Global warming is one of the biggest problems that face the world. One main cause of global warming is air pollution. Air pollution is the CO2, dust, smoke and other gases that come out from industry and motor vehicles or natural sources such as wind-blown dust and smoke from fires. These gases stay in the atmosphere and cause the greenhouse effect. In this essay I will outline the problem of air pollution and discus some of the solution that may help to reduce it.
Air pollution has many effects one of the effect is the health. Air pollution can harm the human health by harming the lunges, heart and can cause skin cancer and birth defects (www.infoplease.com). Air pollution also effects the environment. It can cause acid rain which can affect plants by destroying their leaves, it poisons the soil, and it changes the chemistry of lakes (www.lbl.gov). It also causes the earth temperature to rise. The temperature of the earth rises because air pollution affects the ozone layer which protects the earth from the sun and affects plants and wildlife.
There are some solutions to reduce air pollution. One new solution is Carbon Capture and Storage. The technology is made to prevent the CO2 of building up the atmosphere by catch the CO2 and store it deep underground. The CO2 is stored below sea level instead of going to the atmosphere. The best places to build the technology on are old oil and gas fields. What happens is the CO2 goes to old oil fields which have a percentage of oil not produced and help to make it easier to produce.
It is a very important to start with this technology now to help the environment and the government should help to such as in Britain which published a new law that ever coal fire power stations must have technology of carbon capture and storage(www.guardian.co.uk). In my opinion this is a helpful technology that reduces CO2 emission.
Resources:
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Editorial: Carbon capture and storage - A victory for green thinking Comment is free The Observer." Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the Guardian guardian.co.uk. 28 May 2009
Air Pollution." Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. 28 May 2009 http://www.lbl.gov/Education/ELSI/pollution-main.html.
Infoplease: Encyclopedia, Almanac, Atlas, Biographies, Dictionary, Thesaurus. Free online reference, research & homework help. Infoplease.com. 28 May 2009 http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0856526.html.
"Carbon storage trial set to go." Ecos. 141 (Feb-March 2008): 4(1). Student Resource Center - Gold. Gale. Higher Colleges of Technology. 27 May. 2009
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