Short Global-Warming-Reset Quiz

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Short Global-Warming-Reset Quiz

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Editorial Note = Much of the following information was assembled by Yours Truly when he was performing volunteer fundraising for the United Nations Environment Programme ("UNEP") at the personal request of the United Nations Under-Secretary General for the Environment.

1. Is convincing decision makers and the public that global warming/climate change is man-made merely “getting to first base” in the struggle to take effective action? Are expense, competition, and international cooperation some of the additional barriers?

2. What was the Kyoto Protocol?

3. After international agreement was reached on the Kyoto Protocol, how many years remained in the Clinton Administration during which President Clinton refused to submit the Kyoto Protocol to the Senate for ratification?

4. Why did President Clinton refuse to ever submit the Kyoto Protocol to the Senate for ratification?

5. How did the European countries view the Kyoto Protocol?

6. Is it ironic that European governments viewed the Kyoto Protocol as a way of convincing their citizens to unknowingly approve of sending massive aid to Russia (so that it would not slip back into another Cold War) as payment for “pollution rights” while Russia, which was the last country that as a practical matter could approve the Kyoto Protocol and provide the necessary number of approving countries to put it into effect, was refusing for more than a year to approve it because President Putin was extorting additional money from Europe on the grounds that global warming was beneficial to Russia because it increased the agricultural growing season in Siberia?

7. Did Europe’s “cap and trade” system have any effect on carbon emissions?

8. Why did Senate Democrats kill President Obama’s “cap and trade” proposal?

9. Whenever we have discussed global warming in the past, Yours Truly has always asked whether anyone is in favor of invading China militarily to prevent them from constructing coal-fired electric plants at the rate of one/day -- nobody has ever responded affirmatively, but has anyone changed her/his mind?

10. Is it likely that there will ever be a solution to global warming that will be adopted by all of the world’s nations unless that solution involves an energy source that is cheaper than carbon fuels?

11. What was the “hydrogen economy” that was trumpeted by the second President Bush and others?

12. What was the “hydrogen highway” in Europe? In California?

13. Why did President Obama turn his back on Europe and California, and take the U.S. down the dead-end road of battery-powered cars, rather than hydrogen-powered cars?

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