Do you believe that wanting to burn wood is sensible?

The evidence says it's not!

Stop burning trees to make energy, say 650 scientists before Cop15 biodiversity summit https://www.carbonbrief.org/daily-brief/stop-burning-trees-to-make-energy-say-650-scientists-before-cop15-biodiversity-summit/

Results: [USA] women who used their wood-burning fireplace/stove ≥30 days/year had an elevated rate of lung #cancer https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2023.108128

#science #ClimateChange #WoodFuel #CarbonBasedFuels #CarbonDioxide #CarbonParticles #disease

#Renewable #CleanAir #tech #solar #wind #water #thermal

Frances Ryan, columnist with The Guardian and book author, on the public COVID amnesia:

“Covid’s back, you say? As disabled and vulnerable people know all too well, it never went away”

“Clinically vulnerable (CV) patients still ‘need’ the Covid-19 protections. They just don’t get them.”

“NHS staff in England don’t have to wear a mask, and the majority who have respiratory symptoms are no longer asked to test for Covid.”

“The paradox of the pandemic has always been that the only way to ‘move on’ is to actually engage with it.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/10/covid-coronavirus-disabled-vulnerable-people

More from Frances Ryan: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/frances-ryan

(Repost because the original toot lacked alt text on the image and also because I wanted to quote a few more bits.)

h/t @Pinchy63

#SARSCoV2 #COVID #COVID19 #LongCOVID #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask #MaskUp #BringBackMasks #CleanAir

As I watch the ramping up of institutional #covid19 #outbreak #notifications in #Ontario, it is yet another wave's reminder that, at least in Canada, #IPAC is mostly a cargo cult science.

"The form is perfect. ... But it doesn't work. No airplanes land. So I call these things cargo cult science, because they follow all the apparent precepts and forms of scientific investigation, but they're missing something essential, because the planes don't land." - Richard Feynman https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_science

We deeply need an IPAC discipline that takes #aerosol #airborne transmission mitigation very seriously. We need an airborne revolution to get to #CleanAir, to #SafeAir

I know a few counterpoints to this view like Dr Victor Leung from BC who is a true practice leader in the field, but they are rare and rather quiet due to discipline pressure to conform to approved #DropletDogma

If you are in IPAC, please help drive your discipline from a handwashing, droplet & contacts precaution compliance mindset to one that truely embraces airborne risk mitigation, if not elimination. Don't just transfer the risk to the patient, and wash your hands of it.

It might be my life you save. It certainly could have been both my parents.

#ClimateHeating therefore #ClimateChange solutions (proven to work. But, only if we do them!)

The sooner we stop burning carbon, eating meat (methane emissions) & start restoring natural habitats, the sooner the planet's systems will sequester the legacy atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions (having a planet-cooling effect)

Hey, if the solutions were vote winners, the majority would have chosen them already.

Although, greenwash hasn't "helped" 🤔

#science #ecology #renewables #CleanAir #food

Wildfire smoke and climate change are locked in a vicious circle: Fires worsen climate change, and climate change worsens fires. Alejandro Lazo of CalMatters has four things you should know.

https://alamedapost.com/news/californias-wildfire-smoke-and-climate-change-four-things-to-know/

#AirQualityIndex #alameda #california #CleanAir #ClimateChange #GreenhouseGases #smog #smoke #UnhealthyAir #wildfires

#OnThisDay The International Criminal Police Organization (#INTERPOL) was formed (1923).

The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth (1927).

Today is International Day of #CleanAir for Blue Skies.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/news

Holy Plague, Ottawa! Just had 11 new Covid reports from the Ottawa area today - LTCs, Retirement places, group home, shelter - in addition to all the previous ones in hospitals.
Has Ottawa Region PH given up?

#CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask #CleanAir

Holy Plague, Ottawa! Just had 9 new Covid reports from the Ottawa area today - LTCs, Retirement places, group home, shelter - in addition to all the previous ones in hospitals.
Has Ottawa Region PH given up?

#CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask #CleanAir

#TfL Freedom of Information release:
Total reported #CO2 (tonnes CO2e) #emissions from #London's #buses
"All Buses on the TfL network are #Euro VI or better and hence fully compliant with #ULEZ requirements."
https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/transparency/freedom-of-information/foi-request-detail?referenceId=FOI-1600-2324
#CleanAir #Pollution #Transport #Travel #Urbanism #Environment #FOIA

19) File this one under dealing with #FearOfChange

New #WindFarm construction is often met with protest frequently stoked by the #Carbonarchy under the guise of ecological or environmental impact. In this case, wind farms somehow threaten whales.

The #Oilygarchy just want to slow down the #EnergyTransition so they can sell the last barrel of oil from their deposits

Remember this formula:
#CleanEnergy = #CleanAir + #CoolPlanet

#ClimateCrisis

🔑 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/opinion/wind-energy-offshore-new-jersey-misinformation.html

A regular reminder that the goal is *not*

“A #HEPAFilter in every classroom”,

it’s

“Achieving #cleanair delivery targets in every classroom”

This may be mechanical #ventilation, multiple portable air filters, or both.

The goal is achieving ensure real risk reduction, not a box ticking exercise with little impact.

The portable air filter recommendation tool at https://filters.cleanairstars.com was built with this is mind, helping achieve clean air delivery targets at required noise levels.

#IAQ

While the article quotes an expert to the effect that this makes "intuitive sense," I don't think it does for most people. When I try to speak to people about masks and ventilation I find that the idea of exposure-over-time is the part that most people don't really think about until it is pointed out to them. Yes, once they get it, it just clicks, but there is not enough public messaging about this.

#COVIDisAirborne #covid19 #covid #CleanAir

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02715-1

School closures announced in the UK just before term starts. The govt ditched #SchoolSafety years ago despite warnings.

They have done the same about protecting kids from an airborne virus & #Covid_19.

#SchoolSafety is clearly structural but so much more, incl. #CleanAir (ventilation).

https://www.bbc.com/news/education-66681702

#SchoolSafety #CleanAir

✨RESCHEDULED!✨
New date: Sat, Sept. 2

BC’s 1st Clean Air Festival in Vancouver.
- Live music!
- Family fun!
- Prevent airborne illnesses & harm from wildfire smoke w/ CR box-making!
- Learn about CO2 monitors & other ways to ensure #CleanAir.

Come join us to make Corsi-Rosenthal boxes for BC classrooms (for teachers, materials will be provided to make one for your class, 1st come 1st served; if not, help make one to be donated!). Or bring your own materials & learn how to put it together.

See

Colorado will give you $6K for your old gas-guzzler starting this week

https://www.cpr.org/2023/08/29/colorado-electric-vehicles-exchange-rebate/

#cars #EV #CleanAir #climate #GoodNews

Credit to Sadiq Khan for standing firm on this.
"Clean air ‘a right not a privilege’, says London mayor as Ulez is expanded" | Low emission zones | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/29/clean-air-right-not-privilege-london-mayor-sadiq-khan-ulez-is-expanded
#SadiqKhan #ULEZ #CleanAir

Ultra Low #Emission Zone (#ULEZ) expands #London-wide in a landmark moment for the capital
https://www.london.gov.uk/Ultra%20Low%20Emission%20Zone%20expands%20London-wide%20in%20a%20landmark%20moment%20for%20the%20capital
#CleanAir #pollution #transport #carbon #urbanism #UK

We Need A Cash For Stinkers Program

By Maarten Vinkhuyzen, CleanTechnica.com

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/08/28/we-need-a-cash-for-stinkers-program/

#CleanerTransport #CleanCars #cars #CleanAir #climate

For clean air to be a cost-effective public health intervention, clean air delivery ultimately is, or should be, a commodity to help in achieving the maximum amount of risk reduction in the most locations for a given budget. The portable air filter recommendation tool at http://filters.cleanairstars.com was developed specifically to help achieve this goal.

#iaq #cleanair #hepafilter

@DavidElfstrom

It’s time. Clean air can keep schools open…

An Italian study of schools estimated that students in classrooms equipped with ventilation systems or devices that deliver clean air had at least a 74%⬇️ risk of infection than those in classes with windows open.
#ventilation #COVID19 #CleanAir

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/27/health/schools-indoor-air-covid.html