Does anybody remember acid rain? Was it a genuine threat or just a lot of old hoo hah like bird flu?

Answer 1

It was genuine, and a threat......
It was like Jurasic Park though.......
Overhyped and not nearly as scarey as the press made it out to be lol

Answer 2

it was a genuine threat in london in the late 70's and 80's there were actually acid rain coming down until the council decided that all the industries had to spread over the whole country rather than only there. acid rain was mainly due to pollution by-products and the main was sulphur (sulfuric acid was the reaction happening at the time) and now between filters fitted on chimneys and low sulphur car petrol the problem is temporary solved

Answer 3

Acid rain is/was a problem. Although it did not affect the UK on a large scale, it did affect Norway and Sweden to quite an extent. Changes in environmental policy helped prevent it becoming worse, abit like the spread of bird flu and SARS, spot something early enough, and the problem can be contained effectively

Answer 4

Remember it? Man...it is still here.

When industries burn sulfur oxide and nitrogen oxide emitting things, it goes up into our atmosphere and that is where it will mix in and create the acid rain.

It is still here with us in this world. It hasn't gone away. I think there has been plenty of improvements over the past years though.

Maybe you don't see it because of the fact that unlike bird flu, which can migrate easily (relatively), acid rain is more confined to the area of industry and immediately where the wind blows. Once the rain comes, the air is rid of these toxins and other areas will not have the acid rain.

Answer 5

Yes - acid rain was a genuine threat and was a problem. However, it was just a phase. As we polluted everything to cause acid rain, it eventually caused global warming, leading to no rain

As I sit in my London office sweltering, I think your question should be "Is acid rain better than no rain?"

Bird flu is also very serious - its like the deadly man flu, except affects birds, not blokes.

Answer 6

"Acid rain" is a broad term used to describe several ways that acids fall out of the atmosphere. A more precise term is acid deposition, which has two parts: wet and dry.

Wet deposition refers to acidic rain, fog, and snow. As this acidic water flows over and through the ground, it affects a variety of plants and animals. The strength of the effects depend on many factors, including how acidic the water is, the chemistry and buffering capacity of the soils involved, and the types of fish, trees, and other living things that rely on the water.

Dry deposition refers to acidic gases and particles. About half of the acidity in the atmosphere falls back to earth through dry deposition. The wind blows these acidic particles and gases onto buildings, cars, homes, and trees. Dry deposited gases and particles can also be washed from trees and other surfaces by rainstorms. When that happens, the runoff water adds those acids to the acid rain, making the combination more acidic than the falling rain alone.

Prevailing winds blow the compounds that cause both wet and dry acid deposition across state and national borders, and sometimes over hundreds of miles.


Scientists discovered, and have confirmed, that sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) are the primary causes of acid rain. In the US, About 2/3 of all SO2 and 1/4 of all NOx comes from electric power generation that relies on burning fossil fuels like coal.

Acid rain occurs when these gases react in the atmosphere with water, oxygen, and other chemicals to form various acidic compounds. Sunlight increases the rate of most of these reactions. The result is a mild solution of sulfuric acid and nitric acid.

Answer 7

Yes acid rain is a genuin threat not just hoo haa.

Taj Mahal is an example

Answer 8

Yes. It was very talked about and pushed on the media and may still be a problem but the media has moved on to what suits their current interest. Such as bird flu and the onslaught of killer bees,incidently where I live those north Canadian geese have become a problem the last few years.

Answer 9

i do not keep in mind some thing interior the early 60's. I do keep in mind a flu epidemic in 'seventy 3 -- i changed into in college and they fairly presented on the end of faculty on Wednesday that they were final college on Thursday and Friday because such numerous pupils were unwell. I o.k. might want to have forgotten a flu interior the 60's. i imagine I purely keep in mind the 'seventy 3 one because college closed and that i can keep in mind what grade i changed into in and, subsequently, can keep in mind the twelve months. Oh, to be youthful lower back and be satisfied there turned right into a flu undesirable sufficient that we were given out of faculty!!!

Answer 10

Yup, more old nonsense invented in the eighties to bring people down off their cocaine induced highs. Remember the hole in the ozone layer, the nuclear arms race and AIDS? Where are they now - all magically disappeared. We must have been such suckers back then.