Perspective on the oil spill

While clearly I'm not saying there's anything even remotely good about the oil spill in the Gulf, I am tired of people in media constantly beating the "Worst ecological disaster EVER!" drum.

Stumbled across this chart (put together by Climatologist and former NASA scientist Dr. Roy Spencer).

While this is still not good, even if its twice as bad as Dr Spencer assumes, its still no where near as bad as the IXTOC-1 oil spill in the Gulf in 1979, so its not even the worst in the Gulf (let alone EVER!).