Do Wood Stoves Add to Climate Change Problems?

Filed in archive Opinion on October 31, 2006

Researchers have found out that cooking stoves that are fuelled by wood or crop residue contribute significantly to climate change at a higher-than-expected rate. How so? The soot that these stoves produce absorb light and increase atmospheric temperatures, according to researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US. This is a huge problem, as a great percentage of the developing world relies on wood stoves for domestic and some low-technology industrial level. Read more here.

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Response from: biofuelsimon (11/16/06 7:32am)

And they contribute considerably to the level of dioxins emitted into the atmosphere.

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Everything is very open and very clear explanation of issues. was truly information... Your website is very useful. Thanks for sharing..

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