Quotes about pollen (12 Quotes)




    What we see this season is there are several days in between rains and enough time for it to stay dry and warm and windy. There's nowhere for the pollen to go, so it just stays in the air, on the trees and you can actually see it building up.

    March 2002 Rising carbon dioxide levels associated with global warming could lead to an increase in the incidence of allergies to ragweed and other plants by mid-century, according to a report appearing in the March Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology by Harvard University researchers. The study found that ragweed grown in an atmosphere with double the current carbon dioxide levels produced 61 percent more pollen than normal. Such a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide is expected to occur between 2050 and 2100. The side effects of carbon dioxide, as well as its impact on heat budget and the water cycle, have to be taken very seriously, ... I believe this study can help us understand the true costs of burning fossil fuels.



    I'm involved with bringing in pollen and cuttings and trying to do my own cross breading to come up with a cold hearty variety that can handle the 40 below winters here.





    We don't know how long this pattern has existed because the kind of field experiment needed to detect the problem of low pollen transfer has been conducted by ecologists only for the last 25-30 years or so.




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