Carbon-cutting benefit of cookstoves vastly overestimated: study

The next 50 years will determine whether humans will remain the dominant species on this planet. In the midst of a rapidly changing environment caused by global warming lies the possibility of unlimited cheap energy via fusion. Fresh water availability will precipitate the mass migration of people to areas where water is available. Food production will falter, species will disappear. As quality of life declines politics will enable ultra-nationalists and dictators to thrive. World population will decline as the death rate soars and the birthrate drops. Carbon credit market? This will be all but forgotten soon as oceans rise, water tables sink, and people take to the streets.

Most carbon credits schemes find a way to inflate the emission reductions. Good for the market, but it's bad science.

Carbon credits are nothing more than a scam to concentrate wealth into the hands of a tiny few by making compliance with decarbonisation rules too expensive for all but a small number of large corporations.

I didn't know this was a CO2 measure. I thought cooking stoves were bad because the smoke from them killed thousands of women worldwide.

I know from personal experience that the difference in air quality between an indoor open fire, like an irori, and a woodstove with a chimney is huge.

It was more fear mongering that turned out to be codswallop. What next, they'll be telling us to only bathe once a month to save energy and water use?

Billions of women have to cook on open fires because there are no real alternatives in most countries. It's not like they have a choice.

2.3 billion. Enormous levels of household air pollution have reduced lives by more than 10 years. Individuals who cook over open flames are at markedly higher risk of heart disease in their lifetime than those who do not.

Instead of carbon credits, find a way for people to transition to using natural gas or propane. Not a perfect solution, but an improvement over using charcoal or wood.

No, they are definitely not. The price of carbon credits is so laughably low that there's almost bo market. Who exactly do you think is getting rich off this?

I'm trying to keep a straight face imagining these "carbon barons".

Carbon credits are nothing more than a scam to concentrate wealth into the hands of a tiny few by making compliance with decarbonisation rules too expensive for all but a small number of large corporations.

Fake science strikes again!

Carbon credits are a huge con, regardless of how the figures are fiddled.