Whatever happened to acid rain? – Joseph Goffman

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1. Fascinating video but you made a right dog's dinner of explaining the PH scale (1.08 onwards).

2. Scientists: This issue threatens to cause widespread environmental damage that could have severe impacts on human health, welfare, and infrastructure.

   For-profit corporations: But jobs and energy prices (i.e. our profit margins and executive bonuses)!

3. Ask Lorn

4. I really dont know why but when i read the first few words i heard it in my head like the theme song from full house

5. I’m glad I’m not the only one who was questioning this!

6. Now just imagine if we took climate change this seriously

7. I'd like to correct a small misconception, the curved tower in the power plant is responsible for cooling the water inside the cycle, thus it produces only steam not pollutants, byproducts of combustion comes from a thin chimney above or near the boilers, and it has to be high enough to disperse the gases away from the immediate area.

8. The mountainous collar coronally permit because ease independently man besides a temporary pheasant. mundane, hollow shadow

9. For an astute video like this I would like to see "footnotes". 4:35 For example, What "essential organisms" are the government releasing into the air to compensate for being killed off by acid rain?

10. Ok, that rain transition was the best animation I've seen in a while. It's a serious topic, but dang that was nice.

11. To the extent that the government grants to certain industry players some number of valuable permits, the cap and trade policy is a subsidy of polluting industry.

    A different policy would sell the permits at auction, then share proceeds from sale to all people.

    The policy will be fair if proceeds are shared equally to all.

    Permits should be for units of impact caused. Permits should not be a perpetual 10 tons per day permission slip (e.g.). (If that policy is in place, it can be effectively converted to a "Pay the people when you impact the env't" policy by taxing the holding of those permits that give access to or benefits from public resources / natural services. Taxing someone for holding an 'X amount of emissions per month' card counts as taxing someone who emits.)

12. Do you remember acid rain? Pepperidge farm remembers.

13. I think if we plant still water lakes, encourage algae growth regulated by snails within the lakes, nearby sources of acid rain, let’s say, a football field lake for every four football fields of city, we could offset acid rain by nurturing this algae alkaline water.

14. The government also gave all the jobs to China now Acid rain happens in China cause guess what they don’t care about the envirment 👍👍👍

15. You cannot stop ACID RAIN. GOD made that to punish man. Volcanoes produce ACID RAIN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEP0GNVk8hs (unfortunately nobody will read this)

16. Why these animations are so poor?

17. Ozone hole – solved with international cooperation
    Acid rains – solved with international cooperation
    Global Warming – somehow still regarded as a Communists and China conspiracy

18. Smurf

19. From what I've heard, that's actually not possible. There will have to be loads and loads and loads of factories for there to be acid rain

20. It's in the water
    it chagne the ph of the water look up yukon river was found acid rain since 1998 had this problem nobody really talk about it.

21. Bull shy

22. I'm shocked, that normal rain has pH of 5.4 – I thought, water is the most neutral thing on earth, playing at pH 7.000

23. Nothing will happen . India will continue to develop . No one can stop us in the name of fictional climate change

24. Scientists are cloud seeding again and claiming it's safe, so acid rain didn't go anywhere. It just took a break.

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26. Strange that you never hear about it anymore; I think that success stories like these will cause more people to take action or pressure their government/businesses than the constant gloom-and-doom we're provided with today, even from environmental activists.

    … That's probably exactly why it's not talked about as much.

27. Acid raiiiiin

28. This sucks smh 🤦🏽‍♀️ get ride of them now. Electric cars please

29. So we reduced pollution enough for acid rain to clear but climate change is still increasing. It sounds like we either hold the high limiting countries accountable or invest in research that reverses what the pollution started. If these things are not done, then the politicians don't really believe in climate change.

30. I don't understand how we can come to the conclusion that acid rain is causing these problems when studies, such as from National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program, indicate they don't. I'm sure having those chemicals in the air affects things, probably negatively, but I don't think it's clear what those things are. Plus, after we've reduced acid rain since the early 80s we still have acidic lakes in those few lakes that previously were found to be acidic.

31. Same thing that happened to the big hole in the ozone

32. its the "climate change" of the 70's. It's a lie and it didn't have any major impact on science, now what they have is climate change.

33. It was bottled up by Iron Eyes Cody, and dealt with… Shhhhhh!

34. This would have been largely irrelevant anyway; Natural Gas is far cheaper than the coal we were using, so it would have replaced it regardless. It was a matter of learning to frack. With no examples given of these supposed atrocities occurring in Russia, India, and China – all three countries I have been too and heard nothing about Acid Rain or its sequelae – I am going to chalk it up to more liberal propagandists trying to claim a win for accomplishing absolutely nothing but higher energy costs.

35. Russia, China and India don't let to live in peace to the western propaganda. Russia take only 13 place in the world behind USA and EU in volume of coal burned.

36. this is going to come off wrong but notice the bad white countries are the only ones stopping pollution. let hope the acid rain takes down the polluters

37. Is China suffering any consequences of acid rain? And from what I hear they haven't changed much from what they do have a lot of pollution. I think acid rain might be a little bit overdramatized. Some occupations cannot justify their funding without claiming to provide a solution for a serious problem even that problem has to be manufactured and exaggerated.

38. I remember this in the 80-90s. There was also the hole in the ozone layer scare, global warming and now morph to climate change.

39. This video is only bearable on 1.25 playback speed

40. I live in new hampshire

41. You made the "scientists" faces greenish-blue in a misguided attempt of inclusion and all you did was remind me how much I hate this kind of inhuman art.

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