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<font face="Calibri, Slate Pro, sans-serif, sans-serif">This has big implications for cooking stoves without chimneys.</font></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; line-height: initial;">I found this at WUWT on the weekly update which this week is a particularly rich source of links. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; line-height: initial;">The one below refers to the WHO meeting last week. The opinions are not mine. The reference to 'steam' is this: often when trying to make a fuel (coal, for example)
look "dirty" a photo will accompany the article of a power station emitting steam from a chimney or cooling tower, photographed at dawn or sunset with the sun on the far side of the steam. This makes white steam look black, and the accompanying text will
say something negative about the emissions. The Guardian newspaper is well known for doing this. In this case the reporter uses the same trick. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; line-height: initial;">The BBC covered this story last week claiming that living in Delhi during the annual burning of the straw (which they showed) was like smoking 40 cigarettes per day.
I have already shown how that calculation is made: a cigarette exposes the smoker to 40-45 mg of PM2.5. The actual exposure for an adult living 24/7 in 160 micrograms/m^3 (bad days in Delhi) is 1/28th of a cigarette per day. So when the exaggeration starts
off at a factor of >1000 you know there is a Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale in there somewhere. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; line-height: initial;">The BBC repeated the "600,000 children are killed by air pollution each year" quote. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; line-height: initial;">This story accompanies the long standing call to ban all solid fuels as they cannot be burned cleanly. After all, damp straw burning in a field proves all biomass
is dirty fuel, right?</span></div>
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<b>WHO: 600,000 children died from air pollution in 2016</b></p>
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By Michael Burke, The Hill, Oct 29, 2018</p>
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Link to press release: More than 90% of the world’s children breathe toxic air every day</p>
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By Staff Writers, WHO, Oct 29, 2018</p>
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<i>[SEPP Comment: The article features a photo of a power plant emitting steam. In many countries indoor air pollution is a big problem, the photo in The Hill makes it trivial. WHO reports regarding PM2.5 in high-income countries are highly questionable.]</i></p>
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