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IQAir’s 2025 World Air Quality Report finds only 14% of cities meet WHO air pollution guideline | IQAir iqair.com/as/newsroom/wa…

Urwälder speichern viel mehr Kohlenstoff als gedacht Schwedische Forscher haben in alten Wäldern nachgemessen: Böden und Pflanzen könnten erhebliche Mengen Kohlenstoff aufnehmen – solange sich die Forstwirtschaft fernhält. spiegel.de/wissenschaft/n…

Wood-burning stoves and fireplaces are toxic gas generators. The very fact that this barbaric practice is permitted in modern residential areas is an abnormal situation.

Gasprijzen zijn nu lager dan in het najaar van 2021, toen Rusland eerst haar EU-bergingen leeg liet en vervolgens haar leveringen aan de EU beperkte. Uw gaskosten zijn wel hoger, omdat de gasbelasting sinds 2021 met ruim 30 €ct/m3 is gestegen. #grafiekvandedag

Has NAEI data been fudged to make it appear Ecodesign emissions are going down when they've really gone up? Last years data shows Ecodesign all fuels is 1.6896kt PM2.5 for 2023. 2024 Pivot Table shows as 2.158kt, a rise of 27.8% Yet 2023 value has now been revised to 2.11kt.Why!?

Topsoil isn’t just dirt. It’s the thin, fragile layer that feeds 8 billion people. Lose it, and yields fall, prices rise, and food security weakens. It takes centuries to form and minutes to destroy. One of the most underappreciated assets in our economy.

wood: grams of benzene emitted per kg of dry wood burned. EPA AP-42 for residential wood stoves: Conventional (non-certified): 1.938 lb/ton ≈ 0.97 g/kg benzene. Example: A modest fire burning ~2 kg of wood per hour could release roughly 0.7–2 grams of benzene per hour.

@ImportFrysk Het verdienmodel: schoon en droog hout werkt niet. Is gebleken bij schoon gedroogde tabaksbladeren

Dat is ook waar. Maar waarom zouden ze kosten willen maken als hun huis met de bestaande faciliteiten behaaglijk warm zou zijn?

The $46 billion vape industry hired flavor chemists to solve a specific problem: nicotine tastes bitter. The human tongue has T2R receptors that detect nicotine and trigger aversion. So the industry reverse-engineered the problem. They loaded e-liquids with fruity aromatic compounds like farnesol, farnesene, and ethyl butyrate that suppress the bitterness signal and activate sweetness perception through the orbitofrontal cortex instead. Turns out they built something more powerful than a nicotine delivery system. A 2023 study in the Journal of Neuroscience found that green apple vape flavorants, with zero nicotine present, independently fire dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area and increase dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens. The same reward circuitry that nicotine hijacks. The flavor chemicals alone were producing reward-seeking behavior in mice. A separate study found strawberry additives significantly increased nicotine vapor sampling, meaning the fruit smell made subjects inhale more of the drug without any conscious decision to do so. 95% of vape users choose flavored products. The industry has always framed this as “consumer preference.” The neuroscience says the flavors are pharmacologically active compounds that directly alter brain reward circuits and increase drug intake. Now look at what those compounds do once the device gets tossed. The UK was discarding 5 million disposable vapes per week before the ban. The aromatic volatiles don’t stop broadcasting once the device is empty. Orthonasal olfaction, the same pathway that makes you smell a strawberry from across a room, works identically in mammals. A squirrel’s olfactory system processes fruity volatiles through the same receptor families humans use. The signal reads as food. Nobody saw squirrels gnawing on Marlboro butts for 60 years. Vapes show up and suddenly there’s footage from London, Philadelphia, and Wales. The animals are chewing on lithium batteries wrapped in candy-scented plastic because the flavor engineering worked exactly as designed on a nervous system it was never tested on. The lithium in those discarded vapes equals 5,000 electric vehicle batteries per year. Oxford researchers found the cells inside can cycle 450+ times, but the product is built to be used once and thrown in a park. A squirrel holding a blueberry vape on a Brixton fence is the most honest product review the flavor chemists have ever received.

Helemaal mee eens, maar waarom zagen ze gaten in de muren (ja, meesten 'n haakse afvoer op begane grond!) van hun gloednieuwe woning voor die pelletkachel als die grote warmtepompen wel voldoen?

Als er geen electrische apparaten meer verkocht en "zomaar aldoor" gebruik mogen worden, is het niet consequent om wel voor gedwongen warmtepompen te zijn. In de nieuwbouwwijk (2024, +++ !) hier hebben velen alsnog pelletkachels geinstalleerd. Maakt sceptisch.

@stampaolandese @RobJetten @D66 En lees dit.. we gaan onze electrische apparatuur niet meer mogen gebruiken en het wordt minder normaal dat alles maar kan. Minder vrijheid, meer betalen. theguardian.com/society/2026/m…

@geenstijl "We hebben een wettelijke verplichting om statushouders een dak boven het hoofd te bieden" Is er ook een dergelijke verplichting om Nederlanders een dak boven het hoofd te bieden? Nederland gaat kapot aan suicidale empathie!

"in Nederland niet langer zo doorgaan, ervan uitgaande dat iedereen zomaar nieuwe elektrische apparaten kan kopen en ze de hele dag kan aanzetten wanneer ze maar willen”, ..“Het elektriciteitsnet kan dat niet aan," Maar wel: gedwongen warmtepompen, die 24-7 min. op 18 gr moeten!

We agree with Larissa Lockwood, who said: “A less-polluting stove is like a low-tar cigarette…” “New wood burning stove 2026 rules update as minister responds to ‘ban’ question”: gazettelive.co.uk/news/cost-of-l…

Very good Just add that criticism of a religion is a traditional British value. Criticism of Islam it should be called Islamo- scepticism, as the suffix -phobia suggests an irrational fear, like fear of spiders or dogs Some criticisms of Koran practices like child marriage, Female Genital Mutilation, the duty to kill 'infidels', and the stoning of women, are definitely not irrational

Al in 1965 probeerde sigarettenfabrikant Philip Morris het kankerverwekkende benzo(a)pyreen in tabaksrook te verlagen. De Nederlandse overheid staat gewoon toe dat diezelfde stof nog steeds in onze woonwijken wordt geloosd via #houtkachels en vuurkorven. #houtrook

#Woodpeckers depend on mature forests. But wood pellet #biomass demand is destroying their homes in the US South & the #UK still #subsidizes this harmful industry. Tell UK officials to stop funding forest destruction. dogwoodalliance.org/actions/stop-s…

@NormaLerweise1 @ScreenOrigami Ditto. Haben extra ein Grundstück dafür gepachtet. Der "Holzplatz"... Und hin- und hertransportiert wird das alles mit stinkenden, alten Traktoren. Aber das Schlimmste ist für mich nach wie vor die Verbrennung. Dieser furchtbare Gestank, dieser Cocktail an Giftstoffen.