Chris Selley: A wildly oversimplified gas stove public-health panic

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Chris Selley: If your plan is to go electric and declare \u0027mission accomplished,\u0027 then you may well have accomplished nothing

, published in November in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, seems to have reignited the debate almost all on its own. Its headline finding: “that 12.7 per cent of current childhood asthma in the U.S. is attributable to gas stove use.”Article content

That sounds alarming. But it should mean much more to some gas stove owners than others. Experts across the board seem to agree that if your gas stove is relatively new, and if your kitchen is properly ventilated, then you have far less to worry about.

In homes where gas stoves were used only for cooking , childhood asthma prevalence was 7.7 per cent when there was proper ventilation, and 10.4 per cent when there was no ventilation. That’s a 35-per-cent risk boost. If anything was going to make headlines, perhaps it should have been that — especially since 7.7 per cent isn’t at all a shocking figure. In 2018, according to the American Lung Association, 8.

 

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Who is panicking about using a gas stove? Not those who use them. This is nothing other than more climate change propaganda.

Spreading US conspiracies again I see. 🤮

Who’s panicking? The media. No one is panicking. I’m cooking with mine right now. Slow news day, put out an article with the next liberal sensationalizing topic. Fucking embarrassing.

It’s future control of everything electric ,natural gas is everywhere just dig Clean & free Share the Truth once all electric it will be like ankle cuffs , cars etc research 15minutecity

CNN already accidentally told the truth. Its about Climate blah blah Nothing to do with personal safety for from Natural Gas. But I am sure I will see Gas Stoves in with a cross through it in peoples bios soon.

Opinion columnists panic. It’s a story without any substance.

80 % of the population will believe anything and follow any policy no matter how stupid and only 20% will actually question or defy ! Proving most people are weak minded blind sheep !!!!

Ridiculousness

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No no, it was pretty blatant.

The public are mostly oversimplified themselves, the last 3 years have proven that, so this is not shock...

This isn't about asthma This started as a ban on burning nat gas in California, specifically in Berkeley The asthma angle just adds an emotional component to the push to ban fossil fuels There is little hard data linking gas stoves to asthma, only inferred statistical analysis

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