For me the "value" of a tree is extremely high, as well as plants, insects, worms.., humans values are the bottom of this scale, just after mosquitoes
Air pollution also causes more rain, changes rain from shallow to severe, and a large host of other effects. It's not simply "air pollution is preventing rain".
A simple example - for ~100 years mankind has used silver iodide to seed clouds to cause rain. Silver iodide would easily be called air pollution. [1]
Here's google scholar - note the large variety of rain and pollution interaction - and most certainly not as simple or negative as you post [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding
[2] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,15&q=preci...
the "Inverse relations between amounts of air pollution and orographic precipitation" article seems like an outlier and buzzy paper nothing much more
[1] "Daily precipitation records for 219 surface observing stations in the United States for the 42-year period 1951–1992 are investigated for weekly cycles in precipitation. Results indicate that neither the occurrence nor amount of precipitation significantly depends upon the day of the week"
[2] is a highly cited paper, has a good overview of the field, lots of papers, and certainly points out that the claims you're making are not considered statistically valid. They present ~2 dozen papers, show that some claim effect, some do not, rank them by statistical quality, and most interestingly, have a good summary table (Table 2). Use Sci Hub to read the paper. Table 2 makes it completely clear your claims are simply not warranted by the science. The rest of the paper reaches the same conclusion....
"The idea that it rains more on weekends because of weekday pollution is a myth." [3]
If you care to read the literature, you'd find these are not outlier papers. The effects are far more subtle, and much weaker statistically and evidentially, than you are claiming.
[1] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/200...
[2] "Assessing large-scale weekly cycles in meteorological variables: a review"
[3] https://www.businessinsider.com/does-it-rain-more-on-the-wee...
there are maybe some exceptions, but just look at this link and studies are showing the weekend effect is real in urban heat/pollution islands
I also just listed several decent studies meta studies summarizing a lot of the academic literature, and they seem quite in agreement that the situation is not as simple as you claim. In fact, the top several hits from your search are the studies I posted above.
And also from the article:
>In the sky, aerosol particles attract water vapor or ice. When the tiny wet globs get large enough, they become seeds for clouds. Half of Earth’s cloud cover forms around stuff like sand, salt, soot, smoke, and dust. The other half nucleates around vapors released by living things or machines, like the sulfur dioxide that arises from burning fossil fuels.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_earthworms_of_North_A...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/earth...
No. Invasive species are relatively new to the land, they disturbe the existing equilibrium often without any natural predators to hunt them and they wreak havoc.
Like wild boars in USA. Like rabbits in Australia. Like humans on earth.
Barren islands evolved for tens of millions of years in isolation were all over the world until humans built ships.
A related effect would seem to be low sulfur fuel reducing ocean cloud cover (compared to previous fuel). I just saw an interactive map of a study using aircraft cruising altitude to impact cloud formation a few days ago.
Aren't us humans almost exclusively a net negative, except for a small few? Meaning in most cases to Earth, it's best we didn't exist? We create pollution, waste, consume large amounts of resources that are only a net benefit in some cases to humans.
Now in a cosmic sense, maybe the Universe gains by having life - but who knows
All other animals are autonomous and participating in the ecosystem
All this is to say humans treat animals better than animals treat one another. We condemn cannibalism, rape and Necrophilia as natural species engage in it. If we observe that behavior in a zoo we actively prevent it. We impose that mortality upon them
they're murdering insects everytime they take a 1.5 tonne vehicle for doing a few kilometers flat, and murdering many others indirectly through pollution, consumption, etc