AIR POLLUTION RESEARCH
By andrew rugh-blyden
On 20 November 2013
Air pollution is formed by the gathering of chemicals, particles and biological materials like methane and carbon dioxide that harms the environment by causing diseases, climate change and eventually harming all living creatures.
Greenhouse Gases
Carbon Dioxide: Main pollutant warming Earth. Living things emit Carbon Dioxide, as well as the act of deforestation, but the main emissions come from cars, factories where the combustion of fossil fuels is present.
Methane: Comes from swamps and gases emitted by livestock but mainly from the production and transport of coal, oil, and natural gases.
What are the causes of air pollution?
What does air pollution lead to?
causes multiple health problems including respiratory infections, heart disease, and lung cancer
Increased risk of developing asthma due to bad air quality being breathed in.
The World Health Organization states that 2.4 million people die each year from causes directly attributable to air pollution
Global Warming
Greenhouse gases such as Carbon Dioxide, Methane and surprisingly Water vapor captures the heat that
would previously escape the earth’s atmosphere and reflect it back to earths lower atmospheres, we increase the amount of these gases produced by the combustion of fossil fuels and deforestation which would usually have removed carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
This results in an abundant of extra greenhouse gas which means there would be an extra amount of warming as less heat is able to escape the atmosphere.
The Earth absorbs some of the energy it receives from the sun and radiates the rest back. However, greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy radiated from the Earth and trap it in the atmosphere.
This effect occurs naturally, but human activity have significantly increased the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, causing more heat to be trapped and leading to the negative change in the Earth's climate.
The Earth absorbs some of the energy it receives from the sun and radiates the rest back. However, greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy radiated from the Earth and trap it in the atmosphere.