The Sky Is Falling
Or at least you’d think it was from reading the uptown paper of record, which breathlessly proclaimed Monday that “Smog levels may soar into Code Orange range this afternoon” and that “Something is in the air.” Yep, mostly hype and hysteria, along with a wicked dose of unusually high pollen.
That’s the greenish-yellow gunk you see covering cars, windows, large dogs, and small children these days. What it’s not is smog, or anything close to ground-level ozone, although you’d never know it from the mainstream media’s reporting. After Monday’s header that screamed smog warnings, the Observer today shifted focus to allergies triggered by high pollen counts, while still trying its best to keep the dreaded Code Orange in the mix:
“Air-quality forecasters, meanwhile, issued the year’s first Code Orange smog alert for the Charlotte region. That level is potentially unhealthy for children with asthma and other people sensitive to smog.
“Through 5 p.m., smog levels stayed at Code Yellow levels. They’re expected to stay in that moderate range today.”
Say what? Code Orange alerts harmful to children, but actual Code Yellow levels that remain moderate? Get used to it, even if it flies in the face of reality that the Char-Meck region, despite howls to the contrary from envirofacists, has seen a dramatic drop in its heavy ozone days, even under the more stringent ozone standards rolled out last year. The same is true for cities and towns across the state, according to a comprehensive report released last September by Dr. Roy Cordato with the John Locke Foundation.
Don’t believe Cordato? Check it out for yourself: The Char-Meck area registered exactly zero Code Red or Purple ozone monitor readings, through mid-August last year, and only 11 Code Orange readings, versus 1,298 Code Greens.
Would be nice to see the MSM at least mention some of those facts, instead of rolling with the boilerplate, sky-is-falling environmental meme.
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