What air pollutants combine and contribute to global warming.?

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What air pollutants combine and contribute to global warming.?

Answer 1

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We definitely didn't start global warming, but we definitely do contribute to it now.

Natural gas (or Methane along with other thanes) for example, is completely a natural contributer to global warming and is derived pretty much the same way as oil. ie. Matter (animal, plant etc) decomposes over time resulting in a anaerobic (hope I spelled that right) decay of non-fossil organic material / gas (natural gas or methane).

One problem with global warming is that the concept is so vague in the minds of the people. The critical interpretation is basically how it’s explained in school and the news. However most of the public see global warming connected with the ozone and pollutants which cause harmful greenhouse gasses, etc. therefore investigating and fighting for things like alternative energy (ie. Solar, wind, hydrogen, ethanol, biodiesel, etc)

Greenhouse gases are real and do contribute to global warming. Think of the different gas layers like ozone (o3) that circumference the globe as the clear plastic on a greenhouse. Longer rays of light from the Sun go in and reflect off different thermal masses bouncing back and creating shorter lengths of energy that cannot exist the plastic barrier. These beams then just continue to bounce around inside the green house until they’re finally absorbed completely (some do escape but very few), thereby warming the greenhouse greatly even in cold temperatures.

Basically there are 2 ways that this reaction (or lack of) affects the planet. Global warming and global cooling.

1. as we add to the gases in the stratosphere, where the ozone layer is (Carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, etc), we add to the plastic of the greenhouse, trapping more short wave length energy and heating the earth more.

2. as we deplete the ozone (with chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs), we allow more long wave length energy, which bounces back out to space without heating any thermal masses on earth, thereby cooling the planet.

It’s pretty easy to see the results..

Melting ice sheets & glaciers

Floods & droughts

Great hurricanes & cyclones

Seasonal extremes

Seasonal phenomena’s

Species extinction

New & resurgent diseases

There are many ways to stop both global warming and cooling from accruing or at least slow them down until we can discover a way to reverse it, but Stop burning fossil fuels is the biggest.

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Answer 2

What makes you think warming is a result of 'pollutants'?  Have you noticed that the last deadly Ice Age ended 10,000 years ago?  The glaciers have retreated 2,000 miles since then.  The oceans have risen hundreds of feet.  How can man-made pollutants possibly be blamed for this ongoing natural cycle?

Warming and cooling is driven by fluctuations in the sun's energy output.  That is why the Earth was COOLING during the 1960s and 1970s, despite the tremendous amounts of pollutants we were producing.

Water Vapor accounts for about 95% of the atmosphere's heat retention ability.  It is not a pollutant.  To demonstrate this, consider that the temperature in the Sahara desert goes from over a hundred degrees in the daytime to freezing at night.  In the Amazon jungle, it only loses a degree or two.  Why can't all that atmospheric CO2 over the Sahara retain heat if it is the real culprit?  The fact is, water vapor is the primary heat trap.

Carbon Dioxide accounts for less than 1% of the atmosphere's heat retention capability.  It is also not a pollutant.  It is the basic nutrient of all life on this planet.  With more CO2, plants grow better and produce more oxygen.  Back when the Earth was covered with massive jungles and dinosaurs, the CO2 levels were several times higher than they are now.  Gigantism needs more CO2 and more of the oxygen plants create from it.

LIFE LOVES A GREENHOUSE

Answer 3

basically any molecule that is not diatomic or monatomic contributes to the greenhouse effect.

most molecules in the atmosphere are diatomic or monatomic:

N2

O2

Ar

Answer 4

mostly greenhouse gasses but particulates such as soot also have an impact.

this is from the ipcc and shows the relative forcing of greenhouse gasses and other effects on climate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Radia...

Answer 5

Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), and others keep heat in the atmosphere.  This process is a natural and important process, known as the greenhouse effect.  However, since the industrial revolution, more and more greenhouse gases have been produced, causing an enhanced greenhouse effect which is trapping more heat, and this contributes to global warming.