Greenhouse gas pollution is just as bad as any other sort, just because you can't see it floating it about doesn't mean to say it isn't altering our environment. No body seems to mind if there are laws from preventing everyone pumping poisonous waste into the water or covering the ground with rubbish but for some reason an awful lot of ignorant people think it is okay to unceasingly fill the air with damaging waste gases, and any suggestion that we should not do this is met with ridiculous accusations of government plots and claims that pretty well every scientist in the world has just made all this stuff up.
It needs regulating with taxes and legislation because while they are making a buck and the problem is not yet personally effecting them companies and individuals will unceasingly fill our sky with pollutants.
Absolutely not! For instance water is considered a greenhouse gas. Is it a pollutant? If you want to regulate it what are you going to do? Stop everyone from sweating? It may sound ridiculous but that is where you are going.
And to what end do you want this 'regulation' to accomplish? Look at all the regulating that has been done to control CO2 and with no results. CO2 is a known food but the US Supreme Court in its omnipotent wisdom has labeled it a pollutant. That is political of course, not scientific. Bad things happen when you mix politics with science.
That depends.
The 3 most important greenhouse gases are water, CO2, and methane.
Water is self regulating, so nothing needs to be done.
CO2 is being released from burning fossil fuels, in unprecedented quantities, and should be regulated.
Methane is produced in animal digestion, from fossil fuel wells, and from decomposition. In general, some is found in oil wells and is burned because they're not set up to deal with it. Some is accidentally released, Most is burned by your gas stove, power companies, etc. Regulating it isn't particularly useful.
A greenhouse gas (sometimes abbreviated GHG) is a gas in an atmosphere that absorbs and emits radiation within the thermal infrared range. This process is the fundamental cause of the greenhouse effect.
No, because for the most part they are not pollutants. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, it is necessary for plants to survive. Water vapor is not a pollutant. Some chemicals are pollutants and serve as greenhouse gases. These can be regulated, but the major drivers are carbon dioxide and water vapor.
Some people will clam that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. But why not?
Because it is plant food? So is raw sewage.
http://gobiidae.com/PN/dumpingsewage.htm...
Because it is natural? So is hydrogen sulfide.
http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/22865/
Because it comes from the human body? So do feces and urine.
Because it is essential for life? So is food.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity
Anything in excess is harmful. Something added to the biosphere in excess of what the biosphere can deal with is pollution.
A greenhouse gas (sometimes abbreviated GHG) is a gas in an atmosphere that absorbs and emits radiation within the thermal infrared range. This process is
Some such as Sulfur hexafluoride, Hexafluoroethane, CFC's
But not the main ones like CO2, Methane and water vapor, as they are naturally already a part of our atmosphere.
yes becuz they make the air more of a greenhouse like thing and too much will kill peoples and stuff
Should greenhouse gasses be regulated as pollutants? Why or why not
