And on your thread in reply to my comment you called
acid rain damage deniers crackpots, so there is a definitional difference here for sure.Your last two sentences are key, as I think it would be part of Judy's case that the community are really pretty terrible at that — to the point of being dogmatic, perhaps?
Apparently, they did some controlled experiments to find out exactly how much
acid rain damaged trees by watering some test plots with varying levels of acid.
Those old enough remember how thick the smog was in the 70's,
the acid rain damaging crops and of course the ozone layer being damaged.
Not exact matches
«We applaud Congresswoman Stefanik and all of her colleagues for their efforts to secure federal funding for monitoring whether clean air regulations are working, and for restoring Adirondack lakes
damaged by
acid rain,» said Adirondack Council Executive Director William C. Janeway in a statement.
By FRED PEARCE On 1 March, negotiations begin for a new international treaty to limit the
damage caused to the environment by
acid rain.
In the 1980s fog grabbed attention again in the United States when researchers found it was contributing to the
damage caused by
acid rain.
«That would require a regional economic analysis for
damages from
acid rain and carbon dioxide and the benefits of reduced climate change,» said Wigley.
And if the coal plant lacks pollution controls — or fails to turn them on — it can amplify the extent of smog,
acid rain, lung -
damaging microscopic soot and other ills that arise from burning fossil fuels.
Earlier rounds of negotiations had agreed that
damage from
acid rain should be reduced everywhere to half its present level.
«Meanwhile, there have been big strides in reducing
acid rain, which is especially
damaging to sugar maple.
Its limitation, however, is that it reacts with and is eroded by acidic solutions, and various limestone buildings and statues have been
damaged by
acid rain.
Sulfur dioxide contributes to particulate pollution — which can be
damaging for human health, and
acid rain — which can
damage ecosystems and crops.
Sulfur dioxide (SOx) is the main cause of
acid rain, which
damages forests, lakes and buildings.
He was also interested in controlling environmental
damage, but he was mostly thinking about atmospheric and water pollution by power plants and strip mining — including effects of
acid rain.
For example, a tax on coal that incorporated the increased health care costs associated with mining it and breathing polluted air, the costs of
damage from
acid rain, and the costs of climate disruption would encourage investment in clean renewable sources of energy such as wind or solar.
This occurs because transportation in North America produces a substantial amount of black carbon (soot) and ozone (a main ingredient in smog), both of which warm climate, while power generation leads to a large amount of sulfate particles, which cool climate even as they also lead to
acid rain and
damage human health.
It's linked with asthma, bronchitis, smog, and
acid rain, which
damages crops and other ecosystems, and acidifies lakes and streams.
For example, the environmental degradation from «
acid rain» caused by high levels of Sulfur emissions, the economic impact of global warming, the health
damage to humans from air and water pollution (from particulate matter and mercury), all are measurable with an economic cost to society.
Many aerosols are emitted by the burning of fossil fuels and wood, and cause lung
damage, also adding to
acid rain and smog.
But in his book, Dr. Lomborg cites figures from the United States Census Bureau, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the European Environment Agency to show that the rate of world population growth has actually been dropping sharply since 1964; the level of international debt decreased slightly from 1984 to 1999; the price of oil, adjusted for inflation, is half what it was in the early 1980's; and the sulfur emissions that generate
acid rain (which has turned out to do little if any
damage to forests, though some to lakes) have been cut substantially since 1984.
We continually cut trees, throwing garbage any where we want, chemical waste from different industries are thrown in the bodies of water, smoke coming from cars, factories and even at home are not properly handled, there's still a lot of problems that we can address to each and every one but if we will not move or take any action in response to this issue our planet would die little by little, as we see earth today is now showing to us the
damage we had made such as earth quake, landslide,
acid rain, global warming and a lot more.
Victims of science (Thalidomide babies from Pharma, Mercury brain
damaged consumers of fish from Industrial Chemistry, DDT impoverished sportsmen and farmers from Agrichem,
Acid Rain impoverished sportsmen from Thermomechanical Engineering...) provided the initial impulse for this feedback loop back in the 1950's and 1960's.
23 Fossil Fuels Advantages Relatively Cheap High energy density Fossil Fuels Advantages Relatively Cheap High energy density Used by a wide variety of engines and devices Extensive distribution network in place Disadvantages Nonrenewable - will deplete soon Combustion by - products pollute —
acid rain and contain greenhouse gases Extraction can
damage the environment Coal - fired power plants require large amounts of fuel
Other air pollutants, which contribute to
acid rain and can cause respiratory problems - sulphur dioxide (SO2), ammonia (NH3), particulate matter (PM10) and nitrogen oxides (NOx)- were found to cause $ 38 - 105 billion of
damage a year.
And it grew as
acid rain and the ozone hole demonstrated that pollution traveled hundreds or even thousands of kilometres from its source, doing
damage to people who did not benefit from the economic activity that produced it.
The problem in the 1980s was that American power plants were sending up vast clouds of sulfur dioxide, which was falling back to earth in the form of
acid rain,
damaging lakes, forests and buildings across eastern Canada and the United States.
Acid rain corrodes buildings and structures and acidifies freshwater environments,
damaging aquatic ecosystems (5).
So please indulge me for a pararaph... I find the following realization — based on
damage to ground - nesting birds» eggs by
acid rain — quite convincing.
Never mind the GHGs, the particulates / aerosols and
acid rain / ocean acidification will mask the warming and
damage CO2 absorbing / converting plants, coral, etc..