... started burning fossil fuels heavily since the industrial revolution, and the fact that the world's population is only going to increase, this number is dauntingly enormous. Increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may alter the surface temperature through the "greenhouse" effect, which is capable of changing the ground terrain, from melting glaciers to expanding tropics and ... or water as vehicles. Climate change would change our ecology with respect to biodiversity, nutrient cycle, physical relocation, internal defence systems, and transmission dynamics within microbes. Increased c...

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... to change regional and global climate, and climate related parameters such as temperatures, precipitation, soil moisture, and sea level. Because of the large amount of fossil fuels being burned today, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have grown from about 280 parts per million in 1900, to over 370 parts per million in 1998. It is increasing at 0.4% per year and is ... year to fight global warming, says the man who negotiated the original world treaty on climate change. The U.S. pledges to make cuts in its emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide are simply too enormous...

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... protocol which is an agreement that commits agreeing countries to reduce their greenhouse gases by the year 2012 to the levels that they were at in 1990. Greenhouse gases(like carbon dioxide) are most often created as a result of burning fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas, and oil. The acceptance of the Kyoto protocol is one of two steps; in 1997 ... ...

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