Abstract
Over the past several centuries the problems of air pollution have developed from local to regional to global in scale, ultimately threatening serious alteration of the world’s climate. A chronicle is presented here in the discovery of air pollution by coal smoke, acid rain, radioactive fallout and persistent organochlorine pesticides, and also of the implications of ozone-depleting chemicals and carbon dioxide build-up for climatic change.
| Original language | Undefined/Unknown |
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| Title of host publication | Coal: Phoenix of the 80's, Proceedings of the 64th Chemical Institute of Canada Coal Symposium |
| Editors | A. M. Taweel |
| Publisher | Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering |
| State | Published - 1982 |
Keywords
- Acidity of atmospheric precipitation and contributing environmental factors