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Yeah...the Clean Air Act required factories to install scrubbers to scrub sulfur and nitrogen from exhaust. Sulfur and nitrogen gas increases acidity of water a LOT. This pretty much resolved the actual crisis of VERY acid rain within a few years of implementation.
Rain is still acidic, 5 to 5.5pH, but that's fairly normal historically. Most plants like slightly acidic environments, down to about 5pH, but much lower and you start killing them, and that was the real danger. The excess sulfur, especially, was driving pH below 5, literally killing forests.
CO2 has widely been blamed for acid rain, but I think that was mainly to keep the battle against fossil fuels alive. Rain pH is generally back within normal range, and the problem really is pretty much solved. And that's why you don't really hear about it anymore. Though you'd think they'd have celebrated the achievement. But again, they need to keep the anti-fossil fuels argument going.
Sensible environmental protection and actual pollution prevention is good. It's also fully compatible with capitalism because you don't have a right to damage the property of others.
Regulating harmless plant food (CO2) and climate hysteric communism is bad.
CO2 has widely been blamed for acid rain, but I think that was mainly to keep the battle against fossil fuels alive.
That and the fact that CO2 is very soluble in water and forms carbonic acid. As long as there's CO2 in the atmosphere rain will be acidic, and the more CO2 there is the more acidic it will be. It's just chemistry.
True, but, the pH of carbonic acid is only 4.8, which is almost 20,000 times less acidic than sulfuric acid at 0.5. CO2 has an effect, it just isn't a very big one. And fortunately, it can never drive rain acidity lower than 4.8.
humans have any effect on global climate
No. No. No. No no no no no.
Did I say anything about climate? We're talking about the acidity of rain.
I garden. I grow plants hydroponically, and in soil, and in coconut hair, and in blocks of basalt rock that's been superheated and blown into fiber.
pH of the water is CRITICAL to plant growth. I adjust the pH of my water using ACID, because reverse osmosis water is a perfect 7pH. Usually I use Phosphoric acid, but, Sulfuric acid will do the trick too. I add DROPS of acid to a gallon of 7pH water, and it adjusts down to 5.
Factories pumping acid into the air, WILL increase the acidity of water vapor and water droplets. Those companies were forced to scrub that acid from their exhaust, before it went into the environment. Rain acidity decreased. Problem solved, you don't hear about it anymore.
And it has nothing, at all, to do with climate.
Apparently numbnuts aka blocked me, but I wrote a whole response and everything:
The composition of rain has nothing to do with the weather, the climate, or whatever. It has to do with the composition of the air in which the rain forms.
My experience adjusting pH is intended to demonstrate that I know how easy it is to adjust pH. It is easy. It takes very little acid to adjust a lot of water. I pour acid into water, and the water becomes more acidic. Likewise, when there is more acidic gas in the air when rain forms, the rain will be more acidic.
I didn't say anything about cars.
It's no coincidence that my experience is completely relevant, AND bolsters my point.
You appear to have no ability to process information rationally. You don't appear to be able to construct your own arguments, but instead sling insults and dodge pertinent points. You appear to get angry easily.
*Yo, I think we got a nigger over here!
Weather, climate, whatever. Humans are not acidifying the rain.
It is 100% irrelevant that you both garden and fix cars. What is cohencidental is that each thing you do is 1: irrelevant to the conversation, 2: is used to bolster your point.
You are annoying as fuck.
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