Friday, March 18, 2016

Pollution and Global Warming

Based on my previous post, I tried researching which environmental issues that are closely related to pollution. I searched terms such as "global warming" and "pollution." This led me to start thinking of several questions:

  • How might pollution leads to global warming? 
  • What are the impacts if one or two degrees in the average global temperature had changed?
  • How much has the average global temperature risen since the industrial revolution?
  • Why would human activities since the industrial revolution be a cause of climate change?

As a result of researching, I came across a scientific research paper that had conducted an experiment to determine the main cause of global warning. Their main argument states that global warming could be caused by either anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions or CO2 emissions. They relied on data from temperature and CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion. Then, they used linear models to find to find the results. The results of their experiment showed that CO2 emissions has little significance in contributing to global warming over the course of 15 years in comparison to greenhouse gas emissions.

http://0-www.tandfonline.com.skyline.ucdenver.edu/doi/full/10.1080/15567030903515013
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/discoveringGeology/climateChange/CCS/man-madeEffect.html

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