Unsightly black spots on maple trees mostly cosmetic

We live in a crisis-a-day world where television news seems obligated to give us at least one story each cycle that is dripping with fear and angst so it produces cardio-vascular tremors: cyber security threats, gas price spikes, hundred-year storms, race issues, terrorism and antibiotic resistant bugs – all legitimate concerns and they are all out there, dressed like the grim reaper.