Climate Change: Impacts and Variability

What is one of the most familiar phenomena of climate variability that people experience?

Which event in 1993 caused severe economic damage due to precipitation-driven floods?

• Upper Mississippi River drainage basin

• Bangladesh floods

• Western United States droughts

• Arctic ice melting

What has been happening to climate reference glaciers for 36 consecutive years?

• Losing ice

• Gaining ice

• Staying the same

• Melting and refreezing

What is one of the main causes of the rapid climate change observed in recent decades?

• Burning of fossil fuels

• Natural processes like El Niño

• Thermal expansion

• Seasonal cycles

Which region is warming at least twice as fast as the global average?

• The Arctic

• The Western United States

• The upper Mississippi River drainage basin

• Bangladesh

What steps will you take to reduce your ecological footprint, and prevent climate change?