Jun
07
2010
Drip-Drop.Sizzle?
Usually when you hear rain it sounds like “drip-drop”, but what you wouldn’t hear is “dip-drop-sizzle”. Well, if things keep up the way they do, you might be hearing this more often. What I am talking about is acid rain. Okay, I may have over-exaggerate the sizzle thing, but it is still a very serious problem. Acid rain is what happens when there is to much pollution in our air. Like the name suggests, when rain falls that is unusual acidic it can cause damage to structures. Also, acid rain comes in many forms like rain (obviously), snow, hail, fog, frost, or dew. Also, we are not alone in this situation. Even though we are causing most of the increase in chemicals, nature is also has a part in this as well.
Okay, lets get back to what I was saying about how acid rain can cause structure damage. Most of the acid rain in the United States happens on the East Coast. You may be pondering “Why is it that most of it is happening on the East Coast?” Well since most of the factories in the United States are the West Coast, there gases drift over to the other side of the country. Which means, that the gases have enough time to mix with the rain cloud to make them more acidic. Since acid rain can cause so much problems, in 1980 U.S. Congress passed an Acid Deposition Act. This act enabled the NAPAPA (National Acidic Precipitation Assessment Program) a 10-year research program. They looked into many things about about the occurs and effects of acid rain.
This is very interesting, I never thought about acidic rain and climate change. I’m not to happy to hear that most of the rain falls on the east coast. That’s not good at all. Well, good post!