If you suspect your energy policy is being drafted by a cabal of your geopolitical foes, you’d be right.
Colorado-based nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute, which published the December study that attributes 13 percent of U.S. childhood asthma cases to gas-stove use, is hardly staffed by an objective group of scientists.
The organization is demanding “systemic change and economy-wide transformation” to address a climate crisis it says we must go to great lengths to avoid. In 2013, for example, the Rocky Mountain Institute joined forces with China’s National Development and Reform Commission—the government agency tasked with planning the communist nation’s economy—to produce a report that advised China to replace existing appliances and generators with “clean energy technologies.” The commission went on to set climate goals that included energy reduction targets. When local provinces in 2021 failed to meet those targets, the commission pushed them to implement electricity rations, prompting “dimmed traffic lights that cause chaos” and “half-cooked rice in rice cookers.”
The Rocky Mountain Institute is far from the first green energy group to advocate for the banning of gas stoves, which nearly 40 percent of U.S. homes use. But the nonprofit’s newfound influence reflects the Biden administration’s alignment with the left’s loudest climate activists. President Joe Biden has already proposed a natural gas phaseout in federal buildings, which would ban fossil-fuel equipment in new buildings by 2030. Leading green energy groups applauded the move, which will cost taxpayers millions of dollars annually, the Washington Free Beacon reported in December.
Beyond its public mission statement and work with the Chinese government, the Rocky Mountain Institute’s biases are reflected in its gas-stove study, academic leaders told the Free Beacon. The study—which spans just nine paragraphs—was based on a hodgepodge of different data and methodologies spanning various years and countries, ranging from 2019 U.S. Census data to conclusions from a 2018 analysis in Australia.
Structuring a study that way is questionable, according to Yale University professor of medicine Dr. Harvey Risch. Moreover, the conclusions of the institute’s study differs from what the organization is saying publicly.[…]
The study was also ethically dubious, according to Risch, as its authors stated they held no conflicts of interest despite working for climate change activist groups. The Rocky Mountain Institute’s board, for example, is filled with executives at green energy corporations with a financial interest in banning the use of fossil fuels.
Also included among those board members is Wei Ding, the founder and chairman of the Chinese private equity firm Broad River Capital. Ding started the firm after serving as chairman of the China International Capital Corporation (CICC), a partially state-owned investment bank. Former CICC executives include Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s vice president and right-hand man, Wang Qishan, while the corporation’s website highlights its “deep participation in China’s economic reforms and development” and goal to “serve the nation.” The Rocky Mountain Institute also sits on the China Clean Transportation Partnership, a Chinese green energy nonprofit whose founding members include China’s National Development and Reform Commission and Ministry of Transport.
I’m no scientist … and neither are anyone from the Rocky Mtn. Institute, if they use gobbledygook statistical recombination to claim 13% of US children suffer asthma from gas stoves … but I suggest 13% of American children develop asthma from being fat, sedentary, rarely go outdoors, eat crappy processed foods, inhale their parents pot smoke in their hothouses, inhale their crack smoke, are frightened when their baby daddy beats mommy, and don’t wash their hands after pooping.
But noooooooo … come for MY gas range instead of fixing the REAL problems
Kenji, the one thing I have learned in the last three years is science no longer exists.
Save the trees…suck up that forest fires smoke…
Wondering if they considered the camp fire smoke too?
Ban gas stoves and there won’t be a decent restaurant left in all of Canada.
Don’t mess with the chefs … they have access to your food.
Oh please….there is not a single study that links crack and pot smoke to asthma.
Trust the experts!
Precisely. However … as noted in a story above … the CDC is studying what causes “viral misinformation”. Perhaps they’ll discover what causes a viral explosion of JUNK science “study’s” such as this garbage created by the Rocky Mountain Oyster Society
There is NO Gullible Warming in China, never has been.
Gullible Warming is only happening in Western countries like Canada, The U.S., Australia and The U.K.
FTFY…
“The study was also ethically dubious…” ’cause it’s based on a false premise & was published in the first place.
That’s putting it mildly. CAGW lunatics lack ethics and honesty along with their collectivist brain addling, this a charitable spin imho:
“The prevailing narrative in the media is that “mounting evidence” is linking gas stoves to health hazards. But that conclusion is only possible if you ignore the most comprehensive study on the topic and believe that airtight, unventilated kitchens are representative of how anyone cooks.”
Moreover, the researchers themselves often are recommending more practical solutions than bans. The authors of the 2020 UCLA report — which advocates are using to push for bans — recently “emphasized the importance of good ventilation,” according to the Los Angeles Times, which added that “subsidies for range hoods might improve indoor air quality more effectively than a gas stove ban.”
If the evidence behind this latest health scare seems suspect, that’s because it is. Many environmentalists who want to ban fossil fuels appear more concerned about driving headlines than getting the facts right. Ultimately, for them, it’s about convincing cities, states, and counties to prevent families and small business owners from having any access to natural gas for their stoves, ovens, clothes dryers, water heaters, and furnaces.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/01/debunking-the-research-behind-the-gas-stove-hysteria/
These are the new breed of useful idiots. They actually think they’ll still get to spend their money after China and the WEF take over.
Useful, idiot, billionaires … who da thunk it.
More proof that wealth is not a sign of intelligence.
Mike, there’s nothing new about RMI. The fraud Amory Lovins was on an antinuclear crusade in 1976.
The people pushing faux-science and fake reality – anti-O&G & Coal & Nuclear reGreta freaks – are your and your family’s enemy.
Not theoretically, but in practice.
Not simply hazardous, but deadly.
Know who they are.
And Plan accordingly.
“ This “bombshell” study on the possible harms of gas stoves was funded by the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) – a WEF partner that makes money off of consulting on low-carbon solutions and pushing green energy transitions.” The Real Andy Lee Show _ Twitter https://twitter.com/RealAndyLeeShow/status/1613369304531234817?cxt=HHwWgsDTgbS16-MsAAAA
I’ve heard medical experts laughing at this “study” According to them, burning natural gas produces NOTHING that could cause asthma. But the activists will seize on this and most of the public will believe it and governments will use it to ban gas stoves, the truth be damned.
Because Nat. Gas is a “filthy, dirty fossil fuel” … and it “burns” … and burning stuff makes smoke that chokes humans. Yeah … that’s the depth of thinking by your average public school miseducated, nay indoctrinated citizen.
Now … study what percentage of children are developing asthma from their parents chain smoking of blunts and bongs. Emphasis on chil’ren ovvvvvvv cullllller
The push to all things electric is so that more control of usage can be had by the government. Can’t have “brown outs” of natural gas to keep the peasants in line. Until they get crypto currency and social credit they have to control usage (freedom) by other means.