{"id":1206,"date":"2010-04-16T09:28:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T13:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2010-04-16T09:28:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T13:28:18","slug":"month-4-day-16-aaaaaaahhhh-choooo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/month-4-day-16-aaaaaaahhhh-choooo\/","title":{"rendered":"Month 4, Day 16: Aaaaaaahhhh-choooo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Siegel is a prolific writer on climate issues at Kos.  Yesterday&#8217;s piece was about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2010\/4\/15\/857484\/-Global-Warming-is-something-to-sneeze-at-...\">impact of climate change on pollen levels<\/a>, and hence the future of allergic reactions&#8230;.kind of scary.<\/p>\n<p>Sent to my local paper, the Medford Transcript.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The effects of global warming are no longer abstract.  You&#8217;re going to be feeling them in your nose.  Increased CO2 levels are projected to boost pollen production enormously over the coming decades, according to a National Wildlife Federation study released yesterday.  A doubling or tripling of ragweed allergens in the United States is going to have huge economic impacts.  We already lose around $12 billion dollars a year to hay fever suffering; we lose over 14 million school and work days, over $15 billion in medical costs and over $5 billion in lost earnings a year to asthma.  What will the Global Warming multiplier be?<\/p>\n<p>But wait!  There&#8217;s more!  Fungal production will probably quadruple with doubled CO2 levels; tree pollen levels are expected to increase drastically \u2014 and did I mention that poison ivy will be faster-growing and more virulent?<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not all bad news.  Investing in pharmaceutical companies should be a winning strategy.  As asthma and allergies debilitate huge segments of the population, we can sneeze all the way to the bank.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Siegel is a prolific writer on climate issues at Kos. Yesterday&#8217;s piece was about the impact of climate change on pollen levels, and hence the future of allergic reactions&#8230;.kind of scary. Sent to my local paper, the Medford Transcript. The effects of global warming are no longer abstract. You&#8217;re going to be feeling them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[408,411,409,410],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-allergies","tag-poison-ivy","tag-pollen","tag-sneezing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}