stability of this climate has been continually compromised since the beginning of the

industrial revolution. Poor pollution controls and the ever-increasing human industrial

activity are causing the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is a phrase used to

describe the increased warming of the earth's surface and lower atmosphere due mainly

to increased levels of CO2 (carbon dioxide) as well as about a half dozen other gases.

This warming caused by the greenhouse effect is called global warming. The effects of

global warming are just starting to be realized throughout the world, "the relentless march

of billion-dollar weather events has given us a taste of what the future may hold." (Dotto,

Lydia, 2000). Global warming needs to be stopped. The Kyoto Protocol is an

international agreement on climate change that was signed in 1997 by 160 industrialized

nations. It is one of the very few global efforts to control global warming. Locally, the

government of Canada has put out Action Plan 2000 to reduce our greenhouse emissions

by 65 megatonnes by the period 2008-2012. In the following trea

was held in Buenos Aries in 1998, where the Buenos Aries Plan of Action was

oil, natural gas and coal are shifting the balance of the carbon cycle, releasing much more

(Chasmer, Ron and Perry-Globa, Pamela. Facing The Future page 308)

absorbs a different amount of heat in our atmosphere. Methane traps over 21 times more

Protocol was signed at a conference in Kyoto, Japan. This was the third such meeting and

to be much tighter and need to be properly enforced. In many areas there is little to no

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Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)