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Article: Global Warming and Ozone Layer Depletion: STS Issues for Social Studies Classrooms.
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- Social Education
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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"THAT'S DEPRESSING!" remarked a preservice teacher about the likely consequences of China and India achieving the energy-intensive lifestyle of the United States. She had just been looking at the record of average surface temperatures of the Earth. The year 1998 was the warmest since reliable temperature records have been kept, and the twentieth year in a row in which the average global surface temperature was higher than the 119-year average. The next year, 1999, was the fifth warmest on record; the six warmest years on record have occurred in the last decade.(1)
If the global warming trend continues, the results could be depressing indeed: melting polar ice ...
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