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Whoa! the change from a serif font to sans serif makes Ill Considered very hard to read. Was it an accident?

I don't have control on the font, AFAICT, I think it is a Scienceblogs setting...

At the very least, I did not knowingly make any configuration changes and the AWoGWN posting is a pretty regular and simple process.

I didn't even notice.

But please the masses as needed, Coby.

It seems to me that the text stays bolded after this text:

""I have no stomach for jokes today. The truth is too sad, and the lies too numerous." -Bob Park, April 1, 2011"

Probably HTML end-tag missing for bolding there.

By Ari Jokimäki (not verified) on 11 Apr 2011 #permalink

Thus far I haven't seen any of the climate change blogs pick up on this news story claiming that the increase in CO2 is also being linked to increasing numbers of people suffering from hay fever: BBC . Not as pressing as sea level rise, droughts, etc. but still another negative consequence of our addiction to fossil fuels.

Greg

Greg, I fancy the hayfever thing would be a combination of different pollens being released at different times because of seasonal changes ... with the added bonus of ozone effects and relative humidity being higher/lower than previously at those times.

(I remember being surprised, not being a hayfever sufferer myself, when I heard that rainfall, not just wind, caused pollen of some common street trees to 'explode'. So that a calm sunny morning after an overnight shower was a worse proposition for many people than a breezy day with pollen visibly flying about.)

All I have is the BBC link to go by and have not seen the actual study results. However, several points in the article caught my atention. The first was that increases in CO2 are known to promote the amount of pollen certain trees produce and the second was that the scientists had pretty much ruled out other possible causes. Finally the article stated that the number of people being diagnosed with hay fever has invreased by a third between 2001 and 2005 suggesting that it is not a one off event.

Make of it what you will. I did find it interesting as I do indeed suffer from hay fever and it is a miserable malady and as such would not wish it on others.

GregS / Adelady

The paper on pollen was a hard one to track down, but I managed to find the abstract buried in a list of about 700 that were presented at the EGU 2011 General Assembly. The abstract is here:

http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/EGU2011-10036.pdf

Unfortunately, the full paper has not been published through the EGU as yet, so its impossible to know exactly what is in it.

Mind you, there is already a large body of research into exactly this issue. Here is one link to a similar study, with references and links at the end if you feel like reading more:

http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S1413-81232006000300022&script=sci_…

Thanks Mandas.

. . . the full paper has not been published through the EGU as yet, so its impossible to know exactly what is in it.

Which means any minute now it will be cited on Wattsup as the latest disproof of AGW.

Hah! The ABC obviously knows our interests. It's not exactly the same thing but "Thunderstorm Asthma" is very interesting. Esp since the punchline at the end of the piece is that you don't need to be an asthmatic to get 'thunderstorm asthma'. But it's a terrific explanation of exploding (ryegrass) pollen.

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/3191776.htm