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Similarly, he says that efforts to lessen sulfur dioxide emissions in order to reduce acid rain could have a negative effect, by cutting down the number of particles in the atmosphere. This would mean that less sunlight is reflected back into space, increasing global warming...
...newly published report they note that the Yucatan rock around Chicxulub contains abundant amounts of sulfur. The blast must have vaporized the sulfur, they say, and spewed more than 100 billion tons of it into the atmosphere, where it mixed with moisture to form tiny drops of sulfuric acid. These drops created a barrier that could have reflected enough sunlight back into space to drop temperatures to near freezing, and could have remained airborne for decades. "It could have been up to a century," says Kevin Baines, an atmostpheric scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "Most...
Boslough describes himself as "totally agnostic" on the existence of antipodal volcanism. J.P.L.'s Kevin Baines, however, isn't neutral when it comes to the NASA team's sulfuric acid theory. "If the asteroid had struck almost any other place on earth, it wouldn't have generated this tremendous amount of sulfur." he says. "Dinosaurs would still be roaming the earth...
This was drama as rant, an explosion of bad manners, a declaration of war against an empire in twilight. The acid tone, at once comic and desperate, sustained Osborne throughout a volatile career as playwright, film writer (Tom Jones) and memoirist (A Better Class of Person). More important, it stoked a ferment in a then sleepy popular culture. Anger's curdling inflections and class animosities were echoed in the plays of Joe Orton and Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a direct descendant), in Dennis Potter's savage TV scripts and in a generation of performers, from...
...most costly -- and crucial -- steps in cleaning up coal boilers is curbing sulfur emissions. They combine with water in the atmosphere to create sulfuric acid and thus produce acid rain. Yet only one Chinese power plant boasts desulfurization equipment. China Huaneng Group, the market- oriented Chinese company that built the plant, was able to cover the cost of installing the antipollution devices only because the government agreed to raise electricity rates to users, according to Huaneng president Wang Chuanjian...