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Global Warming: If You Can't Stand the Heat
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Baird, Stephen L. – Technology Teacher, 2005
Global warming is the progressive, gradual rise of the earth's average surface temperature, thought to be caused in part by increased concentrations of "greenhouse" gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere. According to the National Academy of Sciences, the Earth's temperature has risen by about one degree Fahrenheit in the past century, with accelerated…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Natural Disasters, Ecological Factors, World Problems
A Global Need, a Global Resource Nuclear Power and the New Millennium: In Contrast to the 25 Billion Tons of Carbon Dioxide Emitted into the Atmosphere Each Year as Fossil Fuel Waste, the Spent Fuel Produced Yearly from All the World's Reactors Would Fit inside a Two-Story Structure Built on a Basketball Court
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Baird, Stephen L. – Technology Teacher, 2004
The technological literacy standards were developed to act as a beacon for educators to guide them in their quest to develop a population of technically literate citizens who possess the skills, abilities, and knowledge necessary to actively and constructively participate in the democratic, technologically dependent society of the United States.…
Descriptors: Nuclear Energy, Science and Society, Conservation (Environment), Technological Advancement