As I was writing my expert study, I came across a very interesting loophole in the Kyoto Protocol.  Under this United Nations treaty, specific industrialized and modernized countries are expected to decrease their greenhouse gas emissions by 2012.  However, no Central American, South American, Middle Eastern, African, or Asian countries, with the exception of Russia and Japan, have limitations set on their emissions by the Kyoto Protocol.  Many of the countries with limitations set on them are simply offshoring their industries to unrestricted regions of the world.  So even though many countries are decreasing emissions, global emissions are not decreasing.  The Kyoto Protocol is promoting the relocation of industries rather than the reduction of global emissions.  The greenhouse effect is not going to be alleviated by the Kyoto Protocol.