The plus side of pollen

Vincent J. Curtis

13 Mar 24

RE: Earlier and Longer allergy season in store for Hamilton. News item. The Hamilton Spectator 13 Mar 24

It’s one thing to say the season of pollen will start earlier, and another to say it will last longer. If so, won’t the season, though longer, be less intense? The same amount of pollen, being spread over a longer period of time, means the amount in the air at any one time would be less, should it not? Not if there is more plant-life spreading pollen.

The news story is intended to be fed into the climate change narrative, and that’s supposed to be a bad thing.  But, higher CO2 levels do contribute to is more flourishing plant life, CO2 being plant food.  A longer season of pollen of the same intensity means that plant life is flourishing more intensely, and that is a good sign of life.

Another set of cultists closely related to climate is the “race to extinction” crowd, who hold that that mankind is destroying the earth and that the global population needs to fall by six billion to restore what they call balance.  A season of pollen signifying more flourishing plant life is bad news for them, good news for 6 billion of humanity, and shows that more CO2 and a warmer climate have plus sides.

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