"The greenhouse effect has been part of the earth's workings since its earliest days. Gases like carbon dioxide and methane allow sunlight to reach the earth, but prevent some of the resulting heat from radiating back out into space. Without the greenhouse effect, the planet would never have warmed enough to allow life to form. But as ever larger amounts of carbon dioxide have been released due to development of industrial economies, the atmosphere has grown warmer at an accelerating rate: Since 1970, temperatures have gone up at nearly three times the average for the 20th century."

Between 80% and 85% of Australia's Global Warming/Climate Change is attributed to burning Fossil Fuels in black and the dirtier brown coal fired power stations, motor vehicles (cars, trucks, planes, buses and trains) gas heaters and turbines.