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Jessica Gurevitch

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Dec 16, 2020, 8:39:51 PM12/16/20

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Blackboard flummoxed me again--fortunately, the students are getting it right, and the wrong answer was incorrectly identified as the correct answer. Ah, well, I guess my brain is end-of-this-crazy-semester-fried. (Remember, this is a biology course, and ordinarily they would never hear anything at all about climate intervention.) I've now fixed it so they are graded correctly.

Here was the question with the right answer:

Geoengineering (also called climate intervention):
Answer	a. Is already solving many of the problems of climate change b. Is the proposed intentional alteration of Earth's climate to help cool the surface of our planet while carbon emissions are reduced, and includes ideas for reflecting more sunlight energy to space c. Is being implemented due to international pressure to reduce anthropogenic warming quickly d. Is some crazy idea that will never happen and cannot be taken seriously by ecologists and environmentalists

Geoengineering (also called climate intervention):

Answer

Is already solving many of the problems of climate change

Is the proposed intentional alteration of Earth's climate to help cool the surface of our planet while carbon emissions are reduced, and includes ideas for reflecting more sunlight energy to space

Is being implemented due to international pressure to reduce anthropogenic warming quickly

Is some crazy idea that will never happen and cannot be taken seriously by ecologists and environmentalists

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Jessica Gurevitch

Distinguished Professor

Department of Ecology and Evolution
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5245 USA

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