The realities of the Climate Crisis awakens those deniers to the fact of the negligence of the USA of it's own citizens. The Climate Crisis should never have been a political issue.
May 27, 2015
Michael Plantenberg
Are you finding it hard to stop and smell the roses lately? (click here) It’s not just your busy schedule, you important person, you. The Natural Resources Defense Council just released a new report that says climate change is likely to raise levels of pollen and ragweed in the air, and is also likely to incite the formation of ozone – all of which makes it harder to breathe for people with allergies and asthma. That’s one of the reasons the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan is expected to be so beneficial to public health. By setting the first ever federal limits on carbon pollution from existing power plants, the Clean Power Plan is expected to help prevent thousands of asthma attacks and premature deaths every year.
The allergies may be making Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s head a little foggy, though. He’s leading a pack of climate deniers in Congress to block the EPA’s health and climate safeguards, even going so far as to try to dismantle the Clean Air Act altogether. So far the legal challenges to the EPA’s authority have backfired, with the Supreme Court repeatedly ruling that the agency not only has the authority, but also the obligation to regulate pollution that endangers public health. So it’s time for McConnell to stop wasting time — and taxpayer dollars — grandstanding for political show at the expense of public health. Climate action can’t wait!
"I am very pleased to have my friend Secretary Clinton join this
year's Sedona Forum," said Senator McCain. "From her years of service as
first lady, in the U.S. Senate and at the State Department, one would
be hard-pressed to find a leader with Secretary Clinton's informed
perspective on the many challenges facing America across the globe."
The Sedona Forum is the McCain Institute’s annual gathering of national and international thought-leaders, decision-makers, business leaders, philanthropists, activists, and experts to discuss approaches and solutions to real-world problems—all from the starting assumption of character-driven leadership and core democratic values...
From Harvard:
Environmental Health Perspectives, VOLUME114, NUMBER 6, June 2006 (click here)
Spring onset and CO2 influence ragweed pollen
The effects of global warming are complex, but studies of their impact on biotic communities clearly point toward secondary effects that could be detrimental to human health. Our study of A. artemisiifolia under conditions that simulate future levels of atmospheric CO2 and increased temperatures shows that one effect increased production of allergenic pollen could strongly affect the significant proportion of the population with pollen allergies as climate change progresses. Because the results of this study suggest that,under future conditions of global warming and elevated CO2, pollen seasons will be more intense and could start earlier than expected, pollen forecasting and pollen avoidance strategies for sensitized individuals will be particularly important. Finally, we emphasize the importance of studying interactions between multiple predicted climate change parameters, in this case, the interactive effects of elevated CO2 and variability in the onset of spring. Our study suggests that under future predicted greenhouse gas emissions and associated climate conditions, either an early spring onset or variability in spring onset along with elevated CO2, there will be an overall increase in ragweed pollen production.
May 27, 2015
Michael Plantenberg
Are you finding it hard to stop and smell the roses lately? (click here) It’s not just your busy schedule, you important person, you. The Natural Resources Defense Council just released a new report that says climate change is likely to raise levels of pollen and ragweed in the air, and is also likely to incite the formation of ozone – all of which makes it harder to breathe for people with allergies and asthma. That’s one of the reasons the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan is expected to be so beneficial to public health. By setting the first ever federal limits on carbon pollution from existing power plants, the Clean Power Plan is expected to help prevent thousands of asthma attacks and premature deaths every year.
The allergies may be making Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s head a little foggy, though. He’s leading a pack of climate deniers in Congress to block the EPA’s health and climate safeguards, even going so far as to try to dismantle the Clean Air Act altogether. So far the legal challenges to the EPA’s authority have backfired, with the Supreme Court repeatedly ruling that the agency not only has the authority, but also the obligation to regulate pollution that endangers public health. So it’s time for McConnell to stop wasting time — and taxpayer dollars — grandstanding for political show at the expense of public health. Climate action can’t wait!
The reality of the increases in
greenhouse gases in the troposphere is becoming more and more evident.
It could have been prevented. There were efforts before when Hillary
Clinton and John McCain joined efforts to change the path of the
country.
WASHINGTON (April 24, 2014) – The McCain Institute (click here) for International Leadership at Arizona State University
announced today that former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham
Clinton will participate in a conversation with U.S. Senator John McCain
(R-AZ) at the McCain Institute's annual Sedona Forum on Saturday, April
26, 2014 in Sedona, Arizona.
The Sedona Forum is the McCain Institute’s annual gathering of national and international thought-leaders, decision-makers, business leaders, philanthropists, activists, and experts to discuss approaches and solutions to real-world problems—all from the starting assumption of character-driven leadership and core democratic values...
From Harvard:
Environmental Health Perspectives, VOLUME114, NUMBER 6, June 2006 (click here)
Spring onset and CO2 influence ragweed pollen
The effects of global warming are complex, but studies of their impact on biotic communities clearly point toward secondary effects that could be detrimental to human health. Our study of A. artemisiifolia under conditions that simulate future levels of atmospheric CO2 and increased temperatures shows that one effect increased production of allergenic pollen could strongly affect the significant proportion of the population with pollen allergies as climate change progresses. Because the results of this study suggest that,under future conditions of global warming and elevated CO2, pollen seasons will be more intense and could start earlier than expected, pollen forecasting and pollen avoidance strategies for sensitized individuals will be particularly important. Finally, we emphasize the importance of studying interactions between multiple predicted climate change parameters, in this case, the interactive effects of elevated CO2 and variability in the onset of spring. Our study suggests that under future predicted greenhouse gas emissions and associated climate conditions, either an early spring onset or variability in spring onset along with elevated CO2, there will be an overall increase in ragweed pollen production.
