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Give me the data where it says how much gas stoves contribute to climate change. It's probably so insignificant that it's purely a point for virtue signaling.

by m00x 4y ago

Give me the data where it says how much gas stoves contribute to climate change. It's probably so insignificant that it's purely a point for virtue signaling. I've had a gas stove for years and I still haven't needed to refill the tank, and it's not even that big of a tank. Shipping your new induction stove will probably use more gas than you will in a decade of cooking. Induction stoves can't be used for things like Woks since you need the heat to come up to the sides of the wok, not just in the part that touches the stove. Many other cuisines need gas stoves to properly work.

TheSoftwareGuy 4y ago
Here's a paper about how methane leaks from gas stoves contribute to climate change: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c00437 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c00437 The methane contribution alone is significant. Not to mention the CO2 from actually burning the gas
russdill 4y ago
You're replying to an article (and comment) that discusses disallowing new gas hookups. The article and a lot of the discussion does focus on cooking though. The amount of greenhouse gas emissions due to heating is not insignificant. While in general, heat is heat, and hot water is hot water, disallowing gas hookups means no more gas stoves, which a lot of people and chefs have strong attachments to. Hence the focus.
tbossanova 4y ago
The problem with this point of view is that each contributor to climate change, by itself, is not especially significant. So if we dismiss each individually as being insignificant, we end up doing nothing about any of them. That’s my perception anyway, if you know of the big, highest priority climate change contributor that should be focused on before the smaller things, please let me know!
- thirtyfivecent 4y ago
  - tbossanova 4y ago
    Like for example if everyone on earth dropped a single penny every day? Then yes, I’d argue you would want to take a look at that.
- realreality 4y ago
  Yes, the United States military is the biggest institutional carbon emitter in the world. If we're not doing anything to eliminate the military industrial complex, we're not serious about climate change, either.

by m00x 4y ago

TheSoftwareGuy 4y ago

Here's a paper about how methane leaks from gas stoves contribute to climate change: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c00437 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c00437 The methane contribution alone is significant. Not to mention the CO2 from actually burning the gas

russdill 4y ago

You're replying to an article (and comment) that discusses disallowing new gas hookups. The article and a lot of the discussion does focus on cooking though. The amount of greenhouse gas emissions due to heating is not insignificant. While in general, heat is heat, and hot water is hot water, disallowing gas hookups means no more gas stoves, which a lot of people and chefs have strong attachments to. Hence the focus.

tbossanova 4y ago

The problem with this point of view is that each contributor to climate change, by itself, is not especially significant. So if we dismiss each individually as being insignificant, we end up doing nothing about any of them. That’s my perception anyway, if you know of the big, highest priority climate change contributor that should be focused on before the smaller things, please let me know!

thirtyfivecent 4y ago
- tbossanova 4y ago
  Like for example if everyone on earth dropped a single penny every day? Then yes, I’d argue you would want to take a look at that.
realreality 4y ago
Yes, the United States military is the biggest institutional carbon emitter in the world. If we're not doing anything to eliminate the military industrial complex, we're not serious about climate change, either.