Thread by @ncdave4life

@RobMeekel @Mark_A_Lunn @KCTaz @ChrisBBacon3 @glinch72 @Jaisans @0Sundance @AlexVickeryHowe @B_Bolshevik100 @S_D_Mannix @ammocrypta @FChecker76 @dedkobrez @Ceist8 @TWTThisIsNow @Climatehope2 @BolzmannMichael @Robert76907841 @Willard1951 @Data79504085 @EthonRaptor @Winston43105474 @TyotoRiffle @balls95652097 @JohnDublin10 @Seattle_Dave @TheDisproof @Sou_HotWhopper @AristotleMrs @FillmoreWhite @rosmadiwahab @Anvndarnamn5 @EricWil06256732 @ProfMickWilson @TommyLambertOKC @NonlinearDarren @BridgetHolmstro @BrknMan @Stephen90045069 @dan613 @GregTruman4 @GregCoo85844909 @25_cycle @don85375 @ZSRenn @1tsakeeper @LizHersch1 @JustThi30117912 1/5》It was not unanticipated. The global cooling scare was, in fact, one of the two main reasons for the shiny new anti-air-pollution laws.

The other reason was "acid rain."

(Note: Unlike "acidified" oceans, which are actually alkaline, acid rain really is acidic.)

@RobMeekel @Mark_A_Lunn @KCTaz @ChrisBBacon3 @glinch72 @Jaisans @0Sundance @AlexVickeryHowe @B_Bolshevik100 @S_D_Mannix @ammocrypta @FChecker76 @dedkobrez @Ceist8 @TWTThisIsNow @Climatehope2 @BolzmannMichael @Robert76907841 @Willard1951 @Data79504085 @EthonRaptor @Winston43105474 @TyotoRiffle @balls95652097 @JohnDublin10 @Seattle_Dave @TheDisproof @Sou_HotWhopper @AristotleMrs @FillmoreWhite @rosmadiwahab @Anvndarnamn5 @EricWil06256732 @ProfMickWilson @TommyLambertOKC @NonlinearDarren @BridgetHolmstro @BrknMan @Stephen90045069 @dan613 @GregTruman4 @GregCoo85844909 @25_cycle @don85375 @ZSRenn @1tsakeeper @LizHersch1 @JustThi30117912 2/5》BTW, how much of the warming since the 1970s do you think is from air pollution abatement?

Before the 1970s, nobody worried about air pollution above ground level. So air pollution abatement meant building chimney's tall enough to keep the soot away from the ground.

@RobMeekel @Mark_A_Lunn @KCTaz @ChrisBBacon3 @glinch72 @Jaisans @0Sundance @AlexVickeryHowe @B_Bolshevik100 @S_D_Mannix @ammocrypta @FChecker76 @dedkobrez @Ceist8 @TWTThisIsNow @Climatehope2 @BolzmannMichael @Robert76907841 @Willard1951 @Data79504085 @EthonRaptor @Winston43105474 @TyotoRiffle @balls95652097 @JohnDublin10 @Seattle_Dave @TheDisproof @Sou_HotWhopper @AristotleMrs @FillmoreWhite @rosmadiwahab @Anvndarnamn5 @EricWil06256732 @ProfMickWilson @TommyLambertOKC @NonlinearDarren @BridgetHolmstro @BrknMan @Stephen90045069 @dan613 @GregTruman4 @GregCoo85844909 @25_cycle @don85375 @ZSRenn @1tsakeeper @LizHersch1 @JustThi30117912 3/5》The tallest chimney ever built in the United States was apparently at Homer City Generating Station, in Homer City, PA, in 1977 (though there were others almost as tall). Here's a photo:

sealevel.info/homer-city_jon…

@RobMeekel @Mark_A_Lunn @KCTaz @ChrisBBacon3 @glinch72 @Jaisans @0Sundance @AlexVickeryHowe @B_Bolshevik100 @S_D_Mannix @ammocrypta @FChecker76 @dedkobrez @Ceist8 @TWTThisIsNow @Climatehope2 @BolzmannMichael @Robert76907841 @Willard1951 @Data79504085 @EthonRaptor @Winston43105474 @TyotoRiffle @balls95652097 @JohnDublin10 @Seattle_Dave @TheDisproof @Sou_HotWhopper @AristotleMrs @FillmoreWhite @rosmadiwahab @Anvndarnamn5 @EricWil06256732 @ProfMickWilson @TommyLambertOKC @NonlinearDarren @BridgetHolmstro @BrknMan @Stephen90045069 @dan613 @GregTruman4 @GregCoo85844909 @25_cycle @don85375 @ZSRenn @1tsakeeper @LizHersch1 @JustThi30117912 4/5》In the developed world, the late 1970s were when we stopped doing power plant pollution abatement by building 1/4-mile-high chimneys, and instead began using "scrubbers" to remove the particulates & sulphur. The reason was the twin scares about global cooling and acid rain.