{"id":2497,"date":"2015-04-01T01:14:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T05:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2015-04-01T01:14:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T05:14:23","slug":"more-pollen-allergies-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/04\/more-pollen-allergies-in-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"More pollen allergies in the future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of scientists have warned that this could be one of the worst pollen seasons ever for parts of the country. \u00a0They attribute this to a number of factors, including the high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which provide a fertilization effect on some plants and warmer temperatures and wet conditions in some regions, which extend the growing season and make the plants grow more vigorously. \u00a0<em>The Weather Channel<\/em> published an <a title=\"TWC more pollen in future\" href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.com\/health\/allergy\/news\/worst-allergy-season-ever?cm_ven=Facebook&amp;cm_cat=www.facebook.com&amp;cm_pla=fb_feed&amp;cm_ite=fb_social_rec&amp;fb_ref=Default\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> last week which described how this could become more common as changing climate and rising carbon dioxide levels make plants produce more pollen in the future.<\/p>\n<p><em>EcoWatch<\/em>\u00a0also had an article last fall which explained how climate change could increase pollen levels (<a title=\"Ecowatch on pollen\" href=\"https:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/11\/09\/climate-change-increase-pollen-levels\/\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Yahoo News published an <a title=\"Yahoo world getting greener\" href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/despite-deforestation-world-getting-greener-scientists-150214323.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a>\u00a0yesterday which discussed how the earth is getting greener even with deforestation due to the warming temperatures, which allow areas formerly covered by snow and tundra to warm up and produce vegetation. \u00a0Presumably this could lead to even more pollen production in the future as the area of vegetation expands.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2498\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/320px-Bees_Collecting_Pollen_2004-08-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2498\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/320px-Bees_Collecting_Pollen_2004-08-14-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Jon Sullivan, Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/320px-Bees_Collecting_Pollen_2004-08-14-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/320px-Bees_Collecting_Pollen_2004-08-14-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/320px-Bees_Collecting_Pollen_2004-08-14.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Jon Sullivan, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of scientists have warned that this could be one of the worst pollen seasons ever for parts of the country. \u00a0They attribute this to a number of factors, including the high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which provide a fertilization effect on some plants and warmer temperatures and wet conditions in 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