Duluth News Tribune Ignores the Benefits to Plants from Global Warming, Focuses on Allergies Instead

From ClimateREALISM

By Linnea Lueken

Editor’s Note: A recent article at the Duluth News Tribune, “,” claims that global warming is causing an extension of allergy season. This is true, but misses the benefit behind those allergies. Climate Realism has covered this , as in the attached video. Allergy season is slightly longer because the plant growing season is longer, which is a good thing for both pollinators and ultimately human beings because of higher crop production.

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April 25, 2026 6:39 pm

Miss Lueken, you clearly understand that no matter how useful and essential CO2, advocates of its removal will always find a grievance, since $trillions of profit is dependent on the continuation of the scam underway half a century now

John Hultquist
April 25, 2026 6:55 pm

 If 1% of the money wasted on the green scam (call it what you prefer) had been applied to studying allergies and how to prevent them the people with pollen allergies (>30%) would be thrilled. Those of us without pollen problems would also be thrilled and consider the money well spent.  

Reply to  John Hultquist
April 26, 2026 4:34 am

I’ve had allergies for all my 76 years- mostly sinus problems. Been to way too many doctors including several Ear, Nose, Throat Doctors. One thing I discovered in recent years is that drinking a lot of water helps greatly. I sometimes wake up at night all stuffed up. I’ll then drink a glass of water and the sinuses mostly clear within 5 minutes. None of those many doctors ever suggested that. Instead they suggest numerous drugs and nasal sprays. One suggested surgery. Were all those doctors just stupid or what? Sure, that solution might not help everyone with allergies but it should have been suggested.

2hotel9
Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
April 26, 2026 5:55 am

They were all just trying to up their profit margins. No % in people actually doing something free that works for them.

April 25, 2026 8:44 pm

Not to mention the obvious absence of inhalers, I can assure you that asthmatics were not doing any better during the Little Ice Age (aside from the fact that people were dying from just about anything in those “good old days”). Cold air dries out the respiratory tract and generally weakens the body when you can’t protect yourself from it effectively. Breathing in cold air too quickly can also trigger cardiac incidents. If you have the choice, you might as well live in the 21st century, have Zyrtec and/or Ventolin, save on heating, and benefit from increased vitamin D synthesis thanks to more sunlight. The downside is having to put up with the chatter of professional Malthusians and collapse theorists, something I could personally do without.

I’d also like to take this opportunity to congratulate the charming and talented Miss Lueken on her work.

SxyxS
April 26, 2026 1:29 am

If they’d really care they’d care about the real problem – the massive increase in Allergies
and not the extension of a few days.
But that’s a no-no as there is no money to be made and we’d have to enter forbidden vaccine territory .

Bruce Cobb
April 26, 2026 4:07 am

Also, that nasty, dirty, evil CO2 we are pumping into the air 24/7 is “supercharging” (they do love that word, don’t they) all plant growth, so it’s a double-whammy. If only we could go back to the climate during the LIA. Ah, the good ol’ days!

April 26, 2026 4:30 am

It has been a dry season in most of America. How are the farmers doing? I’ve been too busy remodeling my house to pay attention to the farmers this year.

April 26, 2026 4:38 am

She was recently on John Stossel’s YouTube channel.

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2hotel9
April 26, 2026 5:51 am

More plants fornicating means more allergies. Live with it!

ScienceABC123
April 26, 2026 1:14 pm

Face it, if the entire world were green and no one had allergies, some would complain that climate change was making it the wrong shade of green.