Air Pollutants And The Climate
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...Most of these translate back to the direct effect of pollutants on the climate. Pollutants such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane, fluorocarbons and oxides of nitrogen result primarily from our overdependence on petroleum and other products which we consider vital to our modern lifestyles (Hampson PG). These pollutants also result from activities such as energy production and even natural forest fires. Regardless of their source these pollutants, along with water vapor, build up in the atmosphere and result in what is referred to as the greenhouse effect. They, in effect, form a layer in the atmosphere which allows the warmth of the sun to penetrate to the earth but which prevents that warmth from leaving the atmosphere once it is there. This results in the phenomena of global warming, a phenomena which has numerous adverse climatic and environmental impacts. Small amounts of...
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