Remember Acid Rain ???

Question

Could Global Warming be this generations version of Acid Rain ??? That is to say . . . Acid Rain was finally controlled. Can we control Global Warming or is it too late ???

Answer 1

What about Purple Rain ???

Answer 2

Acid rain has not been completely controlled.. However, it was reduced by controlling Sulfur and Nitrogen Oxides being emitted from power plants and tailpipes. It still occurs and it is still causing some environmental degradation but . . .

Unfortunately, CO2 -- or Carbon Dioxide (not carbon monoxide as one other person said) which is the "greenhouse gas" that causes Global Warming is harder and much more expensive to control.

CO2 is the ultimate breakdown product of burning any carbon based fuel.. therefore, it is produced in copious amounts (i.e. a LOT of it). So when you compare this with the amount of NOx and the SOx produced (because Nitrogen and Sulfur are impurities and only there in small amounts) the cost of controlling acid rain may be minuscule compared with the cost of controlling CO2 -- if it can even be done

BTW ..I have seen estimates that CO2 controls will double the cost of electricity..

That said .. it is not to late to control some of it and to reduce some of its impact.. so I am not saying not to .. only that it is a bigger problem..

Answer 3

Global warming can be controlled. It's a bigger problem--and the aftereffects will last longer.

But--there's another differnce: cost. Controlling acid rain cost money (no getting around that--necessary as it was). But the key to controlling global warming isn't retrofitting expensive equipment into manufacturing plants, cars, etc.

Eliminating global warming means cutting CO2 emissions--and most of the technologies we need to do that will spur economic growth--new technologies, industries, and jobs that will appear as we replace the obsolete fossil fuel technology we now rely on And--in the long run, it will save consumers money as well. Fossil fuel and other old technologies aren't efficient--and are expensive. Stop and think--most of it, from gasoline engines to incandescent light bulbs--is notoriously energy -innefficient technology that dates from the 1800s. Switching to modern methods is long overdue, global warming or no global warming.

Answer 4

Yes I believe we can control global warming because of what history has told us about man's ability to solve difficult problems. The most important thing to achieve this is a lot of pushing in the right direction by incentives for new green alternatives but also some regulations and/or taxation of emissions of greenhouse gases. If the right decisions is made, we will have more inventions in this area than we can ever think of as possible today and within hundred years the burning of oil and coal to produce energy will look as old fashioned as a typewriter is today. But this will not happen without efforts and it's time for us to speed up.

B t w, now we also have acid oceans because of the large amount of CO2 that the oceans are sucking up...

Answer 5

Acid rain is still around, we have just decreased it. Global warming is a harder nut to crack.

Answer 6

Although Global Warming exists to some extent, the liberal media blows it so far out of proportion. Of course it's George Bush's fault.

Earth has seen decades of temperatures increase and decrease over the past100 years. Time magazine has covers every 10 years or so asking if we're all going to melt or freeze to death.

We need to be responsible citizens and control what we can, but Mother Nature is going to run her course. We can't control it.

Answer 7

We can't control global because it is a natural cycle. Other planets in our solar system are heating up to. This man made global warming is just b/s.

Answer 8

We can't stop it but we can reduce it enough to cope.

Here's a plan, developed by hundreds of scientists and economists from all over the world working together. It is practical and affordable.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,481085,00.html
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM040507.pdf

Answer 9

we cannot control it....see the 1st thing one has to do is stop the emission of green house gases,which is to say frankly,IMPOSSIBLE.Because carbon monoxide which is emitted from the combustion of petrol and other fossil fuels is also one of the GHG......since we have not found out any fuel that can entirely be a sub. for fossil suel it is impossible to control GM......

Answer 10

it's too late to prevent some of the changes that GW brings... but not all of them.