Climate change is effecting the air effecting our health worse long term. There is more pollen in the air than ever before from the higher temps also limited effects on plants from more Carbon Dioxide.
The issue is the effects on us in the higher effects of more pollen and carbon dioxide levels in the air even more if you have asthma! Also higher carbon dioxide in the air long term effects the heart. More possible heart attacks so with the stress on us from our environment stay calm and we aware things are not normal so take care of your needs! Psychological stress from everything drags us all down. A point to note how we all react to the changes going on!
~~~~~After years of progress, the number of Americans breathing polluted air is rising, report says. More Americans are breathing air that will make them sick, according to the American Lung Association's annual State of the Air report.
The country had been making progress in cleaning up air pollution, but during the Trump administration, it has been backsliding, the report says. Deregulation and climate change are largely to blame.
~~~~~Climate change is making allergy season worse
You're sneezing your head off, and your eyes sting. The air around you is yellow -- along with your house, your car, your pets. Yes, of course, you already know that allergy season has arrived. Now for more bad news: Climate change makes it much worse.
Nearly 20 million Americans sneeze and sniffle due to pollen and dust, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and many more of us will be BFFs with our tissues in the future.
The number of allergy sufferers has grown, research shows. One in 10 Americans struggled with hay fever in 1970, and 3 in 10 did by 2000. Asthma, which can be made worse by exposure to pollen, has become more common too, with higher rates among kids, low-income households and African Americans.
The number of allergy sufferers has grown, research shows. One in 10 Americans struggled with hay fever in 1970, and 3 in 10 did by 2000. Asthma, which can be made worse by exposure to pollen, has become more common too, with higher rates among kids, low-income households and African Americans.
Experts think climate change shares some of the blame for this. Warmer temperatures increase the level of airborne pollen because, scientists say, the growing season has, well, grown
~~~~~Last Time Carbon Dioxide Levels Were This High: 15 Million Years Ago, Scientists Report. You must go back 15 million years to find carbon dioxide levels as high as they are today, Earth scientists report. "The last time carbon dioxide levels were apparently as high as they are today and sustained at those levels, global temperatures were five to 10 degrees Fahrenheit higher than they are today," said Aradhna Tripati, UCLA assistant professor of Earth and Space Sciences and lead author.
~~~~~Ask the Experts: Does Rising CO2 Benefit Plants?
There is a kernel of truth in this argument, experts say, based on what scientists call the CO2 fertilization effect. “CO2 is essential for photosynthesis,” says Richard Norby, a corporate research fellow in the Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. “If you isolate a leaf [in a laboratory] and you increase the level of CO2, photosynthesis will increase. That’s well established.” But Norby notes the results scientists produce in labs are generally not what happens in the vastly more complex world outside; many other factors are involved in plant growth in untended forests, fields and other ecosystems. For example, “nitrogen is often in short enough supply that it’s the primary controller of how much biomass is produced” in an ecosystem, he says. “If nitrogen is limited, the benefit of the CO2 increase is limited…. You can’t just look at CO2, because the overall context really matters.”
~~~~~The Impact of Global Warming on Human Fatality Rates
Mark Jacobson, showing a direct link between rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere and increased human mortality.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/global-warming-and-health
~~~~~The effects of psychological stress upon performance.
Stress is motivational in character and cannot be described in terms of stimulus or response operations alone. Studies have been concerned with verbal and perceptual-motor performance, components of behavior, personality correlates as affected by stress, qualitative observation of stress-performance, and such performance as a predictor.
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1953-02507-001
~~~~~The effects of psychological stress upon performance.
Stress is motivational in character and cannot be described in terms of stimulus or response operations alone. Studies have been concerned with verbal and perceptual-motor performance, components of behavior, personality correlates as affected by stress, qualitative observation of stress-performance, and such performance as a predictor.
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1953-02507-001
