{"id":2893,"date":"2011-03-02T23:49:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T03:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2011-03-03T09:08:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T13:08:44","slug":"year-2-month-3-day-3-a-cashew-a-tissue-a-fichu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-2-month-3-day-3-a-cashew-a-tissue-a-fichu\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2, Month 3, Day 3: A Cashew? A Tissue? A Fichu?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sonoma County Press-Democrat reprints a story from the LA times on the likelihood of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressdemocrat.com\/article\/20110222\/WIRE\/102221058?Title=Study-Global-warming-something-to-sneeze-about&#038;tc=ar\">an increase in asthma from global warming<\/a> (hotter, wetter weather equals more pollenaceous plants).<\/p>\n<p>Sent February 22:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A person racked by sneezes and coughs, eyes and nose streaming, is a convenient figure of fun for those who don&#8217;t suffer from allergies.  Global climate change&#8217;s effect on the atmospheric pollen count has similar humorous potential \u2014 as long as we avoid looking at the ways in which all of us are affected.  And it&#8217;s not just asthma and allergies.  As planetary warming changes our environment in unpredictable ways over the next decades, we can anticipate some of its effects: hotter temperatures will help spread tropical diseases; unpredictable and extreme weather may destroy local infrastructure (impassable roads, unsafe drinking water, rolling blackouts); agriculture will suffer (and food will get more expensive).  Any of these by itself is a mere inconvenience.  Collectively they are the localized face of a threat that&#8217;s planetary in scope, existential in nature.  Environmentalists seek to limit the damage; Republican politicians, by contrast, are investing heavily in antihistamines.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The title references Ogden Nash&#8217;s poem <em>&#8220;Allergy in a Country Churchyard.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sonoma County Press-Democrat reprints a story from the LA times on the likelihood of an increase in asthma from global warming (hotter, wetter weather equals more pollenaceous plants). Sent February 22: A person racked by sneezes and coughs, eyes and nose streaming, is a convenient figure of fun for those who don&#8217;t suffer from [&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":[408,807,587,409],"class_list":["post-2893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-allergies","tag-asthma","tag-extreme-weather","tag-pollen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893","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=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2968,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions\/2968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}