Kyoto Protocol and Global Warming
Evaluation
University of Phoenix
ECO/370
Kyoto Protocol and Global Warming Evaluation
, Global warming is well renowned as the fact that the Earth’s climate is changing all around us,
every day, and not in the best of ways, global warming is the ever-raising temperatures of the world,
from frozen tundra with permafrost beginning to melt, to the deserts where temperatures now
routinely reach near 120 degrees in the summer having near constant fire hazards in place. Global
climate change affects lives all over the planet, and not just humans but the animals that coexist in these
areas as well, in some cases they are not able to adapt fast enough and become extinct. It is often
thought that climate change only includes temperatures, however, this is entirely incorrect it also
includes harsh weather patterns, stronger storm surges, drought, and sea levels rising. In truth, the most
effective way to understand climate change is to learn about the greenhouse effect and how it affects
the Earth.
Earth’s atmosphere is a complex amalgamation of multiple substances, oxygen, carbon dioxide,
nitrogen, trace amounts of other elements and water vapor. The combination of these gases mirror the
effects of a garden greenhouse, absorbing a considerable portion of the suns energy and upon its
attempted exit bounce it right back down to continue the dispersion of its heat into our atmosphere, of
course some of this ultraviolet radiation will escape the atmosphere. Ultimately, this will end with an
increase in global temperatures. Even thought this seems like a terrible thing, the greenhouse effect is
why Earth is entirely hospitable to us.
The greatest problem with greenhouse effects is that there is not a stop gap and the
temperatures can theoretically increase until they are equal to the sun’s if the ultraviolet radiation and
its energy are not filtered away from the Earth’s surface through the atmosphere. These heat ratios can
shift incredibly fast if there is nothing done about them, to the point that organic life is not capable of
Evaluation
University of Phoenix
ECO/370
Kyoto Protocol and Global Warming Evaluation
, Global warming is well renowned as the fact that the Earth’s climate is changing all around us,
every day, and not in the best of ways, global warming is the ever-raising temperatures of the world,
from frozen tundra with permafrost beginning to melt, to the deserts where temperatures now
routinely reach near 120 degrees in the summer having near constant fire hazards in place. Global
climate change affects lives all over the planet, and not just humans but the animals that coexist in these
areas as well, in some cases they are not able to adapt fast enough and become extinct. It is often
thought that climate change only includes temperatures, however, this is entirely incorrect it also
includes harsh weather patterns, stronger storm surges, drought, and sea levels rising. In truth, the most
effective way to understand climate change is to learn about the greenhouse effect and how it affects
the Earth.
Earth’s atmosphere is a complex amalgamation of multiple substances, oxygen, carbon dioxide,
nitrogen, trace amounts of other elements and water vapor. The combination of these gases mirror the
effects of a garden greenhouse, absorbing a considerable portion of the suns energy and upon its
attempted exit bounce it right back down to continue the dispersion of its heat into our atmosphere, of
course some of this ultraviolet radiation will escape the atmosphere. Ultimately, this will end with an
increase in global temperatures. Even thought this seems like a terrible thing, the greenhouse effect is
why Earth is entirely hospitable to us.
The greatest problem with greenhouse effects is that there is not a stop gap and the
temperatures can theoretically increase until they are equal to the sun’s if the ultraviolet radiation and
its energy are not filtered away from the Earth’s surface through the atmosphere. These heat ratios can
shift incredibly fast if there is nothing done about them, to the point that organic life is not capable of
