Posted on 01/15/2024 10:26:27 AM PST by packagingguy
Researchers are calling for new wood heaters to be banned from urban areas and existing ones to be phased out after their study showed wood heaters could be killing up to 63 people a year in the ACT alone.
The study published on Monday in the Medical Journal of Australia found there were a similar number of deaths attributed to domestic wood heaters in the ACT each year as they estimated died prematurely in the territory due to the extreme smoke from the 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires...
"Some very big recent studies from the United States found higher rates of cancer, for example, in people who use wood heaters even seasonally."
Peter Irga, who lectures in air and noise pollution at the University of Technology Sydney, said while the study was limited by the use of only three air-monitoring sites, overall it was sound.
"Alarmingly, the estimated deaths and costs could in fact be underestimates, if you take into account the potential increased toxicity from PM 2.5 derived from domestic wood heater smoke," he said...
The ACT government is moving to phase out household wood-fired heaters by 2045 except in rural areas.
It came after a report by ACT Commissioner for Sustainability and the Environment Sophie Lewis found there was "no safe level of air pollution for human health" and the heaters had no place in the territory’s renewables future.
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Uh, according to the article you are supposed to be dead. Your lungs should have given out when you were twelve years old.
Are you sure you are still alive?
This is not your father’s Austrailia.
Smokeless wood heaters really work— by burning-off the smoke that rises to the top.
freezing to death with no heat
Law of Unintended Consequence
More junk science to promote their Communist Dictatorship.
Forest fires genereating a million times as much pollution is to be celebrated.
Is THAT why that guy was tying his kangeroo down?
I shod kept the pot bellied stove. Deadwood branches are free. More real too. You know. Feed it what you wish.
That and diatomic oxygen.
Or as Rush would say while imitating Maxine Waters or similar,
“Do it for the chil’ren.”
Honestly if any of things were legitimate concerns, they would be addressing gas leaf blowers- IMHO ubiquitous, overused and huge amounts of exhaust
That thing evoked a toasty warmth that just can't be had with electric. It was the aroma of the wood burning downstairs in the basement, permeating throughout the house."
Smells like home sweet home. Add to the scene, an old man in front of fireplace, smoking a pipe. THIS is America!
Or,
“Karens say….”
But mRNA vax kills millions is perfectly fine................
Just because it’s Australia don’t think for a moment climate change activists aren’t going to try it here.
The “elites” are flying into Davos right now to dream up the next batch of misery for our future.
They say “ACT” like everyone know what that is. I read the article and still have no idea.
Thank you.
I was wondering WTH is the ACT.
Ban everything and we’ll all live forever. But it won’t be fun.
What is a wood heater.
there you are in your home,enjoying the holidays, the roaring fire, glad you can’t make it to work while spending your newfound free time with your family...and BOOM! the feds crash down your door with guns drawn and haul you, your wife and your little children off to prison...FOR BURNING FIREWOOD IN A FIREPLACE! which it was designed for in the first place. remember friends, “elections have consequences and then everyone suffers the consequences”. including you.
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