Another environmental scare debunked:

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Bjorn Lomborg
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Jul 17 • 7 tweets • 4 min read •  Read on X
Another environmental scare debunked:

Acid rain killing all forests was the main environmental scare in the 1980s

A new half-century study shows acid rain doesn't kill trees

— actually, trees grow more with acid rain!

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112723008782
Acid rain scare in the 1980s delivered full-on panic

No more so than in Germany, where papers claimed "the forest is dying," called it an "ecological Hiroshima" and claimed ‘‘the dying of the forests will have a greater impact on our country than World War II’’

All false

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