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Climate Change Is Likely to Cause Allergy Misery for Millions; The number of Europeans suffering from ragweed allergies could double by 2050.

John Metcalfe, August 25, 2016 (Atlantic’s City Lab)

“If the rate of warming continues, the number of people suffering from ragweed allergies could jump from 33 to 77 million by 2050. That’s just for Europe: The worldwide toll would obviously be even bigger. Two-thirds of the spread of sinus-obliterating allergies is predicted to be directly tied to climate change [according to Climate Change and Future Pollen Allergy in Europe from University of East Anglia researchers. Ragweed] is likely to find more and more habitable places to grow across Europe as temperatures rise. The noxious plant will also be able to pump more pollen into the air, thanks to an expected lengthening of the warm season and delayed frosts…Pollen misery will be highest in nations already lousy with ragweed, like Hungary and the Balkans…But the greatest proportional increases will happen in countries including Germany, Poland and France…” click here for more

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