Mitigation Strategies and Solutions
Mitigation Strategies and Solutions SCI 275 Final Project
Atmospheric pollution is a serious problem that the United States faces each day, the problem is growing worse every year because of the millions of drivers on the road and the industrial factories going up around the world. The pollutants in the air are causing the ozone to get thinner and thinner, global warming has become a major problem, the ice melting in arctic places, hurricanes tearing through towns that have never had them before, tsunamis destroying everything in its path in China, and earthquakes killing and destroying thousands of people, homes, and businesses. The atmosphere is composed of five concentric layers; the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere. The atmosphere performs several valuable ecosystem services, first protecting Earth’s surface from most of the suns ultraviolet rays. Second, allowing visible light and some infrared radiation to penetrate, both of which warms Earths’ surface and lower atmosphere. However, over the course of the years, the pollution in the air has caused the weather and climate to change. The two major causes of primary air pollutants are transportation, causing 57% of the airs pollution and fuel combustion, other than vehicles, causing another 21%. They release significant quantities of nitrogen oxides, carbon oxides, particulate matter, and hydrogen oxides into the air. One heavy duty truck emits as much as particulate matter as 150 automobiles, whereas one diesel train engine produces 10 times the particulate matter of a diesel truck. Electrical power plants and other industrial facilities, known as stationary sources, emit most of the particulate matter and sulfur oxides; they also emit sizable amounts of nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbon, and carbon oxides. These air pollutants in the atmosphere harm the respiratory tracts of animals, including humans and
Atmospheric pollution is a serious problem that the United States faces each day, the problem is growing worse every year because of the millions of drivers on the road and the industrial factories going up around the world. The pollutants in the air are causing the ozone to get thinner and thinner, global warming has become a major problem, the ice melting in arctic places, hurricanes tearing through towns that have never had them before, tsunamis destroying everything in its path in China, and earthquakes killing and destroying thousands of people, homes, and businesses. The atmosphere is composed of five concentric layers; the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere. The atmosphere performs several valuable ecosystem services, first protecting Earth’s surface from most of the suns ultraviolet rays. Second, allowing visible light and some infrared radiation to penetrate, both of which warms Earths’ surface and lower atmosphere. However, over the course of the years, the pollution in the air has caused the weather and climate to change. The two major causes of primary air pollutants are transportation, causing 57% of the airs pollution and fuel combustion, other than vehicles, causing another 21%. They release significant quantities of nitrogen oxides, carbon oxides, particulate matter, and hydrogen oxides into the air. One heavy duty truck emits as much as particulate matter as 150 automobiles, whereas one diesel train engine produces 10 times the particulate matter of a diesel truck. Electrical power plants and other industrial facilities, known as stationary sources, emit most of the particulate matter and sulfur oxides; they also emit sizable amounts of nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbon, and carbon oxides. These air pollutants in the atmosphere harm the respiratory tracts of animals, including humans and