Posted on 01/24/2017 4:56:24 PM PST by SMGFan
Air pollution in London passed levels in Beijing this week, figures have shown, with popular wood burning stoves blamed for exacerbating the problem. On Monday London mayor Sadiq Khan issued the highest air pollution alert in London for the first time, and said on Tuesday that the capital’s ‘filthy air’ is now a ‘health crisis.’ Readings at 3pm on Monday showed that air at locations in the capital were worse than in notoriously smoggy Beijing, hitting a peak 197 micrograms per cubic metre for particulate matter on the Air Quality Index. Pollution in the Chinese city only reached 190, which is still deemed ‘unhealthy.’
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Do you have a source for the Ben Franklin concern? I’m surprised he would think that about a largely untapped continent.
Just like California blaming auto exhaust.
In Los Angeles, Hollywood has been open burning tons of raw gasoline on their movie sets for decades.
I wonder if they have the issue here w/regulation increasing the cost of heating/ac like in the u.s..
Probably cheaper to run wood again.
What does it all mean Mr Natural?
Don't mean shiite.
After a month of relatively mild weather we’ll be able to fire up the wood stove again for an extended period this weekend.
Gotta make my carbon contribution to the atmosphere.
I don’t buy it. Fake News?
Stop the Heating and break out your 18th century wool clothes ,D’oh ,LOL
No, just gays and women.
Wood pellets are tightly controlled and subject to stringent EU specifications. I visited a company that makes devices that scoop samples off a conveyor for testing.
I was told the quantity exported is enormous.
Hey, wasn’t global warming supposed to take care of this...all these warmest years ever one after the other. Why aren’t they just wearing their bathing suits?
Fake.
They want to make it like California where it is illegal to have a fire in your own fireplace unless the authorities deign to decree it legal on certain days.
No way the pollution is like Beijing.
Always suspect the underlying agenda - perhaps the catalyst here is someone wants to get rid of the stoves, and as the result of that, found that pollution is bad. That's the way the left always works - they have the solution, just need to tout the problem loud enough so that they can put that solution in place. London has always had chimneys and smog.
The only thing I can think of is maybe they hadn’t discovered good coal resources yet in America. With no alternative it would “always” be wood. But yes - seems far-fetched that Franklin would think that.
Or maybe it was part of his sales pitch, and probably got the government to pass a bill.
Burning of wood will soon endanger our forests.
We will have to rely on ENGLAND(!) for our firewood.
So it is now mandated that all new homes will require
a Franklin stove to keep our INDEPENDENCE from our ENEMY.
Buy your Franklin stove - for FREEDOM.
Isn’t is due to muzzles brning camel crap to cook and heat with?
...London mayor Sadiq Khan issued the highest air pollution alert in London for the first time, and said on Tuesday that the capital’s ‘filthy air’ is now a ‘health crisis.’
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Perhaps that filthy air is coming from you and all of you muzzard friends, Sadiq.
I believe you’re right about the problem.
Third world problems...
Never expected wood burners in London. Where do they stack the wood in those tiny apartments?
And it is going to get worse as the earth continues to cool down. The ‘pause’ or rather global cooling is expected to be in effect for the next thirty years.. or so Russian scientists think.
The shame will be the lives lost in Britain for the lack of preparedness, the increase in electricity costs, and the banning of wood burning stoves :(
Rolled newspaper logs and cardboard?
Burning wood because they can’t afford another source of heat???
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