IT'S ALMOST LIKE MAN HAS PRETTY LITTLE IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT:

On the Surface, Gulf of Mexico Oil Slick Is Vanishing Fast (JUSTIN GILLIS and CAMPBELL ROBERTSON, 7/27/10, NY Times)

The oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico appears to be dissolving far more rapidly than anyone expected, a piece of good news that raises tricky new questions about how fast the government should scale back its response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

The immense patches of surface oil that covered thousands of square miles of the gulf after the April 20 oil rig explosion are largely gone, though there continue to be sightings of tar balls and emulsified oil here and there.

Heck, even stuff like Hiroshima and Chernobyl made no significant lasting impact.

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 27, 2010 8:35 PM