Sunday, March 20, 2016

Is Air Pollution the Only Cause of Global Warming?

This time, I tried to look up an answer for one of my previous questions, which is whether air pollution was the only type of pollutions that leads to global warming.
Apparently from what I found while searching Auraria Library, air pollution is the only pollution that contributes to global warming because of the greenhouse gas emissions.
However in one of the articles I found, there were several types of sources listed that might cause the greenhouse gas emissions as they tend to be effective at trapping the heat in the atmosphere.

  • Carbon Dioxide:
    • It can be released by fossil fuel, electricity production, and transportations.
  • Methane:
    • It can be released by coal mining, landfills, natural gas and petroleum production, as well as wastewater treatment.
  • Nitrous Oxide:
    • It is contained in the soil but can be released by the agricultural activities 
  • Fluorinated Gases:
    • It can be emitted by the industrial activities, including the production of aluminum
After doing the research on this question, I feel shocked and disappointed at the same as I expected to find more and not just one type of pollution. 
  • Cao, Yi, and Huaping Gao. "Prevalence and Causes of Air Pollution and Lung Cancer in Xuanwei City and Fuyuan County, Yunnan Province, China." Frontiers of Medicine 6.2 (2012): 217-20. Web.

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