Acid rain 'has climate benefits'

"Acid rain, which has long been blamed for damaging forests and killing wildlife, has some positive effects in constraining global warming, say researchers.

Sulphur dioxide from industry can help cut the amount of the greenhouse gas methane emitted by peat bogs, according to scientists from the Open University, Nasa and Sweden. It does this by suppressing bugs that produce more methane as global temperatures rise.

A study in Scotland suggested that the global effect of acid rain from 1960 to 2030 could cut methane emissions to pre-industrial levels. But Dr Vincent Gauci, of the Open University, said increasing sulphur pollution was unwise because of acid rain's negative effects".

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See here for some of those other "negative" effects

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