> Le 12 oct. 2018 à 19:46, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
> The Wind River Mountains in Wyoming were suffering the same degredation,
> and the acid was primarily from coal-fired power plants in California and
> Utah. That problem is also well on the mend.
I’m getting a bit confused at this point in the thread. Are you referring to
this same degradation?I quote : " About three decades ago I had one of these
where I worked. She came in one day with no bra and made certain that I knew
it. «
Amities
Philippe
>
>>
>> I worked with ecologists in New England in the 70s and 80s. Acid rain
>> was real and extremely damaging, especially in granite-dominated New
>> England, which lacked the buffering ability of soils based on
>> sedimentary rock. Lakes were losing aquatic invertebrates that fish
>> higher up the food chain depended on. Forest were dying from nutrients
>> leached from their foliage by sulphuric acid. Even human artifacts,
>> like metal bridges and cement structures, were undergoing accelerated
>> aging.
>>
>> Coal-fired electricity was largely the problem. Richard Nixon's Clean
>> Air Act required coal plants to either burn low-sulphur fuel, or to
>> install "scrubbers" to remove the acid-rain-causing sulphur compounds.
>> Sulphur was banned from most diesel fuel.
>>
>> The result? The lakes and soils of New England are recovering, thus
>> your impression that "it doesn't matter any more."
>>
>
> Chris
>
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