Global warming,over the years, has been a very popular topic amongst environmentalists across the world and Journalists alike.
The rate at which it occurs is not just increasing, but its effect is now clearly evident.
But,I think that the causes of global warming vary from country to country(or from continent to continent) owing to the lifestyle of the majority of each country's population. I want to quickly add that Global warming is not something we woke up one day to see,it had been showing signs of what is to come if we kept being nonchalant about the environment and now,we all trying to remedy the situation.

Here,in Nigeria, when the early warnings about global warming was issued,some years ago,people laughed it of. They never believed that earth could ever be a harsh place to live in,if they refuse to pay attention to pressing environmental challenges.
In fact,their thinking then was that the creator of the earth is a perfect God and must have had a solution to the problem that is probably yet to be discovered. So they thought.
But as of then(about a decade ago),I was so passionate about finding a solution to Global warming. It was quite unusual for children of my age then but I naturally had the passion to champion the cause of global warming. I felt inexplicable joy whenever the topic was discussed and I wrote a lot of essays and articles on the topic during my high school days. It almost took my name in school then.
But then,as I progressed in the cause of reducing global warming, I can comfortably say that reducing global warming in Nigeria will more than ever,require a spirited collective effort because our way of living here offers little in terms of reducing the heating of the environment.

Just earlier this month, I was at home reading and preparing for my examination and as I made my way to the corridor,I saw thick smoke going up the sky.
Sensing that the site of the burning was still active and some meters away,I made my way to the site of the burning hoping to see the people behind it but then,I saw nobody. I wondered if it was the handiwork of hunters,"but they should be here if they were the ones" I thought. The smoke was still on and I immediately took pictures of the site with my phone before working down to a kiosk close by to find out who was behind the burning and the reason for that and I was told by owner of the kiosk and some buyers that the owner of the land did it just to clear the land for the planting season. I asked if I could find the owner of the land because I felt I needed to talk to the person but I was told the person had since left.
Since then,I have been keeping tabs on the land to see if I will one day find the owner there because if I can pass the message of 'saving the environment' to such a person and suggesting better alternatives to burning, the information will quickly spread to fellow farmers.
As I am writing this piece this morning, that land is still lying almost bare as locals have almost finished fetching fire woods from the land. Though some green leafs are now springing up there,I felt bad knowing the amount of energy that would have been saved if the land had not been burnt.

Again, a good number of our population still depend on fire woods to cook their meals and do other activities that require heating, this not only generates a lot of heat,but also leaves our forest poor in green cover. Dealers in the fire wood business consistently fall trees so as to help them remain in the business as that is the only way they think they could make ends meet. And it doesn't help that for over two months now, Nigeria has been experiencing kerosene scarcity and the truth is that,a major percentage of Nigeria's population make use of  Kerosene Stove,lamps and other equipments that use kerosene for their cooking functions and other heating purposes so since this current kerosene scarcity in Nigeria started,there has been a radical increase in the demand and use of fire wood by the Nigerian populace which means that the longer this situation continues, the more damaging it would be for our environment and that would also mean an increase in global warming.

Also,there has been a trend here  that during any special ceremony or season(like Christmas, Easter,New year,Cultural festivals e.t.c),people always burn used car tyres. They derive a lot of joy in this and thus,do it with great impunity. Of course,we know the enormous amount of thick dark smoke and heat a single car tyre is capable of generating not to talk of when many people in different places are doing it at that period. The state government in Anambra state last year tried to stop people from burning tyres during the yuletide by mandating the police to arrest offenders but that was not a huge success as they couldn't be everywhere it was being done at the same time.

And then, the cars on our roads are not left out. I have to admit that we have a large number of rickety/old cars on our roads and this cars release an unbelievable amount of thick dark smokes from their exhaust pipes and I tell you,no commuter enjoys that experience as the smoke tends to choke your breath if you are not careful. As part of my efforts to help make sure we reduce our contribution to global warming, I had earlier this year,during an interview in my Radio Station(RADIO UNIZIK FM),asked the former Anambra state commissioner for Transport,Dr. Chike Ohamobi(who was my guest on the interview programme that day),his plans towards getting rid of rickety vehicles on our roads and he happily told me that they have already started training 'Vehicle Inspection Officers'(VIOs) that will do the job for the government but then,a new government was inaugurated in the state on 17th March, 2014 and the commissioner for Transport also changed. So,I carefully have allowed the new government time to settle down as I have taken it as part of my responsibility to remind the new government of the old unimplented environmental reforms and also make new recommendations. In a few weeks from now,I will visit the new commissioners for Environment and that of Transportation to ensure that these things are put right.

This has been part of my battle with global warming in my country and I am confident that consistently and collectively,we will win the war against global warming.
Fellow Ambassadors,I would appreciate it if you can share,with me,the causes of global warming in your various countries so as to know if it varies with what obtains in my country,Nigeria.