BBC Inside Science: Killer smog.

Air pollution researchers are now concerned that rising emissions from wood burners may be undoing many of the gains from the UK's Clean Air Act.

We hear from Dr Gary Fuller, air pollution scientist at Imperial College London and author of The Invisible Killer, the Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution and How We can Fight Back.

Episode webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fmtb

Media file: http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dl5nm4.mp3

#science #climate #GlobalHeating #ClimateChange #WoodFuel #WoodBurners #WoodStoves #AirPollution #diseases

It's not always easy to admit being wrong. For example, about twenty five years ago l lived in a house with an open fireplace - back then, I didn't give much thought about using coal for home heating.

To qoute "Wood smoke is astonishingly harmful. Though only 8% of households in the UK (mostly wealthy ones) have a wood-burning stove, they release more small particulates (the most dangerous pollutants) than all the vehicles on the road. Even a modern, approved, “eco-friendly” wood burner produces 750 times as many fine particulates as a heavy goods vehicle."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/27/wood-burning-stove-environment-home-toxins?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1672143085

In Cumbria, England, wood burning & coal burning are the norm, not the exception. For example, a brief walk outside in the local villiages or towns, can leave the clothes smelling of smoke. That's why locally, l always wear an air pollution face mask.

#climate #ClimateAction #health #CleanAir

#AirPollution #SmokePollution #disease #WoodStoves

Why do the majority of adults go "blah blah blah" about the environmental science subject's?

#Science #psychology #money #vehicles #WoodStoves #aviation #FuelBurners #bias #ConfirmationBias #MoralGrandstanding #VirtueSignaling #insincere #language #climate #climatology #ecology #democracy #voting

Toasty warm up here on the mountain! #woodstove #cozy #cozyaf #woodStoves #winter #december #happyplace

Cozying up! Just finished putting the rocks on the wall and floor around my wood stove this past weekend! It took a month but it was worth it! #diy #diyhouseprojects #woodstove #woodStoves #cottage #cottagecore #faeriecottage #babayagashut

Come stay at The Estate for a weekend of fun work. According to the fitbit I did 5500 calories processing all these rounds. Everything will burn and hurt but you will leave with a great sense of pride, honor, accomplishment, and the feeling of victory in your blood.
#woodstove #fire #woodstoves

@neauoire
Yes, #woodStoves are incredibly #sustainable, its counterIntuitive because people just think, "burning = bad".

The only bad part is the local airPollution, and it needs to be properly dry wood.

Even our (#Australian) govt recognise that they are orders of magnitude better that #electricity or #gas in terms of *much* lower #carbonEmissions.