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Answers to Climate Solutions trivia questions:

Question 1. What is the fastest growing source of climate pollution in Washington State?

A: transportation 

B: agriculture 

C: Buildings

D: screaming Mariners fans

Answer: C. While transportation remains the largest source of climate pollution in Washington, emissions from buildings are growing at a faster rate than any other source of carbon pollution, with this increase largely attributable to the use of fossil gas in homes and buildings. Combusting fossil gas in homes and buildings is not only a significant contributor to climate change, but also poses significant health risks for our communities, children, and other vulnerable populations.

Question 2:  What food did opponents claim we would not have any more if we passed Washington’s 100% clean electricity bill (the Clean Energy Transformation Act) into law?

A: fruit   

B: ice cream 

C: pizza

D: Popcorn

Answer: B

Question 3: Which state has the strongest Clean Fuel Standard in the country?

A California 

B Oregon 

C Washington 

D New York 

Answer: B. In September the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission (EQC) adopted new rules, effective immediately, expanding the existing Clean Fuels Program (CFP) which is one of Oregon’s most successful policies for reducing climate pollution from the transportation sector. Previously, the program’s target was a 10% reduction in carbon intensity for fuels by 2025. The new rules for Oregon expand the existing standards and reduce the carbon intensity of transportation fuels 20% below 2015 levels by 2030 and 37% below 2015 levels by 2035. Since the CFP went into effect in 2016, the program has eliminated nearly 6 million tons of climate pollution and funneled roughly $100 million annually into the expansion of the clean fuels market, creating jobs in the clean fuels economy, and increasing production of lower-cost, low-carbon fuels and electric vehicle infrastructure.

Question 4: What is the most potent greenhouse gas?

A: Fluorinated gases 

B: carbon dioxide

C: Nitrous oxide

D: Methane

Answer: D

Question 5: How many WA state legislative seats (House (98) and Senate (49) are up for election/re-election this year? 

A all of the House and half of the Senate 

B all of the House and a third of the Senate 

C half of the House and Half of the Senate

D all of the House and all of the Senate 

Answer: A

Question 6: True or False. Climate scientists in the 1970s were saying that we were going into an Ice Age or cooler Earth.

Answer: False. Yet, this is a common opposition claim. Most peer-reviewed studies were not saying that at all. A single popular magazine article and a handful of scholars were propagating such thinking. Recently, the writer of the infamous magazine article debunked the 1975 “Cooling World” article himself at this link.

Thanks for playing! And thanks for supporting climate action in all the ways you do.