Global warming is the cause of the greenhouse effect, when air pollutants are not able to evaporate into the atmosphere, they create a wall, and then the heat from the sun can't escape, so the world gets hotter.
It is not quite that bad yet, but If we stop polluting the air right now, we can stop the progression of global warming before it gets too bad.
There is know convincing evidence that human emissions of gasses is even partly effecting global warming, 70.8% of the earth is water, so only 29.2% is land ,24.2% of earth is populated by humans, only about 30% of people dramatically pollute the air. And we are not even considering the rain forest that clean the air.