Would you agree that this whole global warming scare is kind of like the acid rain scare in the 80's?

Question

What ever happened with acid rain

Answer 1

Back in the 70's the doomsayers ( dems and Liberals ) swore we were headed for an ice age but they realized global storming would make them more money.

P.S. The south pole has INCREASED it's ice by 6 inches

I'm working on theory that the Earth's orbit is deteriorating and that little by little the Earth is moving closer to the sun.

I really wanna have fun with these liberals

Nightflyer hasn't a clue that it is perfectly normal for the seasons to change

Answer 2

Do you not understand anything about science and the environment? There is still a hole in the ozone that forms over the poles. In the last ? maybe 30 years since we became aware of the problem we have developed better chemicals to use as refrigerants, coolants, and have stopped spewing so many chloroflurocarbons into the atmosphere. It looks as though we have acted in time and the hole is gradually getting a little smaller. No, we don't make up science ... we use it to try and figure out solutions to problems. Often our scientific discoveries end up causing problems, then we have to work to alleviate those problems. We can't conquer the earth but we certainly can affect its surface and its plant/animal populations. I guess you have no children and don't plan on having any.

Answer 3

Yes it is a lot like the Acid Rain scare in the 70's. Even if it was a hoax, some of the worst plants that were spewing pollutants into the air got cleaned up. That's why I don't get why China isn't using the techniques the US created in the 80's to the plants they are putting into place today. Bad air quality from pollutants is worse then any Climate Change we are experiencing. I know since I have Asthma.

Answer 4

Acid Rain was a real issue back in the 1980's, and it was largely addressed by the Acid Rain rules signed by President George H.W. Bush. The Acid Rain rules used a trading program, so that coal-fired utilities which emitted acid rain pollutants (nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxides) could trade credits, to reduce emissions.

That same trading program, which is widely considered a success, will once again be used for the new global warming regulations.

Answer 5

No, they are not alike.

The acid rain problem was an easily identifiable problem with a simple solution. Problem: SOx and NOx in coal burning emissions. Solution: Scrubbers and low sulfur coal. Relatively easy and relatively painless.

Global warming is a complex problem with no easy solution. Problem: Rising average global temperature due to CO2, other GHG's, land use, solar variations, ocassional vulcanism, etc, etc, etc. There is a long list of contributing factors. Solutions: No matter what people think, reducing CO2 is just not easy. People don't want more nuclear. Capture and sequestration is many years off. Wind and solar are intermittment power sources. Half the worlds population lives in abject poverty and needs cheap power.

Answer 6

Might be. It is much to early to tell.

It is almost comical. Old Al has people so scared I read all the time comments as to how global warming is causing it to be so hot this month, or this year. Fact is, even if you totally believe the data, the world is warming about 1/100 to 2/100 of a degree a year on average. the change in the climate is per year is very difficult to measure with the best instruments. Man cannot even feel the average change that is occurring over 20-30 years.

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Answer 7

Acid rain? Is THAT what happened to George Michael's jeans?

;)

Yes, I think it's just like the acid rain scare of the 80s. And the global cooling scare of the 70s. In fact, if you look at average temperatures over the last few decades, they've been up and down quite a bit. Seems like we're not ruining the earth as much as we thought...

Answer 8

It is actually worse. With acid rain, there was actual scientific evidence that we had acid rain. With global warming they have no real scientific evidence, and yet they want to tax the hell out of americans. The real agenda, redistribution of wealth.

Answer 9

In my humble opinion each generation has had a doom and gloom prediction that may contain a small grain of truth but that generally turns out to be another way for certain groups to get more money out of us or to take away some of our freedom. If we can't rid our cities of blight and decay how are we going to clean up a whole planet? Mother nature herself has natural warming and cooling cycles that have been around before man ever was on this earth with his suvs. so relax a little.. don't get excited by the latest fad.. after all if you can't even keep your room or home clean.. how are you going to clean the earth???:)

Answer 10

There are some great post here on the side of acid rain. It was real and is still a problem in many parts of the world, like China. They do not use the scrubber technology we have, and now their buildings and monuments are starting to decay just as ours did. They also have lakes that have gone lifeless as many of our lakes in the north east are just beginning to recover.

It amazes me where some of this crap about environmentalism comes from.

Where do they get this stuff? Rush Limbag...

Is this what home schooling is all about, brain washing or should I say brain shrinking... because I can't believe any of this negative garbage is being taught in a normal school system, and it certainly is not coming from our universities.

So is it people just throwing ca ca to get a reaction?

Answer 11

I admit that I was taken in by the acid rain scare . It made sense to me that acidity helped perpetuate bogs. It may be true that sulfur did add to the acidity of the rain, but what is not true is that it seriously added to deforestation. It has been proven a myth and so I am not surprised that environmentalists, (i.e Dana) would try to claim credit for solving it when in fact it never really was a problem. They seem to have no shame when trying to push their agenda (not Dana, I am sure he means well).