5. What are five reasons for the fact that it is difficult to deal
with the problem of climate change due to global warming
caused mostly by human activities? What are four
major strategies for slowing projected climate change?
What is carbon capture and storage (CCS)? Describe
six problems associated with capturing and storing carbon
dioxide emissions.
6. List four things that governments could do to help slow
projected climate change. What are the pros and cons of
the Kyoto Protocol? What have the U.S. state of California
and the U.S. city of Portland, Oregon, done to help reduce
their greenhouse gas emissions?
7. Give two examples of what some major corporations
and some schools have done to reduce their carbon
footprints. List five ways in which you can reduce your
carbon footprint. List five ways in which we can prepare
for the possible long-term harmful effects of climate
change.
Describe how human activities have depleted ozone in the
stratosphere, and list five harmful effects of such depletion.
Describe how scientists Sherwood Roland and Mario
Molina helped to awaken the world to this threat. Describe
the relationships between higher UV levels and three types
of skin cancer. What has the world done to help reduce
the threat from ozone depletion in the stratosphere?