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Acid Rain Has Turned Canadian Lakes into a Kind of Jelly
MSN ^ | November 19, 2014 | John Metcalfe

Posted on 11/19/2014 12:29:19 PM PST by Bettyprob

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To: Bettyprob

Bullcrap. So-called “acid rain” isn’t acidic enough to leach out all the calcium from the soil.


21 posted on 11/19/2014 12:56:50 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Good Muslims, like good Nazis or good liberals, are terrible human beings.)
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To: Bettyprob

Smelting leaves behind more than it depletes. Aluminum smelting leaves behind PCBs, cyanide and fluoride in toxic levels. I am certain Canadian smelters are closely monitored by the government, more closely than those in the US. Canada has safety levels for fluoride set, we don’t.

ALCOA was involved in a law suit in our county for a smelter operation that took twent years and $27 million to clean up.it would have cost more, except that the dept of ecology determined that the drinking water in the area was so deep that it could not be recovered.


22 posted on 11/19/2014 1:02:59 PM PST by Eva
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To: Bettyprob

Acid rain is the new global warming.


23 posted on 11/19/2014 1:03:47 PM PST by Eva
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To: Bettyprob

The solution is straightforward: bring up train loads of limestone. Dumped in the rivers and lakes, it raises the pH. The US has been doing it for years.

While on the surface it seems like Ontario has a lot of water, if you exclude the great lakes and Hudson Bay, it is a manageable problem.


24 posted on 11/19/2014 1:04:59 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Bettyprob

cough , Bull Crap


25 posted on 11/19/2014 1:06:19 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Bettyprob

They might just freshwater jellyfish, a species thought to be extinct, it’s a MIRACLE!


26 posted on 11/19/2014 1:07:59 PM PST by 12chachacha (Sucker??)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

You’re right of course but for the sake of argument let’s say acid rain did leach calcium from the soil. Where would that calcium go? Into the lakes. So there should be more calcium in the lakes not less.


27 posted on 11/19/2014 1:10:08 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: DoughtyOne

And the Ozone Hole over the Poles.

Imagine if the Grand Canyon was just now discovered................


28 posted on 11/19/2014 1:13:08 PM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: ghost of nixon

I can tell you have never been to Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. It is a lot better there and the srounding lakes than it was but it will take many years of work to clean it all up.


29 posted on 11/19/2014 1:13:52 PM PST by hawkaw
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To: ghost of nixon

It’s real, but like most environmental issues overblown. In some areas industrial pollution devastated some lakes with acid rain. Young people are taught that pollution is worse than ever, when in fact it’s mostly been cleaned up in America. I’m wondering what lakes? How many and where exactly?


30 posted on 11/19/2014 1:14:11 PM PST by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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To: Eva

You mean it was the original “Global Warming.”


31 posted on 11/19/2014 1:18:32 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Bettyprob

The global warming drum is worn out so while the greenies look for another farce ... er, I mean cause ... to champion, they’ve resurrected this acid rain relic from the 80s.


32 posted on 11/19/2014 1:18:53 PM PST by IronJack
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To: Red Badger

The Grand Canyon... whew! That was a close one! LOL


33 posted on 11/19/2014 1:40:11 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The mid-term elections were perfect for him. Now Obama can really lead from behind.)
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To: cripplecreek

I do recall living in Burbank when the smog was REAL bad back in the 70’s; if you looked up and kept your eyes open during one of the sparse rains your eyes would feel like they are burning.


34 posted on 11/19/2014 1:42:23 PM PST by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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To: ghost of nixon

I remember the crystal clarity of the lakes in the Adirondacks and their lack of any fish life back in the mid-eighties, supposedly caused by the acid levels being too high. So, in my opinion and subject to correction, the reports of sulfuric acid rain derived from the burning of high sulfur coal in the power plants and steel mills to the west may have been legitimate. Having grown up in NE Ohio I can also recall the day glow chemical spew which went by the name of the Cuyahoga River as it winded through the industrial Flats of Cleveland. At one time the EPA had real work to do and was not the out of control agency it is now.


35 posted on 11/19/2014 1:42:48 PM PST by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: Red Badger

BTW, that ozone hole mention is spot on too IMO.

I’m not saying man couldn’t have an effect on this planet. I think man does have negative effects.

I still think we need to keep them in perspective and minimize them where they are obvious.

This is nowhere near obvious.

If you look at the earth and how it has changed over time, you see an obvious history of vast change. Strangely, life goes on.

The changes we’re observing are almost non-existent compared to other massive periods of change.


36 posted on 11/19/2014 1:43:14 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The mid-term elections were perfect for him. Now Obama can really lead from behind.)
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To: hawkaw

This article uses “Canada” as a blanket term. Sudbury, Ontario is not representative of the whole of Canada by any means.

As an Alaskan, I have driven through the western provinces many times. Yukoners are our next door neighbors, I can tell you, their waters are some of the most un-polluted rivers and lakes you’ll ever experience. (Except for moose and caribou droppings upstream, of course.)


37 posted on 11/19/2014 2:21:57 PM PST by sasportas
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To: Bettyprob

Somebody found Senator Robert Kelly! (X-men joke)


38 posted on 11/19/2014 2:38:57 PM PST by PTBAA
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To: Bettyprob

Probably came from making clean batteries for the Prius....


39 posted on 11/19/2014 3:04:23 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Bettyprob

we’ve always been told that plankton is critical because all other larger life forms build off of it. lots of plankton equals good.

now it’s bad.

our scientific overlords - it’s good when we say it’s good, but bad when we say it’s bad. sorry I don’t want to switch faiths.


40 posted on 11/19/2014 3:22:02 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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