The environment of planet earth is heavily dependent on a stable climate. The
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 treatise an attempt will be
made to isolate and explain the factors that are contributing to global warming as well as
the steps which need to be taken to put an end to this wholesale destruction of planet
earth on the part of its only inhabitants who have the means to protect it, human beings.
Furthermore, the greenhouse effect will be explained in detail, the effects of global
warming locally and globally and efforts to control global warming. Global warming is a
problem which must be solved before it results in permanent global environmental
(http://www.climatechange.gc.ca/English/actions/what_are/federal.shtml)
"All life on earth relies on the greenhouse effect – without it, the planet wou...