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Climate change making seasonal allergies worse, study says
UPI.com ^ | May 11, 2017 | By HealthDay News

Posted on 05/12/2017 6:46:47 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

If you're sniffling and sneezing a lot more lately, you're hardly alone. Climate change is making seasonal allergies worse, an expert says.

"With the combination of increased temperature and carbon dioxide, we are seeing a dramatic change, and allergy sufferers can probably feel that change," said Dr. Richard Weber, president of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

"We are experiencing longer allergy seasons, earlier onset and there is just more pollen in the air," said Weber, who's also an allergist at National Jewish Health in Denver.

About 40 million Americans have seasonal allergies -- also known as hay fever -- and they will have to cope with earlier and longer allergy seasons, Weber said.

"A year ago, we saw pollen counts of certain trees that were about three times higher than what we normally would see in years past," he said in a hospital news release. "It was awful. Plants that ordinarily were pollinating in April, by the beginning of March, they were going gangbusters."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: allergies; climategate; globalists; globalwarming; hoax; seasons; spring
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1 posted on 05/12/2017 6:46:47 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Toenail fungus too.


2 posted on 05/12/2017 6:48:55 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The Washington Post is Jeff Bezos' Fake News unregulated SuperPAC.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

BS, I have bad allergies and this year my symptoms have been mild.


3 posted on 05/12/2017 6:48:59 AM PDT by Garvin (Moderate Muslims are the tall grass in which Jihadi Terrorists hide undisturbed.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Changes ever year, too....but not by much. You can tweak....aka.....manipulate the results by picking certain areas to measure.


4 posted on 05/12/2017 6:49:22 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

:: earlier onset and there is just more pollen in the air ::

Couldn’t that be the result of plants “growing” and using the CO2 to become healthier and more robust?


5 posted on 05/12/2017 6:50:26 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Garvin

Ditto with me too.


6 posted on 05/12/2017 6:51:22 AM PDT by caver (Trump: Home of the Winner)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hmmm. Might be something to this... Since the MSM has been inundating us with these stories, my headaches have increased.. :/


7 posted on 05/12/2017 6:52:39 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Global temperatures have risen by less than one degree since the low point of the Little Ice Age. Anyone delicate enough that a temperature increase that small upsets their allergies belongs in an institution, not out in the real world, where far more terrible things happen (like the sun going behind a cloud or coming back out again, or a breeze starting or suddenly stopping, or the sun setting in the evening and then rising the next morning).


8 posted on 05/12/2017 6:52:56 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Garvin

Me three. I usually get a sinus infection or two in the allergy season, and this year has been smooth sailing.


9 posted on 05/12/2017 6:55:35 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s rather comical with no material changes in the facts news stories just start popping up. You can always tell when an influx of cash is infused into the media machine.

Someone is borrowing against ALGORE’s 15 Trillion payday.


10 posted on 05/12/2017 6:59:26 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Uncle Miltie

Or Firesign Theater’s “running sores, athletes foot, and shortness of pants.”


11 posted on 05/12/2017 6:59:39 AM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: Rinnwald

I think all the crap we eat from foreign countries where various chemicals are applied is what is making all our diseases worse.

Search- pollution, china and read a few articles. Tilapia fish are farm raised and few chicken dropping and ground up dead chickens for example.


12 posted on 05/12/2017 7:00:38 AM PDT by oldasrocks (rump)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Just helping Ivanka convince her dad to tax carbon.


13 posted on 05/12/2017 7:01:31 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Climate change making xxxxx worse, study says...

Funny and quite the coincidence, that we don't find that, at least occasionally, some aspect of GlowBull CC makes things better. 100% of what it does makes things worse.

If it were Science, one might think that there would be a 50-50 shot at making things better or worse. Or, it would be a normal distribution of effects - some things worse, some things better, and a few much worse, and a few much better.

14 posted on 05/12/2017 7:01:57 AM PDT by C210N
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To: All

Everyone knows it’s the chemtrails. Sheesh


15 posted on 05/12/2017 7:04:20 AM PDT by ssfromla
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To: FirstFlaBn
Shoes for Industry!


16 posted on 05/12/2017 7:05:05 AM PDT by C210N
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
As a kid, I only had an allergy to penicillin. I went into the Air Force, and also never suffered allergies for my time in. Spent time in central CA, west TX, Korea, and Tucson. Went back home to Idaho at age 25. Went to mow my dad's lawn for him (a job I had as a youth, along with mowing several of the neighbors' lawns), and couldn't even get through the first five minutes. Sneezing, eyes watering, runny nose, itchy ears, mouth, skin. Ugh.

I'd worked topping corn, hoeing beans, bucking bales (both alfalfa hay and straw), making silage and all things farm related when I was a kid going to my grandparents' farm, and working for a local corn topping crew. Nothing ever bothered me.

This year, allergies came earlier for our area because of a mild winter and warmer than average (average, hmmm...) spring. But they didn't last longer than normal, just got here earlier and took about the same amount of time to run through.

17 posted on 05/12/2017 7:06:21 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees! - Kipling)
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To: Uncle Miltie

The science is settled. Climate change causes all the following:

Erectile dysfunction
Warts
Veneral disease
Aids
High Taxes
My ex wife
ingrown toenails
Obesity
Summer Fall Winter Spring (this one is true)
Trump Derangement Syndrom
Frigidity (See ex wife)

ETC.


18 posted on 05/12/2017 7:07:47 AM PDT by cpdiii ( Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. CONSTITUTUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: Sacajaweau

Translation: “We need more money to study this phenomena.”


19 posted on 05/12/2017 7:09:15 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Uncle Miltie

Is there anything GW can’t do?


20 posted on 05/12/2017 7:09:49 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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