Whatever Happened to ACID RAIN?

sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions have been cut massively. we burn way way less coal now.
big problem in india right now though

Yep whatever we do on our tiny little island, means nothing when China, India, Pakistan etc couldn't give a 5hit about wildlife or anything.

dont hear much about purple rain either

Around the same time as the Acid Rain predictions, there seemed to be an astonishing number of nicely brought up white middle-class people who used to wear 'red gold and green' wristbands. They would often be heard talking earnestly about 'Jah', 'Babylon', 'No Dread' and other exciting vibrant developments in Jamaican accents. 

Whatever happened to them?   Dd they get subsumed by Gangsta Rap instead?

They moved on and are today participating in the tory leadership contest

fair

Acid rain?

Jo Brand collects it in a bucket.

All rain is acid. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere becomes carbonic acid in rainwater. If it didn't, rainfall wouldn't release trace elements such as copper and iron in the soil, and plants wouldn't grow.

Any increase in acidity from sulphur dissolving in so-called acid rain isn't going to have any sudden destructive effect (the pH scale is logarithmic - normal rain is pH 5, acid rain is pH 4, as is tomato juice, while orange juice is pH 3, lemon juice is pH 2, stomach juice is pH 1, and it's not until you get to Jo Brand-style battery acid, which is pH 0, that you get to something you'd conventionally consider harmful).

As far as I'm aware, just about all the supposed devastation caused by acid rain has turned out to be the work of disease, insects or frost.

Acid rain!  Takes me back to my GCSE geography days (1999-2001).  Back then it was destroying forests in Scandinavia, apparently.  Haven't heard of it since.

Chit chat at its finest.
1. A problem was identified.
2. Significant measures were made to mitigate and solve problem (in this part of the world).
3. "Wasn't a problem in the first place"

When I was at Uni in the 70's they kept telling us the world would run out of oil within 10 years.