Part One: Overview Quiz

1. What is Charles Clough's professional background? *

A. A pastor with no scientific training

B. A meteorologist with a master's in atmospheric science who worked with the military

C. A politician who served in the Senate

D. An economist specializing in energy markets

2. How does Clough summarize the contrast between the pagan and biblical views of reality? *

A. Paganism is ultimate one-ism, while the Bible is ultimate two-ism

B. Both views affirm a Creator

C. Paganism affirms absolute truth while the Bible denies it

D. Neither view has ethical implications

3. According to Clough, why does the creator-creature distinction matter for ethics? *

A. Because it means humans have no responsibility for creation

B. Because it means animals should be given legal rights

C. Because it establishes that humans, made in God's image, have greater value than plants and animals

D. Because it makes ethics purely a matter of opinion

4. What is Clough's central objection to the "ninety-seven percent of scientists agree" claim? *

A. That scientists should never publish their views

B. That the figure is far too low

C. That consensus proves a claim beyond doubt

D. That he questions the study's methodology, and that science is settled by evidence rather than by polling

5. What exactly does Clough say is being disputed in the climate debate? *

A. Whether climate changes at all

B. Whether carbon dioxide exists in the atmosphere

C. Whether human fossil fuel use is the primary cause of the change

D. Whether weather can be forecast

6. Which historical periods does Clough cite as evidence that climate changed before fossil fuels? *

A. The Ice Age and the age of the dinosaurs

B. The Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age

C. The Industrial Revolution and the space age

D. Only the twentieth century

7. What evidence does Clough give that the Medieval Warm Period was genuinely warm? *

A. Written temperature records from the period

B. Satellite measurements

C. Ice core samples from Antarctica

D. Norse settlers farming in Greenland where such settlement is not possible today

8. Why does Clough say water vapor and clouds make climate modeling so difficult? *

A. Because water exists in three states with heat exchange at each transition, and clouds both cool and warm

B. Because water vapor has no effect on temperature

C. Because clouds are easy to measure and predict

D. Because water vapor is not a greenhouse gas

9. What distinction does Clough draw regarding the UN panel's reports? *

A. That the reports contain no scientific content at all

B. That the detailed chapters are more qualified than the executive summary that officials and journalists read

C. That the executive summary is written by the scientists themselves

D. That the reports are never published

10. What biblical basis does Clough give for confidence that the earth's systems are stable? *

A. The creation account alone

B. The promise of a new heavens and new earth

C. God's covenant after the flood in Genesis 8 and 9 with humanity and every living creature

D. The book of Revelation