Global Warming Essay, Research Paper

Did you know that the earth s climate is gradually changing due to human beings?

We take full responsibility to this accusation due to our day to day activities. These

activities alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere through the buildup of

greenhouse gases. These such gases primarily include carbon dioxide, methane, and

nitrous oxide. Our dependency on fossil fuels for energy plays a huge role on our

planet s fate. The coasts of all countries could become immersed underwater if the

polar icecaps were to melt, due to the greenhouse effect….. largely, due to us.

So what will we, as habitants of this planet, do to prevent this catastrophe?

In 1992, a few nations came together to sign the Untied Nations Framework

Convention on Climate Change, otherwise known as the UNFCCC. These

industrialized nations agreed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by the year

2000. However, such leading nations like the United States and Japan simply could

not meet this goal.

On December 11, 1997, negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol to the UNFCCC

were completed. It committed the industrialized nations to specified reductions on

the emission of six greenhouse gases. The United States had to reduce our

greenhouse gases by 7% below the 1990 levels between the years 2008-2012. The

US, only counting for 2 1/2% of the world s population, has made use of 25% of

the worlds energy resources.

While this agreement not only lowered the developed nation s emission of

greenhouse gases, plus hurting these nation s economies, the deal basically left the

developing nations completely out of it. True, these nations did not have the

technology and other luxuries that developed nations possessed; but sooner or later

these developing nations will become developed , thus contributing to the global

warming problem. And here we go all over again.

If it were up to me, I would have proposed that ALL nations cut back on

their greenhouse gas emissions. Of course, not all nations would have to cut back on

the same percent. Instead, the leading nations would cut back the earlier proposed

percent, or some percent in that vicentage, and the developing nations would cut

back on just a little. Therefor, their economy won t be damaged too badly, and also

these countries produce no where near the amount of gases that developed nations

produce.

To me, this idea is both logical and fair. True , I may not know all there is to

know about the greenhouse effect and global warming, but this idea makes since to

me. But I ll leave this one up to the professionals.