REVIEW SHEET

The Midterm and Final exams will consist of an essay question and short answer questions.  Students must bring a blue book to the exam (penalty:  5 points) and a pen - - use of a pencil (deduction of 5 points)

The samples below provide you with the kinds of questions you might find on the exam.

MIDTERM EXAM (March 6)

Sample Short Answer:.

difference between global warming and climate change

techniques used by deniers of human-induced climate change to make their case

major contribution Charles Keeling made regarding the science of climate change

cause(s) and threat of sea level rise

Kyoto Protocol

Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency (2007)

Sample Essay:

Why should Americans be concerned about climate change?

Why is climate change controversial in the U.S. but not to the same degree in Europe?

How has the clash between science and politics affected the issue of climate change?

Why has it been difficult for American policy-makers to achieve cooperaton to address the problem of climate change? 

FINAL EXAM (May 3, 4-5 pm)

Sample Short Answer:

compare US and Canadian public opinion on climate change

relate the notion of "laboratories of democracy" to the role of states and climate change

how insurance companies are responding to climate change (3 examples)

American public opinion on climate change

precautionary principle

3 reasons why President George W. Bush withdrew from the Kyoto Protocal

3 reasons why "deniers of human-caused climate change" take that position

Global Climate Coalition

position of Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and Tea Party identifiers on the primary cause of climate change

how the news media frames the climate change issue

Sample Essay:

How has the structure of the US political system (separation of powers, checks and balances, federalism) affected the climate change policy-making process?

You have been recruited by President Obama to organize a nationally televised debate between a  climate scientist who argues that climate change is human-induced and a Congressional opponent of the position that climate change is caused by human actities.  Describe the debate.

Explain why you believe that the federal government OR the states OR business and industry would do a better job resolving the climate change issue