Severe winter weather forecast for parts of England from 6am Sunday 27 December to 9am Tuesday 29 December has prompted Public Health England (PHE) to remind people how to stay well in cold conditions.
The North East, West Midlands, North West and the Yorkshire and Humber regions will experience the coldest weather in this period. Frosty conditions are expected overnight with temperatures remaining low throughout the day. Wintry showers, with some snow across hills, and icy patches are also possible.
Dr Ishani Kar-Purkayastha, Consultant in Public Health at PHE, said:

Cold weather can be bad for your health. Heat your home to at least 18 Celsius if you can, particularly if you have reduced mobility, are 65 and over, or have a health condition such as heart or lung disease.
If you can’t heat all the rooms you use, heat the living room during the day and your bedroom just before you go to bed. Wearing a few layers of thin clothing is better at trapping heat than one thick layer and will help to keep you warm.
If you are struggling to afford heating bills, Simple Energy Advice provides free advice on energy efficiency and national grants that could help you keep warm and well.
Looking out for others at this time is also really important. Remember to check on frail or older neighbours or relatives, especially those living alone or who have serious illnesses, remembering COVID-19 social distancing and restrictions in place in your area, to make sure they are safe, warm and well.

To check the latest weather forecast updates visit the Met Office website or app.
This year PHE has supplemented the Cold Weather Plan for England with useful resources and advice on the concurrent risks of cold weather and COVID-19 and how to keep warm and keep well this winter.
Previous updates

Tuesday 8 December 2020

The Met Office has forecast that a spell of cold weather is expected to last until 9am Thursday 10 December and will affect many parts of the country.
Severe cold weather conditions are likely in the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, the East of England and South East England.
As cold weather can increase health risks, Public Health England (PHE) is reminding people how to take care and to look out for those who are more vulnerable in low temperatures.
Dr Ishani Kar-Purkayastha, Consultant in Public Health at PHE, said:

Try to heat your home to at least 18°C, particularly if you have reduced mobility, are 65 and over, or have a health condition, such as heart or lung disease.
Keep moving too if you can. Get up and walk around and spread housework throughout the day to help keep yourself warm. Food is also a vital source of energy so have plenty of hot food and drinks.
Remember to check up on frail or older neighbours and relatives at this time, particularly if they live alone, and remember to follow COVID-19 social distancing guidance when looking out for others.
Check the Met Office weather forecast to stay aware of the weather in your region.

This year PHE has supplemented the Cold Weather Plan for England with useful resources and advice on the concurrent risks of cold weather and COVID-19 and how to keep warm and keep well this winter.

Brass monkey weather?

It's time to stoke up and enjoy those Xmas fires - preferably with fully seasoned carbon-neutral logs from a sustainable source!

Or if you treasure the planet, the environment, peoples health, pollution levels, Co2 levels and your neighbour's washing leave the log burner off.

Originally Posted by local

Or if you treasure the planet, the environment, peoples health, pollution levels, Co2 levels and your neighbour's washing leave the log burner off.

Any type of fire benefits from burning seasoned logs from a sustainable source. Whereas fossil-fuels like coal, gas or oil only add to the planet woes by raising CO2 levels, a sustainable fuel does not...Always look out for the FSC Approved logo when purchasing timber products.

Wac-a-mole starts again,



Pollutionwatch: wood burning is not climate friendly




Burning wood is not CO2 free; it releases carbon, stored over the previous decades, in one quick burst. For an equal amount of heat or electricity, it releases more CO2 than burning gas, oil and even coal, so straight away we have more CO2 in the air from burning wood

Straight from the Guardian isn't it time you stopped encouraging people to damage our lungs and the enviroment with your specious nonsense.



https://www.theguardian.com/environm...burning%20wood.

Originally Posted by local

Burning wood is not CO2 free; it releases carbon, stored over the previous decades, in one quick burst. For an equal amount of heat or electricity, it releases more CO2 than burning gas, oil and even coal, so straight away we have more CO2 in the air from burning wood

Burning anything is never CO2 free.....You need to understand that there's a big difference between burning a fossil fuel (e.g. gas) and a renewable fuel.

Renewables are just that - renewable. Trees grown as a crop are continuously planted and harvested. The initial planting absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere over an approx 40 year lifespan, which is then released back into the atmosphere when burnt. Result is no net increase of CO2 in the atmosphere. It's a simple concept, but one which can be hard for some to get their heads around.

The CO2 released by burning gas and the other fossil fuels however, does not follow a circular path. It is specifically these non-renewable fuels that are responsible for the climate emergency. Which is why Govts across the world are phasing fossil fuels like gas, oil and coal out, as soon as they can - to avoid a future planetary meltdown.

Originally Posted by The PNP

Burning anything is never CO2 free.....You need to understand that there's a big difference between burning a fossil fuel (e.g. gas) and a renewable fuel.

Renewables are just that - renewable. Trees grown as a crop are continuously planted and harvested. The initial planting absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere over an approx 40 year lifespan, which is then released back into the atmosphere when burnt. Result is no net increase of CO2 in the atmosphere. It's a simple concept, but one which can be hard for some to get their heads around.

The CO2 released by burning gas and the other fossil fuels however, does not follow a circular path. It is specifically these non-renewable fuels that are responsible for the climate emergency. Which is why Govts across the world are phasing fossil fuels like gas, oil and coal out, as soon as they can - to avoid a future planetary meltdown.

Well you send a correction into the Guardian and I shall wait to see it published.

When you have done that I will supply you with plenty of other publications that you can help them to "get their heads round it"

Just in case you forgot I helpfully copy your post;

Whereas fossil-fuels like coal, gas or oil only add to the planet woes by raising CO2 levels, a sustainable fuel does not


The poor deluded Guardian wrote,
For an equal amount of heat or electricity, it releases more CO2 than burning gas, oil and even coal, so straight away we have more CO2 in the air from burning wood


They haven't even gone on to mention the destruction of the habitat and the particulate pollution worse than your dirty diesels.

Good luck.


Don't forget you keep posting lies and I will prove you wrong, you stop I stop its up to you.................

Originally Posted by local

The poor deluded Guardian wrote,
For an equal amount of heat or electricity, it releases more CO2 than burning gas, oil and even coal, so straight away we have more CO2 in the air from burning wood

Completely irrelevant, unless you're clear-felling without replanting. Trees in any case, can never when burnt, release more CO2 than they have just absorbed - therefore they only ever put back into the atmosphere what they've recently taken out. A simple principle that users of renewable fuel products fully understand.

By comparison, widespread burning of non-renewable fossil fuels like gas, liberates significant quantities of CO2 that have been safely locked away in the earth for millions of years. An unsustainable practice, that is raising CO2 to dangerously high levels in the atmosphere. Fossil-fuels produce a net CO2 gain.

Originally Posted by The PNP

Completely irrelevant, unless you're clear-felling without replanting. Trees in any case, can never when burnt, release more CO2 than they have just absorbed - therefore they only ever put back into the atmosphere what they've recently taken out. A simple principle that users of renewable fuel products fully understand.

By comparison, widespread burning of non-renewable fossil fuels like gas, liberates significant quantities of CO2 that have been safely locked away in the earth for millions of years. An unsustainable practice, that is raising CO2 to dangerously high levels in the atmosphere. Fossil-fuels produce a net CO2 gain.

Here we go again putting off people from buying those polluting stoves that kill children good its like a public service.

All that particulate pollution and habitat destruction.

Yet you can't get your head round it.

You conveniently forget the 40 year lifecycle of your renewable unicorn and the simplest way to protect the environment and stop killing children is to leave the trees alone.

Originally Posted by local

You conveniently forget the 40 year lifecycle of your renewable unicorn and the simplest way to protect the environment and stop killing children is to leave the trees alone.

Well, let's assume the Govt were to permanently ban felling of any tree, even those growing on commercial plantations.....How many new trees will commercial growers finance, if they can never fell them to get a return on their costly investments in land, saplings, machinery and manpower?

Conversely, let's assume the Govt decided to provide substantial grants for commercial tree growing......How many additional acres will then become covered with trees?

Answer those questions - and you'll understand why 'leaving (commercially grown) trees alone' is never going to happen. If you want to see more acreage of woodland, increase the incentive to plant - don't disincentivise it!

Originally Posted by The PNP

Brass monkey weather?

It's time to stoke up and enjoy those Xmas fires - preferably with fully seasoned carbon-neutral logs from a sustainable source!

That's a very simplistic idea, which unfortunately isn't quite so easy!

I've read your posts in this thread and while burning wood is essentially CO2 neutral, you seem to be ignoring the pm 2.5 particulate pollution that scientists believe may have links to lung cancer, strokes, Parkinson's and dementia.

From what I can gather, burning gas does not produce these, so probably a better idea would be to carry on burning gas, but planting more trees to absorb the CO2.

Pretty interesting vid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb_8...ature=emb_logo

Once again, the forum’s idiot has turned a post completely around to begin his own debate, and you lot have all been suckered straight into his trap.

Originally Posted by Sap33

That's a very simplistic idea, which unfortunately isn't quite so easy!

I've read your posts in this thread and while burning wood is essentially CO2 neutral, you seem to be ignoring the pm 2.5 particulate pollution that scientists believe may have links to lung cancer, strokes, Parkinson's and dementia.

From what I can gather, burning gas does not produce these, so probably a better idea would be to carry on burning gas, but planting more trees to absorb the CO2.

Continuing to burn gas is a bad idea, as is burning oil products in vehicles/planes etc, or coal in homes and power stations.....Global CO2 levels have to be reduced by 50% over the course of this decade.

Moving over to burning FSC logs as domestic fuel, is one of the most cost-effective ways to significantly reduce a households carbon footprint. Particularly so, when burnt in a Govt approved DEFRA appliance that incorporates cleanburn technology - and which also heats tap water and the domestic radiators.

Particulate emission from DEFRA appliances is so minimal, they are good for use in all UK smokeless zones (Smoke Control Areas). Efficiency is also very high, e.g. 80%+ (traditional open fires only about 30% efficient). With coal being phased out shortly, it would be wise to upgrade open fires to approved 'smokeless' appliances, e.g. DEFRA stoves asap.

wac-a-mole mole continues putting people off buying polluting woodburning stoves that destroy the environment and peoples lungs.




Wood burners triple harmful indoor air pollution, study finds



Exclusive: Burners should be sold with health warnings, say scientists who found tiny particles flooding into rooms.


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.



https://www.theguardian.com/environm...on-study-finds


The PNP's market destroying strategy is going well.