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Harsh winter revs up spring allergies in New Jersey
northjersey.com ^ | Sunday, April 13, 2014, 4:05 PM | CHRISTOPHER MAAG

Posted on 04/13/2014 2:35:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin

In a traditional spring, various species of pollinating trees and flowers bloom sequentially over a period of about 2½ months, said Estelle Levetin, who has studied airborne pollen since 1980. If spring is delayed, more plants pollinate all at once, creating a shorter but more intense season that can exacerbate symptoms for people who are allergic. “This year we had an unusually cold winter that lasted longer than normal, and that set back pollen release significantly,” said Levetin, a biology professor at the University of Tulsa. “Each individual plant is not pollinating much more than normal. We’re just having a lot of plants pollinate simultaneously.”

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"June is busting out all over.."

But are we happy to have lots of pretty flowers? Nooooooo

1 posted on 04/13/2014 2:35:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

New Jersey?
2 posted on 04/13/2014 3:07:25 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: BenLurkin

Eastern NC is quite the bitch right now.

Global Warming


3 posted on 04/13/2014 3:09:59 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s bad down here in the south; on this Palm Sunday our pastor opened up the service with “Welcome to Pollen Sunday”.


4 posted on 04/13/2014 3:19:33 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: BenLurkin

I’ve heard the allergies are so bad in some places that the meth dealers have been turning their meth back into pseudoephedrine.


5 posted on 04/13/2014 3:31:11 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: BenLurkin

Nothing a hard frost and some snow won’t take care of. And it looks like that is coming to the NE in a few days.


6 posted on 04/13/2014 3:55:05 PM PDT by Revel
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To: eyedigress

Oh goodie, now we get the “Global Sneezing” flank at the UN wanting additional Global Cause D’jour money.


7 posted on 04/13/2014 4:03:23 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Rebelbase
Backwashing my pool twice a day to rid the filter of the yellow slime. Always bad in Memphis.

This being said however, the giant shade trees lining our streets cut the utility bills in half during the summer.

Isn't life all about taking the good with the bad? Or is that Global Climate Change too?

8 posted on 04/13/2014 4:07:03 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: eyedigress

Sue the Algore for causing hoax of Global Warming to cool down too much due to accelerated limitation on carbon production. Dying trees are next due to reduced amount of CO2 and as a result of that, people will be dying due to lack of oxygen produced by no trees, by shortage of CO2, by Algore criminal tax extorting “Globull change/warming”.

Sue the bastRAT!!!!!


9 posted on 04/13/2014 4:09:06 PM PDT by Leo Carpathian (FReeeeepeesssssed)
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To: Leo Carpathian

Suing Algore would be the equivalent of jailing Al Sharpton.

Never gonna happen.

The power of the left has their idiot base in-line and they know it.


10 posted on 04/13/2014 4:15:30 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
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To: BenLurkin
This is where we need to plant flowers....


11 posted on 04/13/2014 4:17:19 PM PDT by caww
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To: blackdog

Welcome to Obamanation, a third world like no other.


12 posted on 04/13/2014 4:18:27 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
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