Re:A researcher's response to people pointing out 150 errors...
by makomk on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @06:08AM
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Yeah. It's certainly interesting watching conservatives pointing to the fact that acid rail didn't turn into a catastrophe to justify their opposition to the kinds of emission limit that actually put a stop to acid rain in the first place.
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Re:A researcher's response to people pointing out 150 errors...
by mafribe on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @08:35AM
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This is indeed an important narrative, but it's not a priori clear
that you can infer from "the forests are alive and healthy in 2017"
to "If we had not instituted limits on sulfur pollution in the
1980s, the forests would be dead now.
I grew up next to some of the world's largest coal-fired power plants that regularly featured in "worlds biggest polluters" lists. The forests were fine before flue-gas desulfurisation just as much as after. Some countries enacted flue-gas desulfurisation earlier than others. The forests were fine before flue-gas desulfurisation just as much as after.
Anecdotal? Sure. But one wonders ...