The issue of global warming has become one of the hottest topics in our
world today and the reason is because of the increasing fear of its adverse
effects. There is a growing consensus today that the increased emission of
green house gases especially carbon dioxides (CO2) which is believed to
have increased by about 30% since the Industrial Revolution, are
responsible for the overall warming of our planet. The emission of CO2 is
attributed to the high rate of energy consumption from burning of fossil fuel
such as coal, oil and gas by the major industrialized nations. By global
indices of classification, Nigeria is not an industrialized country. However,
owing to its large population and the proliferation of alternative means of
energy from fuel combustion machines, Nigeria is feared to be a major
contributor to global warming. However, there are no reliable data to
ascertain the amount of CO2 that is emitted in the country. The purpose of
our study is to accumulate a database of CO2 emission in Nigeria especially
as there is already a report by scientists at the Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory in the U.S that the effects of global warming are for
the first time, visible on a regional scale. In this preliminary report, we
demonstrated the theoretical and the experiment approaches of estimating
the amount of CO2 that is emitted in a place (or town) and the prospect of
using this methodology to obtain a database CO2 emission in Nigeria.