Positive political change for greenhouse emissions reduction

2005 – Positive political change for greenhouse emissions reduction

Harsh predictions for Earth’s future climate if changes are not made
News agency Workers International reports that humans are destroying the Earth at an alarming rate and therefore predicts failures of nature’s check and balancing system that may result in huge desertification on land masses as well as almost endless dead zones in the oceans. In corroboration of this statement the Atlantic conveyor current seems to shut down and warm Northern European borders to such a degree that fishing stocks in the region are noticeably diminished.
The signing of the Kyoto Protocols Agreement
2005 is marked by what is perhaps the single most important political act relative to climate change and global warming to take place in history. This is the Kyoto treaty taking effect. The set of protocols binding developed and developing nations throughout the world to both standards and goals for greenhouse emissions is officially launched. The Kyoto Protocols as they are soon to be known as had been ratified by all major and actual nations with the exception of the United States due to political opposition has brought forth by President George W. Bush. At the world political summit in Gleneagle, Scotland, a general consensus of world leaders acknowledges that climate change as caused by industrial interaction represents a serious and long-term challenge.
A series of powerful hurricanes raise concerns over a possible relation to climate change
Hurricanes in unprecedented number punctuated by hurricane Katrina ripped through the southern United States and Caribbean creating tremendous awareness and concern relative to global warming and climate change.
By year’s end over 100,000 people around the globe hold organized marches for the first worldwide demonstration against global warming. Protesters called for binding international treaty legislation to control pollution overall and greenhouse emissions in particular.