ABSTRACT

The spread of economic development has pushed the use of automobiles to all parts of the modern world. The bulk of industrialized nations including Japan, Britain, Germany, France and others have seen great increases in energy use. In the early 1990s, the Information Council on the Environment, which was a group of coal and utility companies, used a public relations firm to push global warming as theory. If the earth did not act like a giant greenhouse, temperatures at the earth’s surface would be about 35°C colder than they are, and life on earth would be much different. Greenhouse gases include water vapor, carbon dioxide and other particles such as water droplets in clouds. Carbon dioxide, in combination with other greenhouse gases such as methane and ozone, can trap the sun’s heat. In the 1980s, the focus shifted to global warming, as a result of the unusual drought and heat wave of 1988.