Kyoto_Protocol_and_Global_Warming

Global Warming has been a major concern in today's world political arena. The concern of having Earth's surface temperature increasing from to greenhouse gases that are produced by humans burning fossil fuels may have bring diasterious climate changes throughout the world. scientific evidence has suggested seven drastic global changes. The first major changes will be seen in temperature changes throughout the world. With further global imbalances due to the burning of fossil fuels Earth's temperature may "increase a further 1.8-6.3 degree Fahrenheit by the year 2100" (Pitzl and Stewart). The warming of the temperature will cauuse glaciers and snow to melt scientific predictions state "between one third and one half of existing mountain glacier mass could disappear within the next one hundred years" (Pitzl and Stewart). The melting of the glaciers and snow will raise the sea level as much as "6 inches to three feet more by 2100" (Pirzl and Stewart). As a domino effect the rising sea level will cover more and more coastland as the ice starts of melt in the polar ice caps. The risinng sea water will cover coastal cities as well as endanger "saltwater marshes, mangroves, wetlands, coral reefs and river deltas" (Pirzl and Stwart). This domino effect will continue to threaten the Earth's forests as we will "experience a large-scale loss of trees" (Pirzl and Stwart). All of these changes are correlated with an increase of exetrme weather around the world, if conditions continue we will see an increase of storms, floods and extreme droughts in larger areas of the world. All of this changes leads to the negative impact on human health, extreme weather conditions shall lead to tornados, extended dry seasons and the spread of dieases that will threaten hunan life all over the planet. One of the major disagreements among the scientific community if wheither global warming is actually created by the burning of fossil fuels. There is scientific evidence that there was a significant rise in global warming in the 1930s to the 1940s up to the 1970s. This global warming is suggested to be a natural occuring geologic process due to changes in the ocean's circulation and humans are not a factor. The debate contines to rage among scientists who argue for the reason for Earth's global warming. Their argument suggests that just because the amount of greenhouse gasses have increased and the Earth is continuing to warm up does not mean the two events are in correlation to each other nor does it mane one is causing the other to change. Either way it should be agreed upon that conserving natural resources for future use and reduced polution are ideals that should be accepted by both sides of the scientific arena. The U.S. Position on the Kyoto Protocol B. The Kyoto Protocol sets a standard of information to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The protocol was established to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases that produced by burning fossil fuels by every nation in the world. The long term goal of UNFCCC is to establish a world treaty in which every nation would agree to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere causing global warming. By reducing the consumption of fossil fuels, nations are able to limit their emission levels of greenhouse gases thus preventing the dangerous anthropogentic interference of the Earth's atmospheric conditions. These terms are seemly easy to accept but there has been much dispute over the responsibilities that the United States should share in this treaty. Since the United States is the World's leading producer of greenhouse gasses, the World looks at the United States to make changes in order to limit it's emissions of greenhouse gasses, but yet the United States has ordered developing nations to follow strict guild lines in greenhouse gases emissions and yet the United States has failed to sign the treaty stating that the treaty stands to limit the US economic growth. The United States has declined to sign the treaty, and yet expects other developing nations to do their part in the conservation of fossil fuels and deduction of greenhouse gas emissions. This seems to set a series of double standards that the United States has expected upon the rest of the world, especially attempting to enforce regulations of developing nations around the world while the United States still stands as the World's leading producer of pollution. Since studies have shown that the United States is the World's largest greenhouse gases, we contribute as the largest problem on the planet, we are the main cause of this problem, but have not accepted to be the largest resolution of it. Since the United States contributes to so much of the gases that cause global warming, if the United States does not participate in the regulatory reduction of greenhouse gases that cause global warming the Kyoto Protocol cannot succeed without the United States participating in the treaty. Even without signing the treaty the United States still expects developing countries to follow the guild lines of greenhouse gases reductions this may potentially become a devastating impact on the economies of smaller developing nations. Developing nations have to invest larger amounts of money to invest in expensive technologies to reduce greenhouse gases, this will in turn raise their production cost of material goods which will effect their exported products in the global market. While the United States stands as the country that has the most to lose out of this treaty, the United States also has the technology and funds to make the greatest difference in the world. The United States stands as the pivotal point in this fight to save the planet, optimistically speaking, the people of the United States have started to recognize the drastic negative impact that they have on the world's environment, thus grassroots organizations have acknowledged the importance of conserving the natural resources of the planet, as well as large corporations have started taking steps in the right directions to become more efficient and green.