Air Pollution in Relation to Global Warming
Besides inducing global warming and climate change, human actions in the past until now had been known to leave harmful residues that might affect and poison the environment. These disposes of waste materials are called "pollution", and usually comes in many kinds, such as: water pollution, land pollution. Out of these kinds of pollution, air pollution is deemed to most closely related to global warming, especially when people are disposing harmful gases directly to the atmosphere. These gases then accumulate on the top of the atmosphere and lead to global warming. However, not just air pollution induces global warming, but global warming also influences the increase of air pollution.
How Air Pollution is contributing to Global Warming:
We can clearly conclude that us human are harming the atmosphere nowadays as we dispose harmful gas to the atmosphere, neglecting the consequences that our actions might bring to us. For example, industries burn fossil fuels to conduct energy, but sometimes they ignore the fact that fossil fuel burning produces green house gases. In many ways, air pollution can contribute to global warming and cause the depletion of the upper ozone level. Pollutants such as soot and ground-level ozone (a component of smog) contribute directly to global warming, also there is methane, carbon dioxide, nitric oxide, etc. Out of all the mentioned pollutants, carbon dioxide seems to be the most significant and common component. Either we are or aren't aware, carbon dioxide roots from various sources that are closely integrated to our daily lives, sources such as usage of vehicles such as planes and automobiles, conduction of electricity from power |
plants, and other related human activities that includes the combustion of fossil fuels. Though vital to the progressing of global warming, human activities had boosted the amount of carbon dioxide higher than any preceding centuries or even millenniums.
Global Warming, one of the major contributors to Air Pollution:
Though it may sound bizarre, but the increase in global warming actually worsen the effect of air pollution, almost like a mutual symbiosis relationship between organisms in biology. Firstly, rising temperature can induce the effects of smog, causing bad air days. Moreover, pollen dispersion in the air is also increased as the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases. Ozone smog can also be produced when pollutants from cars and vehicles come in contact with the sun and the staggering heat. These mentioned increases in smog and pollen can be particularly dangerous to children and elders, especially those who are diagnosed with asthma, as these phenomenons leads to irritations in the eyes, and discomfort in the lungs and throats. In 2010, USA alone had recorded 23 million cases of people suffering from asthma (American Lung Association, most likely due to the increase in level of smog).
In addition to the increasing of smog, global warming can also lead to higher frequency in wild fire. Since temperature is rising due to trapped sunlight energy, originally dry areas got dryer, thus comes in contact with the large amount of heat will intensify the risk of wild fire.
Global Warming, one of the major contributors to Air Pollution:
Though it may sound bizarre, but the increase in global warming actually worsen the effect of air pollution, almost like a mutual symbiosis relationship between organisms in biology. Firstly, rising temperature can induce the effects of smog, causing bad air days. Moreover, pollen dispersion in the air is also increased as the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases. Ozone smog can also be produced when pollutants from cars and vehicles come in contact with the sun and the staggering heat. These mentioned increases in smog and pollen can be particularly dangerous to children and elders, especially those who are diagnosed with asthma, as these phenomenons leads to irritations in the eyes, and discomfort in the lungs and throats. In 2010, USA alone had recorded 23 million cases of people suffering from asthma (American Lung Association, most likely due to the increase in level of smog).
In addition to the increasing of smog, global warming can also lead to higher frequency in wild fire. Since temperature is rising due to trapped sunlight energy, originally dry areas got dryer, thus comes in contact with the large amount of heat will intensify the risk of wild fire.