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Acid rain is a short-hand term that covers a set of highly complex and controversial environmental problems. It is a subject in which emotive and political judgements tend to obscure the underlying scientific issues which are fairly easily stated but poorly understood.

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Basil John Mason

Basil John Mason

Born: August 18, 1923
Died: January 6, 2015 (aged 91)
Bio: Sir John Mason is an expert on cloud physics and former Director of the UK Meteorological Office. His work includes the Mason Equation, giving the growth or evaporation of small water droplets.
Known for:
  1. The physics of clouds (1957)
  2. Clouds, rain, and rainmaking (1962)
  3. The Surface Waters Acidification Programme (1990)

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