1. Why is the Kaneohe Bay a prime location for studying and creating super coral?
(a) The coral has never suffered from bleaching.
(b) It had been a sewage dumping ground but the reef started to revive on its own.
(c) The coral population has only continued to grow.
(d) It is filled with coral reefs.

2. What idea did Lackner and his friend Wendt come up with?
(a) Ireland.
(b) Ten billion years.
(c) Humans are not very intelligent.
(d) Auxons.

3. What would Lackner and Wendt’s invention do?
(a) It would create solar panels to power the world and scrub carbon from the atmosphere.
(b) It would send mankind to another planet.
(c) It would turn carbon dioxide to stone in a matter of days.
(d) It would shoot small diamond particles into the stratosphere.

4. What is it called when the rock from underground is brought up to meet the carbon dioxide, rather than the other way around?
(a) Enhanced weathering.
(b) Chemical weathering.
(c) Enhanced scrubbing.
(d) Chemical scrubbing.

5. After a week with Gates, how does Kolbert feel?
(a) Nervous.
(b) Inspired.
(c) Angry.
(d) Sad.

Short Answer Questions

1. The latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, showed that the majority of possibilities for keeping climate temperatures down require what?

2. How far underground would carbon dioxide be injected?

3. Lackner realized back in the 1970s what is now well-known that the world is decades away from having what kind of working reactor?

4. By the time 2016’s global bleaching event ended in 2017, what percentage of the Great Barrier Reef was affected?

5. Why do people in Asia not want to buy Asian carp from the U.S.?

(see the answer key)

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