UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — Global heat likely to shatter records in next five years: UN climate report

Q1. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was set up in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization together with which one of the following UN bodies?

• A. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• B. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• C. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• D. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC)

Q2. The goal of pursuing efforts to limit the rise in global average temperature to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels was formally enshrined in which one of the following instruments?

• A. Kyoto Protocol, 1997
• B. Copenhagen Accord, 2009
• C. Paris Agreement, 2015
• D. UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, 1992

Q3. According to the WMO Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update 2026–2030, what is the probability that at least one individual year during 2026–2030 will temporarily exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels?

• A. 75%
• B. 86%
• C. 91%
• D. 100%

Q4. Reflecting the phenomenon of Arctic amplification, by approximately how many times the global average rate has the Arctic been warming since 1979, according to recent scientific assessments?

• A. About 1.5 times
• B. About twice
• C. Nearly four times
• D. About seven times

Q5. Which one of the following mechanisms is identified as the principal driver of Arctic amplification?

• A. Surface ice-albedo feedback
• B. Cloud feedback
• C. Lapse-rate feedback
• D. Planck feedback

Q6. The WMO Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update is compiled from contributions of several Global Producing Centres. Which one of the following is NOT correctly identified as one of the four Global Producing Centres contributing to the update?

1. UK Met Office
2. Barcelona Supercomputing Centre
3. Deutscher Wetterdienst
4. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), USA

• A. 1 only
• B. 3 only
• C. 4 only
• D. 2 and 4