From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 9, Round 3 - Science - Global Warming   
   >   
   > 1. The graph of average global temperature over the last 1,000   
   >    years, showing a sudden rise starting at the beginning of the   
   >    Industrial Revolution, is often described in terms of what   
   >    sports-related item?   
      
   Hockey stick   
      
   > 2. The 2009 leak of email messages from the Climatic Research   
   >    Unit of the University of East Anglia sparked controversy when   
   >    climate-change deniers claimed they showed that researchers   
   >    were manipulating climate data.  What was this potential scandal   
   >    dubbed in the press?   
      
   Climategate   
      
   > 3. Climatologists derive a record of historical global average   
   >    temperatures going back centuries by analysing two main sources   
   >    of information.  Name either one.   
      
   Deontochronlogy   
      
   > 5. Name the place where this region contains the next-largest amount   
   >    of the world's frozen fresh water, after the Antarctic, is found.   
   >    It is also of great concern for climate-change researchers,   
   >    as the worst-case scenario of a total melt of this ice alone   
   >    would raise the sea level by 23 feet (7 m).   
      
   Greenland   
      
   > 6. Which gas emitted by livestock (e.g. cows and sheep) is a major   
   >    greenhouse gas?  It potentially contributes more yearly to   
   >    global warming than all cars, trucks, and other means of   
   >    transportation combined.   
      
   Methane   
      
   > 10. A 1997 protocol is the first agreement between nations to   
   >    mandate reductions in greenhouse gases.  It is named after what   
   >    city, where the treaty was adopted?   
      
   Kyoto   
      
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