The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is urging a crackdown on home cooking over claims that cooked food is causing too much “ozone production.”
NOAA researchers warn in a study that “volatile organic compounds” released into the air while cooking food contribute to potentially harmful “ozone pollution.”
The study claims that home cooking causes more “ozone pollution” in busy urban areas than vehicles powered by gas and diesel.
The California-based researchers behind the study warn:
“Potent and often pungent volatile organic compounds given off from cooking food are now responsible for over a quarter of the ozone production from VOCs generated by human activity” in the Los Angeles basin.
They continue by claiming that cooking is one of the main contributors to “climate change.”
In Los Angeles, the study alleges that cooked food generates as much ozone as volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from fueled vehicles.
NOAA chemist Chelsea Stockwell, one of the researchers behind the study, said:
“We knew from our research that chemical compounds from cooking can make up an important fraction of VOCs present in urban air, but they were not well-represented in inventories or included in air quality models.”
She noted that ignoring home cooking “may be a blind spot when it comes to urban ozone production.”
Ozone forms when VOCs and nitrogen oxides—primarily from vehicle emissions—undergo photochemical reactions.
While natural sources like trees contribute about half of all VOCs, human activities, including cooking, paints, pesticides, and adhesives, account for the rest.
High ozone levels can be toxic to humans, animals, and plants.
The study comes amid escalating attacks from globalists against the basic necessities for human life.
As Slay News previously reported, the World Economic Forum (WEF) is now claiming that members of the general public are contributing to “global warming” by growing food at home.
A WEF-funded study argued that homegrown food causes too much “emissions.”
The globalist organization argues that cracking down on homegrown food will help governments comply with their targets for meeting “Net Zero” by 2030.
In order to comply with the WEF’s “Net Zero” targets, governments must drastically reduce “carbon emissions” by 2030 and completely eliminate them by 2050.
According to so-called “experts” behind a recent WEF study, researchers apparently discovered that the “carbon footprint” of homegrown food is “destroying the planet.”
It comes amid a growing war against the food supply to supposedly fight “global warming.”
As Slay News reported, 14 major American cities have set a “target” to comply with the WEF’s green agenda goals by banning meat and dairy products by 2030.
The agreement also seeks to ban private car ownership and place other restrictions on public freedoms to meet the WEF’s “Net Zero” goals.
The U.S. cities have formed a coalition called the “C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group” (C40), which has established an “ambitious target” to meet the WEF’s goals by the year 2030.
To fulfill the “target,” the C40 Cities have pledged that their residents will comply with the following list of mandatory rules:
• “0 kg [of] meat consumption”
• “0 kg [of] dairy consumption”
• “3 new clothing items per person per year”
• “0 private vehicles” owned
• “1 short-haul return flight (less than 1500 km) every 3 years per person”
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