Do wood burners add to air pollution in cities? Yes, say citizen scientists

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Pioneering Bristol study blames the solid-fuel burners in people’s homes for breaches of World Health Organisation guidelines

Photograph: Shahid Khan/AlamyPhotograph: Shahid Khan/Alamyhas experienced a huge rise in the number of houses installing wood burners over the past decade. But as they have proliferated, mainly in the wealthier parts of the city where many Victorian and Georgian houses have been renovated, so too have fears that they cause pollution.

 

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Gaslight ordinary people but do nothing about airlines, shipping, freight, diesel trains, luxury power yachts, etc.

I go to Bristol regularly and there’s nothing wrong with the air

80% of this earth's pollution comes from governments (military), and corporations. The only thing they plan to do about that is more taxes on us, and increase austere living, for us, not them.

COVID-19 didn't kill us all. Mon(k)ey Pox isn't gonna kill us all. But freezing to death might do it. 👍 Our governments hate it's people (who ironically is the ones who elect them).

Hell will freeze over before I stop using my open fire.

Yes but they cost a lot of money and everyone is going to keep using them. They are much warmer than an hour electric heat pump.

Observer objectivism. They're the people running wood burners, propagandising the answer they don't want to hear (citizen scientists aren't real Scientists after all). Their hygge against their crimes against their neighbour's health and the climate. Fascist Western Objectivists

Please balance between affordibility and environmental needs. Not selfish corporate needs.

Do pointless stories pollute the internet?

Of course, wood burners are cheap and the market is decentralized, that's why the government does not want them

The pollution can be reduced if people cure/dry their wood below 20% moisture content

No shit, Sherlock

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