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Three (3) Reasons for Global Warming

INTRO: Global warming has been a source of worry to the international community to the extent that starting from 1995, parties to the Kyoto Protocol have met annually to establish legally binding obligations for developed countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Also known as climate change, this global warming thing is the rise in average surface temperatures on Earth. The global community’s worry about global warming is well founded on the fact that it melts the ice in the polar regions of the earth and thereby increases the sea level in threat of the coastal cities of the world. In this regard, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) quoted in Independent said that they have tracked a sea level rise of 20cm over the past century. The body also said that they have observed significant shift in the weather pattern of the world over where wet regions became wetter while dry regions became drier. In my country Nigeria for instance, scores of communities were su