Water vapour effects Water vapor is the major contributor to Earth's greenhouse effect. Its effects vary due to localized concentrations, mixture with other gases, frequencies of light, different behavior in different levels of the atmosphere, and w[...]

As of February 2002, the agreement had been ratified by 104 countries, representing 43.9% of emissions [3] (http://unfccc.int/resource/kpstats.pdf). Countries do not need to sign the protocol in order to ratify it—signing is a symbolic act only. A to[...]

In recent years some researchers see the greenhouse effect as a significant contributing factor to the current global warming, due to the increased concentration of some greenhouse gases in the atmosphere as a result of human activity. Such climatolo[...]

The Kyoto Protocol is a proposed amendment to an international treaty on global warming -- the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Countries which ratify this protocol will commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxid[...]

According to a press release from the United Nations Environment Programme: The Kyoto Protocol is a legally binding agreement under which industrialized countries will reduce their collective emissions of some greenhouse gases by 5.2% compared to [...]

The greenhouse gases, once in the atmosphere, do not remain there eternally. They can be withdrawn from the atmosphere: as a consequence of a physical phenomenon (rain, condensation, remove water vapor from the atmosphere) as a consequence of a [...]