The history of global warming scare is of recent origin and the scare seems to have acquired alarming proportion in current times. First let us talk about what global warming scare means and how the bandwagon is reaching and acquiring new dimensions.

Global warming is a phenomenon attributed to man made factors. It is an hypothesis that increased levels of industrialization leads to enhanced levels of carbon di oxide in the atmosphere. The result is increased greenhouse effect and global warming. No wonder the phenomenon of rapid industrialization and growth is finding opponent in the form of environmentalist and green peace workers opposed to the whole concept of lopsided development.

Whether the global warming scare is real or a bogey of so called experts and doomsayers is open to debate and discussion for years together.

The history of global warming scare has been existence since the late 19th century and the earlier part of the twentieth century. However the concept was more of academic interest rather than any established scientific proof or evidence of the phenomenon. It was merely an idea, an easy way out to put the blame on human factors for global warming.

The climate changes effects have still not been scientifically proven. However the concept itself has great potential for an international initiative and today thanks to the overdrive of politicians and policy makers, the scare of global warming has achieved the centre stage in the world polity.

The Earth Summit, the Kyoto protocol and a host of other important decisions and meetings bear testimony to the increased attention the concept of global warming has been receiving during last one and a half decade.

No wonder the word is divided into different lobbies each trying to wriggle out and pursue and address its own vested interest in the field. The global warming phenomenon is said to be identified with increased energy consumption and high affluent emissions into the atmosphere. As USA is the highest energy consumer of the world, the cost of climate changes and global warming has been attributed to it the highest.

This way the developing economies are putting pressure on developed nations to pay for the environment damage. The generation and trading of carbon credits and increased share of emerging economies in having such credits is a phenomenon which has been witnessed in recent times.

The history of global warming scare bears a testimony of nations and leaders joining new hands and breaking long established partnerships to pursue their on interests. As people say that politics makes strange bedfellows and so does the pressure groups on global warming. It makes all the more important to keep a tab on what it happening in real world as you may be swayed by the extreme opinions available in the field.