A number of countries have even made wood-burning a part of their drive to cut down on CO2 emissions.
For example, cities like Munich, Germany, are seeing a rise in wood burning as a source of heat.
Moreover, many German cities are moving to ban diesel-powered cars because of the CO2 they produce and, more importantly, all the terrible fine particles they emit.
German cities choking on “green” wood smoke
Yet, ironically, as cities move to “clean” up their act and protect the climate, the opposite is, in fact, becoming the result.
German cities are increasingly choking on fine particles emitted by dirty wood-burning – and activists are turning a blind eye to the growing problem.
In the case of Munich, Swiss meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann recently pointed out that evening time air quality in the Bavarian capital becomes worse than the average air quality of much of New South Wales, Australia, even as bush fires rage.
Kachelmann tweeted:
All air measurement stations in the fire-affected New South Wales currently have better air quality than the wood-fired Munich.
dpie.nsw.gov.au/air-quality/ai
Munich (as always: clean in the daytime, filthy evenings/nights):
kachelmannwetter.com/de/luftqualita
No journalist is interested.”
What follows is the chart for Munich, yesterday evening (January 6), up to 8 pm for fine particles:
Yesterday evening (Munich time), most stations in NSW showed, on average, cleaner air than Munich did.
In the evenings, many of Munich’s citizens like to settle down and light cozy fires to sit by – and feel good about their contribution to CO2 cutbacks.
The chart above shows how Munich’s air had become laden with 70 micrograms of fine particles by 7 p.m. – worse than the average air quality in NSW!
New South Wales air quality, Tuesday, January 7, 2020:
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It doesn’t seem to say here that wood burning produces MORE CO2 per unit energy than coal, and much more than gas, as well as the particulate problems. A wholly regressive measure.
The Obama EPA set a 12 micro gram per cubic meter limit on fine particles as an excuse to shut down coal power plants. Now the burning of wood for heat has the air quality reaching up to 61 micro grams in Munich. This is typical of the hypocrisy of the climate change movement. This movement wants to implement “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society.” Fine particles are just an excuse, so why should they care about them coming from wood stoves.
Instead of wood, they should consider burning coal if they are using it for heating, much like most of the world did as the 1800’s transitioned to the 1900’s.
Why is it that the more we “progress” with the whole Global Warming alarmist movement, the worse off the environment gets?