In the news, we hear about air pollution and its effect on a global scale। With our growing population becoming ever the more reliant on automobiles, chemicals, and other potentially hazardous substances, air pollutants can cause major health problems to your health. Some obvious causes of air pollution would be your car, but there are many not so obvious products that you may use everyday that are potentially damaging to your health.
Air pollution and global warming, as most scientists agree, seem to go hand in hand। The main component of this is the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide। Carbon Dioxide is a necessary gas for our survival। They call it a greenhouse gas because it makes the Earth habitable by blocking some of the sun's radiation from exiting the atmosphere. Without carbon dioxide, the whole planet would be covered in ice. Just like anything else in life, too much of a good thing can be a problem and that is what scientists have been warning us for years. Carbon dioxide levels have now risen to 31% of pre-industrial revolution days and the gas emitted from 100-200 years ago may still be in our atmosphere today. A constant warming cycle can start melting polar ice caps and cause flooding.
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