Annotated Bibliography
Ayushi Patel
UWRT 1104
Annotated Bibliography
Adams, Jill U. "Air Pollution and Climate Change." CQ Researcher, 13 Nov. 2015, pp. 961-84,
Air pollution has killed about 3.3 million people in one year around the world and 55,000
were killed in United States. Many of these pollutants are airborne pollutant (toxic
agents) and carbon dioxide (CO2). Currently main health issues that World Health
Organization (WHO) says that has led to deaths are cardiovascular diseases, respiratory
diseases, and cancers. 21st United Nation of Climate Change conference was held in Paris
with almost 200 countries presents. One of the main goals they talked about was reducing
carbon dioxide emission. Barack Obama made a clean power plan with his executive
powers, which will allows us to reduce carbon emissions to 32% by 2030. One the great
thing law passed around the world to help the Earth or health of people is Clean Air Act
which was passed in 1970. Clean Air Act has helped cut down carbon dioxide emission
to about 37% since 1975 till 2015 in industrials. Clean Air Act continues to help cut
down on carbon emission by cars, recycling energy and producing more power plants.
One of the most ozone polluted states in United States are California, Texas, Nevada,
Arizona, New York, New Jersey, Oklahoma, and Colorado. Earth blocks a heavy sunlight
rays called Ozone layer and to protect human health from cancer or burns, but due to an
increase in pollution has damaged Ozone layer and increasing the temperature of Earths
surface. A medical literature of Environmental Protect Agency wrote that in 2010 about
1,500 to 4,300 premature deaths were declared, 5,300 heart attack, and 58,000 asthma
attacks because of overheat temperature from damaged Ozone layer. Air pollution
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continues to grow daily even with all the things producing to help decrease it and cause
many health issues and sometimes leading it to death. Comment [2]: Overall this source seems really good for
numbers to support your future writing about your topic,
you may want to add some bits about why this a good
Bregman, Mark. "Global Warming: Not just Hot Air." Science World, vol. 54, no. 13, Apr 13, source and how it will be helpful
1998, pp. 13-15, ProQuest Central; ProQuest Environmental Science Collection; SciTech
https://librarylink.uncc.edu/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/218140024?a
ccountid=14605.
United Nation Conference on Climate change was held in Kyoto, Japan, where about
10,000 policy makers and 150 countries were present. One of the main issues they were
focused on was changing human life/ behavior on Earths global warming. Many
members wanted to make a treaty on restraining wasting gases which could lead to
overheat Earths atmosphere and changing global weather to outburst heat waves and
droughts. The lower atmosphere of Earths temperature rises yearly from 0.3(deg) to
0.6(deg) Celsius since 1890. Meteorologist predicted that surface temperature of Earths
would rise from 1(deg) to 3.5(deg) Celsius. Without greenhouse effects, our Earths
temperature would be -18(deg) Celsius. Main pollution of gasses are from factories, cars
and etc., such as carbon dioxide which 60% cause of global warming, Halocarbons is
20% cause of global warming, Methane is 15% cause of global warming and finally,
nitrogen oxide is 5% cause of global warming. Many of these gases are emitted by car
pollution, industrial pollution and house pollution. Global warming causes higher
temperature of ocean water and rise in sea level which affects homes built by water. Most
polluted countries that are mainly affected are China, India, and Pakistan. These countries
need to cut down on pollution by at least 60% to decrease chances of health problems and
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increase numbers of greenhouses to reduce air pollution. These countries are impacted
from air pollution from large industrial usage, cars, fireworks, etc. China and India are
two most populated countries in the world, which means more usage of motor vehicles
and causing more air pollution in the environment. Comment [3]: Good summary of the source, add some
more thoughts on how the source is reliable and
meaningful. This will make writing easier later on. Also
Jost, Kenneth. "Asthma Epidemic." CQ Researcher, 24 Dec. 1999, pp. 1089-104, include why this will be useful for your next piece.
library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/cqresrre1999122400. Comment [4]: may want to branch out where you are
getting information, the info is good but if you draw
from many different places itll help your point by being
One of the biggest health issue ever discovered related to global warming/ air pollution is able to pull from several resources
asthma. Asthma epidemic issue was caused by global warming/ air pollution, which
wasnt known until 1979 by National Institutes of Health (NIH). Asthma was more of an
impact on children than adults, in 1982, more than 5.3 million youngsters were diagnosed
with asthma. Many children who are from low- income/ homeless have more cases
reported for symptoms of asthma. Many time children wont understand that it is a
serious issue and probably not get treated for asthma. Many low- income children get
asthma through indoor air pollution because of terrible air vents systems and smoker
members in the house. Many families are not able to afford to repair their air vents or
they cannot quit smoking because of daily stress. A less than one year old boy named
Aaron had irregular cough, sounding more like he was choking but he was coughing and
wheezing, which are classic symptoms of asthma. Some health improvements that are
done since asthma epidemic is prescribing antibiotics either as pill or inhaler which are
more common and improve on their diet. These improvements have changed the response
of immune system and lessen the intake of medications. A study done in Germany
showed since they had a high rate in air pollution which showed increase in cases of
asthma or a respiratory disease. Many of the high rates were skewed toward indoor air
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pollution mainly smoking, fireplace (burning coals) and gas air vents. One of the great
ways to prevent high cases of asthma is by educating patients and students in adolescents
on recognizing asthma symptoms and way to prevent it home mainly. Comment [5]: Only issue is same as before, more
comments about how you're going to use the info
Mosher, Dave, and Gould, Skype. The Best - and Worst - Countries for Air Pollution and
www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/02/the-best-and-worst-countries-for-air-pollution-and-
electricity-use.
China is considered one of the most polluted countries in the world because of their
increase in economy. Since China wanted to increase their economy they had to start with
industries, by construction and making products. This has helped boom Chinese
economy. Chinas air pollution is known for thick smog in the cities, but they are
decreasing their pollution gradually every year. India is another country that has high
pollution for many years. Even though they been on top for many years, India is one of
those countries that doesnt do much about it since its already a middle- income country.
Indias increase in pollution is mainly due to large usage of fireworks because of festival
purposes. There are 62 units in PM 2.5 in India which is fairly high comparing number to Comment [6]: Very interesting
other countries. There are 68 deaths per 100,000 people from air pollution in India. India
is considered one the largest pollution in the world which mean more motor vehicle usage
and causing more pollution. Pakistan is another country that has high rate in pollution is
because Pakistan a developing country which mean more uses of industries to create a
higher economy for future betterment. China, India, and Pakistan are top countries who
have high rates in air pollution, deaths because of pollution and large use of carbon
Comment [7]: Overall your sources are solid and listed
emission from transportation. correctly. I suggest adding more thoughts and opinions
about each source instead of solely summarizing each
one. You have a good topic to write about with lots of
resource available.