.... resulting in death and hardship globally due to our wasteful lifestyles and saturation of carbon dioxide of our home, Earth.
...The world mostly agrees that something needs to be done about global warming and climate change. The first stumbling block, however, has been trying to get an agreement on a framework. In 1988, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was created by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meterological Organization (WMO) to assess the scientific knowledge on global warming. The IPCC concluded in 1990 that there was broad international consensus that climate change was human-induced. That report led way to an international convention for climate change, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), signed by over 150 countries at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. This section looks at this Convention and some of the main principles in it....
... Scientists believe that Global Warming will lead to a weaker Ozone layer, because as the surface temperature rises, the stratosphere (the Ozone layer being found in the upper part) will get colder, making the natural repairing of the Ozone slower. Last updated Saturday, June 08, 2002.
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While domestically, the Republicans have lead an assault against conservation, replacing dignity with greed.
Under attack are:
The Clean Air Act - enacted in 1963
The Clean Water Act - enacted first as an Water Pollution Control Act in 1972, it became The Clean Water Act in 1977
The Marine Mammal Protection Act - enacted in 1972
The Endangered Species Act - enacted in 1966
The Migratory Bird Treaty Act - enacted in 1918 after the disappearance of The Passenger Pigeon
The National Parks - brought to status by President Teddy RooseveltWhere there is leadership there is pride in our country, where there is none there is deterioration of national esteem.
