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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I like yours better.
No worries on my thinking there!
ACT = Australian Capital Territory
Populations is estimated at 428000.
(63/42800) * 100 = 0.0147%
So, approximately 0.0147% of the population of the Australian Capital Territory is estimated to be affected by wood heater smoke-related issues according to the article.
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.
63 a year?
Far more than that die every single day from open borders.
“ACT = Australian Capitol Territory, and it includes the capitol city of Canberra, within New South Wales.”
tx
I would like to be sitting by a super warm wood stove about now.
This was original heat and we all lived through it because we are here.
We have Aussie friends. He is retired Army officer.
They have a place on a lake in East Texas, but spend most of their time on a 42’ sail boat traveling the world.
He has no interest in returning to Australia. His wife likes to visit family, so they return every 2 years.
Having said that, if this starts in US, do I just put all the standing dead trees on my land into a burn pile. Seems the wood stove makes more since.
I know what the real reason is. Wood harvested and processed on your own land to heat your own home has no taxes collected on it. Whereas natural gas, propane, heating oil, electricity and other grid type heating systems all have taxes collected on them at some point.
Sixty-three is not that many. How many die from freezing to death?
“Especially Dihydrogen Monoxide. Nasty stuff.”
It is, indeed. It killed one of my uncles. Of course, back then it was commonly called water, and he drowned in it.
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.
when you get to 200% correlation, let us know.
If only we would listen to liberals, we could live for as long as they wanted.
Isn’t wood renewable energy?
What is the ACT?
Thank you.
Aussies are nuts.
ABC Health can go Brandon itself. ABCNews pushed unhealthy lockdowns and has NO credibility.
Thank you!
Uh . . .But when half of Yellowstone burns down it’s good for the environment
I and my parents, grand parents and great grandparents lived long lived and every one of them used wood and coal to heat their homes most of their lives. Only my mom died with COPD and that was because of her heavy smoking.
And I’m in my sixties and still have a fireplace.
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