Webisode 57DHYAFZZFLHS6 March 27 2026 Some Like It Cold The Musical
“Some Like It Cold The Musical about stopping Wood Burning Stoves”
A Harpist in a hip coffee house
Two singers at one piano singing in a coffee house
An Electric Car projected on a screen at a coffee house
Hip young coffee house patrons applauding
The singers at one piano announce “Our next song”
A picture of a polluting wood stove with a red line is projected
The singers announce “Wood smoke is polluting”
“Indoor Residential Wood Burning”
The singers announce “is irresponsible and affects others”
“whether the wood is from old forest or wet”
“or the wood is from new trees or dry”
“It is the same emissions of PM 2 point 5”
The singers announce “Read the newspaper about pollution”
“See a wood stove vendor outside our window”
“We are going to find out what is going on”
“Find out how a wood burner is convinced”
“By a lobbyist that wood smoke is not polluting”
“Does the stove vendor think we can ignore what is right before our eyes?”
The singers announce “Wood stoves are being sold at a convention”
“At a lobbyist convention in Northern Wisconsin”
“We are going to find out what is going on”
“Find out how a wood burner is convinced”
“By a lobbyist that wood smoke is not polluting”
“Does the stove vendor think we can ignore what is right before our eyes?”
Two young men say to the 2 singers “Our girlfriends like wood smoke”
“Fossil Fuels are the problem”
“We have a test for our girlfriends”
“If they put up with the smoke we will go steady”
The singers announce “Fossil Fuel PM 2 point 5 is the same as Wood Smoke PM 2 point 5”
“Wood burning emits 2 point 8 times the PM 2 point 5 as coal burning”
Two young men say “We just came to hear your new song at this convention”
“Tell us what is so bad about wood burning”
“In front of these wood stove lobbyists”
“Lobbyists put up with the smoke”
The singers sing “Fossil Fuel PM 2 point 5 is the same as Wood Smoke PM 2 point 5”
“Wood burning emits 2 point 8 times the PM 2 point 5 as coal burning”
The singers say “Remember the wildfire smoke of two thousand twenty three”
“That wildfire smoke came from only a mile away”
“PM 2 point 5 causes cancer and early deaths”
“Wood smoke from your chimney reaches near neighbors”
“PM 2 point five arrives in their yards”
“And infiltrates their homes”
The singers sing “Wood burning emits PM 2 point 5”
“450 times as PM 2 point 5 from natural gas burning”
“There are still subsidies for Heat Pumps”
“That work down to 40 degrees below zero”
“And act as air conditioners too”
“Running on electricity that is available to all rural areas”
Two young men say to a Wood Stove Vendor “We are going to buy Heat Pumps instead”
Two young men say “We thought the PM 2 point 5 from wood smoke was different”
“The PM 2 point 5 is the same from wood burning as from fossil fuels”
“We want to celebrate Earth Day”
The singers sing “Air Pollution from any source makes harmful air”
“Think of the people around you and do not burn wood”
Two young men say to a Heat Pump Vendor “We are going to buy Heat Pumps today”
Two young men say “We want a heat source that is clean”
“We hope our electricity comes from wind or solar”
“We want to celebrate Earth Day”
The singers sing “Heat Pumps run on electricity”
“Electricity should be available to all rural areas”
Two young men laugh and say to a Politician “Mothers in England announced wood burning was done for Aesthetic Reasons”
Two young men say to a politician “Mothers in England said woodburning was careless”
Two young men say to a politician “Mothers in England said wood burning was not cozy”
Two young men say “A Freedom of Information Act shows Wood Smoke Lobbyists threatened a lawsuit”
The singers sing “Lobbyists threatened a lawsuit because mothers said woodburning was not cozy”
“Do not listen to the threats of lobbyists”
Two young men laugh and say to a Politician “We use our Clean Energy Heat Pump in winter for warmth”
“We use our Heat Pump in Summer as an air conditioner”
Two young men say to a politician “We thought of using a Wood Stove for heat”
“But Why create air pollution that affects neighbors?”
Two young men say “Air Pollution could shorten our lives too”
“And We want to celebrate Earth Day in a better world”