Secretary McCarthy did not lie when she pointed to the increase in asthma troubles in the country, especially among the most vulnerable children.
Let me first make this point. Don't dismiss asthma as a minor problem that simply requires inhalers used properly and regularly. That is not the case, especially when children and their families are pressed to afford medicines.
Additionally, asthma is a dangerous disease. The bronchioles (click here) of the lungs spasm and constrict air flow. This is not a minor event in anyone's life. Bronchioles are very tiny air passages that everyone has. Once they start to spasm for a myriad of reasons, it is sheer panic to the person or child experiencing it. The disease can get so bad a person or child may have to be intubated and placed on a ventilator.
Environmental agents that increase the danger to people susceptible to this disease are a real problem. This is not imaginary stuff.
May 31, 2013
Wendy Koch
...Joseph Leija (click here) counts the pollen and mold spores that collect on slides inside an air-sucking machine atop the six-story building. "There's been an increase, no doubt about it," he says of the 5 a.m. weekday counts that he's been doing as a volunteer for 24 years.
Let me first make this point. Don't dismiss asthma as a minor problem that simply requires inhalers used properly and regularly. That is not the case, especially when children and their families are pressed to afford medicines.
Additionally, asthma is a dangerous disease. The bronchioles (click here) of the lungs spasm and constrict air flow. This is not a minor event in anyone's life. Bronchioles are very tiny air passages that everyone has. Once they start to spasm for a myriad of reasons, it is sheer panic to the person or child experiencing it. The disease can get so bad a person or child may have to be intubated and placed on a ventilator.
Environmental agents that increase the danger to people susceptible to this disease are a real problem. This is not imaginary stuff.
May 31, 2013
Wendy Koch
...Joseph Leija (click here) counts the pollen and mold spores that collect on slides inside an air-sucking machine atop the six-story building. "There's been an increase, no doubt about it," he says of the 5 a.m. weekday counts that he's been doing as a volunteer for 24 years.
"My allergies are much worse than they used to be," says Amanda Carwyle, a mom of three who lives 95 miles south in Pontiac, Ill. "I used to be able to take a Benadryl or Claritin and be fine." Now, despite three medications and allergy shots that make her feel a bit like a zombie, she says her eyes are watery and her head stuffy. "I'm so miserable."...
Secretary McCarthy could have been far more dramatic in her expression of the seriousness of global warming to children, but, I think she left that up to institutions like Harvard School of Public Health. Secretary McCarthy never impressed me as one for drama or lies. She just isn't capable when it comes to the well being of a nation. I mean that sincerely. I have heard her speak and she always relies on state of the art data. I consider her to be a very ethical person. See, when one talks science and within science is usually some math, it is nearly impossible to lie, deceive an audience of peers. And she has many across the entire country. If she misspoke there would be many to raise a question or state a fact. In fact, after her presentation of the new carbon dioxide rules she was haled by her peers.
This is from the Harvard School of Public Health.
No pediatrician (click here) will doubt the importance of adequate food, clean air and water, and freedom from disease to the health of a child. In fact, the greatest improvements to children's health over the last century can be linked to improvements in each of these areas.
Somewhere on this blog is an entry, at least I think there is. Sometimes I don't know if information is sequestered to my notes and files or I actually posted the stuff.
Well, no matter. Some years ago Duke University conducted research in regard to carbon sequestration and the ability of trees to absorb carbon dioxide. It was rather interesting. Duke has it's own forest.
They formed a perimeter around a section of forest and then there was another section of forest as a 'placebo group' so to speak. Duke then supersaturated the research group with carbon dioxide. They threw as much as they could at the forest in gas form. They found the forest did absorb more CO2 up to a point. Trees are limited depending on the amount of chlorophyll in their leaves and bark. But to the extent the forest could absorb the CO2 there was an increase in a supersaturated environment.
Since then other studies have been performed and some simply studies of forests exposed to the increase in CO2 in the environment as it exists. Trees do produce more pollen in supersaturated environments. The high CO2 in the troposphere is not ignored by nature. Not at all. As a matter of fact it turns plants into hyper-drives to their very nature.
The idea there is more pollen and more allergens in the air because of global warming is very real and very well documented. This is a very real danger to people with respiratory diseases. Absolutely.
Secretary McCarthy could have been far more dramatic in her expression of the seriousness of global warming to children, but, I think she left that up to institutions like Harvard School of Public Health. Secretary McCarthy never impressed me as one for drama or lies. She just isn't capable when it comes to the well being of a nation. I mean that sincerely. I have heard her speak and she always relies on state of the art data. I consider her to be a very ethical person. See, when one talks science and within science is usually some math, it is nearly impossible to lie, deceive an audience of peers. And she has many across the entire country. If she misspoke there would be many to raise a question or state a fact. In fact, after her presentation of the new carbon dioxide rules she was haled by her peers.
This is from the Harvard School of Public Health.
No pediatrician (click here) will doubt the importance of adequate food, clean air and water, and freedom from disease to the health of a child. In fact, the greatest improvements to children's health over the last century can be linked to improvements in each of these areas.
Unfortunately, climate change puts all of these achievements at risk. Because of the increased risks for heat waves, droughts, and floods, as well as sea level rise more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere make food shortages more likely, lessen air quality, diminish freshwater supplies, and may create conditions favorable the spread of certain infectious diseases.
Here are a few areas in which recent research has deepened our understanding of how climate change has influenced and will continue to influence the health of children....
Well, no matter. Some years ago Duke University conducted research in regard to carbon sequestration and the ability of trees to absorb carbon dioxide. It was rather interesting. Duke has it's own forest.
They formed a perimeter around a section of forest and then there was another section of forest as a 'placebo group' so to speak. Duke then supersaturated the research group with carbon dioxide. They threw as much as they could at the forest in gas form. They found the forest did absorb more CO2 up to a point. Trees are limited depending on the amount of chlorophyll in their leaves and bark. But to the extent the forest could absorb the CO2 there was an increase in a supersaturated environment.
Since then other studies have been performed and some simply studies of forests exposed to the increase in CO2 in the environment as it exists. Trees do produce more pollen in supersaturated environments. The high CO2 in the troposphere is not ignored by nature. Not at all. As a matter of fact it turns plants into hyper-drives to their very nature.
The idea there is more pollen and more allergens in the air because of global warming is very real and very well documented. This is a very real danger to people with respiratory diseases. Absolutely.
