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Re: Acid Rain
>
> What you read in Time magazine or the NY Times about "acid rain" usually
is
> utter scientific hogwash! It is inflammatory politics to scare folks into
> doing something some politicians and bureaucrats believe will keep them in
> office and give them a larger portion at the public feeding trough. *That*
> is the exact mythology I was talking about.
>
> The reality of acid rain is almost never discussed. Time magazine can't
sell
> ads by pointing out that essentially *all* rain starts out acid (dissolved
> atmospheric CO2 in unbuffered H2O guarantees it). The mythology of acid
rain
> (politics) has a bad tendency to squelch serious analysis and discussion,
> though.\
Sorry so late on responding to this thread but I've been working on the BNL.
I have to agree with Wright on this issue but my slant is twofold.
1) The liberal press will never report anything unbiased!
2) Acid rain is almost the same issue as global warming. Until we runout of
fossil fuels we will have this problem because it is to inconvenient for us
to search for a better, cheaper alternative. The government can't and won't
force Americans to deal with this problem and without someone forcing us to
deal with it we will not do so. New York actually has some of the toughest
anti pullution laws around,but the enforcement end has been historically
underfunded and therefore ineffective. So again the government skates on
making the people change.
Ted
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