Some of the most pressing issues today are those that pertain to pollution and global warming. Pollution, if left unchecked, will destroy Earths resources completely making it impossible for continued human existence. Global warming also offers a similar impact: an increase in average surface temperature by just a few degrees can melt the polar ice caps and flood low-lying cities all over the world. Severe weather disturbances can also redraw the world map and impair our way of living. The future looks bleak if pollution and global warming trends continue to happen as projected. The problem lies in the fact that the relationship between pollution and global warming are as intricate as they are complex. Human civilization is completely dependent on energy for survival; we draw majority of our energy from burning fossil fuels; burning releases pollutants into the air, most notably carbon dioxide; carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas; increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere naturally leads to a greenhouse effect otherwise known as global warming. Scientists monitoring carbon dioxide levels in the air and surface temperatures on earth find a very strong correlation between these two factors. When man started to burn more fuels to sustain the energy needs for growing cities, carbon dioxide concentrations in the air went up. During this period starting in the mid-1970s, the average surface temperature of the earth also inched upwards. Pollution and global warming are deeply intertwined in this respect: pollution, at least on paper, leads to global warming. Many countries of the world have some laws that define the quality of air emissions by industries. These laws specifically limit the emission threshold of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, methane, sulfur dioxide, and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) so that concentrations of these pollutants in the air do not keep on ballooning. Non-compliance to these regulations can be sufficient ground for government agencies to close the erring facilities.