing right before their eyes. A few admit it's changing - but that's just natural they say. And a large perportion still think climate change is a fairy tale invented by lefties with their own agenda to push.

So, which group do YOU fall into?

[pknopp]

Originally Posted by Colorado Rambler

Well, that was a disingenuous reply if I've ever seen one. There's plenty of folks on this board who refuse to accept that the climate is changing right before their eyes.

Where. Anyone here disagree that climates change?

A few admit it's changing - but that's just natural they say. And a large perportion still think climate change is a fairy tale invented by lefties with their own agenda to push.

So, which group do YOU fall into?

Climates change. Always have, always will.

[hawkeye2009]

Originally Posted by Sci Fi Fan

Interesting forum post of a quiz that any self educated, self righteous "climate change denier" should take.

I say this because most of you guys would horribly fail a high school honors physics test, and wouldn't even try to address any scientific question...unless if that question has political implications, in which case you suddenly, magically become experts on the matter. Suspicious?

StarDestroyer.Net BBS • View topic - Just for fun: global warming literacy quiz



Let me know how well you do.

Once again, a liberal claiming the exclusive "high ground" of science while showing absolute contempt and disregard for the scientific method and the strength of randomized, blinded, prospective studies.

Liberals simply embarrass themselves by promoting such idiocy......................... again.

The CULT of global warming KNOWS that man made global warming is true, in spite of no definitive evidence to support this premise. This, of course, is the opposite of science. However, never point this out to a liberal, who is busying worshiping at the altar of man made global warming and ignoring any contrary evidence.

[ovcatto]

Originally Posted by hawkeye2009

Once again, a liberal claiming the exclusive "high ground" of science while showing absolute contempt and disregard for the scientific method and the strength of randomized, blinded, prospective studies.

...he notes without citation.

[Seabass Inna Bun]

Originally Posted by Colorado Rambler

Well, that was a disingenuous reply if I've ever seen one. There's plenty of folks on this board who refuse to accept that the climate is changing right before their eyes. A few admit it's changing - but that's just natural they say. And a large perportion still think climate change is a fairy tale invented by lefties with their own agenda to push.

So, which group do YOU fall into?

Perhaps he thinks it can't possibly be due to greenhouse gas emissions because we use magic carbon dioxide of a sort that doesn't trap heat.

[lizjo]

Originally Posted by Sci Fi Fan

Interesting forum post of a quiz that any self educated, self righteous "climate change denier" should take.

I say this because most of you guys would horribly fail a high school honors physics test, and wouldn't even try to address any scientific question...unless if that question has political implications, in which case you suddenly, magically become experts on the matter. Suspicious?

StarDestroyer.Net BBS • View topic - Just for fun: global warming literacy quiz



Let me know how well you do.

You dis-invited people to take your silly quiz by insulting anyone who doesn't have your particular view of things. So, no thanks.
By the way, were you in honors physics in high school and was that last year?

[Kracer]

You best lower your standards as many people who voted for Obama have no idea who Obama's VP is, let alone this questionaire.