Do fire places contribute to global warming? if so is there a cleaner way to have a fire?

Question

if there is a way to have house fires more clean burning let me know. Thanks.

Answer 1

get a CD of a fireplace for your TV...open fires put out unbelievable amounts of pollutants....More than cars trucks houses and factory's.....a small open file can put out more than a car running for a year....i live in S.W. Virginia and the open fires and wood stoves are unreal...some of the valleys get so smoked up u can't see 100 feet driving through...newer wood stove have cat converters to reduce pollution but they cost and only places where there r strict laws use them

Answer 2

No, not actually, although I don't believe in hippy cr*p global warming, if I say, if the lulaby is true, then no anyway.

Wood and /or Coal Wood fires are the combustion of the materials (the fuel) and the oxygen based fires actually remove the oxygen and material and convert it to its smoke/gas version - wood usually just leaves the carbon particles as usually it is not burnable, it does not produce extra carbon at all, instead it just gathers it into a solid mass of dust called soot (or carbon black), thus it is no longer in the atmosphere once it reaches the ground, it dissolves over time on the ground and as it diffuses, turns to oxygen again when it enters the plants.

Anyway the reason why I don't believe in global warming, is because the idiots in society today, who teach todays children (who then get older) to buy things to prevent "the lie" of global warming, they are just hushing you. But don't worry there has been billions of natural fires over the years and global warming didn't do anything, did it, why would it do it now?

Plus they say "green-house gases" but we all, apart from thickos know that the heavier particles are, the less reflection, but the heavier particles are, the further down the atmosphere they go, just like any other form of matter in interaction with magnetism and gravity. So the "green-house effect" is a false religion.

For one the more trees they cut down for wood instead of plastic the more carbon there will be.

You say "the other green-houses gases", well as we know volcanoes have erupted huge amounts of these gases enough to last 1,000 years of modern polution and they go off every ten to a thousand years, so we get the natural equal anyway.

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Answer 3

Domestic fires have no real impact on global warming.  the Carbon that gets emitted is only a small amount, and only goes a small way up into the atmosphere, then falls to the ground.  So I wouldn't worry.

Answer 4

Hi,

Well, it depends on who you ask.  According to the New York Times, "more heat-trapping greenhouse gas is absorbed by the regrowth of forests and other plants than is released by burning wood."  Unless I'm mistaken, this means that the occasional fire in the fireplace won't make a difference either way.

However, Science Daily says otherwise. They write that soot is a huge contributor to global warming. And, as we all know, soot "coats fireplaces and darkens truck exhaust." The article goes on to explain that soot may be responsible for 15-30% of global warming.

You can read both articles below and decide for yourself.

Mike

Answer 5

One can use anthracite coal which has a very high calorific value and burns without producing any smoke

Answer 6

global warming has been attributed to greenhouse gasses such as carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide, both are emitted into the environment when wood is burned.

Answer 7

it could, but I think that it contributes very little to it

Answer 8

Very small contribution to global warming.  Larger contribution to local pollution, from the smoke.

Fireplaces powered by natural gas or enclosed wood stoves are much better for both.  In many places those are permitted, where an old fashioned wood fireplace isn't.

Answer 9

The CO2 released when burning wood would also be released by the same wood rotting on the forest floor so fireplaces contribute 0 to CO2 emmisions. I am surprised no answer that preceeded mine stated that fact.

Answer 10

the combustion of all fossil fuels contributes to climate change and global warming. Carbon does not fall back down, that is ridiculous !!!! If you wish to reduce your carbon footprint, you could look into solar heating, there are grants available to easy the initial cost.

Answer 11

hairspray suck for are ozone layer ...im sorry i got off the fireplace but it should be a law that only hairspray safe products should be sold