Triumph? Is that you?!
Posted on 05/03/2007 4:34:52 AM PDT by Fractal Trader
There's growing scientific evidence that global climate change is linked to the dramatic rise in allergies and asthma in the Western world.
Studies have found that a higher level of carbon dioxide turbocharges the growth of plants whose pollen triggers allergies. In 2001 Lewis Ziska planted ragweed -- the main cause of hay fever in the fall -- at urban, suburban and rural sites near Baltimore. The plots had the same seeds and soil and were watered in the same way. Yet the downtown plants soon exploded in size, flowering earlier and producing five times the pollen of rural plants. The city pollen was a lot more toxic, too. The likely cause? The city plants experienced warmer temperatures and 20% more carbon dioxide, the effect of more cars and pollution.
"We can see the changes now, and they already have implications for public health," says Dr. Ziska, a plant physiologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Allergies and asthma are closely linked; more than 70% of asthma sufferers also have allergies.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of the world's leading climate researchers, will address the issue in its August report. According to Bettina Menne, a doctor at the World Health Organization and a lead author of the chapter on climate change and health, the report will say that higher temperatures and carbon-dioxide levels have increased the abundance of pollen, known to trigger allergies and worsen asthma. It will also conclude that spring, when allergy-causing tree pollen is at peak levels, has been arriving 10 to 15 days earlier over the past three decades, a trend expected to continue in coming years.
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Global warming made me poop!
Is there nothing Global Warming can’t do?
“It’s nature’s way of telling you somethings wrong”
Is going to be hard for the world to become a *burning ball of fire* if everything is wet and green.
Triumph? Is that you?!
I’ve got a boil on my a**; now I know why—global warming.
You know the drill.
You know now that you mention it, maybe they should study the bath houses in San Fransisco to see if warmer weather increases dangerous behavior. You may have stumbled on an important discover.
I club more baby seals becuase of global warming.
Is Global Warming spurring the upsurge in Islamic suicide bombers.?
Its causing everything else,why not that?
If it were proven that Global Cooling caused people to become conservative, the liberals would be all for Global Warming.
There's a growing rise (no pun intended) in the need for Viagra and other ED drugs. Must be global warming.
There’s a growing rise (no pun intended) in the need for Viagra and other ED drugs. Must be global warming.
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I thought it worked the opposite way...
Global Cooling would need more ED drugs ;)
[Pun intended]
Television is the primary cause of allergies among young women.
The drug companies beat the message into their heads ......If you are a young, savy woman, you can’t go outside. If you do you, get allergies. You must take drugs everytime you go outside.
If heaven forbid you leave the city, you will not be able to function and absolutely must take drugs to stay alive and function as your normally bubbly, perky self.
The left has found their calling ... It is evident that CO2 has become a red herring for every political and social agenda imaginable, and that too often, science and reason are disregarded in the proclamations of impending disaster.
It’s also causing my back pain, property prices to drop, and the Yankees pitching staff to get injured.
As a mother who has a one year old with recurrent croup (7+ times since the start of the year), who is going off to the specialists next week for allergy testing and to rule out asthma (among other things), I really wish they would look at plausible reasons for the dramatic increase in allergies and asthma, so that we can find a real way to deal with it.
Pity the poor liberal newspaper. It is so hard to put a negative spin on carbon dioxide increasing plant growth. A while back the Philly Inquirer actually ran an article stating that global warming would cause plants like poison ivy and poison oak to flourish.
This just confirms what I already knew: that the earth is self-correcting. Too much carbon dioxide and plants will grow. Too much oxygen and more animals will grow. New species evolve and others die off, (that is, if we allow this naturally occuring event to happen). The earth is in balance.
Carbon dioxide follows temperture, not vice versa.
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