If you're one of the millions of people worldwide who suffers from seasonal allergies -- particularly ragweed -- then a recently released study should have your mucus membranes groaning about now.
But don't worry, your misery is appreciated. You have helped to pad the bottom lines of some of the richest corporations and a few of those big companies -- the ones who manufacture allergy medications and remedies -- will express their undying gratitude by charging you inflated prices for products that often don't work that well in the first place!
A changing climate means allergy-causing ragweed pollen has a longer season that extends further north than it did just 16 years ago, U.S. scientists reported on Monday.Yes, thanks to the lack of political will on the part of the US and a few other industrialized nations, you will be sneezing, wheezing, draining and suffering for longer than usual this year and in the years to come.
In research that gibes with projections by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, plant and allergy experts found that ragweed pollen season lasted as much as 27 days longer in 2009 than it did in 1995. The further north in the Western Hemisphere, the more dramatic the change in the length of pollen season...
But don't worry, your misery is appreciated. You have helped to pad the bottom lines of some of the richest corporations and a few of those big companies -- the ones who manufacture allergy medications and remedies -- will express their undying gratitude by charging you inflated prices for products that often don't work that well in the first place!
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