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Article: Acid Rain: Rhetoric and Reality.
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- American Forests
- Article date:
- November 1, 1989
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Acid Rain: Rhetoric and Reality, by Chris C. Park. Methuen, 29 W. 35th St., New York, NY 10001 (1989). 272 pp. Softcover, $25.
Why another book about acid rain? Especially when our knowledge of the subject is advancing at a pace that leaves slowly produced books several giant steps behind current journals and conferences.
Despite the pace of research and writing on acid rain, understanding the problem requires a basic science and history. We must be talking about and measuring the same thing, and we must put our measurements in historic perspective if we are going to judge how far we have diverged from nature's own norms. For the nonspecialist who wants ...