Global Warming

Global Warming

Global warming is issue that is becoming increasingly prevalent in today's society. Awareness of its possible implications and its frightening growth rate have reached a point where global warming has caused many changes in the way we live. Efforts to combat global warming have taken place on all levels of society. Individuals attempt to reduce their energy consumption, corporations implement company wide guidelines to help reduce greenhouse gases and countries have combined together to analyze this issue and develop a plan of action.

The term "global warming", is used to describe the average increase in the Earths atmospheric temperature due to human activity. According to the UNFCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change):

"The principal reason for the mounting thermometer is a century and a half of industrialization: the burning of ever-greater quantities of oil, gasoline, and coal, the cutting of forests, and the practice of certain farming methods."

What this industrialization has done has increased