Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Chemical migration

Asian industries may be the cause of a different kind of hacking:

Ozone from Asia is wafting across the Pacific on springtime winds and boosting the amount of the smog-producing chemical found in the skies above the Western United States, researchers said in a study released Wednesday.

So, wait — the putrescent cloud hanging above Los Angeles isn’t made up of lost souls that float above Los Angeles, watching their now-vacant bodies move zombie-like from to home to coffeeshop to work and back again? Oh no, of course not: souls are transparent, duh.