Whatever happened acid rain?

Dinny Byrne has Angina · 05-05-2016 07:47PM #1

If you're in your 20s or 30s, you may have been exposed to those Beyond 2000 educational programs for schools, which made some far-fetched technological predictions about life in the new millennium, as well as some fairly horrific environmental predictions, mainly around pollution and acid rain.

Whatever happened to acid rain? Did we stop it?

A few minutes' googling seems to indicate that we partially fixed it, but that its consequences were perhaps exaggerated, even in areas where acid rain did have a visible effect.

Just interested in this question because i notice that Danny Healy Rae referred to it today in his climate-change denial speech (totally different issue).

Obviously he's talking BS on climate change, but he does seem to have a point about media vulnerability to apocalyptic environmental stories, such as the idea of acid rain burning us from above.

Lyaiera · 05-05-2016 07:48PM

They split up and reformed as El Nino.

Harry Palmr · 05-05-2016 07:53PM

Dinny Byrne has Angina wrote: »

If you're in your 20s or 30s, you may have been exposed to those Beyond 2000 educational programs for schools, which made some far-fetched technological predictions about life in the new millennium, as well as some fairly horrific environmental predictions, mainly around pollution and acid rain.

Whatever happened to acid rain? Did we stop it?

A few minutes' googling seems to indicate that we partially fixed it, but that its consequences were perhaps exaggerated, even in areas where acid rain did have a visible effect.

Just interested in this question because i notice that Danny Healy Rae referred to it today in his climate-change denial speech (totally different issue).

Obviously he's talking BS on climate change, but he does seem to have a point about media vulnerability to apocalyptic environmental stories, such as the idea of acid rain burning us from above.

The acid rain was mainly from Moneypoint in Ireland, more generally there has been move away from coal to gas which is much cleaner. The other thing that has happened is the installation of Flue-gas desulphurisation (FGD) in coal burning stations.

For Forks Sake · 05-05-2016 07:56PM

Dinny Byrne has Angina wrote: »

If you're in your 20s or 30s, you may have been exposed to those Beyond 2000 educational programs for schools, which made some far-fetched technological predictions about life in the new millennium, as well as some fairly horrific environmental predictions, mainly around pollution and acid rain.

Whatever happened to acid rain? Did we stop it?

A few minutes' googling seems to indicate that we partially fixed it, but that its consequences were perhaps exaggerated, even in areas where acid rain did have a visible effect.

Just interested in this question because i notice that Danny Healy Rae referred to it today in his climate-change denial speech (totally different issue).

Obviously he's talking BS on climate change, but he does seem to have a point about media vulnerability to apocalyptic environmental stories, such as the idea of acid rain burning us from above.

It was ditched in favour of hype about the ozone layer.

Great, great username btw OP.

namloc1980 · 05-05-2016 07:56PM

Remember in school we had posters about acid rain and how it would literally dissolve animals, trees and ultimately people. Teacher fully believed it, even though looking back she hadn't a clue what it was.

Truckermal · 05-05-2016 07:58PM

Danny Healy Rae lobbied God to get rid of it...

Pac1Man · 05-05-2016 07:58PM

It ran off into the sunset with Sunny Delight.

smash · 05-05-2016 08:00PM

After the 80's when people stopped using 15 cans of hairspray a week, the ozone layer stopped depleting at an unsustainable rate and acid rain became a thing of the past!

harry Bailey esq · 05-05-2016 08:07PM

Disappeared in the early 90s..

Panthro · 05-05-2016 08:07PM

Dinny Byrne has Angina wrote: »

above.

I stopped reading after this.

Radharc na Sleibhte · 05-05-2016 09:09PM

I think Jo Maxi and Blue Peter fixed it

Birneybau · 05-05-2016 09:21PM

I was more afraid of Chocolate Rain.

Atlantic Dawn · 05-05-2016 09:23PM

It's like global warming, when the figures didn't add up to back up what they preached they lobbed the lot in to the climate change brand.

AnonoBoy · 05-05-2016 09:28PM

"The only type o' acid rain I care about is the vinegar on me chips, wha?"

/annoying pr*ck on bus.

AnonoBoy · 05-05-2016 09:29PM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

It's like global warming, when the figures didn't add up to back up what they preached they lobbed the lot in to the climate change brand.

Ah the Healy Raes are here! Welcome Danny!

05-05-2016 09:31PM

I'd put up with acid rain if we still had acid house.

Fox_In_Socks · 05-05-2016 09:34PM

It's partying forever in that big warehouse in the sky.

shane9689 · 05-05-2016 11:07PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA

wil · 05-05-2016 11:14PM

I only want to see you underneath the acid rain.

From Princes early green days.

maudgonner · 05-05-2016 11:27PM

wil wrote: »

I only want to see you underneath the acid rain.

From Princes early green days.

I'll see your Price, and raise you: The Thrills, Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzhZzIzJqek

jimgoose · 05-05-2016 11:29PM

Harry Palmr wrote: »

The acid rain was mainly from Moneypoint in Ireland, more generally there has been move away from coal to gas which is much cleaner. The other thing that has happened is the installation of Flue-gas desulphurisation (FGD) in coal burning stations.

The third thing that happened was the Lambda sensor in all petrol cars. That got rid of an awful lot of NOx.

bleg · 05-05-2016 11:31PM

We recognised the problem and fixed it through appropriate regulation. It probably would have gotten worse if we hadn't acted. Pretty much like the hole in the ozone layer was recognised and largely fixed (by banning of CFCs).

We stop hearing about things when the problem is fixed.

wil · 05-05-2016 11:31PM

maudgonner wrote: »

I'll see your Price, and raise you: The Thrills, Whatever Happened to Acid

Well if that's the way you're gonna play it.
Round ere we call it acieed.

the evasion_kid · 05-05-2016 11:33PM

Reformed in 2015...still on tour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoczfad8hgs

mosstin · 05-05-2016 11:35PM

They just couldn't keep tabs on it.

mad m · 05-05-2016 11:36PM

PURPLE RAIN, PURPLE RAIIINNNN.

Oh wait, $hit wrong thread.....

maudgonner · 05-05-2016 11:38PM

wil wrote: »

Well if that's the way you're gonna play it.
Round ere we call it acieed.

Phil wishes it would rain (acid) down. He's a bit of a masochist, is Phil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN6Sw3Rh6ug

wil · 05-05-2016 11:50PM

maudgonner wrote: »

Phil wishes it would rain (acid) down. He's a bit of a masochist, is Phil

Recommend checking the ph first, but Durga McBroom has a better idea

maudgonner · 05-05-2016 11:59PM

wil wrote: »

Recommend checking the ph first, but Durga McBroom has a better idea

Ah Durga, she loves a bit of rain. Not like this crowd. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT TRAVIS? YOU LIVE IN SCOTLAND!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXatLOWjr-k

(I'll stop now

)

06-05-2016 12:03AM

And remember when "the oil running out in the not too distant future" was a worry up until about mid 2008 when the world economy was starting to get rough. The reason we were worried before then but not afterwards is because the news was otherwise devoid of real threats pre 2008 so the media chose *that* (along with terrorism, among other things) to make us feel on edge and press out anxiety buttons. A bit like why people voted for the Green Party here in 2007- when everything is okay economically/fundamentally (which things were in May 2007) people start thinking of "higher level" things to worry about, and so people voted with their mind on the environment etc. Now people just forget about the fact that precious resource of oil is constantly depleting and is depleting at an accelerating rate as all the people in poorer countries get less poor and demand the high material living standards we expect.

wil · 06-05-2016 12:09AM

maudgonner wrote: »

(I'll stop now )

Thank f for that.

Reaches for suntan lotion.

Whatever happened acid rain?

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