Kyoto Protocol and Climate Change Term Paper

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S. begins to spend billions on GDP, carbon credits and control devices and positive climate change progresses only slowly (Wojick, 2002).

In 2004 an international ad hoc Detection and Attribution Group looked at "natural drivers such as solar variability and volcanic activity" and decided that a large part of the entire warming trend over the past 50 years could be attributed to GHG increases, which backs up the IPC Third Assessment Report, concluding that "most of the global warming over the past 50 years is likely due to the increase in greenhouse gases" (IAHDAG, 2005, 1291-1314).

In 1999, MIT did a study on the effects of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change and found that "a strategy for controlling multiple gases associated with greenhouse warming could reduce control costs by over 60%" compared with just controlling carbon dioxide (CO2) alone (Science Daily, 1999).

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Science Daily also has published an article stating the recent climate change might be attributable to the past 150 years, in which humans have released increasing quantities of GHG into earth's atmosphere, leading to increases in mean temperature. The IPCC has made the statement that "The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate." This is in reference to British law in which a certain amount of proof is necessary to place the fact into a realm "beyond reasonable doubt." The problem with the arguments whether or not GHGs actually affect climate is that it is still too early to tell what is going to happen when GHGs are removed. It has taken humans 150 years to get to the point where the earth's atmosphere….....

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