Exam 18: The Global Environment

The social cost of carbon is

When there are substantial differences among sources and technologies in terms of the costs of reducing greenhouse gasses, the use of __________ is more cost effective than the use of _____________.

Two incentive based programs that might be considered to control GHG are

One of the biggest impacts of global climate change will be in forestry and agriculture. The agricultural impacts will hit ____________ harder.

In recent years, the most important factors in reducing CO₂ emissions have been

The rate of heating due to global warming is expected to be about ______ per decade.

When discussing economic adaptation, examples of adaptation include

Calculations of the social cost of carbon can be used to

Current incentive-based programs for reducing greenhouse gases includes

In order to preserve biodiversity, the United States has passed the Endangered Species Act. Although this act has had some success in preserving individual endangered species, it is relatively ineffective at preserving _________, because this requires preservation of a relationship among a large number of species.

The United States and other countries have a long history of using __________. This approach will increase the cost of controlling Greenhouse Gasses.

Using _______to control greenhouse gasses are likely to be more expensive than _____.

Global plans for emissions reductions require that we follow a strategy for assigning responsibility for emission reduction. If global policy assigns carbon emissions reductions according to total emissions, the largest reductions, as of 2020, would have to come from __________.