By Paul Douglas
The southern hemisphere is currently moving into the summer season as of December 1st.
Anyone with lung disease, which is what asthma is, should ask the physician for any type of protection from such attacks. I am dead serious. They do it in China for dense pollution.
The reason this can be an issue as in Melbourne is because plants have heavier pollen counts with dense CO2 content of the troposphere.
The public needs to be educated to this potential to empower them to talk to their doctors and their children's pediatrician. I doubt if most physicians in the USA have ever heard of "Thunderstorm Asthma."
The journal article below is from March 2002. That is how long and even longer investigative scientists have known the adverse outcomes of the climate crisis. The knowledge started at the time of Henry Ford's invention of the car and became an activist issue in the 1960s. POLITICS of the petroleum industry has caused greed to outweigh facts.
Production of allergenic pollen (click here) by ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifloria L.) is increased in CO2 enriched atmospheres
Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology; Volume 88, March 2002, pp: 79-82
Authors: Peter Wayne, PhD.; Susannah Foster, BS; John Connolly, PhD.; Fakhri Bazzaz, PhD.; Paul Epstein, MD
...Results
A doubling of the atmospheric CO2 concentration stimulated ragweed-pollen production by 61% (P= 0.005)
Conclusions
These results suggest that there may be significant increases in exposure to allergenic pollen under the present scenarios of global warming. Further studies may enable public health groups to more accurately evaluate the future risks of hay fever and respiratory diseases (eg, asthma) exacerbated by allergenic pollen, and to develop strategies to mitigate them.
6 people are dead, thousands temporarily hospitalized when moisture within a thunderstorm hitting Melbourne, Australia combined with pollen to trigger severe asthma attacks. A third of patients who suffered these attacks reported never having asthma before. The storm broke up grass pollen into tinier fragments, penetrating deep inside people's lungs. These events are rare, but similar cases of thunderstorm asthma have been reported in Britain, Italy, Canada and the USA.
Natural and man-made pollutants lead to twice as many premature deaths in the USA as auto accidents; over 70,000/year. People suffering from COPD and asthma are most at risk. Some of the most severe cases of air pollution strike in late fall, when warm air aloft can trap bad air near the ground....
The southern hemisphere is currently moving into the summer season as of December 1st.Anyone with lung disease, which is what asthma is, should ask the physician for any type of protection from such attacks. I am dead serious. They do it in China for dense pollution.
The reason this can be an issue as in Melbourne is because plants have heavier pollen counts with dense CO2 content of the troposphere.
The public needs to be educated to this potential to empower them to talk to their doctors and their children's pediatrician. I doubt if most physicians in the USA have ever heard of "Thunderstorm Asthma."
The journal article below is from March 2002. That is how long and even longer investigative scientists have known the adverse outcomes of the climate crisis. The knowledge started at the time of Henry Ford's invention of the car and became an activist issue in the 1960s. POLITICS of the petroleum industry has caused greed to outweigh facts.
Production of allergenic pollen (click here) by ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifloria L.) is increased in CO2 enriched atmospheres
Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology; Volume 88, March 2002, pp: 79-82
Authors: Peter Wayne, PhD.; Susannah Foster, BS; John Connolly, PhD.; Fakhri Bazzaz, PhD.; Paul Epstein, MD
...Results
A doubling of the atmospheric CO2 concentration stimulated ragweed-pollen production by 61% (P= 0.005)
Conclusions
These results suggest that there may be significant increases in exposure to allergenic pollen under the present scenarios of global warming. Further studies may enable public health groups to more accurately evaluate the future risks of hay fever and respiratory diseases (eg, asthma) exacerbated by allergenic pollen, and to develop strategies to mitigate them.
