bripat9643
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And the sulphuric acid produced when you burn it saves you having to slash and burn forests.
You're the biggest liar in the forum. Prove those trees were killed by emissions from a coal fired power plant.
As you wish
Acid Rain Facts, Acid Rain Information, Acid Rain Pictures, Acid Rain Effects - National Geographic
Now, an apology for calling me a liar, please.
Your article didn't prove jack shit. It was nothing but a collection of baseless claims environmentalists have made about acid rain. There wasn't a shred of evidence to support them.
Acid rain is bullshit. It always has been.
In 1990, the federal government completed a 10-year, $537 million study to determine whether or not acid rain posed a threat to the environment and human health. This study, called the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program (NAPAP), involved 700 top scientists, and was one of the largest studies ever undertaken. This study found that special interest scare-mongering over “acid rain” was not based on facts, that acid rain caused very little damage to the environment, and that it posed virtually no risk to human health. In fact, Dr. James R. Mahoney, the director of the study, said that: “The more extreme views in both directions expressed by individual scientists and the media have been rendered unlikely to be correct.”
The NAPAP study found that in the entire United States less than 5 percent of lakes and 10 percent of streams had high levels of acidity, and that some of this occurred naturally. While a small number of fish were affected by acid levels in lakes, only about one third of this was caused by any kind of acid rain. The study found that forests were barely affected. Only one species of tree affected by acid rain was identified, and even these trees experienced only “a reduction in cold tolerance...at high elevations.” As for the rest of America’s forests, the study found that “the majority of North American forests are healthy.” In terms of damage to crops and buildings, the study found that “there is currently no widespread forest or crop damage in the U.S. related to [acid rain]” and that the effects of acid rain on the condition of buildings could not be determined because so many other factors, such as the quality of routine maintenance, were involved.
Most importantly, the NAPAP study found that “acid rain” posed virtually no threat to human health. The study also found that special interest groups had simply assumed that there was a threat to humans, but that this had not been clearly demonstrated. The director of the study stated that any effects on human health “appear to be important only in isolated, unusual cases.”