Sentences with phrase «consequences of acid rain»

Calcium deficient fauna, poor conditions for freshwater fish and mercury in the drinking water is the long - term consequences of acid rain in the 70ies and 80ies.

Not exact matches

Watson said his team still needs to determine which substances would work best at reflecting light, how much is needed to have an effect, and the possible unintended consequences of injecting the particles into the atmosphere, such as acid rain, ozone depletion or weather pattern disruption.

Coming in at $ 5,000 a month is Idso's principal partner in the regular IPCC attack, Fred Singer, who for the last 20 years has denied pretty much any health threat with a corporate sponsor: the health impacts of second - hand smoke; coal's role in creating acid rain; the danger of asbestos; or DDT; the role of CFCs in creating the ozone hole; and, of course, the human cause and potential consequences of climate change.

«The switch to heavier fossil fuels has already caused much popular concern,» Warner wrote in an article published by the United Nation Environment Program, «primarily seen in some nations» fear of the effects of acid rain, and the general fear that excessive use of these fuels may so build up CO2 in the atmosphere that the Earth's temperature may increase, with some disastrous consequences.