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Wood heater smoke estimated to kill up to 63 in ACT each year, prompting calls for national ban
ABC Health via MSN ^ | January 15,2024 | Alison Branley

Posted on 01/15/2024 10:26:27 AM PST by packagingguy

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To: drSteve78

I like yours better.


41 posted on 01/15/2024 10:49:39 AM PST by EEGator
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To: packagingguy

No worries on my thinking there!


42 posted on 01/15/2024 10:49:47 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: packagingguy

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.


43 posted on 01/15/2024 10:50:43 AM PST by DEPcom (DC is not my Capitol after Jan 6th lock downs.)
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To: packagingguy

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.


44 posted on 01/15/2024 10:51:03 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: packagingguy

63 a year?

Far more than that die every single day from open borders.


45 posted on 01/15/2024 10:51:46 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (“We should not assume civilization is robust”)
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To: 9YearLurker

“ACT = Australian Capitol Territory, and it includes the capitol city of Canberra, within New South Wales.”

tx


46 posted on 01/15/2024 10:52:14 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: packagingguy

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.


47 posted on 01/15/2024 10:53:57 AM PST by dforest
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To: moovova

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.


48 posted on 01/15/2024 10:54:57 AM PST by Iceclimber58
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To: packagingguy

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.


49 posted on 01/15/2024 10:55:09 AM PST by cableguymn
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To: packagingguy

Sixty-three is not that many. How many die from freezing to death?


50 posted on 01/15/2024 10:56:19 AM PST by madison10
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To: dfwgator

“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.


51 posted on 01/15/2024 11:02:06 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: packagingguy

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.


sure it was................................

when you get to 200% correlation, let us know.


52 posted on 01/15/2024 11:03:13 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: packagingguy

If only we would listen to liberals, we could live for as long as they wanted.


53 posted on 01/15/2024 11:03:21 AM PST by Farmerbob
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To: packagingguy

Isn’t wood renewable energy?


54 posted on 01/15/2024 11:05:04 AM PST by AZJeep
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To: packagingguy

What is the ACT?


55 posted on 01/15/2024 11:06:42 AM PST by Chickensoup
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To: 9YearLurker

Thank you.

Aussies are nuts.


56 posted on 01/15/2024 11:07:34 AM PST by Chickensoup
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To: packagingguy

ABC Health can go Brandon itself. ABCNews pushed unhealthy lockdowns and has NO credibility.


57 posted on 01/15/2024 11:08:13 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: 9YearLurker

Thank you!


58 posted on 01/15/2024 11:11:02 AM PST by ConjunctionJunction (Vim vi repellere licet)
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To: packagingguy

Uh . . .But when half of Yellowstone burns down it’s good for the environment


59 posted on 01/15/2024 11:11:44 AM PST by 2nd Amendment
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To: packagingguy

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.


60 posted on 01/15/2024 11:15:16 AM PST by RedMonqey ("A republic, if you can keep it" Benjam Franklin.)
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