Abstract
In 1968, the Swedish Natural Science Research Council published a report by Svante Oden, Acidification of Air and Precipitation and Its Consequences on the Natural Environment. Six years later Charles V. Cogbill, Gene E. Likens, and F. Herbert Bormann alerted the North American scientific community to the existence of acidic precipitation. No public relations company could have possibly dreamed up a neater catchphrase. Acid rain conjured up images of tortured and destroyed landscapes, dissolving monuments, sterile lakes, the wheezing of asthmatics, and undrinkable water. Cartoonists had a field day, acid rain umbrellas and emblazoned tee shirts sold very well, newspaper editorials deplored, and environmentally conscious organizations took up their cudgels to give battle. The scientific community, too, was mobilized; ecologists, soil scientists, chemists, meteorologists, and civil engineers initiated research programs that are still a significant fraction of the scientific scene. Parliaments in Weste...
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