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Carla Marrero 3/22/19 Climate Change Movie Assignment

From Paris to Pittsburgh

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/watch/3681392620b4285b82eeba8745eaa d9e/

1) Were the early news reports somewhat correct? a. Not the most correct, but yes. 2) When was the Rio Summit? a. 1992 3) When was the Kyoto Protocol? a. 1997 4) When was the Climate Summer in Paris? a. 2015 5) What happened on June 1 2017? a. US withdrew from the Paris Climate Accord 6) Who is Bill Peduto? a. Mayor of Pittsburgh 7) Who was Anne Hildago? a. Span-French politician who serves as Mayor of Paris since the 2014 municipal election. 8) Who is Jerry Brown? a. American politician who served as the 34th and 39th Governor of California from 1975 to 1983 and from 2011 to 2019. He is also served as California Attorney General from 2007 to 2011. 9) What can be said about the number of renewable energy jobs in PA? a. It is growing and helping the economy. 10) What are King Tides? a. Tides in Miami that have been flooding the streets 11) Is it adaptation or mitigation that is occurring in Miami right now? a. Adaptation 12) Is salt-water inundation a serious problem? Scale of 1 – 10: a. 10! 13) Why is the limestone foundation under the Everglades part of the problem? a. Because limestone is weak in foundation and is easy to have holes I it for the salt water to sink into it 14) How many homes could be affected by possible flooding by sea level rise by the end of the century? a. 2.5 Million 15) What the hell was Ted Cruz thinking? a. He was supporting anti-climate change things 16) What did Gov. Rick Scott of FL tell the EPA to do?

a. To ban the phrases “climate change” and “global warming” from his team 17) Where is Scott Pruitt, former director of the EPA, now? a. He is now the served as the fourteenth Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 2017 to 2018. 18) What year did Orlando commit to renewable energy? a. 2017 19) How people actually ending up dying in Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico? a. 3,057 20) How did the little city, Casa Pueblo, come back so fast? a. Used renewable energy to power and save the town. 21) How can the small islands of the Caribbean help with adapting and mitigating, even though their contribution to global greenhouse gases is small? a. They can be used as a role model to teach other islands on the Caribbean how to use clean energy such as solar power. 22) Who did Iowa elect as president in 2008, 2012, and 2016? a. As a “purple” state. Obama in 2008 and 2012. And Trump in 2016. 23) How old was the Electric Co-op in Iowa? a. 107 years old. 24) Can you be conservative politically yet also a progressive when it comes to green energy? a. Yes 25) How much renewable energy does Iowa generate? a. 37% 26) %-wise, which state is #1 in wind energy? a. Iowa 27) At this point in the movie, can you be an “America First” thinker, and still not be governed by the Paris Accord? a. I believe so, yes. 28) How much can you make with a 2 year Applied Science and Engineering Degree? a. $65-70K 29) How many people are employed by renewable energy in the world? a. 9.8 Million people 30) What about the US? a. Maybe 500,000 people 31) How many more jobs are there in renewable energy compared to jobs in coal? a. More than twice compared to last year. Around 350,000 workers could be employed. 32) Who is Rob Hogg? a. The Iowa State Senator from the 33rd District. He is a democrat and has served in the Iowa Senate since 2007 after having served in the Iowa House of Representative from 2003 to 2007. 33) How has climate change affected Syria? a. There has been more droughts than usual. 34) How are wildfires in the Western US related to climate change?

a. Wildfires are a system of climate change. And California itself is consistently hot and dry. There is never an off time of dryness and heat. 35) How many people died in the CA wildfires? a. 82 people 36) Did Hollywood help build California or did oil? a. Oil and gold were the first to help build California. However, then Hollywood grew and that helped. 37) How difficult is it for California to move forward? a. Not very. California’s legislation is a lot more progressive than other states. 38) Why is the Trump administration rolling back the emission standards in CA? a. Because Trump believes climate change is a lie. 39) What city is the #1 solar city in the US? a. Los Angeles 40) What is GRID? a. General Repository for Interaction Datasets (database) 41) What is the US Climate Alliance? a. A bipartisan coalition of states and unincorporated self-governing territories in the US that are committed to upholding the objectives of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change within their borders, by achieving the US goal of reducing greenhouse gas. 42) What happened to the number of cities who participated in the US Climate Alliance after June 1 12017? a. The cities decided to become more dedicated in saving their environmental and acting out the Paris agreement stuff. 43) How does Pittsburgh of 2019 compare to that of 1979? a. It is way more conscious in saving their environment and being sustainable....