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Gas boilers now biggest source of air pollution in central London, study shows

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• maelito 2y ago
  > The researchers say while the decarbonisation benefits of switching from gas to heat pumps are widely discussed I'm sorry what ? This could only happen if heat pumps are not well managed and release highly climate heating gases. But then, what about the climate impact of gaz fields and methane releases ?
  • timthorn 2y ago
    Have you misread that paragraph? It's saying that heat pumps are popularly known not to release such gases.
• zeristor 2y ago
  Press release: https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2025/research/pollution-london-boilers/ https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2025/research/po... The actual paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.4c13276 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.4c13276 In PDF: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.4c13276?download=true https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.4c13276?downloa...