While still searching Auraria Library for some relationship between air pollution and global warming, I ran across an article where they described how the poor quality of air and the climate change can lead to health problems.
It explained that according to IARC, International Agency for Research on Cancer, there are very sufficient evidence that prove that air pollution can lead to cancer. It also explained that the changes in the distribution of sunlight might affect the rate of skin cancer, and even "altering patterns of cancer subsequent to malaria infection.”
The article concluded that it is best to reduce air pollution as it would not only help to prevent climate change, but also give health benefits since the risks of cancer can be reduced.
I don't think that reducing air pollution would really give us health benefits. It could give us clean air but it is not going to reduce the risk of cancer. After all, the risk of cancer is random for everyone. For example, those who smoke their entire life never get cancer, while those who don't actually get it. Sometime, children get it while old people don't. Thus, I don't believe that air pollution and climate change might really lead to cancer. Even if it actually was, why haven't people taken any action yet if it was a global issue?
http://0-www.sciencedirect.com.skyline.ucdenver.edu/science/article/pii/S147020451570238X
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