Most of us have been educated at one point in our life about outdoor air pollution. Acid rain and smog are well known terms, especially on the west coast of the United States.

Smog is the result of emissions that is trapped in rain and fog, causing a serious health threat to those under the smog. One day of heavy smog can be about the same as sitting in a room with 12 chain smokers for one year.

The greenhouse effect, which we all associate with the phenomenon of global warming, is generally caused by the release of gases. Methane gas is one of the main causes of the greenhouse effect. Methane, which is often associated with fecal waste, is actually a threat to the health of the ozone layer as well.

Most destructive methane gas comes from the methods used to extract natural gas from the earth to use in the heating of homes and businesses. The methane gas that is released under these circumstances is quite potent and has the potential to deplete the ozone to a significant degree.

The combustion of waste products is another main offender when it comes to the release of methane gas. These two contributors to the release of dangerous levels of methane are facing strict governmental regulation to help keep the ozone layer intact.

The burning of fossil fuels is a large factor in creating other types of air pollution. We burn fossil fuels for heat, energy, and occasionally as an alternative power source.

When we burn fossil fuels we release a toxin known as sulphur dioxide. Crude oil and coal are the two main fossil fuels that contain sulphur dioxide that is released into the atmosphere when burned.

Unfortunately, this toxin is dangerous to humans and can be released during the cultivation of coal, which is one of the causes of lung problems among coal workers. This gas sticks to air molecules and can be a significant cause of smog. Smog is one of the highly dangerous aspects of air pollution that can cause a number of health problems in humans.

Volatile Organic Compounds are also typically associated with smog and other forms of human health hazard air pollution contaminants. Nitrogen oxides are usually counted in the particles of many types of pollution, including Volatile Organic Compounds.

This type of air pollution is responsible for the destruction of the ozone layer, the destruction of human lung tissue, and poses a serious health threat to babies, elderly, and the infirm.

These gases are the result of cars on the road, cruise ship emissions, the use of gasoline powered devices like snowblowers or chainsaws, and tanker emissions. There are more types of air pollution than have actually been labeled.

It will require a dedicated global effort to decrease the destruction of the air quality and to allow the atmosphere a chance to repair itself from the destruction that humankind has already caused.

The air that we breathe has been abused with invisible pollutants that are not only compromising the quality of the air that fills our lungs but also the quality of the natural ecosystems that we rely on for the planet’s health.

The inner atmosphere that holds the air we breathe is a highly dynamic system that is made up of gases found naturally in the atmosphere, often released from the Earth’s ecosystems.

Human interference with the natural production of these gases combined with the additional gases released into the atmosphere from human technological advancements and production. In order to implement air pollution control methods we have to understand how those control methods will be effective.

One of the simplest air pollution control methods that the developed world has implemented is known as land use planning. Land use planning is just as it sounds, the planned use of land.

By planning out that certain pieces of land are off limits to development and other sections of land are for the use of economic development. The economy is protected just as the ecosystem is protected through the use of land use planning. This type of planning also encourages the upgrading and purchase of commercial buildings that have been left in disarray.

The increase in stricter regulations around the world when it comes to the release of emissions is a huge air pollution control factor. The chronic reduction in worldwide emissions helps protect the ozone layer as well as releases fewer toxins in the air that we breathe.

The reduction in emissions is across the board. Cars, housing production, and emissions from manufacturing plants are all facing increasingly tighter guidelines to help continuously reduce the air pollution that is released into the air on an annual basis.

Additional restrictions concerning the reduction of emissions for cruise ships and container vessels have been implemented. Lawn mowers, farming equipment, snowmobiles, and even chainsaws have all been slapped with tighter restrictions in order to fight the emission problem the world faces. This has been a much needed additional to the decrease in emissions that are causing such problems.

While greenhouse gas air pollution control attempts have been met with mixed theories, greenhouse gas control is a significant part of controlling air pollution. A greenhouse gas is the byproduct of almost every fossil fuel, which we burn for energy as well as heat that settles into the lower atmosphere and creates a trapping effect which not only increases the air pollution concentration but also helps to warm the planet’s air and the surface of the Earth.

This is not new news, as scientists have been talking about the danger of pollution and the need for stricter air pollution control methods for over a century. The sooner that every country in the world acts to help preserve the air quality of the atmosphere that we rely on for our breath, the sooner that we have a chance to actually heal the damage that has been done. Perhaps a lot fo the focus should be around air pollution in China, seeing how the problem the pollution problem there is at an all time low.

Whether that will ever really happen remains to be seen, and until this day air pollution and health will be the two dreaded words that contradict each other.