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What you need to know: What is Global Warming?

Is Nuclear Power the Answer?. What you need to know: What is Global Warming? How do our energy choices affect the environment? What are the advantages and disadvantages of Nuclear Power?. Questions: Are you in favour of nuclear power? Why? 2. Why is global warming a bad thing?. .

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What you need to know: What is Global Warming?

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  1. Is Nuclear Power the Answer? • What you need to know: • What is Global Warming? • How do our energy choices affect the environment? • What are the advantages and disadvantages of Nuclear Power? • Questions: • Are you in favour of nuclear power? Why? • 2. Why is global warming a bad thing? 

  2. Carbon dioxide traps heat energy in the atmosphere • The more CO2 there is in the atmosphere, the warmer the atmosphere gets Date

  3. As the atmosphere warms up: • polar ice-caps and glaciers melt

  4. sea levels rise

  5. habitats for many plants and animals are destroyed Adele penguins Polar bears Ice fish

  6. Burning fossil fuels increases the amount of CO2in the atmosphere • Nuclear fuel does not produce any CO2

  7. Biofuels do not add any more CO2 to the atmosphere... • ... because they are made from plants, which remove CO2 from the atmosphere as they photosynthesise • But, growing biofuels uses up land which could be used to grow food

  8. To Do: • Read through the Yes Please? No Thanks? worksheet  • Cut up the sheet and rearrange into two lists: • points in favour, and... • points against • nuclear power 

  9. The case FOR nuclear power

  10. The case AGAINST nuclear power

  11. Who is in favour of building new nuclear power stations? • Who is against? • Who has changed their mind during this lesson? • How can we make sure we are making the right decisions about things like this? • What should we do if decisions about science are not black and white?

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