2 emissions from your home by as much as 100 kilograms a year. Without greenhouse gases the Earth's average temperature would be very cold and much of the planet would be frozen. However with too many greenhouse gases the planet would be too hot to sustain life. Since the onset of the Industrial Revolution we have been pumping greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, adding to those that occur naturally. Every time we drive our cars, use electricity, heat our homes and manufacture new products we release more of these gases into the atmosphere.
Scientists believe that current emissions of greenhouse gases are warming the earth dramatically.
This is causing temperatures to increase at an unprecedented rate, much too fast for some species to adapt. The results of climate change will be devastating. If we do not change the way we live today, we will witness large scale extinction of wildlife and disappearance of wild places. Over 50 percent of the Arctic alone could be lost. A recent WWF International report on climate change indicates that even conservative projections of anticipated CO 2 emissions would alter 35 percent of the world's natural habitat, and over 50 percent of habitat in Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador.