[Stoves] Fwd: News: On-the-ground research reveals true impact of cook-stove emissions in India
Andrew Heggie
aj.heggie at gmail.com
Sun Dec 17 15:23:25 CST 2017
On 17 December 2017 at 18:08, Nikhil Desai <pienergy2008 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Ron:
>
> I said no such thing. What nonsense.
>
> Grant's PhD thesis - as I remembered it and as I confirmed it last night
> when I gave you the link to it - was about protocols of measurement, not
> about health consequences, though he may have mentioned that pollutant
> emissions lead to diseases.
>
> I have no problem accepting that emissions lead to disease, just that not
> enough is known empirically about the pathways and quantification of
> relative risk.
>
> When I confirmed my suspicion - after having stopped reading the emissions
> and health literature around 2012 - that WHO had no data, just junky models
> that were claimed to be "the best science can do," and the results touted as
> "balancing robustness vs. cost," I had to call out the conceit and deceit of
> WHO.
>
> I had ignored the HAP GBD numbers, may even have
It looks like Nikhil hit send prematurely but at least it means the
post is commendably short and to the point. It also is the conclusion
I had come to about Nikhi's posts, not that emissions don't badly
affect health but that the cause-effect has been hyped and hijacked
to the detriment of those trying to develop and disseminate clean
stoves.
Andrew
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