what are the few countries that are affected by acid rain?

Answer 1

North Korea, United States, India and many other industrialized nations.

Answer 2

W., C.USA N. E., E. USA E., W., C. Canada
Peru, Ecuador N. Columbia S. Columbia
W.Brazil, N., W.Bolivia N.W. Venezuela Brazil, Venezuela
Spain, Great Britain Great Britain Guyana, French Guyana
Austria, Germany Norway Surinam, Guinea
France, Poland S. Sweden Sierra Leone, Liberia
N. Italy S. Finland Ivory Coast, N.Morocco
Czechoslovakia (past) Austria Cameroon, Gabon
Yugoslavia Germany Congo, Angola
Hungary, Romania France Namibia, Zambia
Bulgaria, Albania Poland Mozambique, Tanzania
Lithuania, Latvia E. Nigeria Zaire, C.African Rep.
C., W.Russia N. Cameroon Uganda, Madagascar
S.Africa, N., E.Nigeria E. China S. India, Sri Lanka
N. W. Saudi Arabia S. Myanmar
Iraq, N.Syria Thailand, Laos
Uzbekistan Cambodia, S.Vietnam
C.India, E., C.China Indonesian Is.
S. Japan Australia (N.Queensland)

Answer 3

Who says it's only a few? The real answer to your question is pretty much any country can have acid rain. Well, with the exception of nations composed entirely of small islands in the middle of the south Pacific, perhaps... I doubt they get much acid rain, yet.

Acid rain, in general, comes indirectly from emissions containing sulphur and carbon. So anywhere you have a plume of that, interacting with weather, you could potentially get acid rain. Now your question suggests leftist oriented thinking as if the only source of sulphur and carbon emissons was the evil corporations intent on raping mother earth. Indeed certain industrial processes, and the burning of high sulphur coal, produce plumes that cause acid rain.

But the biggest sources of such emissions are natural.

In a single volcanic event more sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide and other gas that can lead eventually to acid rain is released than the human race produces in a year. Furthermore, volcanic eruptions cause much quicker, and much more significant, effects on weather than the global warming alarmists are trying to scare you into believing man is causing. But think about it - if the earth so quickly recovers from the major NATURAL release of greenhouse gasses and other weather affecting products, how is it that a trivial increase from .3% to .4% of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is all that to be worried about? As my dad says, that's a change going from next to nothing to almost nothing.

In fact, in a recent issue of Scientific American the scare-mongers were at it again.

This batch is suggesting it's methane, not carbon dioxide, that may be the main cause of anthropogenic warming and it's not the first time I've heard this radical new theory (previously it was "settled" that methane was quickly scrubbed out of the atmosphere and hence not a significant source of global warming, but I guess this is just further proof there is no real "consensus" other than yes, we did actually have a period of warming that coincided nicely with increased solar output and peaked at the same time the sun stopped acting up so much).

Anyway, in the Scientific American article, they presented a methane graph with a scale of parts per billion (their graph went from .0004% to .0016%, actually) since at that scale methane measurements produce a nice spike that goes off the chart at the end. They used parts per million for carbon dioxide (from .2% to .35%) since the carbon dioxide graph can be tweaked to produce nice peaks at that scale. Unfortunately since, for once, they showed a nice long timescale, it's plain to see there have been methane and carbon dioxide peaks for the past 650,000 years that seem somewhat to correspond with the increases in global temperature surmised through various sorts of data - the key there is that temperature, methane and carbon dioxide have been spiking up together periodically for the last 650,000 years, since long before man even existed. So how exactly is the planet's temperature driven by man if it happened regularly and naturally before man existed?

Plus, if you've actually thought this whole "global warming" hype through you know that the rises in greenhouse gasses might actually be an effect, not a cause.

The other thing I liked about the charts in Scientific American is that they show that the earth repeatedly has been warmer, and has warmed faster, than what we are currently experiencing, again since well before man existed.

OH, and do you know a probbly reason why they're starting to push methane as the real problem? Because cows make it when they ruminate so to solve the problem we'd all have to give in to PETA and become nice little vegitarians. Only they're not thinking it through - because methane is also produced by rice - and rice is a staple of much of Asia. Who's gonna tell China and eveyone else they have to give up rice?

Answer 4

Peru, Ecuador N. Columbia S. Columbia
W.Brazil, N., W.Bolivia N.W. Venezuela Brazil, Venezuela

Answer 5

There are no countries that are not affected by acid rain. If it's not H2SO4 or HNO3 it's H2CO3. And then there's the ubiquitous hydroxilic acid.

Answer 6

North Korea believe it or not, it was the lowest poulation or one of them due to no ecomany

Answer 7

US and other heavy polluting nations.