The Future of Air Quality
Praise for the previous edition:
"...valuable..."—School Library Journal
Clean air is essential to life and good health. Several important pollutants are produced by fossil fuel combustion and emitted directly into the atmosphere, including carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, and hydrocarbons. In addition, total suspended particulates contribute to air pollution, and nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons combine in the atmosphere to form tropospheric ozone, the major constituent of smog.
With an examination of fossil fuels as energy sources and the world population's reliance on them, Fossil Fuels and Pollution, Second Edition outlines the connection between fossil fuels and global warming. Thoroughly updated and featuring new graphs, charts, and illustrations, this full-color eBook explores the properties of greenhouse gases, the nature and causes of their emissions, the largest contributors, and important health issues and considerations associated with them. The concepts of energy efficiency and fuel economy are also examined as well as agricultural greenhouse gases and pollution. Fossil Fuels and Pollution, Second Edition ends with a close look at fuel technology and the "green technology" movement that has been put into place for tomorrow's cars.
Chapters include:
Energy, Fossil Fuels, and Global Warming
Greenhouse Gases, Health, and the Environment
Evolution Since the Industrial Revolution
Global Warming and Pollution: Buildings and Homes
Global Warming and Pollution: Green Transportation
Global Warming and Pollution: Cities and Industry
Global Warming: Agriculture and the Impacts Today
Fuel Technology
Green Technology: Tomorrow's Cars Today
Conclusions: the Future of Air Quality.
