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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Wood heaters killing people... This just may be the stupidest thing I read in quite a while...
Australian Capital Territory, where Canberra is.
It can get cold in the Blue Mountains, enough that there are some ski areas.
It’s like a “hot water heater” but it warms up your wood before you burn it! (Snicker, snicker!)
According to the EPA I can’t run my Husqvarna 272XP chainsaw because it doesn’t meet current emissions standards for a gas powered chainsaw, so I run it extra rich at 32:1.
I live in the Big Valley of CA.
it NEVER gets below 25 and the lowest this year has been 30.
Inversions trap the air.
Yet retards and criminals burn wood anyway.
Because they want the ambiance of a fire.
I hope they burn down their own house.
Thanks for the reminder. Need to move some firewood in.
“their study showed wood heaters COULD BE killing up to 63”
ACT is a developed area with modern police, coroners, hospitals, etc. Why in heck would those doing a “study” need to speculate on the numbers of annual deaths caused by wood-burning heaters, when they could get or derive factual quantities of deaths from coroners and health authorities?
As other commenters have suggested, they are making up numbers to panic people into accepting totalitarian bans.
Ninety-one mph, or less.
He is more of a slider/change-up pitcher.
ACT is is the equivalent of our Washington DC.
I can’t imagine the Aussies are more fond of the denizens of ACT than we are of the ones in DC...
So, it's not something we have to worry about. We have centuries of wood burning in this country with no ill affects. 🤣
Thank you!
How many animals in Australia kill way more than 63 people?
All of them...
“I live in the Big Valley of CA.”
Heath, Jared there’s a fire in the barn.
Audrey, get on the buck board.
Why is it that Anglos such as Americans, Brits, Scots, Irish, Aussies, Kiwis, etc. are some of the most anti rights, commie wanna be dictators in the world? Why can’t they just enjoy what they have without trying to ruin it for everybody else? Is it because they have guilty conscience white man disease?
I assume that wood heaters is Australian for wood stoves.
Global warmunism masquerading as health concerns. JMO.
Yeh, here we go with the wood stove ban again. 😆
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