Global Warming Caused by Us?

 The Kyoto Protocol is a protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC or FCCC), aimed at fighting global warming. The UNFCCC is an international environmental treaty with the goal of achieving "stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would preventdangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system."^[1]

The view that human activities are likely responsible for most of the observed increase in global mean temperature ("global warming") since the mid-20^th century is an accurate reflection of current scientific thinking (NRC, 2001, p. 3,^[7] 2008, p. 2).^[8] Human-induced warming of the climate is expected to continue