Pioneers and Discoveries of Climate Science Quiz

Question 1

Which 19th-century female scientist, whose work was long overlooked, first identified that CO2 could cause global warming?

A Ada Lovelace

B Marie Curie

C Eunice Newton Foote

D Rosalind Franklin

Question 2

This Swedish scientist, whose namesake is the 'Arrhenius equation', calculated the earth's temperature sensitivity to CO2 in 1896?

A Carl Sagan

B Anders Celsius

C Linus Pauling

D Svante Arrhenius

Question 3

Which oceanographer and climate scientist was the first to establish the 'Keeling Curve' to track rising CO2 levels?

A Robert Ballard

B Charles David Keeling

C Jacques Cousteau

D Sylvia Earle

Question 4

This famous astronomer and planetary scientist warned Congress about the greenhouse effect in the 1980s?

A Carl Sagan

B Stephen Hawking

C Neil deGrasse Tyson

D Brian Cox

Question 5

Which NASA climate scientist famously testified to the U.S. Senate in 1988 about the reality of human-induced global warming?

A Kip Thorne

B Michio Kaku

C James Hansen

D Bill Nye

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