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Now I'm curious, what happened in summer 2002?
Nothing, but it was the first period in the last 25 years.
Big dip in the graph
Potentially a lack of air traffic, or a knock on effect of an economic crisis lowering the level of pollution,
And a bunch of people were scared to fly because of 9/11