Global Warming Essay -- Environmental Global Climate Change

Global Warming In the February 1st edition of the New York Times, journalist Andrew C. Revkin discusses the rising threat of world-wide warming, and more importantly, the disagreement between various nations and institutions upon the definition of dangerously high global warming. Revkins article, titled Deciding How Much Global Warming Is besides Much, brings to light the various failed attempts at creating a barrier at which industrialized countries (the main producers of the greenhouse gasses which result in global warming) will cut the mercantile establishment of harmful gasses into the atmosphere. Revkin also discusses how upcoming events, conferences reports will hopefully solve this problem.The initial proposal for controlling global warming was signed over 11 age ago, in these proposal 193 countries agreed to cut human interference with the environment, if the environment were to reach a level of certain danger. However, within this treaty there is no specific definition o f danger. This lack of a clear description of danger has led to one failed conference, Kyoto, and hundreds of countries, scientists, and policymakers to attempt an agreement on the level of damage caused by global warming. Recently, many countries have requested a definition of unacceptable risk by measuring and comparing the change in average temperature. The European Union has responded to these requests by agreeing upon the raise in temperature of 2.5 degrees or beyond as being far too da...