Please, save us from poisonous gas heaters

I was watching TV last night watching a documentary about "un-flued gas heaters". Now up until then all I knew was there were gas heaters, and electric heaters. Typical gas heaters rocked, I suppose in the rabbit vs the tortoise race gas was the rabbit and electric was the tortoise.

Turns out there are un-flued and flued gas heaters. What does this mean you say? Un-flued gas heaters release high levels of toxic gases, specifically nitrogen dioxide, carbon dioxide, formaldehyde and carbon monoxide. The levels at which these gasses are released is considered poisonous by most countries, although oddly enough these heaters are being used in schools.

Manufacturers of such heaters include in instruction manuals that ample ventilation is required when operating these heaters such as keeping all doors and windows open in a room. Now, who, on a cold winter day, thinks to open all the doors and windows when operating one of these gas heaters? I think no one!

The reason these gas heaters are being given attention is because researchers have discovered this gas is likely to have a direct link to kids developing asthma.

Sooo what can we do about it? Well in Australia, there is cough.org.au, a group of people raising awareness and a petition to show the Australian Government that we take growing kids health seriously and that we want the un-flued gas heaters issue taken seriously.

Sign the petition to help out. It only takes a second, and I'll risk saying, you'd be pretty pathetic not to ^_^.