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In her work, Rothschild finds that the impetus for cooperating across the Iron Curtain on air pollution monitoring came not from Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, as other historians have argued, but from a group of scientists and environmental officials in Norway working on acid rain in the early - to - mid-1970s.

«EMEP's formation illuminates the importance of developing technological networks and international research projects on acid rain in furthering both détente among European countries as well as international research and policies for environmental protection,» she concludes.

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In the 1970s, AOERP had concerns about the impact of sulphur oxide emissions and the resulting acid rain on lakes in the tar sands area in northeastern AlbertIn the 1970s, AOERP had concerns about the impact of sulphur oxide emissions and the resulting acid rain on lakes in the tar sands area in northeastern Albertin the tar sands area in northeastern Albertin northeastern Alberta.

In vetoing the bill, Reagan, who has dragged his feet on acid rain for six years and has underfunded the EPA, seemed all too willing to draw battle lines.

But she has also been criticized on her environmental record, including her vote to reject Environmental Protection Agency carbon limits for coal - fueled power plants, a chief cause of acid rain in the Adirondack Park.

His administration became the first in the country to develop an Energy Plan and to sign into law controls on acid rain among many undertakings.»

Propaganda opposing DHMO cites the substance's presence in acid rain, use in naval warfare, and the fact that professional athletes can become dependent on its performance - enhancing abilities.

In Scotland, it mostly originates far away as nitrogen oxides from power stations and car exhausts, which travel on the wind and eventually fall as acid rain.

The meeting was the first large - scale attempt to bridge the gap between scientists and policymakers on a wide range of atmospheric problems, including not just the greenhouse effect but also acid rain and the depletion of the protective layer of ozone in the stratosphere.

Acid rain following the impact may also have played a role in the extinction, as could the additional stress on global climate from the massive volcanic eruptions that occurred 65 million years ago in India's Deccan Traps.

In the 1980s, under conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney, Canada led the way in international policies to control acid rain and chlorofluorocarbons: the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer is the most successful piece of international environmental legislation ever enacteIn the 1980s, under conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney, Canada led the way in international policies to control acid rain and chlorofluorocarbons: the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer is the most successful piece of international environmental legislation ever enactein international policies to control acid rain and chlorofluorocarbons: the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer is the most successful piece of international environmental legislation ever enacted.

The Integrated Nitrogen Committee of the EPA's science advisory board, which held a June public teleconference on the issue of reactive nitrogen in the environment, has generated a draft report that lays out the details, including management options for nitric acid rain.

James O. Sickman, an environmental scientist at the University of California, Riverside, has conducted research on lakes in the Sierra Nevada — the most sensitive lakes in the U.S. to acid rain, according to the Environmental Protection Agency — and described human impacts on them during the 20th century.

In the 1974 Science paper «Acid Rain: A Serious Regional Environmental Problem,» which made «acid rain» a household term, scientist Gene Likens and his team reported on New Hampshire rain showers as acidic as lemon juAcid Rain: A Serious Regional Environmental Problem,» which made «acid rain» a household term, scientist Gene Likens and his team reported on New Hampshire rain showers as acidic as lemon juRain: A Serious Regional Environmental Problem,» which made «acid rain» a household term, scientist Gene Likens and his team reported on New Hampshire rain showers as acidic as lemon juacid rain» a household term, scientist Gene Likens and his team reported on New Hampshire rain showers as acidic as lemon jurain» a household term, scientist Gene Likens and his team reported on New Hampshire rain showers as acidic as lemon jurain showers as acidic as lemon juice.

And that's just in the United States: as other countries increase energy production by incinerating fossil fuels, acid rain is on the rise.

To find out whether acid rain was indeed the problem, the team focused on one problematic sliding layer in the Jiweishan avalanche: a thin bed of black shale, which contains slippery clay minerals such as talc, in addition to fine organic material and calcite, which helps cement the shale together.

Bishop's work built on an earlier study of acid rain impacts on sugar maple forests in the Adirondacks.

Because I don't know enough science to debate contrarians scientifically, I usually fall back on: Suppose the mainstream climate scientists are wrong & the contrarians right, and we act as if the scientists are right, then we have nothing to lose & something to gain in terms of reducing other environmental harms (acid rain, local pollution), resource depletion, and increasing national security (re oil wars & protection), and lots of money to save from energy / resource efficiency & conservation, and increasing from alternative energy.

Many of us were not aware of the dangers of over-eating large fish like tuna / sushi decades ago, were inappropriately exposed to amalgams for cavities, have a history of using toxic health & beauty aids, and live in an area where acid rain exposes us to too much mercury on a consistent basis.

I wouldn't eat anything grown in China with their toxic rivers, air pollution coming down as acid rain, and toxic soil, unless the food is grown on high hills / mountains, so no toxic river water, and industrial pollution, and is certified organic.

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Through the Kids Network, students work collaboratively to examine scientific issues, such as the effects of acid rain on vegetation in their area.

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«Once up on a time», «In a land filled with flowers and garbage...», «After the acid rain...»

In the summer of 1982 on his first trip to Finland he became aware of the effects of acid rain on the lakes and forests of Scandinavia, and the patently inadequate response of the establishment.

In a few years from now when it finally dawns on people that we have been taken for the umpteenth scare ride (Club of Rome, Paul Ehrlich, Acid rain, Ozone layer, DDT and many more) the Media will look to themselves and wonder, «how the hell could we be this stupid» Time Magazine and Newsweek know all about that after reporting on the «next Ice Age» scare of the 1970s.

Would it be true that most sulfuric acid is neutralized by terrestrial buffers when it rains, thereby limiting its effect on ocean pH beyond just the constraints inherrent in its small concentrations?

Because I don't know enough science to debate contrarians scientifically, I usually fall back on: Suppose the mainstream climate scientists are wrong & the contrarians right, and we act as if the scientists are right, then we have nothing to lose & something to gain in terms of reducing other environmental harms (acid rain, local pollution), resource depletion, and increasing national security (re oil wars & protection), and lots of money to save from energy / resource efficiency & conservation, and increasing from alternative energy.

EVEN NATURE»S Warnings inflicted on the world in the form of ACID RAIN and OZONE Depletion -LRB-(proven to be caused by Human / Industry dumping of Chemicals into the atmosphere)-RRB- have been ignored or ridiculed by the USUAL SUSPECTS.

SO2 and other SOx can also cause acid rain, which goes on to harm sensitive ecosystems, and react with other compounds in the atmosphere to form fine particles that reduce visibility (also known as haze).

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.

Quite frankly, the various arguments on consensus (and denial thereof by the pseudoskeptics) are equivalent to discussing the number of angels who can dance on a pin, given that by any measure the scientific consensus on AGW is as high as that on ozone depletion by CFCs, acid rain, or the dangers of smoking tobacco, in all of which we found the consensus sufficient to act.

When life on Earth ends, however, no one will know what caused it — the cause could have been ANY of the MANY environmental threats we were told were going to end life on Earth as we knew it, starting in the 1960s with DDT... then other pesticides, acid rain, hole in the ozone layer, global warming, global cooling, climate change, etc..

Cap and trade was first used to remove lead from gasoline and then worked into amendments to the Clean Air Act in 1990 to force power plants to cut back on sulfur dioxide, one of the chemicals that produce acid rain.

Moderator: Bill in DC has another question — In other US cap and trade programs, such as the Acid Rain program, compliance costs on a per - ton basis fell rapidly below pre-program estimatein DC has another question — In other US cap and trade programs, such as the Acid Rain program, compliance costs on a per - ton basis fell rapidly below pre-program estimateIn other US cap and trade programs, such as the Acid Rain program, compliance costs on a per - ton basis fell rapidly below pre-program estimates.

In the late 80's a significant portion of TRL research was dedicated to understanding the impacts of acid rain on eastern North American forests.

Its history repeating itself, as the Chamber has made false claims about economic costs on everything from acid rain protections in 1990, to smog reduction measures of 1997, to mercury standards of 2011.

While working on his Masters degree, he participated in field programs studying acid rain in the Northeast U.S. and air pollution in the Detroit area.

Most greens will, in the end, support weak cap and trade legislation because a cap and trade law on sulfur dioxide reduced acid rain in the»90s.

The Polar bears stubbornly refuse to go extinct, indeed the buggers are thriving, the glaciers don't appear to be disappearing, sea levels have stayed boringly level, we haven't been subsumed by hordes of desperate climate refugees, the polar ice caps haven't melted, the Great Barrier Reef is still with us, we haven't fought any resource wars, oil hasn't run out, the seas insist on not getting acidic, the rainforest is still around, islands have not sunk under the sea, the ozone holes haven't got bigger, the world hasn't entered a new ice age, acid rain appears to have fallen somewhere that can't quite be located, the Gulf Stream hasn't stopped, extreme weather events have been embarrassingly sparse in recent years and guess what?

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?

At that time environmentalists were making strides in shutting coal plants and tightening federal regulations on acid rain and smog - forming chemicals.

Rights - of - way on public lands result in landscape and habitat fragmentation, while coal combustion produces a number of gaseous byproducts, including CO2, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and methane — which exacerbate climate change and are associated with ground - level ozone (smog), air pollution, and acid rain.

Subsequently, it was determined that there had been no «waldsterben»: on the contrary, forests in Northern Europe had grown throughout the period of the Acid Rain scare.

The worsening of the picture, ironically, is due to a projected cleansing of the atmosphere in coming decades of other emissions from fuel burning that have a cooling influence on climate — specifically the veil of tiny particles of sulfates from unfiltered burning of coal and oil that contribute to smog and acid rain.

As a result, the law costs utilities just $ 3 billion annually, not $ 25 billion, according to a recent study in the Journal of Environmental Management; by cutting acid rain in half, it also generates an estimated $ 122 billion a year in benefits from avoided death and illness, healthier lakes and forests, and improved visibility on the Eastern Seaboard.

In 1990, President Bush signed a Clean Air Act amendment on acid rain, and, two years later, he signed a global - warming treaty at a United Nations meeting in Rio de JaneirIn 1990, President Bush signed a Clean Air Act amendment on acid rain, and, two years later, he signed a global - warming treaty at a United Nations meeting in Rio de Janeirin Rio de Janeiro.

Chemically, there will be an increase in ozone depletion (due to increases in heterogenous surface chemistry in the stratosphere), increases in acid rain, possibly an increase in high cirrus cloud cover due to indirect effects of the sulphates on cloud lifetime.

Even if those people who don't believe in global warming are right... with 3 out of 5 people on the planet living in Asia and their economies and thus their electricity demand rising exponentially, if they do install all coal to meet demand the plume of black smoke and acid rain will fast become a North American problem.