Nothing to sneeze at: Global warming triggers earlier pollen

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Across the United States and Canada, pollen season is starting 20 days earlier than it did 30 years ago.

When Dr. Stanley Fineman started as an allergist in Atlanta, he told patients they should start taking their medications and prepare for the drippy, sneezy onslaught of pollen season around St. Patrick's Day. That was about 40 years ago. Now he tells them to start around St. Valentine's Day.

Sign up here to receive The Climate Barometer, delivering climate and environmental news to your inbox every week The warmer the Earth gets, the earlier spring starts for plants and animals, especially those that release pollen. Add to that the fact that trees and plants produce more pollen when they get carbon dioxide, the study said.

Anderegg said his team factored that in that parks and plants in cities were getting greener. They did standard detailed calculations that scientists have developed to see if changes in nature can be attributed to the increase of heat-trapping gases from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas. They compared what's happening now to computer simulations of an Earth without human-caused warming and rising carbon dioxide in the air.

 

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Climate Change. Global Warming coined by the Press. Climate Change to normal people. Unless the Core of Magma is getting hotter and hotter. It could mean more eruptions.

Its ok the world will end in 2012

20 days early as of when? Saw a brass monkey run by the house this morning he was pissed 😂

Stop it!

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It's -34 without the wind-chill. A big ole hole in the atmosphere could open up over Saskatoon today and l doubt many would complain. Nor would watching the October snow melt in Feb., garner many fears of the future. At least not this week.

WEAR 👏 A 👏 MASK 👏

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