Posted on 12/06/2022 11:20:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Researchers with the Rutgers Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute have simulated how climate change will affect the distribution of two leading allergens – oak and ragweed pollens – across the contiguous United States. The results, published in the journal Frontiers in Allergy, may make your eyes water.
Using computer models, the team, led by Panos Georgopoulos, a professor of Environmental and Occupational Health and Justice at the Rutgers School of Public Health, found that by 2050 climate change significantly will increase airborne pollen loads, with some of the largest surges occurring in areas where pollen is historically uncommon.
“Pollen is an excellent sentinel for the impacts of climate change because shifts in variables like carbon dioxide and temperature affect the way plants behave,” said Georgopoulos, who also is director of the Computational Chemodynamics Laboratory at Rutgers.
Previous efforts to connect pollen indices with climate change have been limited by a scarcity of data. For instance, there are about 80 pollen sampling stations in the U.S., operated by a variety of private and public agencies using different sampling methods.
To overcome this challenge, the researchers adapted the Community Multiscale Air Quality modeling system, an open-source tool managed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to simulate distributions of allergenic oak and ragweed pollen for historical (2004) and future (2047) conditions.
The pollen research was part of an ongoing project by the Rutgers Ozone Research Center, which is funded by the EPA and New Jersey to study how climate change will influence air quality in the state.
(Excerpt) Read more at rutgers.edu ...
I took a bowel movement today.
I cursed climate change for it.
Is there anything CC can’t do?!?
Over bridge of sighs
To rest my eyes in shades of green
Under dreaming spires
To Itchycoo Park, that’s where I’ve been
I do but in my case it's an allergy to tyrants.
There is unrest in the forest
Trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas
The trouble with the maples
(And they’re quite convinced they’re right)
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light
But the oaks can’t help their feelings
If they like the way they’re made
And they wonder why the maples
Can’t be happy in their shade
There is trouble in the forest
And the creatures all have fled
As the maples scream, “Oppression”
And the oaks just shake their heads
So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights
They say, “The oaks are just too greedy
We will make them give us light”
Now there’s no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw
Send it to them. It’ll be a perfect 3D and olfactory representation of their crusade plus it’ll double the total scientific IQ of their staff.
Correct itself, apparently.
What did you see there?
Rush’s attempt at explaining socialism?
My racoon hasn`t hibernated yet.
He told me it was coz of climate change.
He knows about these things.
How ‘bout toe jam? Climate Change?
What did you do there?
“How human and animal excrement harm the planet’s ecosystem”
https://thebulletin.org/2019/11/how-human-and-animal-excrement-harm-the-planets-ecosystem/
You need to stop pooping or the polar ice caps will melt.
Then we will have tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions:
“How climate change triggers earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/16/climate-change-triggers-earthquakes-tsunamis-volcanoes
Please, it’s for the sake of the children!
Just shut up Rutgers.
Climate change has the same cult ideology as the trees song
.
Communism.
So....yes.
/-)
“ Using computer models,”
And computers are never wrong. I for one welcome our computer overlords.
It’s gone way beyond ridiculous
Every time I rip one I curse climate change! Not the Tacos I loves.
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