“The code recommends people take steps to protect themselves from air pollution and to reduce their contribution to the problem. This includes keeping homes free of smoke by not burning materials such as coal or wood…”
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“With home woodburning increasing, the [European Code Against Cancer] calls on governments to discourage and phase out solid fuels for heating, cooking and recreation.”
“I’m shocked. I’ve actually never heard of anything like this - industry lobbying public health servants to ignore a serious public health issue and go against medical advice...”
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A screenshot from a University of Galway press release showing Professor Jurgita Ovadnevaite. A headline says “Low smoke doesn’t mean low risk: All solid fuels found to emit ultrafine particles.”
Burning “smokeless fuels” increases ultrafine particle emissions.
“Based on this data, we underscore the need to move away from residential solid fuel burning as part of the wider societal aim to decarbonise the economy by 2050.”
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Wood burning is a choice…
Unfortunately, not. But still…
Why are they unaware?
Govt inaction, fossil fuel pushing £millions into misinformation.
Continued global heating will trigger climate tipping points, leading to a cascade, locking us into a hellish “hothouse Earth” climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is on track to reach
A new story on our website from an inversion-prone “High Smoke Sensitivity Zone” in British Columbia.
Repeated and extended prescribed burning on top of smoke pollution from wood stoves “affects every area of life.”
“A molecule of CO2 emitted today has the same impact on the climate whether it comes from coal or biomass.”
Small rural towns have terrible winter air quality that is intentionally unmonitored.
Professor Sir Stephen Holgate writes for the Royal College of Physicians:
“…one of the UK’s most damaging sources of air pollution comes from our own homes… ”
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This #CleanAirNight, a reminder that wood smoke isn’t a “nuisance”—it’s a serious public health issue.
A tree cutting business moved in next to a neighborhood in Missouri. The business is burning the wood—large amounts of it—in open pits.
The neighbors are trying to raise awareness of their plight after local authorities have done nothing to stop the burning.
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