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@AriaFrescaaaaaa @graham_hanmer @Chronic_Channel @VixL @TheGreenParty @BBCTomEdwards @BBCEarth @BBCPolitics Most greenies know that burning wood increases global warming, so use cleaner heat. Modern heat pumps deliver 4 times as much heat as they use in electric power & cost < 2000 euros fully installed with much lower running costs than buying wood @TheGreenParty

@Chronic_Channel @VixL Can somebody ask why @vixl from @TheGreenParty blocks people if they have questions about 🔥burning wood🔥? Why do the Greenies burn wood, when they say that they stand for a healthy environment, ClimateChange, deforestation,..? @BBCTomEdwards @BBCEarth @BBCPolitics

Last hustings - completed! This General Election is historic - it feels like no other election I've stood in. Strangers want to stop and chat with me and wish me well when I'm walking to work, walking home from work, walking anywhere! 🩷💚 1/3

@alexvelleley A real sad story about a NSW family imprisoned at home due to neighbours’ smoke. It's triggered asthma, yet a test revealed excellent lung function a couple of years before they installed the woodheater #auspol #cleanair #SLCPs @DocsEnvAus @friends_earth dsawsp.org/personal-stori…

@alexvelleley @colin_tinker Absolutely shocking PM2.5 levels! No one should be living in central Armidale. This Purple Air graph is for woodsmoke PM2.5 in Armidale using the Tasmanian PM2.5 colour scale #auspol #cleanair #SLCPs @DocsEnvAus @dsawsp @friends_earth

@merylbatchelder @GeorgeMonbiot If that means you use the stove ONLY during power cuts - well done! If you use it at other times, you are harming your health & the planet. Log-burning stoves are harming our health & speeding up global warming  facebook.com/watch/?v=10155… #auspol #cleanair #SLCP @DocsEnvAus @EJ_Aus

I know from experience that many of you don't want to hear this. But, as always, we should be prepared to recognise and embrace uncomfortable truths. The latest findings about the health effects of woodburning stoves are simply horrendous. theguardian.com/environment/20…

@swaaalla @VicGovEPA For thousands of years we also had high mortality and disease rates, especially for children, i.e. life expectancy at birth less than 30 years. Let's move away from 'natural' to 'good' and 'healthy'.

@VicGovEPA Its one of the most natural heating methods though. Wood fire have been happening for thousands of years.

Smoke from wood heaters is a major source of air pollution. If you can, choose an alternative way to heat your home. If you must use a wood heater, we have tips on how to reduce smoke impacts on you and your neighbours: bit.ly/3pwU6w9

@VicGovEPA Asking people to choose alternative heating is the best way to avoid wood heater pollution. So why not make that the first point on the above web page? New heaters are almost as polluting as older ones! #auspol #cleanair #SLCP @DocsEnvAus @HealthandEnv @EJ_Aus

@RatgeberOfen The UK New Scientist is a much more credible source of info. They say: "Log-burning stoves are harming our health and speeding up global warming" facebook.com/watch/?v=10155… #ClimaSV #auspol #cleanair #SLCPs @DocsEnvAus @dsawsp @friends_earth @DefraUKAir

Richtig erkannt - Heizen mit Holz ist wichtiges Standbein der ökologischen Wärmeversorgung! Durch die Verwendung von Brennholz werden laut Berechnungen des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft in Deutschland jährlich rund 32 Millionen Tonnen CO2 eingespart. Brennholz aus dem Wald und Reststoffe der Holzverarbeitung leisten somit einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Energiewende, da durch Holz fossile Energien wie Öl oder Gas ersetzt werden. Hierbei werden zehn Prozent der Heizungswärme im privaten Bereich durch Scheitholz, Holzpellets und Hackschnitzel erzeugt.

@gt2andy @Duin46473580 The idea that Putin, whose war-mongering caused the massive gas and electricity price rises, is a "far green extremist" beggars belief! Wood smoke is linked to dementia breathecleanair.ca/risk-of-dement… Silly & ignorant tweets might be the first sign this is happening.

Aerosol chemist: We need to stop burning wood to curb country's silent killers newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/early-e…

@BowenAutomation @dsawsp @MumsForLungs Scented candles pose no risk to people who choose not to use them. But wood stoves cause considerable harm to people living nearby with no control over the pollution coming out of other people's chimneys. @DefraUKAir #cleanair #SLCP @DocsEnvAus @HealthandEnv @EJ_Aus

@dsawsp @MumsForLungs Lol scented candles pose more of a risk. Lockstep push to diminish individuals control over heating their homes.

Jemima Hartshorn of @MumsForLungs: “The situation [with wood stoves] is that people continue to be polluted in their homes, poisoned in their homes by their neighbours’ actions, or inadvertently people are poisoning themselves…” #WoodSmokePollution camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/eco-20…

@DeanVenables Best as an interim measure, coupled with education on why the best long-term low-cost climate-friendly solution is to switch from polluting solid-fuel heating to efficient air-to-air heat pumps #AirPollution #CleanAir #SLCP @EPAAirQuality @EPAIreland @DefraUKAir @dsawsp @EJ_Aus

Low temperatures, low winds, strong inversion...and all the usual solid fuel burning. Extreme particulate pollutant levels last night.😟 Entirely predictable too.

@Seejays29 @GeorgeMonbiot In Aus, Daikins are efficient. Their UK website quoted £1,365 installed for 5.4kW heating, SCOP 4.71 (35 m2 room); 4kW SCOP=5.1; 8.2kW SCOP=4.1 should provide as much heat as a wood stove & cost less than buying firewood. Check out possibilities, e.g. 2 sm daikin.co.uk/en_gb/heat-pum…

@GeorgeMonbiot Omg.. .. well done George👏👏, not just for your honesty. We had one fitted in 2012... but with this revelation - what to replace it with? P.S.we're not rich!! Very much working class.

I've seen some motivated reasoning in my time, but the attempts at self-justification on Twitter in response to this article are off the scale. We should follow the evidence wherever it leads, and however uncomfortable it gets. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@essexforester @woodsmokestinks @borlottiebean @GeorgeMonbiot @DefraGovUK Even the cleanest wood stove with dry wood produces more PM2.5 every day than the average petrol car per year. A 6 kW heat pump uses about 1.4 kW at full blast, & much less on average. Cheaper & healthier than buying firewood.#SLCP woodsmoke.3sc.net/woodheater-car…

@woodsmokestinks @borlottiebean @GeorgeMonbiot @DefraGovUK Well if you drive a car or take public transport the same applies. Which certification systems are you referring too? Non-solid fuel heat also has significant health impacts, especially as here in Europe its linked to political, environmental and economic challenges.

@Paul_L_Hook @GeorgeMonbiot In Aus, a 6 kW split system heat pumps cost about £1.5k installed & deliver 4 to 5 times as much heat as the electric power used. That should be enough to heat the living room. If you need 12 kW (more than enough for a house) install 2! Chose models with COP>4 in cold climates.

@GeorgeMonbiot running and I open the door to add more fuel. We looked into ASHP but needed 3 phase and that was £12k. In my head I'd prefer to create more air pollution, but less net CO2 than burning oil (which is our primary heat). How do we measure CO2 vs pollution for ecological effect?

@Paul_L_Hook @GeorgeMonbiot Anyone concerned about global warming shouldn't use a wood stove! Wood stoves' black carbon, CH4 & CO emissions cause immediate warming that could result in passing a climate tipping point #SCLP #cleanair @C4CA @DefraUKAir @dsawsp @DocsEnvAus @EJ_Aus sites.google.com/view/healthy-a…

@GeorgeMonbiot It's difficult reading. I suppose I am more concerned about CO2 than air pollution, and perhaps incorrectly think that being 1 mile from any other house that the particles are of less concern when dispersed. I do have an air filter running indoors though and it spikes when 1/2

@essexforester @borlottiebean @GeorgeMonbiot Standards based on flue gas PM concentrations are meaningless, so it's more sensible to use grams/kg fuel. This shows that new stoves emit more PM2.5 in a single day than a driving a petrol car 10,000 km! woodsmoke.3sc.net/woodheater-car… #AirPollution @C4CA @DefraUKAir #cleanair #SLCP

@borlottiebean @GeorgeMonbiot Some suggestions for you: hetas.co.uk/ecodesign-2022/ smokecontrol.defra.gov.uk/appliances.php… Right wood, right location, right moisture content, right Defra approved eco stove, right wood supplier, right person...

As of 2020, nearly 18 million US households used heat pumps for space heating — a 50% increase compared with 2015. tinyurl.com/29rrcyce via @RockyMtnInst

@NPR A polluting wood fire will damage the health of people living nearby and deprive many of the rest and comfort they would otherwise enjoy.

Here are 11 cozy ways to get hygge with it this fall season. One tip? Claim your “divine human right” to rest, says author Tricia Hersey. n.pr/3Mx7pDS

#cleanair Too few people complain about #woodsmokepollution, so the NSW Gov says "there is no appetite to look at wood heaters". Prove them wrong! Respond to the NSW Clean Air Consult! Asthma Aus says most people can't protect themselves from woodsmoke - yoursay.epa.nsw.gov.au/poeo-clean-air…

#cleanair #SLCP @DocsEnvAus #woodsmokepollution=46% of Sydney's PM2.5 exposure. NSW Gov proposes business-as-usual! Increasing PM2.5=no chance meeting WHO Guidelines 5ug/m3. Consult closes 5 pm Friday! Important - have your say. Info, 3 easy way to do this sites.google.com/view/healthy-a…