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Global Warming Recent Developments

Traces history of issues of Greenhouse effectwas still a threat and nations needed to take
and  Global  warmingaction to negate the effects of global
warming. Kyoto Protocol, an international
There is one subject that is certain to raiseagreement to fight global warming, was born
a passionate argument in a party these daysin 1997. This protocol called for countries
and that is Global Warming. Everybody has anto reduce their emission of greenhouse gases.
opinion about it. And why not? After all ifAfter eight years of hard bargaining, and
the international action plans for reductionacrimonious debates Kyoto treaty was finally
of carbon emissions have to succeed, everyratified by 141 countries. Noteworthy among
individual needs to be involved and committedthe countries that did not ratify it were the
to  it!USA and Australia both the largest producers
of  greenhouse  gases.
It is generally believed that the earth was
covered with ice about 15000 years ago. AboutThe treaty aims to limit and cut back
7000 years ago the earth began to warm up andemission of greenhouse gases to control
the ice age came to an end. Then again fromglobal warming. It sets limits for emission
the 14th century to the 19th century largefrom 35 developed countries; developing
parts of the earth experienced harsh, coldcountries are exempted from emission limits
conditions. This period was known as theto allow them time to catch up. Under the
little ice age. In 1824 Fourier proposed thetreaty, various countries have committed to
theory that solar radiations are trapped byreduce the emissions to below their 1990
the atmosphere and reflected back to thelevels  by  2012.
earth causing the earth to warm up and that
the earth was slowly getting warm. ArrheniusMost of the countries are struggling to limit
termed it the greenhouse effect in the latethe greenhouse emissions to the levels they
19th century. In the 1950s, Callendarhad committed to; many are finding it quite
supported the theory of the greenhousetough when it comes to pushing for action
effect.while balancing domestic political pressures
and pressure from oil & gas industry. It is,
From late 20th century there was a muchhowever, heartening to note that there are
greater attention being paid to environmentalalready significant success stories coming up
issues and serious scientific activitieswhere individual companies have shown the
started for devising ways to measure globalleadership and achieved remarkable success in
temperatures and to devise betterattaining, and in some cases over attaining,
mathematical models to analyze earthstheir targets of reduction of carbon
climate. By the end of the 20th century thereemission. In USA public opinion is seen to be
was a large body of scientific opinion thatfar more decisive and assertive than the
believed that increased carbon dioxideFederal government and many states are going
emissions, caused by ever increasing use ofahead enacting legislations to limit carbon
fossil fuels, were responsible for globalemission while federal government twiddles
warming. In 1994, the United Nations Panel onthumbs.
Climate Change asserted that global warming



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