How does air pollution contribute to global warming?

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in 7th grade terms and in at least 1 paragraph

Answer 1

Air pollution causes greenhouse gasses that act as a kind of screen to prevent heat from dissipating. The heat is reflected back and and starts to build. This causes a rise in the global temperature, which can make the polar ice caps melt and rais the level of the oceans.

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Answer 2

Air Pollution And Global Warming

Answer 3

Excuse me but this whole premise is wrong. Air pollution (excepting carbon dioxide, methane and water vapor) does not contribute to global warming. It helps cool the planet by "shading" the planet and reflecting sunlight back into space. The best example of this was the volcano in the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo, which erupted in 1991. It polluted the atmosphere with ash, sulphuric acid aerosols, etc. I quote from Wikipedia: "The effects of the eruption were felt worldwide. It injected large amounts of aerosols into the stratosphere—more than any eruption since that of Krakatoa in 1883. Over the following months, the aerosols formed a global layer of sulfuric acid haze. Global temperatures dropped by about 0.5 °C (0.9 °F), and ozone destruction increased substantially." More recently there have been several proposals by atmospheric scientists to combat global warming by increasing air pollution. An update: This appeared in todays Independent, a British newspaper: A United Nations report has identified the world's rapidly growing herds of cattle as the greatest threat to the climate, forests and wildlife. And they are blamed for a host of other environmental crimes, from acid rain to the introduction of alien species, from producing deserts to creating dead zones in the oceans, from poisoning rivers and drinking. So, this would be methane coming from the cows. Carbon dioxide is NOT considered a pollutant by the Enviromental Protection Agency.

Answer 4

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How does air pollution contribute to global warming?
in 7th grade terms and in at least 1 paragraph

Answer 5

Global warming is not a myth. As Al Gore explained it in An Inconvenient Truth, the pollution "thickens" our atmosphere, making it harder for heat to escape.

Answer 6

When the air is populated that makes the hemispheres dimed.
That would destroy all the particles that protects The harsh sun rays from coming to earth. Those harsh sun rays would be so warm that is would warm the frozen ice causing Global warming

Answer 7

air pollution or green house gases which is carbon dioxide we produce billions of tons of this ever year for the past 100 years from factorys , cars and people plain farting ....this burns into our atmosphere which distorts and melts our layered atmosphereTHE O-ZONE LAYERS allowing the suns solar radiation (which has been blocked out by our protective atmosphere for millions of years )to penetrate our surface and then as it bounces back into space most iS trapped repeatly bounceing off the surface of earth and the remaining atmosphere protecting us...this increases the effects rapidly heating the icebergs and snowcovered earth that has be frozen since the last ice age ........

Answer 8

Global warming is a myth! As humans we are just not that powerful to change the world. Global warming is a liberal agenda to scare uneducated hippies into believing that we're all going to die if we don't become earth friendly and begin hugging trees. Now don't get me wrong there's nothing wrong with caring for the environement and making it a beautiful place to live, but global warming is not going to kill us. The earth goes through natural cycles and people have labeled this cycle as being our (humans) fault, and it is not!

Answer 9

There is no such thing as global. warming! It's a big myth that everyone is talking about. Give it a few more months everyone will get over it!

Answer 10

It increases CO2 levels in the atmosphere