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Gas stoves help to cook the climate — even when off

US kitchen appliances that burn natural gas emit much more methane than previously realized.
Four blue gas rings burn on a domestic cook stove top, burning natural gas.

Gas stoves are good for making tea but bad for the climate — they leak substantial amounts of methane to the atmosphere. Credit: Angel Garcia/Bloomberg via Getty

Gas-burning stoves and ovens in the United States alone could be adding half-a-million-cars’ worth of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere every year1.

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Nature 602, 186 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00240-1

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  1. Lebel, E. D., Finnegan, C. J., Ouyang, Z., & Jackson, R. B. Environ. Sci. Technol. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c04707 (2022).

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