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Pass The Tissues: Allergy Season Is Getting Worse, Thanks To Climate Change
Popular Science ^ | August 26, 2016 | Samantha Cole

Posted on 08/26/2016 10:55:56 AM PDT by sparklite2

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To: mc5cents
War between Canada and the USA

LOL !

I guess we will get heatstroke from the higher temperatures and see a mirage that we are a great military power.

21 posted on 08/26/2016 11:48:05 AM PDT by Reverend Wright ( "Stop smiling and smirking like it's a funny thing !")
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To: IYAS9YAS

From a lecture to the local botany club:

Many flowers shoot pollen up into the air to be carried by the breeze until they find another flower to pollinate.

But sometimes there is no breeze. The pollen shoots straight up into the air and falls back onto the original plant. This is called self-pollination and tends to make the flowers go crazy.


22 posted on 08/26/2016 12:00:29 PM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: sparklite2

But we are all going to starve because climate change is killing plant life?
Does not compute.


23 posted on 08/26/2016 12:09:28 PM PDT by Kenny500c
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To: Kenny500c

To what are you referencing? I don’t see that in the article.


24 posted on 08/26/2016 12:14:18 PM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: sparklite2
This is called self-pollination and tends to make the flowers go crazy.

Does this make hair grow only on palms, or are other trees affected as well?

25 posted on 08/26/2016 12:18:43 PM PDT by AZLiberty (A is no longer A, but a pull-down menu.)
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To: AZLiberty

I live in San Antonio. For the first 46 years in New York and New Jersey, nothing. I come to San Antonio and within a year I am miserable. They tell me it is from the cedar outside of Kerville. My solution, turn Kerville into a big mall with parking lot.


26 posted on 08/26/2016 12:29:49 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (It appears as if Trump is our Yeltsin.)
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To: sparklite2

Why haven’t they blamed hillary’s behavior on ‘climate change’ yet?


27 posted on 08/26/2016 12:50:24 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I’ve lived in rural areas with cedar-which is actually Ashe juniper-most of my life, so I’ve got good immunity. I live in the middle of it now, with quite a few large trees on the property. I’m only bothered by cedar/juniper pollen at the height of the season-and not all that badly-I use a homeopathic product called Texas Allergy Relief-it is available at health food stores out here-in Kerrville, Boerne, etc-don’t know about SA.

You should try it-all natural, no side effects, etc-and it doesn’t become less effective with time, like even the OTC stuff does-it might help you.

There are plenty of cedar/juniper trees as close to you as most of N. Bexar County-they are part of the woods and ecosystems in this entire part of the state...

People in places like Kerrville and rural areas don’t want more malls and we are used to the pollen from trees-that is why we live where there are restrictions on development...


28 posted on 08/26/2016 1:08:09 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I lived in Dallas decades ago. Allergies were bad, but we were taken aback when our young daughter came home and said, “How come all the other kids are getting speech therapy and I’m not?” The kids ears were so plugged from allergies that they couldn’t hear properly. I remember listening to one little girl, and her voice sounded as if she was talking underwater, which is presumably what she heard all the time. When allergies worsened in our family, we grabbed our kids and ran for Arizona, so they could have a chance of growing up without surgically-implanted “ear tubes”.


29 posted on 08/26/2016 1:15:51 PM PDT by AZLiberty (A is no longer A, but a pull-down menu.)
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To: Texan5

Allergies were bad in Dallas, but my colleagues who took a stint at the plant in Austin found it much worse. They also complained that Austin’s effect on their immune system persisted for years even after they moved back to Dallas.

Though staged, that exploding cedar tree tells it all.


30 posted on 08/26/2016 1:20:15 PM PDT by AZLiberty (A is no longer A, but a pull-down menu.)
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To: AZLiberty

I can’t speak from experience, having lived in the middle of cedar/juniper from birth, but I’ve always read and heard that the best remedy for allergies is to increase your exposure over time-that is what homeopathic remedies do-and it works.

I think adverse effects on the immune system that persist even after leaving Austin are caused by exposure to Austin’s liberalism rather than the pollen...


31 posted on 08/26/2016 1:39:15 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: WKUHilltopper

I’ll take Chem trails for $500 Alex.


32 posted on 08/26/2016 1:52:24 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: WKUHilltopper

I think it’s a lot to do with the hand sanitizer people smear all over themselves every five minutes.


33 posted on 08/26/2016 8:33:42 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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