"Exclusive: Burners should be sold with health warnings, say scientists who found tiny particles flooding into rooms"
Wood burners triple the level of harmful pollution particles inside homes and should be sold with a health warning, says scientists, who also advise that they should not be used around elderly people or children.
The tiny particles flood into the room when the burner doors are opened for refuelling, a study found. Furthermore, people who load in wood twice or more in an evening are exposed to pollution spikes two to four times higher than those who refuel once or not at all.
particles can pass through the lungs and into the body and have been linked to a wide range of health damage, particularly in younger and older people.
The research was conducted in 19 homes in Sheffield over the course of a month at the start of 2020. The wood burners used were all models certified by the government as “smoke exempt appliances”, meaning they produce less smoke. But this and the new EcoDesign standard, due to become compulsory by 2022, only assess outdoor pollution.theguardian
Wood-Burning Emissions Threaten Lung Health:
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All that carbon industrial age Earthlings have added to the atmosphere has already locked in this temperature rise no matter what is done to curb it, say the study’s authors. Scientists refer to this effect as “committed warming.” It’s the increase in future temperature based on carbon emissions already in the atmosphere. It’s like what happens when you’re driving and apply the brakes—the vehicle takes a while to stop. Temperatures have risen by 1.1 degree C over the pre-industrial period. Previous measurements have put “committed warming” at around 1.3 degrees C. That’s well above the 1.5 degrees C rise that grassroots climate hawks and signers of the Paris climate agreement have pushed as a goal to reduce impacts of climate change, particularly on poor and low-lying nations. And it’s more than the 2-degree rise that scientists say would make for big, damaging changes but still be tolerable for humans, at least in some parts of the planet.
Andrew Dessler, a climate scientist at Texas A&M University who is a co-author of the study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, warned against what he called “climate doomers.” If the world manages to get to zero carbon emissions soon, he said that 2 degrees of warming might be delayed for centuries. “If we don’t, we’re going to blow through (climate goals) in a few decades,” he said. “It’s really the rate of warming that makes climate change so terrible. If we got a few degrees over 100,000 years, that would not be that big a deal. We can deal with that. But a few degrees over 100 years is really bad.”
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