Tyee Poll: How Well Do You Know Your Climate Change Numbers?
The Paris COP-21 climate talks this December will bring together global leaders to negotiate greenhouse gas reductions and limit the severity of climate change.
Internationally renowned author and expert Tim Flannery says LINKED TEXT that even the European Union's recent commitment to a 40 per cent emissions reduction by 2030 is insufficient to avoid a catastrophic temperature increase of more than two degrees Celsius.
(Find a Tyee interview with Flannery here.)Canadian provinces and municipalities are increasingly taking a leadership role on climate action. But resource intensive countries such as Canada and Australia remain some of the highest per-capita emitters in the world, and face increasing pressure to demonstrate substantive action.
Tyee readers: how well do you know your climate change numbers?
Thanks for taking this week’s poll. Here are responses so far, and the correct answers:
To avoid a two-degree temperature rise, what percentage of known fossil fuel reserves needs to stay in the ground?
CORRECT ANSWER: 80%
If human caused carbon emissions continue at their current level, what year will mark the point-of-no-return for a temperature increase of more than two degrees Celsius?
CORRECT ANSWER: 2028
