The build-up of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere has been traced back to the Industrial Revolution, when we started to burn more fossil fuels. These fuels, which are burned to run automobiles, heat buildings, and power factories are responsible for about 98% of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, 24% of methane emissions, and 18% of nitrous oxide emissions. ... It calls for reduced fossil fuel emissions by the year 2010. ... This is a real shame, considering our country emits one-quarter of the world's fossil fuels. ...

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Carbon dioxide, which is emitted largely by combustion of fossil fuels, is the most influential human-made greenhouse gas. ... In 1997,160 nations reached an agreement concerning the use of fossil fuels and the emission of CO into the earths atmosphere. ...

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These treaties that protect antarctica clearly helps with the effort to help climate change because these treaties make it illegal for oil companies to drill for oil and fossil fuels their. Fossil fuels and greenhouse gases have always been linked to climate change and global warming and even though scientists believe they are to blame for global warming, not having them in Antarctica drilling not only helps with the wildlife there but also slows the melting of the ice caps. ...

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It is industry freely burning fossil fuels to make a profit, and about the fact that every person on the earth requires energy, a clean source for which does not yet exist, or has not been implemented because of the tight grip governments and corporations hold on their stake in energy (fossil fuels), on which they know every person is dependant. ... These figures are not consistent with a natural trend, and, when one considers the tens of thousands of years in which humans have inhabited the earth, and that humans have really only started burning fossil fuels heavily since the industrial r...

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The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement created by the United Nations. Its goal is for developed countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 5.2% below 1990 levels, by 2012. As of August 30, 2002, 89 countries have ratified the Protocol. This includes 18 developed countrie...

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The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement created by the United Nations. Its goal is for developed countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 5.2% below 1990 levels, by 2012. As of August 30, 2002, 89 countries have ratified the Protocol. This includes 18 developed countrie...

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The problem: Emissions of greenhouse gases have increased dramatically in the last century through fossil fuel burning and land-use changes. ... Developed countries, home to 20 percent of the world's people, are responsible for about 63 percent of net carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning and land use changes since 1900. ...

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These greenhouse gases result from human activities like fossil fuel burning, and deforestation. ... The various causes ranged from climate to fuels. ... Carbon dioxide and fossil fuel are at high levels. ...

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"In the face of opposition from a strong fossil fuel lobby, he (Chrétien) moved forward with the long term interests of Canada and the globe in mind-, said Jennifer Morgan, director of the World Wild Life Fund referring to Chrétien's victory. ...

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