SUSTAINABILITY AND CLIMATE RISK GARP SCR EXAM LATEST ACTUAL EXAM 300 REAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+
SUSTAINABILITY AND CLIMATE RISK GARP SCR EXAM
LATEST 2026-2027 ACTUAL EXAM 300 REAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+
what are two pieces of indirect evidence that our planet is warming? -
ANSWER- 1 = ice on the planet is disappearing
2 = the oceans are warming
% of heat trapped by GHG that goes into heating the oceans -
ANSWER- 93%
what are the two causes of rising sea levels? - ANSWER- 1 = melting of
grounded ice
2 = water expands when it warms
five ways to extract climate information pre-modern measurements -
ANSWER- 1 = tree rings
2 = corals
3 = speleothems
4 = ice cores
5 = ocean sediment cores
tree rings - ANSWER- reveal climate variations in regions where trees
grow and experience seasons for the last millennium
corals - ANSWER- analysis of skeletons can yield climate conditions in
ocean over millions of years
speleothems - ANSWER- cave structures can yield estimates of climate
in nearby region over past few 100,000 years
ice cores - ANSWER- measuring chemical composition of ice (mainly
in Greenland and Antarctica) yields estimates of the climate over the
past 1M years
ocean sediment cores - ANSWER- analyzing composition of mud at the
bottom of the ocean provides information about the climate covering
10M+ years
what evidence do we have that for millions of years the climate has been
generally cooling? - ANSWER- 50M years ago, there was no permanent
ice on the planet
what are the periods of cold and warmer called that the planet cycles
through? - ANSWER- ice ages and interglacials
when did the last ice age end? - ANSWER- 10,000 years ago
holocene - ANSWER- current interglaciation period, extending from
10,000 years ago to the present on the geologic time scale
when did the temperature of the holocene peak? - ANSWER- 7,000
years ago
what is the global average temperature difference between an ice age
and an interglacial? - ANSWER- 6 C
how much faster is the average rate of warming over the last century, as
compared to coming out of the last ice age? - ANSWER- 16 times
what is the source of the earth's climate? - ANSWER- sun / visible
radiation
how much energy does the sun provide and what % of it is reflected
back into space by clouds? - ANSWER- 340 W/m^2
30% reflected back by clouds
what is the amount of energy radiated by an object determined by and
what is the relationship? - ANSWER- temperature
as temperature increases, energy radiation increases
most important rule of the earth's climate - ANSWER- energy reaching
earth from the sun must be equal to the energy the earth radiates back to
space
this determines the temperature of the climate system
greenhouse gases - ANSWER- gases in the atmosphere that absorb
infrared radiation (heat) and reduce the power of the earth to return
energy to space
greenhouse effect - ANSWER- as the mass of GHG in our atmosphere
increases, more heat is trapped, which leads to higher temperatures
list some non-problematic molecules in the atmosphere - ANSWERnitrogen, oxygen, inert gas argon
list some problematic molecules in the atmosphere - ANSWER- water
vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone
what is the primary cause of carbon dioxide in the environment and how
has this been scientifically proven? - ANSWER- combustion of fossil
fuels
we can tell by the isotopic composition of the atmosphere that the
majority of the CO2 is consistent with the isotopes produced via fossil
fuel combustion