Smog: Can't Keep A Good Story Down

Ozone smog levels have plummeted during the last three years. Between 2003 and 2005, the fraction of the nation's ozone monitors violating the federal 8-hour ozone standard plunged from 43 percent down to a record-low 18 percent.[1] The last three years were the three lowest-ozone years on record....Ozone levels were so improbably low in 2004 that it would have been astounding if ozone wasn't higher in 2005...., No Smog For The Fear Factory?, Joel Schwartz, TCSDaily.com

Gee, I'll tell you. If this keeps up, environmental organizations are going to have to go into another line of business. Hey! I've got one! In twenty-seven thousand years, an asteroid might hit the Earth! Let's get behind NASA now! We need that new shuttle; we need the Mars-capable manned (personnned?) spaceship. Now! Now! Now!

Luther