Global warming linked to high asthma rates

America's cities, blanketed with smog and climate-altering carbon dioxide, have become cradles of ill health and are fostering an epidemic of asthma, according to a report yesterday from a leading group of Harvard University researchers and the American Public Health Association. Particularly hard hit are preschool-aged children, whose rate of asthma rose by 160 per cent between 1980 and 1994 (more than twice the national average), the report says.

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"These children get hit with a powerful one-two punch: exposure to the worst air-quality problems and the additional allergen exposure arising from global warming," said Christine Rogers, a research scientist at the exposure, epidemiology and risk program at the Harvard School of Public Health.

The researchers also found that poor, non-white children, who are clustered in the cities, are also at most risk for getting sick from asthma. The highest incidence of asthma in the U.S. is among African-American toddlers and low-income toddlers. Far from being a distant threat, global climate change is already affecting the health of these urban Americans, as well as citizens of many other parts of the world, says the report.

"It is already happening," said Paul Epstein, associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. "It's happening much faster than we imagined two, three, four years ago."

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Seriously, I remember one girl in my 6th grade class that had it. Now, look at the numbers. When I worked at the pharmacy, I'll bet it was 4 scripts out of ten were for inhalers or oral meds for asthma. And most of them for children. And no matter what the stats say, the government continues to ignore it or downplay it, and it's a shame. And now they think that global warming is a link? I'm not surprised. So, this will fall on deaf ears, too, because this misadministration thinks that global warming is a myth.

These are two substances that have been reliably demonstrated to be contained in the chemtrails that jet aircraft are laying down 24/7 over this country and most of the world. There are also scores of reports of people finding some sort of fibers in their environments after spray missions.

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that asthma, allergies, and sinuses are rising at an incredible rate! Almost everyone I know here in Florida is dealing with any one of these on an ongoing basis.

I never had the issue of asthmatic symptoms until I lived in Houston, Texas and now it is a constant fight to keep myself well on antibiotics from bouts of sinus infection, bronchial infections, and the one time incident of walking pneumonia in Houston.

I am soooo sick and tired of taking meds and having an inhaler of albuterol on hand!!

But of course, most will say it has nothing to do with anything. I think both are correct. I think there are way too many chemicals and pollutants in our environment and I also believe that the global warming and environmental conditions presenting themselves today assist in keeping the problems elevated.

Growing up, I, too, only knew of one person with asthma in a school of 500 kids.