• Interprets the history and technology of pottery-making in North Carolina through exhibits and educational programming
• Acquaints visitors with the locations and offerings of pottery shops around the state
• Preserves a collection of North Carolina pottery and related artifacts
• Sponsors research pertaining to the history of pottery making in this state

• DO remember pottery will remain hotter for longer
• DO avoid subjecting to sudden changes in temperature.
• DO warm to room temperature after removing from refrigerator.
• DON'T preheat the oven before baking with this dish.
• DON'T heat pottery on a stovetop burner.
• DON'T put pottery on any open flame or directly on a heat source like a hot plate
• DO Microwave with care.
• DO keep your grill heat source least 2½" from the closest edge of your pottery
• DO place pottery items taken from a hot oven onto dry, room temperature surfaces- A wood trivet is ideal.
• DO wait for your leftovers to cool to room temperature before putting them away in the refrigerator.
• DO not put a hot pottery piece directly into cold water.

This Global Warming Awareness 2007 article is aiming to aware everybody of the danger we are facing in the future. Hope that by providing this articles, it will create an awareness to everybody and will help to minimize the impact of global warming which in return will create a better future for our childrens.

Global warming is the observed increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation into the future.

An increase in global temperatures can in turn cause other changes, including a rising sea level and changes in the amount and pattern of precipitation. These changes may increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as floods, droughts, heat waves, hurricanes, and tornados. Other consequences include higher or lower agricultural yields, glacier retreat, reduced summer streamflows, species extinctions and increases in the ranges of disease vectors. Warming is expected to affect the number and magnitude of these events; however, it is difficult to connect particular events to global warming. Although most studies focus on the period up to 2100, even if no further greenhouse gases were released after this date, warming (and sea level) would be expected to continue to rise since CO2 has a long average atmospheric lifetime.

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