Posted on 05/11/2009 9:27:12 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
MONDAY, May 11 (HealthDay News) -- Climate change isn't only bad for the Earth, it may be bad for your health -- especially if you have allergies or asthma.
Global warming is making pollen seasons last longer, creating more ozone in the air, and even expanding the areas where insects flourish, putting more people with bee allergies at greater risk, experts say. [snip]
Those changes will mean more people with allergies and asthma will suffer.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Women and minorities with asthma hit hardest.
evolution...survival of the fittest...
Libs love it theory...hate it in practice..
Graspin’ at straws! Any straws!
LOL
BS --- widespread (tobacco) smoking bans eliminated all of those problems, just ask the proponents of those nanny-state laws.
It’s all a plot by the eeeeevil pharmaceuticals.
Sure, but less rain means less mold allergies.
This is wrong. Pollen is less active in the cooler, longer springs and earlier first freeze.
Climate change means just what - Ice caps and polar bears? My nose knows better than to accept the hogwash being dished out by climatologists.
Last Friday we had a tornado WATCH over our 6 county area but there was only blue skies with infrequent white puffy clouds. No one benefits when the weather reports become politically correct alarmism with the sole purpose of keeping the populace in a state of fear.
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/sea_level_has_not_risen_for_three_years/
As well as:
Which taken together indicate a net anamoly of around +200,000 sq. km....not a negative number as you'd expect from this article.
Good grief, the Bush Administration already made it illegal to bring back Cipro from Mexico and outlawed my inhalers, leaving me with ineffectual models at quadruple the price.
So now I have Obama and his thug mediacracy telling me I am going to have worse asthma symptoms if I don’t jack up my thermostat in the hundred plus degree Arizona heat. Yeah, that will help my asthma.
This reminds me of an article I read a while back that claimed that increased greenhouse gases, (CO2) would cause an increase of poison ivy and poison oak. Sigh. Now they are saying that evil pollen bearing plants will flourish, along with those darn bees. Weren’t we just agonizing a while back about bee colony collapse?
The whole idea of “man-made global warming” is a pagan religion. Obama and his Congressional Socialists (which includes a number of RINOS) think they are high priests of Global Warming, beating on the drums, praying to the Greenhouse Gas gods, spreading ignorance around the country.
Obama wants Cap & Trade, which would be a death sentence for our economy. I have to wonder if Obama and the other Socialist supporters of this legislation are aware of basic facts. For example: 1) greenhouse gases are not evil, they are essential to keeping the earth warm enough for humans; 2) the most common greenhouse gas is water vapor; 3) CO2 is not pollution, it is essential for plants and humans; 4) CO2 is only a trace element in the atmosphere at 380 parts per million; 5) humans and their activities account for only 3% of CO2 emissions each year; 6) the earth has had cycles of cooling and warming about every 1,500 years due to variations in the sun’s activity and our orbit around the sun; 7) these cycles are beyond human control; 8) about 1,000 years ago, Greenland had vineyards; 9) the earth is cooling now, not warming relative to prior decades; and 10) a major reduction of sun spots in recent years suggests a coming mini ice age.
An excerpt from the March 2009 issue of The American Spectator: “All scientists agree that if man-made global warming is real, it would leave a fingerprint in the form of temperatures increasing with altitude in the tropical troposphere portion of the atmosphere up to a hotspot about 10 kilometers above the surface, reflecting the pattern of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Warming due to solar variations or other natural causes would not leave such a fingerprint pattern. Recently, higher-quality temperature data from balloons and satellites ... enables us to settle the man-made global warming debate definitively. The data from weather balloons shows the opposite pattern: no increasing warming with altitude, but rather a slight cooling with no hotspot. The satellite data shows the same result: no increasing temperature with altitude, no hotspot, no fingerprint, maybe again a slight cooling with altitude. Game over. QED. The global warming empire is rattling around but has not and cannot come up with an effective response. The data is the data. The science is the science. Man-made global warming is a hoax developed to serve powerful special interests.” (This was written by Peter Ferrara.)
Obama may not know these things, or he may be choosing to ignore the facts in order to create a huge new bureaucracy of socialist government control over our lives. Cap & trade would cause a huge Decrease in GDP along with a huge Increase in energy costs for Americans, and massive unemployment - probably higher than 15%.
Everyone should write to his or her Congressmoron. Remind them of the facts and the damage that would be caused by “cap & trade”.
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