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31 Questions

How will sea level rise be distributed across the globe?

How much rain falls on the Earth each year?

What would the pH of rainwater be if carbon dioxide in the atmosphere doubled?

How much plastic settles to the bottom of the oceans each year?

How much garbage goes into the Pacific Ocean every year?

How could humans alter storm intensity or direction other than cloud seeding?

How does the influence of clouds on climate vary with height?

How can we calculate the total water mass that falls during a flood?

Which geological processes will destroy plastic?

How much of Earth's forested land is currently protected from logging/deforestation?

Is there geological evidence that the moon once collided with the Earth?

How does the lifetime of methane vary in the atmosphere?

What are the relative contributions of planets to the Milankovitch Cycles?

How will increased $\ce{CO2}$ affect forests and other vegetative areas?

What are the different hardness scales?

Is Zealandia really big enough to be called a continent?

Do solar storms affect Earth's weather?

What is the finest horizontal grid spacing that Eulerian grid-cell air-dispersion models should use?

How are critical loads of nitrogen deposition on eco-regions determined?

Which crops are especially sensitive to atmospheric ozone?

What is the significance of the “super historic” rainfall for July 2015 in southern California?

Why don't weather forecast models normally take solar eclipses into account?

What percentage of cumulonimbus clouds create lightning?

What meteorological factors contribute to springtime Trans-Pacific air-pollution events?

How do we calculate if a meteoroid will completely burn up in the atmosphere?

What's the minimum number of days needed for reporting a “monthly average” of daily satellite retrievals?

Is there any link between the weekly human cycle and weather?

How long do geysers typically stay active in Yellowstone?

How is it determined whether an air pollutant is “hazardous”?

How can we estimate the amount of sediment that traveled downstream during the California flood?