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A Pact against the Effects of Global Warming
Kesha M. Gambrell
Professor Bryce Jones
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the rising of sea levels, the retreating of glaciers world wide, and the increasing incidences of extreme weather events are all due to global warming. Global warming is pollution induced climate changes caused by excess emission of greenhouse gases into the air. ...
In 1997 former President Bill Clinton signed a treaty joining the United States and more than 150 other countries in a pact to limiting each country’s greenhouse gas emission. The pact is formally known as the Kyoto Protocol. This Protocol was designed to reduce global warming worldwide. ... It was stated in the pact that countries that did not meet their own emission targets could strike deals with those nations that do better than required, to buy the excess quota. ... Which is President Bush’s refusal to ratify and if legally possible, withdraw the signature representing the United States from the pact all together. ... This plan is President Bush’s way of showing the concern of the United States when dealing with the effects of global warming, while continuing to reject the Kyoto Protocol. ... President Bush claims that this research will help to reduce uncertainties about global warming. ... was the only country out of the 178 countries, represented in Bonn, Germany, to disagree with the pact. ... The Administration also stressed the fact that the pact would make the United States industry less competitive by forcing power companies and manufactures to adopt costly technologies. ...
In February of 2002, President Bush offered for the first time a detailed description of his plan for combating global warming.
Approximate Word count = 1285
Approximate Pages = 5.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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