What’s worse global warming or acid rain?

[Anonymous]

Global warming didn’t really become a thing until acid rain was dealt with. The emissions involved with acid rain reflect heat and light and has a cooling effect but it also produced acid rain

[Anonymous]

It's all bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's all bad.

but medicines have side effects yet you chose one or the other

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's all bad.

but medicines have side effects yet you chose one or the other

There are other ways to combat global warming than choosing acid rain.

[Anonymous]

they are interlocked

[Anonymous]

What’s this?!?…. Here comes O-Zone Layer from the clouds!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Global warming didn’t really become a thing until acid rain was dealt with. The emissions involved with acid rain reflect heat and light and has a cooling effect but it also produced acid rain

This is not actually true. Scientists didn't really become aware of acid rain until the early 1970s; programs to address it didn't get fully implemented until the 1990s. Meanwhile, the first major international report on climate change, which said the planet had been warming and likely would continue to warm, came out in 1990.

It's true that "global warming didn't really become a thing" for most people's public awareness until after acid rain was dealt with, but that's mostly a question of media coverage and broader societal focus on the problems. The climate was already changing by the time we even realized acid rain existed. And because of the exponential nature of climate change, it's gotten worse in the years since the 1990s, but not mostly because we curbed sulfur dioxide emissions in the name of keeping the air clean enough that rainfall doesn't damage water quality and kill plants and animals.

[Anonymous]

An ice age will make people long for global warming. I’m sitting in a hotel on 7th Ave in Manhattan right now. I can look out my window at the skyline and know that during the last ice age, there was 7,000 feet of solid ice above where I’m standing.


I’ll take a semi-tropical planet over a ball of ice any day.

[Anonymous]

Acid rain because it burns. Global warming just warms.

[Anonymous]

The hole in the Ozone layer is real!

[Anonymous]

Global warming is a much bigger deal. It will likely make huge swaths of our planet uninhabitable.

[Anonymous]

Global cooling is the worst. Mass starvation