About This Lesson
You dread it, you detest it, but once a year, every year, it comes just the same. No, I don’t mean tax time. I’m talking about ragweed season. Though a lot of people complain of “hay-fever,” what’s making them sneeze and sniffle and cough and gag is our old friend Mr. Ragweed, putting his pollen out into the air in a reproduction bonanza. Several years ago researchers working in Oklahoma concluded that global warming, along with messing up everything else, is also going to create a field day for ragweed.