Climate change extends allergy season

 https://breakingnewsenglish.com/2303/230320-allergies.html

Not everyone in the world looks forward to the joys of spring. While many people take delight in observing the glory of newly-formed buds revealing their delicate blossoms, others dread this annual phenomenon. That's because blooming plants bring seasonal allergies like hay fever. The National Phenology Network (NPN) in the USA has warned hay fever sufferers that spring has arrived up to four weeks earlier than usual. The pollen that causes so many symptoms is already causing misery. To make matters worse, the warmer weather will prolong hay fever season. The NPN said: "It's a little unsettling. It perhaps isn't surprising, given the trajectory our planet is on."

Phenologists, climatologists and meteorologists are blaming climate change for the unseasonably warmer weather. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that the U.S. winter's average temperature was 2.7 degrees warmer than the 20th century average. Lauren Casey, a meteorologist with Climate Central, told the CNN news agency that climate change is resulting in earlier and longer seasons for plants, causing a greater prevalence of pollen. She said pollen was "the enemy" of people who suffer from allergies. She said pollen can trigger asthma attacks and aggravate mold allergies. Another scientist said: "Acting on climate change really does matter for people's health."

Good words to learn:

•  Glory N. 榮耀 ：
• 解釋：praise and thanks, especially as given to God.
• 例句：This was her final professional match, and she wanted to end her career in a  blaze of glory.

• allergies Ｖ. 過敏
• 解釋：a condition that makes a person become sick or develop skin or            breathing problems because they have eaten certain foods or been near certain substances.
• 例句：Most of the proteins that have been engineered into crops have no chance of causing allergies.
• trajectory N. 軌跡
• 解釋：the curved path that an object follows after it has been thrown or shot into the air
• 例句： Recently there have been attempts made to devise statistical methods for classifying subjects into groups based on their developmental trajectories.