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    Has pollen got you sneezing? Wondering what's causing that mysterious afternoon haze? How do you find out what's in the air you are breathing? For the thousands of people who visit the University of Maryland Baltimore County's "Smog Blog" each day, the answer is just a web click away. The Smog Bloggers combine laser measurements of current air quality with NASA satellite data to paint a daily picture of air pollution across the US. To date, the blog has received over two million hits, and is itself a big hit with weather forecasters, astronomers, asthma sufferers, and those with just a healthy curiosity about what kinds of pollution they may be breathing in.

    How's U.S. air quality right now? Go check the Smog Blog:
    http://alg.umbc.edu/usaq/

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  • Renegade30

    That's pretty cool. Although you would think their forcasting would be very limited due to the amount of unforseen events that could happen. But i think if more people who suffer from athsma etc knew about this they could benefit from it.
    Thursday 13 May 2010 07:07:19
  • teemuruskeepaa

    @quakepapi You represent the right with solution. The left wing solution is to change everything so that the polluters would calculate they don't have to run dirty factories in order to make money and live a full life. Your solution results in more individual suffering and a spiral of violence and competing methods of evading the enforcement division.
    Wednesday 12 May 2010 23:27:04
  • quakepapi

    Now we need an enforcement division that locates the pollution causers and fine them heavily.
    Wednesday 12 May 2010 18:14:45
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