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moredale7

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Climate change, before that it was called Global warming. Are any of you old enough to remember the "acid Rain" scare of the 1970's and 80's////basically it was saying ontario forests and many lakes in muskoka are dead lakes because of this........then we didnt hear anything...I googled what happened

Remember the big “acid rain” scare during the 1970s and 1980s attributing damage to lakes and forests to emissions from Midwestern utilities? If so, did you ever hear the results of a more than half-billion-dollar, 10-year-long national Acid Precipitation Assessment Program study that was initiated in 1980 to research the matter?

Probably not.

As it turned out, those widespread fears proved to be largely unfounded, since only one species of tree at a high elevation suffered any notable effect, and acidity in lakes was traced to natural causes. The investigating scientists reported that they had “turned up no smoking gun; that the problem is far more complicated than it been thought; that other factors combine to harm trees; and that sorting out the cause-and-effect was difficult and in some cases impossible.”
The acid rain around Sudbury was not misinformation. Many of the lakes within a few hundred miles had all fish species die off as a result of the big stack peppering the atmosphere with toxins that came down with the rain. Lakes that where bowl-shaped were hit hardest because the shape of the surrounding topography resulted in runoff from the rain contributing to the death of indigenous species of plants and animals living in the lakes. The list of dead lakes in northern Ontario in the seventies was staggering and the locals will attest to that. Acid rain hit lakes harder than trees so our analogies are divergent in that respect however the effects of acid rain were real and heartfelt by indigenous people and as well anyone taking sustenance from the lakes. I can Remember Lake Ramsay being coated in dead brown slime and there was nothing alive there until the late nineties as a result of the introduction of lime treatment and the re-introduction of fish species via the government's efforts in repopulating the lakes. Acid rain was real for some more than others.
 

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You're kidding. A 32 year-old article? We've learned a bit since then. And none of what we've learned has shown the problem to be spurious. It is real. Using an innacurate prediction is like saying "My horse didn't win the race, so I guess it wasn't in it."

And you want another prediction, without hyperbole? How about Svante Arrhenius in 189fucking6? https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/Arrhenius

The List Of 120 Years Of Climate Scares By Scientists

The List Of 120 Years Of Climate Scares By Scientists | 710 WOR | Mark Simone (iheart.com)
 
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No, but many things previously made from oil-based plastics can be made from bamboo, or other materials. This really isn't hard to understand.
Show me a solar panel made of bamboo . Your previous replies don't consider a reply .
 

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Acid rain is caused by Oxides of sulfur and Oxides of Nitrogen mixing with water which lowers the PH of the water and turns it acidic.

Scrubbers on Coal power stations took care of most of the Sulfur Oxide emissions, and vehicle emissions standards took care of most Nitrogen Oxide emissions.

Acid rain is real and the damage it does is real and our counter to it is also real.
thanks for the information, I am sure it is true I wonder though why they dont talk about it anymore? when I was kid it was on the news all the time, i guess we solved the problem for the most of it
 

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How are they doing with the homeless ? They solve the problem ? Climate scam goes back way back before 70s .
Almost nobody actually cares about the homeless situation unless they get in your face and there are activists out there who will make sure that problem will never be solved [see the camping in parks situation.
Not the same thing at all.

Also what, are you suggesting that the homeless don't exist? It's a scam? What's the connection between that and than calling climate change a scam.
 
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NotADcotor

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I don’t have to show you where it says we’re running out. Lol. It will eventually run out. That fact is indisputable.
I looked into that during the peak oil fear mongering that the fringe people were so on about. No it won't. I suppose at some point if we kept expanding our use than sometime in the future we would get to the point where the cost of extracting it would not be worth it. However we will move away from fossil fuels long before that point. Either because of action on climate change or just better alternatives. As one OPEC dude I think it was said, the stone age didn't end because they ran out of stone.
 

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Nearly two-thirds of Canadians support oil and gas emissions cap, even if it puts jobs at risk: poll

MARIEKE WALSH
OTTAWA
PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 12, 2021


A flare stack lights the sky from an oil refinery in Edmonton, on Dec. 28, 2018.
JASON FRANSON/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Almost two-thirds of Canadians support immediately capping greenhouse gas emissions from the oil sands – even if it puts jobs at risk, according to a new poll.

Sixty-three per cent of respondents to a Nanos Research poll said they agree or somewhat agree that Canada should immediately limit emissions from the oil and gas sector and curtail them over time. Thirty-four per cent said they either disagree or somewhat disagree, and 3 per cent said they are unsure.

The poll, conducted for The Globe and Mail, also shows the country is “fundamentally divided” between the Prairie provinces and the rest of Canada, Nanos Research founder Nik Nanos said.

As such, it reveals the political calculus for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as his government plans to implement a cap on emissions from the oil and gas sector, Mr. Nanos added, because the regions with the most support for such a cap are also Liberal strongholds.

The regional breakdown reveals a gulf between the main producers of oil and gas and other regions. In the Prairies, 57 per cent of respondents said they disagree or somewhat disagree with limiting emissions, whereas Quebec had the lowest level of dissent, with just 16 per cent not in favour. In Atlantic Canada and British Columbia, 29 per cent and 30 per cent, respectively, said they oppose a cap.

The oil and gas sector is the leading contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, but it is also critical to the economy. Mr. Nanos said the poll shows the country’s regions are “out of sync,” with “the Prairies at one end of the spectrum and then Quebec at the other.”

During the recent election campaign, the Liberals pledged to put a cap on the sector’s emissions, with the ceiling shrinking over time. The government has said it will set five-year targets, starting in 2025. Because the path to a majority government runs through Quebec, Mr. Nanos said there may not be much incentive for Mr. Trudeau to bridge the regional divide.

“Good policy for the federation may become victim to a good political strategy for the Liberals, that’s what we have to watch out for,” he said.

The Prairies, though, “aren’t immune to climate-fueled wildfires and droughts,” said Keith Stewart with Greenpeace Canada. “The best policy for the federation is to help each other through a rapid transition to green energy so we capture the jobs that come with it,” he said.

On Nov. 9, former prime minister Stephen Harper told a closed-door meeting that the federal government’s climate policy unfairly singled out “certain parts of the country.”

The week prior at international climate negotiations in Glasgow, Mr. Trudeau called his government’s planned emissions cap on oil and gas “a big step that’s absolutely necessary,” Mr. Trudeau acknowledged in his Nov. 1 speech that imposing limits will be “no small task for an oil-and-gas-producing country.”

The Prairie provinces were also the exception in a separate Nanos Research poll for The Globe on equalization payments. On that question, more people in the Prairies want equalization removed from the Constitution than respondents from other regions.

Overall, 61 per cent of respondents said they disagree or somewhat disagree with removing equalization payments from the Constitution, while 30 per cent agree or somewhat agree. Nine per cent said they are unsure.

In the regional breakdown, though, 50 per cent of respondents from the Prairies said they want the payments removed from the Constitution.

Respondents from Quebec were the least likely to support the change, with just 20 per cent saying they would back it.

Last month, Albertans voted in favour of removing equalization from the Constitution in a referendum that Premier Jason Kenney said was designed to put pressure on Ottawa to address the province’s many grievances. Results posted by Elections Alberta showed 61.7 per cent voted “Yes.”

Mr. Nanos said the timing of the referendum means the issue was much more front and centre for respondents in the Prairies, adding that it’s not clear if people in the region are truly outliers or if the results there simply reflect what others would think if equalization got more attention.

The hybrid telephone and online random surveys ran from Oct. 31 to Nov. 3, with 1,026 respondents. They have a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
 
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Boss Nass

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Hopefully with my face in a pussy
Almost nobody actually cares about the homeless situation unless they get in your face and there are activists out there who will make sure that problem will never be solved [see the camping in parks situation.
Not the same thing at all.

Also what, are you suggesting that the homeless don't exist? It's a scam? What's the connection between that and than calling climate change a scam.

In my experience, many of the same people who use the "what about the homeless?" argument are the same people who walk by a person begging on the street and say "get a fucking job!"
 
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