Is air pollution a natural thing?

Question

(i mean it kinda refers to global warming)
and water and pollution is related?

Answer 1

is air pollution a natural thing?....

Um ok air pollution is nit. Before there was cars , trains, planes, boats.. ect, the air pollution was much better

Answer 2

Think about it. The volcanic eruption of Krakatoa put 100,000 time the pollution in the air than man has done since 1950 - and that all at once!!

The biggest source (90%) of CO2 comes from the oceans; methane comes from cow poop and we are cutting down the rain forests. Most of "An Inconvenient Truth" is propaganda. Check out a BBC documentary (now on DVD) that gives the other side of global warming issue. Every 1500 years the Earth warms. The last time this happened, Greenland had the climate of Georgia. Go figure. Reasonable scientists figure its the Sun flares that is causing most of this. Not CO2.

Answer 3

If pollution was natural, then environment would be able to handle it without being destroyed. There are some pollutants in the air that have natural sources (carbon dioxide, various other natural gasses), but they are in such small quantities that the natural environment can just neutralize them and they don't hurt anything.

The environment would also be able to handle it if there was far FAR less of it than there is, or if it just stopped right now where it is.

But what people think of when they are talking about pollution (air pollution, water pollution or whatever) is poison or garbage that is being put into the environment and not being removed. And no, that is not natural.

Answer 4

In the strictest sense by definition, no. Because pollution is caused by mans activities.

There are many natural sources of chemical input in to the air. Fires, volcanoes, trees, and evaporation are examples. Methane and carbon dioxide are naturally occurring gases in the atmosphere from those sources.

Answer 5

To an extant air pollution is natural.
Natural air pollution comes from several sources, such as methane from cattle, natural bushfires, sulphur dioxide from volcanoes, and natural biological decay.

The thing is though, nature can usually counter-balance these processes for very long amounts of time.

Man-made pollution dramatically shortens this time period in which nature can retaliate.

Pretty much it's like stripping away at your immune systems.

Answer 6

If it comes from a tree, or a lightning caused Forest Fire- Sure! But NOT when it comes from Tens of THOUSANDS of Smokestacks from Industries; MILLIONS of gas guzzling cars, and BILLIONS of humans who are throwing away mega-TONS of air, water & soil polluting garbage!!! There's NOTHING "natural" about THAT Pollution- or the Global Warming it's creating! :(

Answer 7

Air pollution is natural, but to an extent. We as humans have passed the point of natural pollution.

Answer 8

Yes, it is. Air pollution is as natural as removal of pollution from air by plants is natural.

Answer 9

No. global warming is led to through air toxins. air toxins creates a surplus of CO2 and water vapor contained in the air. This traps the nice and cozy temperature and extremely violet rays from the sunlight, causing the greenhouse result and burning holes contained in the ozone layer.

Answer 10

It depends on how you define "natural." And how you define "pollution."

Just to illustrate the difficulty - natural = not-man made, but what about planted forests? My point is, you're not going to get a very satisfactory answer!